Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere

If you are preparing to submit an article or just have questions about publishing in a journal, please join Anne Collett for a candid conversation on the do’s, don’ts, and how-to’s of the journal selection and publication process. As both a scholar and the long-time editor of the peer-reviewed international journal Kunapipi, Collett will share her perspective on what makes for a great essay and the best practices for getting it published. Topics to be addressed include the basics of submission; advice for effectively working with your editor; the incorporation of peer review comments; the demystification of “revise and resubmit;” the revision stage; and strategies for productively dealing with rejection.

Speaker bio: Associate Professor Anne Collett teaches in the English Literatures and Creative Writing program in the Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts at the University of Wollongong, Australia. She has an MA (Research) from the University of Queensland, Australia and a PhD in English from the University of London, UK. Collett was the Visiting Professor of Australian Studies at the Universities of Tokyo (2012) and Copenhagen (2014) and has supervised graduate students in London, Denmark, Japan and Australia. Her primary area of research is Postcolonial Poetry, with a particular interest in women’s writing and the interdisciplinary field of Environmental Humanities. She edited Kunapipi, a peer reviewed journal of postcolonial writing & culture, from 1999-2013. Kunapipi began life in Denmark in 1979 as the foundational scholarly journal of the European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Languages Study. All issues from 1979 to 2012 are available (open access) at https://ro.uow.edu.au/kunapipi/. Her recent publications include Tracking the Literature of Tropical Weather (Palgrave Macmillan 2017, edited with Russell McDougall & Sue Thomas), Postcolonial Past & Present (Rodopi Brill 2018, edited with Leigh Dale), Romantic Climates: Literature & Science in an Age of Catastrophe (Palgrave Macmillan 2019, edited with Olivia Murphy) and 100 Atmospheres (Open Humanities Press 2019, with Su Ballard et al).

This workshop is open to all humanities graduate students and postdocs.

This event is organized by the Department of English and the UF Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere as part of its 2019-20 Graduate Student Professional Development Series.