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The Importance of Book Reviews
The age-old academic adage of "publish or perish" still exists. Publishing a book can play a critical role in the future of any academic. However, one piece of that important puzzle plays an important role in the journals published by the JHU Press. Book...
Peer Review Week: Singing the Unsung
“Do not publish this book!” This is the shortest peer review I’ve ever received, and by far, the most direct. In five short words, it spoke volumes. I can’t tell you who wrote it—that would violate a trust—but I can tell you the book never saw the light of day...
Water Resources: Science and Society
Water scarcity affects four of 10 people around the globe. Ninety percent of all natural disasters are water-related. The year is 2019, and we live in a highly connected world with endless technology at our fingertips, yet more than two billion people lack...
Travel Agent to the (Literary) Stars
Somehow, without quite meaning to, I’ve become a sort of de facto travel agent to the (literary) stars. It all began in 2010 with my sixth book, Lighting Out for the Territory: How Samuel Clemens Headed West and Became Mark Twain, which concerned the...
The Future of the Past
As the American Journal of Philology wraps up its 140th year of publishing, a new name stands at the top of the masthead. Joseph Farrell from the University of Pennsylvania took over as Editor earlier this year. He joined us on our podcast to talk about the...
Separated: Q&A with author William D. Lopez
Why did you write Separated: Family and Community in the Aftermath of an Immigration Raid? I decided to write Separated because the stories I was told deserved more depth, empathy, and richness than other formats would permit. The lives of the women and...
A Novel Approach
Earlier this year, Studies in the Novel released a special issue commemorating the journal's first 50 years of publishing. The issue featured seminal articles from the past 50 years, each with an introduction commissioned to put the original work into context...
The Truth About College Admission
Ask most high school students or adults to give word associations with “college,” and they typically respond with: freedom, opportunities, friends, learning, or other broad and generally positive, hope-filled language. Ask them to respond to “college admission...
The Colosseum: The Mutability of a Monument
The summer of 2000 was a formative period in my life. I had just finished my freshman year as an Archaeology and Classical Studies double major at the University of Evansville and traveled to Rome on my first study abroad trip. I remember riding a bus in Rome...