Welcome to the Humanities Index, a web site that the editors hope will improve the quality of Humanities Studies in the digital age, both in the classroom and online.

The Humanities Index is an open-education resource for educators, researchers, and students in the Humanities. The goal of HumX is to provide top-notch study guides, commentaries, forums, and other educational materials that encourage a more targeted approach to scholarship in the digital age. HumX targets educators and students alike — anyone who seeks resources to further their understanding of cultural texts.

Editorial Staff

Gerald Lucas, Editor

Gerald Lucas, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of English at Macon State College and the Associate Editor of The Mailer Review. His interests include twentieth-century American and British literature and theory, computer-assisted pedagogy, new media, and the epic genre. Jerry’s current work focuses on digital storytelling and online pedagogies in the humanities. He can be found on the Internet at grlucas.net, LitMUSE, and The Norman Mailer Society.

Heather Braun, Contributor

Heather Braun, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of English at Macon State College. Her research interests include nineteenth-century British literature, the vampire tale, and revivals of medieval romance. She has published essays on Victorian humor, David Mamet, Sydney Owenson, and minor Victorian poet, Mary E. Coleridge. She is currently working on a manuscript entitled “Fatal Forms: The Nineteenth-Century Femme Fatale.”

Nancy Bunker, Contributor

Dr. Nancy Bunker is an Assistant Professor of English at Macon State College and earned a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in Speech from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. She holds a Master of Arts in English from Missouri State University and a Ph.D. from the University of Tulsa. Dr. Bunker’s essay “Feminine and Fashionable: Regendering the Iconologies of Mary Frith’s Reputation” was awarded Explorations in Renaissance Culture’s Most Distinguished Article of 2005. Her current research explores Renaissance drama’s contribution to Elizabethan views of a legal self identity.

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