FOUNDING EDITORS SEEK AN EDITORIAL TEAM OF 2 OR 3 EDITORS TO SUCCEED THEM IN 2011
The Center for Renaissance & Baroque Studies at the University of Maryland, the publisher of "Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal," officially closed on 23 July 2010, due to budget cuts. The Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS) at Arizona State University will take over the publication of the journal, as well as its entire management, including the Managing Editor position. The center will also continue the production, design, and distribution work, which it has provided since 2007. Several members of the faculty have also agreed to serve on the Editorial Board.
The founding editors, Jane Donawerth and Adele Seeff of the University of Maryland and Diane Wolfthal of Rice University, and the Director of ACMRS, Robert E. Bjork, are seeking an editorial team of two or three editors in different fields of early modern women’s or gender studies to preserve the interdisciplinary character of EMWJ. Proposals should, therefore, come from a pair or team of potential editors.
The team of editors would be responsible for reviewing submissions, choosing outside readers, offering editorial suggestions, assembling and sending suggestions from editors and readers to authors, sending essays to the Editorial Board for votes, inviting submissions, overseeing the choice of the annual forum topic, sending completed revisions to ACMRS for copy-editing, meeting annually with the EMWJ Editorial Board, reporting to the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women at the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference or the Attending to Women Symposium, and other tasks related to the pre-publication phase of a scholarly journal.
Editors will be expected to deliver the final edited copy of each issue to ACMRS by 1 July, in time for an October publication date. Editors should expect an average of six hours of pro bono work each week year-round, with fluctuations over the course of the year.
All managing and editing responsibilities will be handled by ACMRS: subscription records and bookkeeping, logging submissions and reviews, receiving and mailing books for reviews, advertisements, copy-editing, typesetting, final proofreading, printing, etc.
The ideal proposal will come from a team of editors who are specialists in early modern women’s or gender studies and whose disciplines balance literature and history (or art history or music, etc.). The editorial team should have strong support from a Departmental Chair, a Dean, or a Provost. Ideal candidates will hold a Ph. D. in the humanities and have a strong sense of the scholarly traditions of gender and early modern studies and its future.
Preferably, new editors would begin the transition during the winter of 2011 and would take over formally by 30 June 2011. Some flexibility is possible. The current editors will be available for advice and support to ease the transition.
Please, send a statement describing interests and qualifications to:
Editors,
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal
0139 Taliaferro Hall
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
Electronic submissions also are welcome at
Applications should include:
1. Statement of interest
2. Current CVs for all editors
3. Signed letter of support from a Chair, Dean, or Provost (support might include financial support, travel funds, a staff person, graduate assistant, or work-study student, etc.)
4. Indication of possible start date, preferably before 30 June 2011.
Editing experience is desirable but not required. A commitment to the field of Early Modern Women and Gender Studies and to collaborative scholarship is essential.
For more information about the journal, contact the editors at emwjournal[at]umd.edu.
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