Advice From an Ex-Editor: Some Things to Think About When You're Submitting an Article Manuscript

Joshua Piker was editor of the William & Mary Quarterly from 2014 to 2024. His talk will be oriented toward graduate students and early career faculty in the humanities broadly defined.

Piker will urge authors to think about the publishing process from within the context of their own scholarship and professional trajectory, rather than from within a peer review and selection process that they do not control.

He will consider questions such as “What sort of article am I writing?” and “What will it do for me intellectually and professionally?” He will also talk about rejection and what it does not mean.