Interdisciplinarity: Working with Concepts

Authors

  • Mieke Bal University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Abstract

My two intellectual passions are interdisciplinarity and methodological rigour. The former is motivated by my interest in social-cultural reality, where disciplinary boundaries seem irrelevant. The latter comes from my desire, as a teacher, to empower students to do their own analytical work. Hence, the interest in ‘travelling’ concepts as tools for interdisciplinary analysis. Below, I give a few arguments in favour of concepts over (disciplinary) methods, and then I sum up a few examples of useful concepts in the Humanities.

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Published

2011-06-30

Issue

No. 3 (2011)

Section

Cultural Studies

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