Nicole Rizzuto
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Lit Professor at Georgetown. 20-21 c Anglophone. Arresting Ecologies: Global Literature across Air, Land, and Sea, 1926-2014: academic.oup.com/book/62701?searchr…
Lit Professor at Georgetown. 20-21 c Anglophone. Arresting Ecologies: Global Literature across Air, Land, and Sea, 1926-2014: academic.oup.com/book/62701?searchr…
![The Publisher as Critic
Drawing on my experience as an indie scholar and university press editor, I turn a critical eye on the conditions of scholarly production and consumption in literary studies and, more specifically, Victorian studies. From the “method wars” to “the institutional turn,” university presses, and scholarly publishing more generally, can be, if not a blind spot, then a practical stopping point of discourse about the state and fate of literature and literary studies—not to mention the state [End Page 70] and fate of the university.6 Nor do press workers much appear in spaces like Victorian Poetry, that is, journals and conferences devoted to literary studies. When we do appear, our primary mode is prescriptive.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ohk4pgrwhyhlp7zwrp3rzlj4/bafkreifujdun3llaqxmz2spx6c5dzl7eddjxafxqfbxyrazmoshpg24boi)
