acquisitions and Advisory Boards |
I acquire monographs and edited collections for the following book series:
Richard Rawlinson Series in Anglo-Saxon Studies Medieval Institute Publications The Center’s Editorial Board welcomes proposals for monographs and essay collections on Anglo-Saxon texts, material culture, and art history, as well as innovative, interdisciplinary approaches to the literature and culture of Anglo-Saxon England. Download series flyer. New Queer Medievalisms Medieval Institute Publications New Queer Medievalisms explores new directions in the study of gay, lesbian, transgender, intersex, and asexual medieval identities and, simultaneously, will expand the work of the queer Middle Ages beyond early English or continental studies. As Annemarie Jagose points out, “Queer […] exemplifies a more mediated relation to categories of identification.” Touching on other forms of identity, Jagose’s definition of queer demonstrates how binaries which involve gender, sexuality, and culture often fail to account for a full range of experiences. Medievalists have done important work with queer in this way, and this series expands on the work done by some of these theorists. Almost every area of Medieval Studies (history, religion, philosophy) has a dedicated group of scholars interrogating the connections between medieval topics and Queer Studies. This series will provide these scholars with a new venue dedicated to their work but also bring various scholarly and geographic areas into conversation. See CFP for 2021 Kalamazoo Roundtable "Fear of a Medieval Queer Planet: Global Medieval Queerness" Monsters, Prodigies, and Demons Medieval Institute Publications Monsters, Prodigies, and Demons: Medieval and Early Modern Constructions of Alterity is dedicated to the study of monstrosity and alterity in the medieval and early modern world, and to the investigation of cultural constructions of otherness, abnormality and difference from a wide range of perspectives. Submissions are welcome from scholars working within established disciplines, including—but not limited to—philosophy, critical theory, cultural history, history of science, history of art and architecture, literary studies, disability studies, and gender studies. Since much work in the field is necessarily pluri-disciplinary in its methods and scope, the editors are particularly interested in proposals that cross disciplinary boundaries. The series publishes English-language, single-author volumes and collections of original essays. Topics might include hybridity and hermaphroditism; giants, dwarves, and wild-men; cannibalism and the New World; cultures of display and the carnivalesque; “monstrous” encounters in literature and travel; jurisprudence, law, and criminality; teratology and the “New Science”; the aesthetics of the grotesque; automata and self-moving machines, or witchcraft, demonology, and other occult themes. |
I serve on the advisory board for the following journal and book series:
Medieval Ecocriticisms Arc-Humanities Press In recent years, medieval studies has seen a flourishing of new ecocritical and environmental inquiries to literature, art, and culture. These new approaches, drawing upon the material, spatial, and post-human turns in humanities research, have directed scholarly attention to representations and histories of the non-human, and to the inarguable necessity of studying both human/human and human/non-human interactions in texts and cultures. Medieval Ecocriticisms will be the first regular venue dedicated to medieval ecocritical studies, and will seek out the most current and innovative interdisciplinary approaches to the study of literature and the environmental in the global Middle Ages. The publication series comprises twice-yearly journal issues, often thematic, covering a wide spectrum of approaches and methods in interdisciplinary ecocritical studies, including ecofeminism and new ecocritical analyses of under-represented literatures; queer ecologies; posthumanism; waste studies; landscape studies; maritime studies and blue humanities; and studies of environmental catastrophe and change and their effects on pre-modern cultures. The board is open to submissions that, while grounded in literary and cultural studies, may also draw on fields of environmental history, art history, environmental archaeology, zooarchaeology, and beyond. Teaching the Middle Ages Arc-Humanities Press Teaching the Middle Ages aims to reflect the best and most innovative in medieval pedagogies, providing resources for instructors, students, and administrators wishing to understand the current and future place of medieval studies in the modern academy. Books in this series will respond to current trends and debates reshaping modern classrooms and curricula, including issues of identity, race, gender, sexuality, religion, violence, disability, environment, technology, and how medievalists teach these topics in our classrooms. These projects should be grounded in the scholarship of teaching and learning and/or data-driven pedagogical research methods.The series editors are particularly interested in proposals for two kinds of publications: first, monographs and collections, aimed at instructors, libraries, and administrators, detailing innovative pedagogical theories and demonstrably effective techniques for teaching pre-modern topics in undergraduate settings. Second, the series editors are interested in proposals for texts and tools best suited for student use. These might be paperback texts for classroom adoption, including sourcebooks, translations, or essay collections. The series board will also consider proposals for hybrid projects (i.e., classroom texts linked to digital resources). |
other editorial work
I have worked in various capacities for the partnered presses at Amsterdam University, Medieval Institute Publications, and Arc-Humanities since 2013. In addition to acquiring titles for series in medieval and early modern studies, I have served these presses in the following roles:
Copyeditor, Gatekeeper, and Review Coordinator for Medieval Institute Publications / Arc-Humanities Press (2015-2016)
Gatekeeper, Amsterdam University Press (2014-2015)
Copyeditor, Gatekeeper, and Review Coordinator for Medieval Institute Publications / Arc-Humanities Press (2015-2016)
- coordinated external reviews for academic titles
- copyedited Rala Diakite and Matthew Sneider, The Final Book of Giovanni Villani's New Chronicle (Medieval Institute Publications, 2016)
- performed gatekeeping for numerous manuscripts (checking manuscripts for citation format, language, image quality, structure)
- established an initial web and social media presence for Arc-Humanities Press
- managed team of graduate students in growing social media presence for MIP / Arc-H
Gatekeeper, Amsterdam University Press (2014-2015)
- Performed gate-keeping reviews of academic texts (checking manuscripts for citation format, language, image quality, structure)
Freelance Technical Editor, Brepols Academic Press (2013-2014)
Assistant Editor for Reviews, Medievally Speaking (2012-2015)
Associate Editor for The Hilltop Review: A Journal of Western Michigan University Graduate Research (2009-2010)
- performed tech-editing tasks (reference checks; applying templates to bibliographies, text, and footnotes; preliminary style checks) on academic volumes in the field of medieval studies for a major international press
- pre-edited multiple titles, including:
- C. Maddern, Raising the Dead: Early Medieval Name Stones in Northumbria (2013)
- S. G. Eriksen, Writing and Reading in Medieval Manuscript Culture: The Translation and Transmission of the Story of Elye in Old French and Old Norse Literary Contexts (2014)
- F. Tinti, ed., England and Rome in the Early Middle Ages: Pilgrimage, Art, and Politics (2014)
Assistant Editor for Reviews, Medievally Speaking (2012-2015)
- solicited and edited reviews of texts and other media in areas of Anglo-Saxon studies, Old Norse culture and literature, landscape studies, and Tolkien studies for Medievally Speaking, an online publication of Studies in Medievalism
Associate Editor for The Hilltop Review: A Journal of Western Michigan University Graduate Research (2009-2010)
- planned re-launch of graduate peer-reviewed journal
- represented The Hilltop Review at meeting of WMU Board of Trustees
- selected, reviewed, copy-edited articles for publication and aided in the layout process for two volumes of The Hilltop Review