[WebCultures] CUP Elements– Call for contributions to strand on ‘Editors and Editing’

[Susan Greenberg]

Dear colleagues,


You may have heard about CUP's Elements format and the list on Publishing and Book Culture. I am editor of the ‘Editors and Editing’ strand in that list and I am keen to spread the net for further contributions, so please do get in touch if you think your work might be a good fit.


By way of background... the CUP Elements series Publishing and Book Culture<https://www.cambridge.org/core/what-we-publish/elements/publishing-and-book-culture> uses a ‘minigraph’ format (20k to 30k words) which provides a home for original, concise, peer-reviewed research and allows for faster publication than the traditional monograph. The timeframe for contributions is tailored for each author.


The ‘Editors and Editing’ strand aims to expand our understanding of editing practice and the work that the ‘idea’ of editing does in society, drawing on themes and challenges outlined in my work A Poetics of Editing<https://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9783319922454>. It takes a broad, multi-frame approach, encompassing different roles (EG copyediting, commissioning); genres (EG fiction, nonfiction);  types of publishers (EG large vs small, trade vs specialised); and technologies (EG print and digital).


Approaches may include (but are not limited to):

  *   Topical concerns in publishing, from an editing angle;
  *   Histories about different kinds of editing, up to the present;
  *   Studies of editing practice;
  *   Biographical work on influential individuals;
  *   Theoretical approaches to the subject.

Current topical concerns with an editing angle include (but are not limited to):

  *   The interface between editing and LLMs including generative AI

  *
The relationship between editing and writing
  *
Retrospective editing of earlier works NB for commercial (not scholarly) readers.
  *
Editors as liminal figures

Do get in touch if you want to find out more, or discuss your ideas.


All the best,

Dr Susan Greenberg

s.greenberg at roehampton.ac.uk<mailto:s.greenberg at roehampton.ac.uk>


Dr Susan L. Greenberg
Honorary Research Fellow, University of Roehampton.
Editor, CUP Elements list ‘Editors and Editing’.

A Poetics of Editing http://bit.ly/2Jjx4gZ
Editors Talk about Editing https://amzn.to/2vtWgN8
‘History with feeling: The case of Macmillan New York.’ In Logos: Journal of the World Book Community, 31:1, 2020. DOI: 10.1163/18784712-03101002<https://doi.org/10.1163/18784712-03101002>

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