Dana Leibsohn on Journal Editing

Dana Leibsohn is Alice Pratt Brown Professor of Art at Smith College and General Editor of Colonial Latin American Review, or CLAR. CLAR is one of the flagship journals for the study of colonial Latin America. It is strongly interdisciplinary, with contributions coming from everywhere from literary studies to history to art history, to indigenous studies; it is published in English, Spanish, and Portuguese; and, as this linguistic breadth suggests, it’s read across wide geographies. So I wanted to talk to Dana about the considerations of editing a journal with that kind of range – what she looks for in submissions, but also how she thinks about the journal’s role in a changing field. We also talked about how she sees the future of academic journals, from peer review to AI.

Mentioned:

Seth Rockman, Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery.

Mariette Navarro, Ultramarine.