In this form we request basic contact information and a rationale regarding nominations and self-nominations for new members of the Scholarly Editing editorial team.

This call for editors reflects our commitment to extend the journal’s sustainability by cultivating a robust editorial team that will succeed the senior editors over time. As we strive to diversify the journal’s staff and bring in new voices, we strongly encourage applications from people of color, people from the global South, LGBTQ+ individuals, and those from other underrepresented groups, as well as those whose addresses them. We have reinforced this pledge in our recent call for contributions for Volume 40, which we will publish in 2022. Applications from outside the US are welcome.

We will continue to expand our team beyond its current composition of university-based scholars who are primarily Americanists with expertise in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. As a first step, we have recently added a new editor who is a middle school educator with specializations in race and ethnicity in the classical world and in LGBTQ+ history. He will lead our new section, K-12 Teaching and Learning.

These calls reflect our work to develop and advance all aspects of textual and documentary editing, including the recovery of texts and artifacts that represent and celebrate the lives and contributions from and about those whose history has been erased or disregarded. Scholarly Editing seeks to fill the following positions on our editorial team:
*Essays Editor (2)
*Reviews Editor (Print and Digital) (1)
*Voices and Perspectives Editor (1)
*Pedagogy Editor (1)
*Assistant Technical Editor (1)

Each of these editors will serve for a three-year term. Because the journal is grounded in higher education’s tradition of service, the work of editors is voluntary and uncompensated.

Editors have two main tasks in the production of each annual volume of Scholarly Editing, and both of these tasks involve spending time on outreach. Each editor’s first task is to cultivate contributions that speak to the calls for each volume as developed in collaboration with the editors in chief. The editors’ equally important second task is to cultivate peer reviewers who will adhere to the journal’s commitment to generous and developmental peer review.

New editors can expect to spend roughly twenty hours per month on their work for the journal. Section editors meet monthly to discuss content development plans for their sections. A sample content development plan can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/s2un3ccn. Section editors work routinely with the managing editor to adapt workflows and templates for peer review. Members of the executive editorial team are available for additional consultation and collaboration as needed.

The Assistant Technical Editor will work with the Technical Editor on the web development needed for each new volume of the journal, in addition to spending time on outreach and cultivating contributions for the micro-editions section. Some experience with web development is required. Knowledge of web frameworks and static site generators is preferred (the journal website and micro-editions are built with React and Gatsby), or willingness to learn on the job.

The deadline for applications is November 1, 2021.