Tag: Editing
By Greg Britton, editorial director On December 17, 2012, three days after the devastating shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, JHU Press director Kathleen Keane received a call from the office of the president of Johns Hopkins University. Ronald J. Daniels wanted to do something about the epidemic of gun violence in America, and he…
By Michele Callaghan, manuscript editor Okay, I admit it. I have been known to read dictionaries for fun. When I was growing up, my siblings and I would challenge ourselves with foreign language Scrabble. We also played a sort of a “stump the band” where we would try to find words in the dictionary that…
by Michele Callaghan, Manuscript Editor Part of being married is having to watch your spouse’s favorite films, sometimes over and over, because “you are going to like it this time, I swear!” My husband purchased a DVD a while back of one of his favorites, The Man Who Fell to Earth by acclaimed director Nicolas…
Better know an editor is an occasional series where JHU Press journal editors provide a look inside the scholarly publishing process. We work with many fascinating and talented people who serve on the editorial staffs of the journals we publish. Erin Durban-Albrecht, managing editor for Feminist Formations, has agreed to serve as the first subject in…
By Michele Callaghan, Manuscript Editor Years ago, when I was an undergraduate student in Buffalo, New York, I heard a TV newscast that I have never forgotten. An important figure in the history of philosophy had died, and Eyewitness News was letting us know about it. “Jean-Paul Sartre, so-called founder of existentialism, dead today, in…
By Michele Callaghan, Manuscript Editor Years ago, when I was an undergraduate student in Buffalo, New York, I heard a TV newscast that I have never forgotten. An important figure in the history of philosophy had died, and Eyewitness News was letting us know about it. “Jean-Paul Sartre, so-called founder of existentialism, dead today, in…
By Claire McCabe Tamberino, ebook and digital promotion manager In Over the Transom, an occasional series on this blog, we'll walk you through every step of the bookmaking process, giving you a behind-the-scenes look at just how much work goes into turning a good idea into a great book. A couple of weeks ago, in…
By Michele Callaghan, manuscript editor Every time I change “silver bullet” to “magic bullet” when talking about a targeted, almost improbable, solution to a vexing problem, I wonder the same thing: Should I stop correcting things that appear to have taken root in the language? My internal war begins: One part of me says, “I don’t …