About Us:
The Wig: Journal of Experimental Scholarship is a semi-annual online journal founded on theprinciple that scholarship can and should come in a variety of formats. Through our academic
training, we learn to present our thought in relatively inflexible formats that conform to expectations
in our field and in the major scholarly journals. But what if our object of study exceeds the
systemization of a journal essay? What if poetry and collage and interruption are necessary for the
idea to take shape? So, we devote ourselves to providing a space where these excesses can find a home,
where philosophy can bypass definition and emerge from life, where sudden eruptions into poetry might
occur mid-sentence and practical jokes are welcome.
It’s not that we’re against traditional academic articles. We all read and enjoy them; hell, some of us
even write them. It’s just that we want to try something different here. We want to experiment with the
fusion of the creative and intense research. For example, what does avant-garde scholarship look like?
Where’s the humor? The energy? The polemics? The swearing?
We publish philosophy and pieces on art, literature and film. Especially film. We love film. We may not
love the same films, but we all agree that movies are just good times, so you’ll see a lot of that here.
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Staff:
Editor:Laura Ivins-Hulley
Assisting Editors, Present and Past:
A.C. Abbott
Alison Dunn
Caitlin Graham
Shira Segal
Foreign Correspondent:
Martyn Conterio
Webmaster:
Brian Hulley