Call for Reviewers

[mummybeare]

cross-posted to a couple of places - sorry if it crosses your path more than once!

We are particularly looking for post-grads, recent post-grads and post-docs. I'm hoping that this is ok, but moderators, please delete this if you believe it is inappropriate.

eSharpeducation, social sciences, humanities and arts review for postgraduates

Comments

[rabswom]

I know that there are several people in this community with desperate secret loves for Judith Butler, queer theory, and Freud.

[poldy]

Do you think there really is anybody with interests in gender AND masculinity, queer theory, Judith Butler, transvestism? Seems a stretch.

[mummybeare]

We'd add them to the database. But at the moment, my database has lots of people who include feminity in their research interests, but only two who say they study masculinity, and one who studies queer theory. Our submissions for the current issue include several articles that require reviewers with knowledge about these other aspects of gender theory. Furthermore, each paper needs two peer reviews and thus I am in need of several interested postgraduates.

[mummybeare]

Thank you for the luck! I admit, I started here because I read the community regularly, and because both gender and queer theory are listed among the community's interests. I hoped it would twig a response from someone.

I have cross-posted elsewhere, but it hadn't occurred to me to hunt for communities of academics with specific interests in those areas. I'll have a look. Thanks!

[poldy]

well, who isn't?

[mummybeare]

Not looking someone who does all of that, but rather, someone who studies:
Gender and queer theory OR
Gender and Butler OR
Gender and masculinity
etc....

[poldy]

How about gender and anything?

[mummybeare]

Are you interested in reviewing or just asking me to be more clear about what I am looking for?

I am seeking to make the best matches possible between reviewers and paper topics. The key words I listed all come from the key words supplied by the authors of the submissions for which I am seeking reviewers. That said, I have a few other articles for which the match is not as tight as I would like it to be, and thus could use an extra (or alternative) reviewer for them. If you are interested in gender theory and would consider reviewing an article, please contact me at the email address I have supplied, listing your areas of interest and I will see if I have a suitable paper for you.

[poldy]

I was asking for clarity because I couldn't figure out what the journal publishes. It appears that it is journal dedicated to gender studies?

Re: Oh, poldy

[poldy]

Well, it is because I was in fact confused. It is described as an education, social sciences, humanities and arts review . It is only the selection of reviewers that suggests that it is interested only in gender.

Re: Oh, poldy

[mummybeare]

We do themed issues. The current one is on gender, the last one was on the human body, the next one is on oral history etc...

So no, we are not limited to gender. I am currently in need of people with specific interests because I have a stack of papers in my in-box that need to be matched to peer reviewers who are familiar with the topics covered by those papers.

Obviously, I need to re-write my call for reviewers if I need to use it again in the future. I must not have been very clear.

And if I have been missing out on any humour, I am sorry. I haven't slept much in the last few days and am really concerned about making sure that these papers get the best reviewers I can. The journal is a training vehicle for postgraduates and it is therefore important that authors get full, useful and honest feedback.

Re: Oh, poldy

[poldy]

It wasn't clear to me that you were looking only for this specific issue.

I don't think anything was particularly funny from that perspective. But what I read was a broad, unfocused humanities, social science, arts journal that needed peer reviewers in heavily overlapping areas.