Victorian Periodicals Review (VPR) is expanding its editorial board to include Submissions Editors who will facilitate the double-blind peer review process. The journal invites expressions of interest from individuals working in nineteenth-century periodical studies who meet the criteria described below.
What’s Involved
Each Submissions Editor takes responsibility for securing specialist reviewers for approximately three submissions per year. On the basis of the reviewers’ reports, the Submissions Editor then provides a recommendation to the Editor. In the case of a recommendation for major revisions, the Submissions Editor’s opinion is usually sought on resubmission.
Submissions Editors will play a major role in shaping the journal and its critical interests in the years to come. Besides cultivating exciting new work in our field, Submissions Editors are encouraged to develop ideas for the journal’s occasional features, including Retrospectives, Review Conversations, and Round Tables. The VPR editorial team is unpaid and operates on a voluntary basis. Members of the editorial board serve for a three-year term with the option to renew.
Who Should Apply?
VPR is deliberately seeking to diversify its editorial board, and we encourage expressions of interest from scholars from a wide range of backgrounds, specializations, and career levels. We welcome applications evidencing one or more of the following:
- Expertise in nineteenth-century periodicals or newspapers in any area or discipline. We are particularly looking to expand the board’s coverage of transatlantic, transnational, and transimperial print culture; the provincial press; working-class periodicals; comic and illustrated periodicals; race and ethnicity; and the long nineteenth century.
- Editorial experience, such as working on a journal or digital project, editing special issues or collections of essays, or supervising MA/Ph.D. students.
- A proven track record of collegiality and team contributions to the field through the activities of learned societies or conference organization.
- Nineteenth-century subject expertise developed within organizations outside the university, such as libraries, museums, or galleries.
How to Apply
Interested candidates should send a one-page statement explaining their interest in the role and a one-page CV to VPR Editor Katherine Malone by Monday, January 9, 2023.