The question mark after the phrase 'New Scholarship' signals the central problematic of the issue: what counts as 'new scholarship,' who gets to say so and on what basis? This issue examines claims for originality within contemporary contexts for intellectual practice. It  provides a space for investigations of the power structures that frame scholarship, the institutionalisation of scholarly authority and the necessarily circumscribed nature of innovation. 

The articles address the following key themes: creative writing praxis and the unconscious; knowledge and power in the university system; situated knowledges; and scholarship as disciplinary practice.