The concluding item on this Issue, 'Poetics of a Sea', consists of an interview Norbert Bugeja conducted with , a poet, essayist and memoirist, ethnographer and documentary filmmaker and one of the foremost intellectuals in the region. 'Poetics of a Sea' marks a new horizon for the Journal of Mediterranean Studies: it is the first instalment of a brand-new feature, the first of more to come, carried under the general title of 'Mediterranean: Prospect and Retrospect', in which luminary scholars from across the Mediterranean reflect on the state of the region, the scholarship that emanates from and about it, and further afield.
The essays in the ‘Mediterranean Fractures’ Special Issue of the Journal of Mediterranean Studies find their early beginnings in the second edition of the Mediterranean Fractures International Symposium convened at the Mediterranean Institute, University of Malta in November 2015, in collaboration with the University of Kent and the Association Italiana di Studi nelle Culture e Literature di Lingua Ingress (AISCLI).
This Special Issue of the JMS coincides with a special moment for the Journal of Mediterranean Studies, which has just been placed on and made available through the Project Muse platform (Johns Hopkins University Press). The Special Issue, together with all past issues of the JMS, can be accessed from the .
The Journal of Mediterranean Studies is an interdisciplinary journal published twice yearly. It is specifically aimed at scholars whose professional academic interests are concerned with Mediterranean societies and cultures within the fields of Social Anthropology, History, Classics and Archeology, Popular Art and Literature. The journal intends to provide a forum whereby scholars working in academically and geographical contiguous areas can explore, and be exposed to, parallel and related theoretical issues. It sets out to establish a framework for interdisciplinary discussion, particularly important when studying Mediterranean societies and cultures, and to encourage dialogue between academics.
