Brief Encounters: Call for Peer Reviewers
Brief Encounters is a postgraduate interdisciplinary journal, run by PhD students and open for submission by research students, staff and alumni of the CHASE member institutions.
The editorial team of Issue 7 are currently looking for additional peer reviewers with expertise in the following fields:
Art studies, literary studies, media studies and journalism, ecocriticism and environmental humanities, critical theory, educational studies, linguistics, history, musicology, gender studies, queer studies, political science, creative writing, photography, political philosophy, legal studies, sociology, political psychology, international relations, philosophy and aesthetics, postcolonialism, migration studies, culture studies, posthumanism, film studies, classical and archaeological studies, South East Asian studies.
We are especially looking for reviewers with the following research interests:
Ancient Rome, medieval studies, sexology, BDSM, mysticism, the decadence era, Victorian studies, Christianity, world music, globalisation, multilingualism, language acquisition, the Anthropocene, ecopoetics, ecological politics, Black feminism, social media, AI, creative non-fiction, mental health/illness, food and culture, human rights, memoirs, motherhood, homo- and heteronormativity, gay culture, altered states of consciousness and psychedelics, 1960-70s American art and counterculture, écriture feminine, hybrid genres of creative writing, biography, installation art, 1980-90s art, politics and ethics in art, news evaluation, journalistic chronicles, soft power, transnationalism, transpoetics.
Peer review is a vital element of the scholarly system, central to academic publication, funding awards, institutional research assessment, and many conferences. As such, understanding peer review is important for an academic career, in the course of which researchers can expect to find themselves on both sides of the process, subject to others’ expert scrutiny and consulted for their own.
Acting as a peer reviewer for Brief Encounters is not only great fun – but it is also a good way to boost your academic CV!
To be eligible to apply, you must:
be a postgraduate research student or early career researcher at a CHASE institution, preferably at least in your second year.
have an enthusiasm for academic writing and for sharing research.
demonstrate a commitment to give serious thought to how journal articles can reach their potential, considering both their arguments and their readers.
If you’d like to lend us your expertise and give reviewing a go, please contact our Articles Editor, Filippo Ursitti at fursi001@gold.ac.uk.