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Editor's note

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 August 2012

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Abstract

Type
Behind the Bookstall: An Editors' and Publishers' Forum
Copyright
Copyright © American Society for Theatre Research 2012

Regular readers of the Theatre Survey review pages are probably expecting to see “What Are You Reading?” right about now. However, in this issue, we decided to turn the library tables around. We invited a handful of editors of note in our field to weigh in on their labor, with a particular focus on helping junior scholars understand what it means to work with a press today and what it might mean to do so in the near future. Below you'll find reflections on the author–editor relationship, on the tricky business of publishing (which for many scholars is fraught with anxiety about what “sells” and what does not), and on the challenges and rewards of working in new media as we push our scholarly conversations into the digital age. These editors—Heather S. Nathans, Catherine Cocks, Vicki Cooper, and LeAnn Fields—have selected the topics they've written about, topics designed to foster fresh conversations between two groups of intellectual workers who often seem to live in different worlds. We hope that scholars of all ranks and levels of experience will read these reflections, consider them critically, and share them, whenever appropriate, with students.