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I am going up for tenure next year & preparing my materials. There is a book chapter I was invited to write in Fall 2014 just months after I got my PhD. I submitted the chapter in Spring 2015. The edited collection this chapter was written for has still not been published.
I am sure there are decent reasons for the immense slowdown in production. But can you imagine if I was relying on this publication as a junior scholar? I write this piece less than a year after graduating & will likely have tenure before its published. That’s bananas.
As someone working in disability studies I know there was many reasons for delays in schedules, but as a multiply marginalized junior scholar I also know that one publication coming in YEARS late could really fuck with someone’s tenure case.
I don’t have brilliant commentary here, but IMHO grad students & junior folks should be wary of edited collections that have no real time schedule & be willing to pull their work if necessary. Senior folks editing these should communicate regularly & clearly about timing & delays
Have others has experience with extreme time delays in publications? #AcademicTwitter #AcademicPublishing #TenureTrack #PhDLife #GradStudents #GradSchool #Publishing
