This post is about the American Dirt Controversy. It is as much archive and tracking an online news piece in my corner of the Twitterverse as it is about giving an account. In a previous post I wrote about the opening salvo that has grown into a fascinating conversation about who the publishing industry supports,…
Category: Publishing
We Need (More and Better) Reviewers
Normally on these pages, I write about what I’ve been researching. Today, I want to write about why I would love others to write more and better reviews. There are two prompts to this post. This past weekend I watched First They Killed My Father (Angelina Jolie, 2017) a Netflix film about a child soldier…
“This World is My Place”: Homies, Art Censorship, and Big Birthday Bashes
The subtitle to the Chicana/o Studies book I co-edited with Catherine Leen was taken from an eponymous poem by Bernadette García. In her poem, García asserts her right to write about those who are considered “Other” by her professor because, “[T]his exclusive space you’ve constructed around yourself and a select few is rapidly diminishing in size confined to…
Co-editing, Collaboration and Publishing
The context I’m coming to the end of my third co-edited book and am in the middle of a fourth. In addition to co-editing 5 issues of the journal Film and Film Culture, this has given me considerable experience of co-editing, so I thought it was time to reflect on what this means to me…
What’s in a name?
For academics and authors naming something is quite a responsibility, but one which we don’t always give the right sort of thought. Titles can be descriptive, provocative, thought-provoking, catchy, reliant on puns or zeitgeisty. However you think about it, it is how we market our work, whether we are naming our grand mangum opus (which…