Session 1 – Scholarly Journals Today: Challenges, Practices, Innovation

Presenters

Barbara Fuchs (UCLA, Renaissance Quarterly)
Anupama Rao (Barnard College, Comparative Studies in South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East) 

Topics include open access vs. print journals, inclusivity and access, reimagining a journal, working with publishers, copyediting, distribution, production, funding models and sources, labor and staffing, the role of advisory/editorial boards, special issues, book reviews. To encourage conversation and exchange, registration will be limited to 25.

Lunch will be served. 

 

Editorial Work in Humanities Journals
An afternoon of workshops 

The Whitney Publishing Project invites you to an afternoon of discussion, brainstorming, and collaborative thinking among editors of journals in the humanities. These two sessions are geared especially toward scholars at Yale who do any kind of editorial work in scholarly journals. Please register for either or both of the two sessions (lunch is served in the 12:15 pm session); to encourage conversation and exchange, registration will be limited to 25. These two closed sessions will be followed by a 4:00 pm open roundtable geared toward graduate students and early-career scholars.

Invited Editors

Dana Leibsohn (Smith College, Colonial Latin American Review) 
Barbara Fuchs (UCLA, Renaissance Quarterly)
Jorge Tellez (University of Pennsylvania, Hispanic Review)
Anupama Rao (Barnard College, Comparative Studies in South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East)  

Yale Organizers

Diane Berrett Brown, Deputy Director, Whitney Humanities Center, former managing editor, Diacritics
Lisa Voigt, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, book review editor, Colonial Latin American Review