About The Journal

Purlieu: /'perl-'yu/
1. Outlying place or district; environ
2. Margin of a kingdom’s forest, thick enough as to risk severance from authority.

Purlieu is an international peer-reviewed publication, both print and electronic, committed to highlighting exceptional student work from around the world. In each issue, we showcase students’ essays hand-in-hand with relevant and distinctive perspectives of contemporary academic and cultural figures.

As a philosophical journal, we are less interested in the view which understands books as the world as we are in the perspective which understands books to be about the world. Like gargoyles attached to university walls, we recognize our dependence upon the university, but launch out grotesquely in our own direction, existing because of that which we critique and comment on.

Purlieu is an attempt to create something which is about the world, and about our students, our university, our discipline, and—with any luck—about you, our readers and participants.

 

 

Founding Managing Editor:

Matt Story

Founding Editor & Editor at Large:

Dennis Erwin

Editorial Board:

(Chair) Dale Wilkerson - University of North Texas
Charles Bambach - University of Texas, Dallas
Matthew Calarco - California State Fullerton
Manuel Cruz - University of Barcelona
Carmelo Dotolo - Urbanian Pontifical University, Rome
William Egginton - Johns Hopkins University
Sharin Elkholy - University of Houston-Downtown
Jamey Findling - Newman University
Luanne Frank - University of Texas, Arlington
Patricia Glazebrook - University of North Texas
Josh Michael Hayes - Santa Clara University
Christoph Jamme - Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
Jiang Yi - Beijing Normal University
Irene Klaver - University of North Texas
Bruce Krajewski - Texas Woman’s University
Liangjian Liu - East China Normal University, Shanghai
Jeff Malpas - University of Tasmania
Michael Marder - IKERBASQUE / University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz
Robert Piercey - Campion College at Regina
Francois Raffoul - Louisiana State University
Lucio Saviani - University of Rome
Janae Sholtz - Alvernia University
F. Scott Scribner - University of Hartford
Gianni Vattimo - University of Turin
Robert Wood - University of Dallas
Santiago Zabala - ICREA / University of Barcelona
Holger Zaborowski - Catholic University of America