EDITORIAL ASSISTANT POSITION STARTING SPRING 2012!
The Prize-Winning Academic Journal PUBLIC CULTURE (located at NYU) is Seeking an EDITORIAL ASSISTANT to Start in the Spring 2012 Semester.
· Position is part-time—approximately 10–15 hours per week
· Hourly pay: $10–15, depending on eligibility
· Starting date: flexible between January 9–23, 2012
· All applicants must be eligible for Federal Work-Study
· Fall 2012 availability a plus
· Familiarity with relational databases, web-content management systems, and extensible markup language (XML) preferred
· Computer-programming skills and experience with audio/video equipment a plus
If interested please send résumé and letter of interest to Stephen Twilley, Associate Editor, at stephen@publicculture.org.
Duties may include:
· Preparing and maintaining author files and online database
· Photocopying and circulating mss. for Screening and Editorial Committee meetings
· Corresponding with authors
· Some copyediting of manuscripts
· Fact-checking footnotes and reference lists in journal articles
· Preparing original content for the journal website and new online book review, Public Books
· Taking notes at in-house editorial meetings
· Acquiring contact information sheets, contracts, art and art permissions, etc., from authors
· Compiling “Books Received” list
· Maintaining complimentary copy list
· Setting up and maintaining NYU and other listserv announcements related to the journal
· Ordering office supplies
Public Culture is a reviewed interdisciplinary journal of cultural studies, published three times a year for the Institute for Public Knowledge by Duke University Press. Since its founding in 1988, Public Culture has established itself as a prize-winning, field-defining cultural studies journal. Public Culture seeks a critical understanding of the global cultural flows and the cultural forms of the public sphere which have defined the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. As such, the journal provides a forum for the discussion of the places and occasions where cultural, social, and political differences emerge as public phenomena, manifested in everything from highly particular and localized events in popular or folk culture to global advertising, consumption, and information networks.
Please see the journal’s website for more details: www.publicculture.org
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