History of Apollon

In 2011, Jason Cohen, an early modernist with a passion for the digital humanities, launched Apollon. The student-run journal was housed in Berea College, a historic liberal arts college in central Kentucky.  Berea was the first interracial and coeducational college in the South, and is unique for not having charged a single student for tuition since 1892.  Berea benefits first-generation and low-income students in the Appalachian region.  Its student-centered mission guided the early days of Apollon, and Berea’s investment in social justice made it an excellent fit with Fairfield University’s Jesuit call to be people for others.  From 2011 to 2018, Dr. Cohen and his students published Apollon, Issues 1-8.  Drs. Cohen and Shannon Kelley facilitated a smooth transition to Fairfield University in the summer of 2018, with the first New England-based issue appearing the following spring, in May 2019.  Since 2020, Fairfield student editors have published two issues per year.  In the summer of 2022, a generous grant from the Humanities Institute funded Apollon’s website redesign, and in Fall 2024 we established our Faculty Review Board.  The journal, housed within Fairfield University’s Humanities Institute, is in its fourteenth year and currently accepting submissions from undergraduates; Dr. Kelley remains its primary advisor.