[Commlist] Call for Contributors: The Ghost Reader: Recovering Women’s Contributions to Communication Studies, 1925-1968

Call for Contributions


The Ghost Reader: Recovering Women’s Contributions to Communication 
Studies, 1925-1968


Editors:

Elena Hristova, Regent’s University London

Aimee-Marie Dorsten, Point Park University

Carol Stabile, University of Oregon


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 
Readeraddresses their absence, publishing previously unpublished, 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 Readerrestores 
their participation in broader conversations about media, media 
industries, and popular culture.


What is The Ghost Reader?

The Ghost Readerseeks 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 
modelto transform the knowledge ecologies of media, communication, and 
cultural studies. Following the print volume, The Ghost Readerwill 
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 Quarterlyspecial issue on creating lesson plans based on 
The Ghost Reader. See additional ideas for how to collaborate on 
contributions here: http://reanimatepublishing.org/cfps/.


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:

 1.

    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);

 2.

    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;

 3.

    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;

 4.

    A bibliography with additional citations by the figure whose work is
    being compiled;

 5.

    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.


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