What topic areas are overpublished?

I don’t think we need another book defending the liberal arts. They are sermons to the converted. —Greg Britton

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We have enough Big History to last several lifetimes. —Elizabeth Branch Dyson

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I don’t know, but diminishing sales will tell us soon and then we’ll all move to overpublishing in a different area.—Ian Malcolm

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The Future of the University Press

Publishers, press directors, editors, scholars, and other insiders share their views on the state and future of academic publishing.

Self-reflexive studies of the digital humanities. I want to see examples of how digital scholarship has transformed our understanding of particular issues in the humanities rather than yet another effort to define whether digital humanities is a field or not. —Charles Watkinson

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Just when you think a question has been answered from every angle, a scholar and/or creative thinker can reopen the question and jump-start the conversation in a different direction. —Brian Halley

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Humanities in various combinations and permutations. The better question bears on which topics are underpublished: the professions, science, and the connections between the humanities and the professions. —Peter J. Dougherty

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Everyone seems to have written a memoir, and fewer of them should be published. —John Byram

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Hot topics will always eventually be overpublished, but that problem self-corrects quickly as new areas of interest emerge. —Dean J. Smith

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I’ve seen enough regional histories about “first settlers” or “pioneers” that don’t acknowledge the existence, perspectives, and displacement of indigenous communities. —Ranjit Arab

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There is no quota for good scholarship on a subject. The notion of overpublishing is akin to saying that a sunrise is too beautiful or a glass of wine too good. —Carey Newman