Editors:
How did we get here?
In North America and Europe, progressive women made inroads into
universities during the first half of the twentieth century, completing
undergraduate degrees and receiving PhDs from research universities. Others,
excluded from the academy by virtue of race or class, analyzed and criticized
media industries as journalists, artists, producers, performers, and activists.
Often, their work developed innovative theories of communication and methods
and anticipated ideas, approaches, and concerns that would not reappear again
until the early 1970s.
Little of this work is taught today, particularly in courses mapping the
emergence of the field of communication/media studies. The Ghost Reader
addresses their absence, publishing previously unpublished, out-of-print or
under-reviewed materials. By restoring to view the work that women did during
this foundational period, The Ghost Reader restores their participation in
broader conversations about media, media industries, and popular culture.
What is The Ghost Reader?
The Ghost Reader seeks intersectional contributions on women’s written
work that engaged in broader conversations about communication, media, media
industries, and popular culture, whether in the form of academic scholarship,
journalism, or activism. We want to encourage others to do the same through a
commitment to changing the future of the discipline. And we want to support and
inspire additional feminist recovery work, reading and writing about the work
of those recovered, and teaching with and about this ghost library.
The Ghost Reader is a seed project that we hope will grow beyond the
boundaries of the published volume, partaking in the larger ecology of
transforming academic knowledge. The initial volume--to be published in
print--is limited by geography to the United States and western Europe. It is
also limited in scope due to space on the printed page. We hope that scholars
outside the Global North will use The Ghost Reader’s model to transform the
knowledge ecologies of media, communication, and cultural studies. Following
the print volume, The Ghost Reader will expand onto the University of
Minnesota’s digital publishing platform, Manifold, which will host all of the
contributions.
Why contribute?
Instead of giving your labor for free to status quo pursuits, give it to
feminist praxis: recover women’s erased history, help others learn about it,
and create a vital foundation for future teaching and research. To acknowledge
the contributions that will make The Ghost Reader possible, all contributors
will be credited as contributing editors and all of those who help with
transcriptions will be listed as contributing transcribers.
How to contribute?
The co-editors would be delighted to talk to you about the inclusion of
any work by women in academia, journalism, or activism written or published
between 1925-1968. We encourage collaborative contributions to the project. We
are eager to discuss strategies that might facilitate your participation,
including a workflow that emulates a manageable wiki project, integrating
recovery work into class assignments at both the undergraduate and graduate
level, using undergraduate and graduate research opportunities to conduct
research, and participating in a Teaching Media Quarterly special issue on
creating lesson plans based on The Ghost Reader. See additional ideas for how
to collaborate on contributions here.
Deadlines
March 1, 2020: Submit a letter of interest, a short (no more than
300-word) abstract listing the scholar/researcher/critic you will be
contributing to The Ghost Reader, and a biography.
October 1, 2020: Full submissions due, including:
- An introduction of no more than 1,000 words in plain text (.txt), Word (.doc or .docx), or Markdown (.md) about the career of the figure whose work the contributor is compiling, including a brief discussion of the continued relevance of the figure’s work to the field of communication/critical/cultural/media studies (we will not accept .pdfs);
- Two articles by the figure. These articles should be transcribed by the contributor and be provided in plain text (.txt), Word (.doc or .docx), or Markdown (.md), along with pdfs of the original articles. The Reanimate Collective can work with contributors on transcription and file formats;
- Copyright permissions for the two articles, information about copyright status, or a record of good faith attempts to locate the copyright holder for orphan works. The editors and Reanimate Collective can work with contributors on copyright issues;
- A bibliography with additional citations by the figure whose work is being compiled;
- Five keywords that indicate field, sub-field, or genre of the figure’s work, or that characterize the career or contribution(s) of the figure.
Email: ghostreader2020@gmail.com
Twitter: @GhostReader2020
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