Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 17, No. 172.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/
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Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 06:20:56 +0100
From: totosy@medienkomm.uni-halle.de
Subject: editorial assistantships for CLCWeb: Comparative
Literature and Culture
Announcement: CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
<http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu> invites graduate students to apply
for volunteer work as editorial assistants. Founded at the University of
Alberta, Canada, in 1999, CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
<http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu> ISSN 1481-4374 is published by Purdue
University Press. In full text, peer reviewed, and in public access in the
fields of (comparative) culture studies, (comparative) media studies,
literature and comparative literature, communication studies, intercultural
communication studies etc., the journal is online since 1999. Editor
(founding) of the journal is Steven Totosy de Zepetnek, professor of
comparative culture and media studies at the University of
Halle-Wittenberg, Germany <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/totosycv.html>.
Description of tasks of work as an editorial assistant (or intern):
editorial assistants of the journal work with the editor in the process of
production of all materials published in the journal. In their work, the
editorial assistants receive on-going training and guidance from the
editor; work with the journal affords editorial assistants with knowledge
and expertise in the processes of editing, new media scholarship and
technology, the publishing industry, methods and new knowledge management
of scholarship in the humanities, and, overall, in the acquiring of
knowledge in the current state of scholarship in the humanities; editorial
assistants are graduate students in the humanities and they work with the
journal using e-mail and the world wide web; owing to the advantages
available in new media technology, the physical location and space of work
of the editorial assistant are of no import. This is in keeping with the
international nature of new media technology and scholarship as well as in
keeping with the aims and objectives of the disciplines of comparative
literature, cultural studies, and comparative cultural studies; as scholars
in comparative literature, cultural studies, or in other disciplines in the
humanities and social sciences, the journal's editorial assistants are with
knowledge in several languages and cultures including literature, the other
arts, history, etc.; the language of publication of the journal is English
and work with the journal requires advanced competency in English;
editorial assistants of the journal are listed on the masthead (index page)
of the journal in order to make visible the scholarly and academic nature
and importance of their work; while at this point the work of editorial
assistants is a voluntary position without remuneration, assistants are
encouraged to engage the department of their studies and to apply for
graduate assistantship with their home institution for their work with the
journal; editorial assistants are with basic knowledge in computers and new
media technology and are encouraged to acquire knowledge of the rapidly
developing world of new media technology such as multimedia, web design,
etc.; the tasks of an editorial assistant include work with electronic
files such as the cleaning of hidden codes in material the journal acquires
for publication (e.g., in wordperfect by open codes window, in word using
an HTML filter), editing for style (MLA parenthetical and works cited),
grammar, and spelling, the conversion of files from a word processing
program into HTML, the checking and up-keep of links (URLs) in the articles
and book review articles published, etc.; if and when required and
advantageous, editorial assistants are encouraged to engage in direct
contact with the authors of work to be published in the journal; editorial
assistants engage in the compilation of news relevant for distribution in
the journal's moderated listserv (such material is forwarded to the
editor); editorial assistants engage in the compilation of names and
addresses (including, where available, the listing of and linking to web
pages of the scholar's CV and list of publications) of scholars in the
humanities who agree to be listed in the "International Directory of
Scholars in the Humanities" in the Library
<http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/library.html> of the journal;
editorial assistants engage in the journal's offer to be listed with link
in online libraries of journals of university libraries and other
appropriate web sites; the tasks of editorial assistants include work with
Books in Comparative Cultural Studies, a series published by Purdue
University Press <http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/series/compstudies.asp> &
<http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/ccs-purdue.html> (series editor is the
editor of the journal). The series publishes annuals of the journal with
selected papers from the year's work as well as other volumes (single
authored and edited). Those interested please contact the editor of CLCWeb,
Steven Totosy, at <clcweb@purdue.edu> or <totosy@medienkomm.uni-halle.de>.
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