<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#073763"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Jeff Karnicky</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:litsci-l@duke.edu">litsci-l@duke.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2023 at 14:39<br>Subject: Call for Book Review Editor<br>To: Josh DiCaglio <<a href="mailto:litsci-l@duke.edu">litsci-l@duke.edu</a>><br></div><br><br>
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Call for Book Review Editor for <i>Configurations</i><u></u><u></u></p>
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Dear SLSA Colleagues,<u></u><u></u></p>
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After serving as book review editor for <i>Configurations</i> for since 2015, it is time for me to pass the job to someone else. If you are interested in becoming book review editor, please send an email to me (<a href="mailto:jeff.karnicky@drake.edu" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)" target="_blank">jeff.karnicky@drake.edu</a>)
stating why you would like to become book review editor. Please do not respond to the whole listserv. Here is a brief description of the job. I am happy to answer any questions. <u></u><u></u></p>
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The book review editor (BRE) solicits reviews and considers book review proposals from SLSA members. The BRE receives communications from University presses that publish books of interest to SLSA members. (While a few presses still mail out physical review
copies, many presses have switched in the past five years to electronic review copies). The BRE periodically sends out calls for reviewers via the SLSA listserv, helps reviewers procure review copies of books, and edits reviews for publication. <u></u><u></u></p>
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<i>Configurations</i> published four issues per year and we seek to publish three to five book reviews in each issue. The BRE editor attends regular Zoom meetings with <i>Configurations</i>’s editors (usually every two weeks during the semester and monthly
during the summer). The BRE editor also serves on the board of the SLSA. <u></u><u></u></p>
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Best,<u></u><u></u></p>
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Jeff<u></u><u></u></p>
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<div>Dr. Jeff Karnicky<br>
Professor of English<br>
Department of English<br>
Drake University<br>
Des Moines, IA 50311<br>
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<a href="http://karnicky.blogspot.com" target="_blank">karnicky.blogspot.com</a><br>
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“Our instruments are useless, our methodology broken, our motives selfish.” Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation<br>
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