editorships: Kairos
position
(2006–present). Co-Editor. Kairos: Rhetoric, Technology, Pedagogy. http://kairos.technorhetoric.net
description/scope
I was promoted to co-editor of Kairos (from a section editor position) in February 2006. At that time, my co-editor (Beth Hewett) and I restructured the journal so that it would run more smoothly and on time in all sections. We stopped publishing the themed CoverWeb section, which we had edited up until that point, in favor of making the Features section more robust. (Until the section merger, Features often included 1–2 webtexts per issue compared to the CoverWeb’s 4–6 texts.) We also added a section to the journal, Inventio, that showcases experimental webtexts, thus continuing the non-traditional scholarly mission of Kairos.
Beth and I continue similar hands-on editing responsibilities that we performed as CoverWeb Co-Editors with the added responsibilities of overseeing journal operations in all sections (Reviews, Interviews, Praxis, Inventio, and Topoi, which is the new name of the merged Features/CoverWeb section). All of the editorial changes Beth and I implemented can be considered original, critical editorial work that contributes to digital, writing-studies scholarship.
journal stats
- Our acceptance rate has dropped to 25% this year.
- Readership is at an average of 44,500 unique visitors/readers every month, many of whom originate from outside the US.
- Kairos is an open-access journal providing free scholarly content.
accompanying materials
- to come: discussion and email exchange of an in-progress edited webtext to show my original critical work in the scholarship of editing
- Kairos website
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