Celebrating Grant Farred’s Tenure at the South Atlantic Quarterly

Grant Farred, editor of the South Atlantic Quarterly, will step down this summer; he will be replaced by Michael Hardt. In the video below, Farred and Hardt discuss the journal’s past:

Over the course of his eight-year tenure, Farred has widened the journal’s theoretical and geographic scope while keeping it rooted in its long history of political engagement. (When it was founded in 1901, the journal was at the center of the Bassett Affair, a milestone for academic freedom in the United States.)

Farred describes his work on SAQ as “the most important political thing I have done in this country in the twenty-one years I’ve been here.”  With the publication of such groundbreaking issues as “Palestine America,” “Racial Americana,” and "Ambushed: A Critique of Machtpolitik,” during his tenure Farred worked to expand SAQ’s reputation as a space for timely, political thought.