Interview with Suzanne Bost, Quiet Methodologies: Humility in the Humanities

Beeston, Alix ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6356-7931 and Bost, Suzanne 2026. Interview with Suzanne Bost, Quiet Methodologies: Humility in the Humanities. [Podcast]. New Books Network. Available at: https://newbooksnetwork.com/quiet-methodologies

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Abstract

hat would it mean to disentangle humanities scholarship from combative, extractive, and colonial ways of knowing and writing? This is the question that animates Quiet Methodologies: Humility in the Humanities (U Minnesota Press), the latest book by literary scholar and poet Suzanne Bost. Quiet Methodologies isn’t a traditional work of literary scholarship. Instead, the book reaches toward alternative ways of thinking with and teaching literature, grounded in speculation and conversation. It models a quiet kind of humanities work, committed not to asserting answers but to asking questions, not to claiming mastery but to embracing uncertainty. For all its quietness, then, Quiet Methodologies is a bold and challenging work. Speaking to a moment of crisis within and beyond the academy, its provocations and explorations will be of interest to scholars and students working across humanities disciplines. In conversation with Alix Beeston, Bost shares about the literary archives and scholarly works that helped her to unlearn scholarly conventions. She sets out her vision for reimagining humanities labor in terms of ethical responsibility, receptiveness, care—and even, perhaps, love.

Item Type:	Digital or visual media
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > English, Communication and Philosophy
Subjects:	L Education > L Education (General) L Education > LB Theory and practice of education L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2300 Higher Education P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN0080 Criticism P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN0441 Literary History P Language and Literature > PS American literature
Publisher:	New Books Network
Last Modified:	19 Mar 2026 10:00
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/185848

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