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The terms that the Press uses to describe its project confront the standard top-down model of literary education. They call the creative interpretation of literature “intervention,” and teachers “facilitators.” “If this is a revolution...
The Press is part of the Cultural Agents Initiative, a project which advocates for active humanities, and of which Sommer is the Faculty Director. “What we’re saying here is that the humanities are a field that can create and promote effective interventions, because it...
The Press believes that the concepts and skills one can develop by actively using the humanities are necessary for civic engagement, mirroring part of the mission of the Harvard Task Force on the Arts. “Giving people outside of Harvard an understanding that the arts are vehicles of...
Marcela Maheca, the Executive Director of the Cultural Agents Initiative, says that the Press uses the arts to take risks. “If you put a mission to the arts, it’s going against the tenets of the field,” she says. ?...
The Press’ emphasis on lateral, reciprocal action and risk-taking helps make them revolutionary. Maheca says the group is aware how difficult it is to do this. “My personal experience is how the community here perceives Harvard—how they are not interested at...