Edited by Colin MacCabe, Distinguished Professor of English and Film, University of Pittsburgh, Holly Yanacek, Assistant Professor of German, James Madison University, and The Keywords Project

The Keywords Project is an independent group of scholars who, with the support of the University of Pittsburgh, Jesus College, Cambridge, and the academic journal Critical Quarterly, have spent more than a decade preparing Keywords for Today.

Colin MacCabe taught the history of modern and Early Modern English at Cambridge and Strathclyde universities before becoming Head of Production at the British Film Institute in 1985. Since then he has combined literary criticism and film production. His most recent book is Perpetual Carnival: Essays in Film and Literature (2017) and his most recent film The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger (2016). He edits Critical Quarterly and chairs The Derek Jarman Lab.

Holly Yanacek is Assistant Professor of German in the Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at James Madison University. Her research focuses on 19

Sylvia Adamson, Emeritus Professor of Linguistics and Literary History, School of English, University of Sheffield
Kathryn Allan, Senior Lecturer in the History of English, University College London
Susan Z. Andrade, Associate Professor of English, University of Pittsburgh
Jonathan Arac, Director of the Humanities Center at the University of Pittsburgh
Jennifer Davis, Faculty of Law and Fellow of Wolfson College, University of Cambridge
Alan Durant, Professor of Communication in the School of Law, Middlesex University, London
Philip Durkin, Deputy Chief Editor of the Oxford English Dictionary
Matthew Eagleton-Pierce, Senior Lecturer in International Political Economy, SOAS University of London
Stephen Heath, Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, and Keeper of the Old Library
Colin MacCabe, Distinguished Professor of English and Film, University of Pittsburgh
Seth Mehl, Research Associate, School of English, University of Sheffield
Arjuna Parakrama, Senior Professor of English, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
Kellie Robertson, Associate Professor of English, University of Maryland
Holly Yanacek, Assistant Professor of German, James Madison University

"As ever more writing becomes minimalist and abbreviated, emphatically discouraging any extended dwelling on conceptual ambiguities — a world of words with no histories — the new keywords project arguably has become all the more urgent." - David Simpson, Distinguished Professor and G. B. Needham Chair of English Emeritus at the University of California, Davis, Modern Language Quarterly

"This is a valuable update of this important, longstanding resource." - S.L. Johnson, CHOICE

"This is a Keywords for our time - a fascinating, intricately erudite work of conceptual genealogy that reveals the interwoven logics of past and present. With grace and precision, the authors have produced an invaluable guidebook to the perilous landscapes of culture and society. Raymond Williams would have been proud." - Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University