Winners — Council of Editors of Learned Journals

Congrats to the winners of this year’s CELJ Awards!

🏆 Best Special Issue: James Baldwin Review
🏆 Best New Journal: Regeneration
🏆 Best Public Outreach: The So What, Arthuriana
🏆 Phoenix Award: Labor
🏆 Best Digital Feature: Modernism/modernity
🏆 Distinguished Editor: Charles H. Rowell, Callaloo

Thanks to @zugenia.bsky.social for inviting me to be part of the @celj.bsky.social session at #MMLA26 on supporting journal editors--really good to get to sit with people committed to the project of helping people make their ideas public against increasing hostility to the public exchange of ideas

🚨 UPDATE: We paused the survey because over 3,000 scammers screwed it up for the rest of us. We are manually reviewing the responses to ensure legitimate respondents get through. This will take some time. We are adding security measures before we re-open the survey. Thanks for your patience!

Re-Imagining Peer Review: A CELJ Survey This survey examines various systems of peer review currently in use in humanities and humanistically oriented social sciences (HSS) journal publishing. The goal of the survey is to uncover current ch...

Hey humanities scholars! Share your #peerreview experience as an editor, author, or reviewer for humanities (or HSS) journals to help us reimagine a more inclusive, less labor-intensive system. Get a $50 gift card for completing the survey: surveymonkey.com/r/celj-peer-...

📣 #PeerReviewWeek kicks off today!

And what better time to share that CELJ will soon launch the @mellon.org -funded survey examining peer review in humanities & HSS journal publishing.

The survey will go live in October—after being peer reviewed, of course.

📝 Sign up for updates below

Re-Imagining Peer Review CELJ is working on a large-scale survey of peer review in humanities journal publishing, especially as it intersects with principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion. The project team is soliciting...

CELJ is conducting a survey on peer review in humanities publishing, focusing on #DEI principles.

We’re inviting editors, authors, publishers, and reviewers to share ideas—specific questions or broader topics like peer review types, editorial labor, and more—by Feb 1, 2025.

Fill out the form ⬇️

Major thanks to the Council of Editors of Learned Journals @celj.bsky.social for inviting editors to an extremely productive workshop at
at @mla2025.bsky.social

Crucial, necessary session right now at @mla2025.bsky.social by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals @celj.bsky.social to draft new recommendations to help college/uni administration recognize and support journals. And Leviathan of the @melville-society.bsky.social got an award!

Leviathan editor Brian Yothers and Hopkins Press journals publicist Rahne Alexander accept CELJ awards certificates at MLA 2025

BREAKING: @celj.bsky.social awards 2 Hopkins Press journals at #MLA2025 — Best Special Issue for Leviathan and Distinguished Editor, Arien Mack, Social Research

Awards accepted by Leviathan editor Brian Yothers and Hopkins Press journals publicist Rahne Alexander

Come see me + editorial fellows to chat all things journal publication! Safe travels and see y'at #MLA2025

Don't miss Chat with an Editor this Friday and Saturday at #MLA2025 #MLA25. Sign up to meet with a journal editor either at the convention or virtually next Wednesday (1/15), and find out how to get your article published! @mlanews.bsky.social

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Don't miss Chat with an Editor this Friday and Saturday at #MLA2025. Sign up to meet with a journal editor and find out how to get your article published! @mlanews.bsky.social

We’re also scheduling virtual meetings next Wednesday, 1/15.

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Heading to #MLA2025? Sign up to meet with a journal editor at Chat with an Editor next Friday and Saturday, and get answers to your submission and peer-review questions.

Not going to New Orleans? Sign up for a virtual meeting Wednesday, Jan. 15! @mlanews.bsky.social

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📣 We're excited to announce CELJ has been awarded a grant of $555,000 from the @mellonfoundation.bsky.social to advance equitable and inclusive practices in peer review and scholarly journal publishing within the humanities.

Read more about the grant and subscribe to updates about the project ⬇️

It's here! CELJ panels at #MLA2024 in Philly!

**today** Thurs 1/4 @12pm- Visionary Journals & Editorial Praxis

Fri 1/5 @10.15am- How to Get Published
@ 1.15pm- Grad Student Labor & the Future of Editing w/ 🏆Awards! 🏆

Sat 1/6 @5:15pm- Making DH Projects Public. w/ Advisory Commitee on MLA Biblio

Check out the MLA2024 feed below! @lauracolaneri.bsky.social @paulakrebs.bsky.social @celj.bsky.social @kaneeshaparsard.bsky.social @lpolcha.bsky.social @ach.bsky.social @natewolff.bsky.social @andyhines.bsky.social @maryburke.bsky.social @profchander.bsky.social @andrewdavenport.bsky.social

So many CELJ panels at #MLA24 in Philly!

Thurs 1/4 @12pm- Visionary Journals & Editorial Praxis

Fri 1/5 @10.15am- How to Get Published
@ 1.15pm- Grad Student Labor & the Future of Editing w/ 🏆Awards! 🏆

Sat 1/6 @5:15pm- Making DH Projects Public. w/ Advisory Commitee on MLA Biblio

Don’t miss this year’s Chat with an Editor at MLA!

Sign up to meet one-on-one with a journal editor right after Friday’s How to Get Published panel (session 203), and find out more about publishing your article.

Not going to Philly? Sign up for a virtual meeting next Tuesday!

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CELJ 2023 Vice Presidential Nominations As per CELJ by-laws, the election for CELJ vice president is held every two years in odd-numbered years, with the incoming person starting the day after the Modern Language Association convention ends...

📣📣 This Week! 📣📣

Nominations for Vice-Prez of CELJ, due by Fri 11/03. Yourself! A friend/colleague! Learn more thecouncilofeditorsoflearnedjournals.wildapricot.org & contribute to our editorial community!
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Check out our new Journal of the Month celebration of Aztlán: Journal of Chicano Studies!

Very excited about this recent, ongoing feature -- New addition @ our home page & previous interviews in our website archives

With @zugenia.bsky.social + @debraraecohen.bsky.social

So true! CELJ hosts many conversations too about ethical & inclusive reviewing, journal timelines & pipelines, and much more. If you edit a journal or work at one, join us!