Secret Editors' Business: What No One Tells You About Getting an Article Published

ICCEMS is proud to present the second online workshop of our series Tacit Knowledge for Higher Degree and Early Career Researchers. This session, "Secret Editors' Business: What No One Tells You About Getting an Article Published" will be hosted by Prof Rosalind Smith (ANU) and Prof Emma Smith (Hertford College, Oxford).

When: Thursday 11th September, 9am Oxford/10am Paris/6pm Sydney (see here for other timezones)

Secret Editors' Business: What No One Tells You About Getting an Article Published

The process of getting your work published in journals can be mysterious and intimidating. What happens to your article after you submit it to a journal? What can you do to maximise your chances of winning over editors and reviewers and seeing your work out in the world? In this ICCEMS Tacit Knowledge Workshop two journal editors, Professor Rosalind Smith (General Editor, Parergon) and Professor Emma Smith (Editor, Shakespeare Survey) will spill the beans about aspects of journal publishing that no-one talks about directly, from submission, reviewer reports, responses and publishing through to becoming a reviewer yourself and even a journal editor. The workshop will include a Q&A session where you can have your own questions answered.

About the Speakers

Emma Smith is Professor of Shakespeare Studies and a Fellow at Hertford College, Oxford. Her research focuses on Shakespeare, on early modern drama, and on book history, and she is particularly interested in Shakespeare’s reception in print, performance, and criticism, and in the long histories of why and how we have engaged with these works. She is currently editing Thomas Nashe’s plague play Summer’s Last Will and Testament for the Oxford Nashe Project and Shakespeare’s comedy Twelfth Night for the Fourth Arden series. For a wider audience she has published Portable Magic: A History of Books and their Readers and This Is Shakespeare: How to Read the World’s Greatest Playwright. Her book The First Elizabethans: England’s Sixteenth Century Renaissance, will be published in 2026. She is the editor of Shakespeare Survey.

Rosalind Smith is Chair of English and Director of the Centre for Early Modern Studies at ANU, and lead investigator on the Australian Research Council funded Future Fellowship project Marginalia and the Early Modern Woman Writer, 1530-1660. She has published widely on early modern women’s writing, and her books include Sonnets and the English Woman Writer, 1560-1621: The Politics of Gender (2005) and Early Modern Women and the Poetry of Complaint (forthcoming with Sarah Ross and Michelle O’Callaghan), and the co-edited collections Material Cultures of Early Modern Women’s Writing, Early Modern Women’s Complaint: Gender, Form, and Politics and the forthcoming  Early Modern Women’s English Marginalia. Her digital projects include Early Modern Women’s Complaint Poetry Index and the Beyond the Book digital exhibition, developed in collaboration with State Library Victoria. She is general editor, with Professor Sarah Ross, of Parergon, and, with Associate Professor Trisha Pender, of the Palgrave Encyclopaedia of Early Modern Women’s Writing.