32.1936, FYI: Editorial Change JB Bookseries FILLM

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Subject: 32.1936, FYI: Editorial Change JB Bookseries FILLM

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Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2021 06:44:38
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Editorial Change JB Bookseries FILLM

 
John Benjamins is pleased to announce that as of Volume 16, Haun Saussy
(University of Chicago) will succeed Roger D. Sell (Åbo Akademi University) as
Editor of the bookseries FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures.

The main aim of the UNESCO-affiliated Fédération Internationale des Langues et
Littératures Modernes (FILLM) is to encourage dialogue between scholars from
all over the world. (Full details of how the Federation goes about this are to
be found at www.fillm.org.)

By the end of the twentieth century, FILLM’s mission was taking on
considerable urgency. Linguistic and literary research had become steadily
more professional and specialized, a development which, though significantly
raising overall standards, also tended to divide scholars into many separate
and often smallish groupings between which communication was rather sporadic.
Over the years this amounted to a serious handicap, not only in terms of new
ideas and findings which never got cross-fertilized, but also in terms of the
hard economic facts of disciplinary survival. Scholars who concentrated all
their attention on just some single area of expertise sometimes found it
difficult to convince the holders of governmental or university purse-strings
that education and research in languages and literatures was a worthwhile
investment.

In the world’s current phase of hyper-rapid globalization, the relative lack
of contact between scholars in different subject-areas is a more glaring
anomaly than ever. In setting up FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures,
FILLM is intensifying still further its efforts to foster a world-wide
community of scholars within which a rich diversity of interests will be
upheld by a common sense of human relevance. Books published in the series
will be about languages and literatures anywhere in the world, and will be
written in an English that is immediately understandable and attractive to any
likely reader. Every book will present original findings – including new
theoretical and methodological developments – which will be of prime interest
to those who are experts in its particular field of discussion, but it will do
so in a way that can also engage readers who are not experts.

This dual address is the series’ chief hallmark. The overall goals are, on the
one hand, to spread detailed insights on particular phenomena from many
different countries and, on the other hand, to guard against scholarly
provincialism and overspecialization. In this way FILLM is hoping to promote a
universal dialogue about linguistic and literary studies which, by clarifying
their human raison d’être, will consolidate their professional legitimation.

ISSN: 2213-428X
 



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