Key Issues in Academic Publishing

主讲人：  Simon C. Estok

讲座时间：2025年6月18日 9：30-11：00

讲座地点：综合楼354

主讲人简介:

Dr. Simon C. Estok is a professor and Senior Fellow of South Korea’s oldest university, Sungkyunkwan University (成均館大學校, established 1398). He is editor of the A&HCI-listed journal Neohelicon: Acta comparationis litterarum universarum and is an elected member of the European Academy of Sciences and Art. Estok held China’s prestigious East Scholar Award (东方学者) from 2015 to 2018, has received the National Research Foundation of Korea Writing in the Humanities Program book award twice, and is best known for his theory of ecophobia, which has been profoundly influential, spawning an entirely new discipline—ecogothic studies—and several new journals. Estok began formulating the term “ecophobia” in his doctoral thesis, introduced the term to the ecocritical community in 2009, and then published his masterful book The Ecophobia Hypothesis through Routledge in 2018. Estok is not only an influential ecocritic but a pioneering Shakespearean. He was the first person to study “ecocritical Shakespeares,” against considerable resistance—now it is a thriving industry all its own. His work is wide-ranging. He has over a hundred articles published, 70 in A&HCI journals (including PMLA), 26 book chapters, and 9 books, notably Ecocriticism and Shakespeare: Reading Ecophobia (2011), East Asian Ecocriticisms: A Critical Reader (2013), and The Ecophobia Hypothesis (2018). His most recent book is entitled Slime: An Elemental Imaginary, published in 2024 by Cambridge University Press. He is currently working on a book entitled The Agony of Water in an Age of Climate Change, contracted as the inaugural book in the Bloomsbury Blue Humanities series and forthcoming in March 2026.

内容简介：

What are academic literary journals looking for? What are they not looking for? This talk will address several things. It will begin with a discussion of the most common mistakes writers make when writing journal articles and will then go on to describe what some of the key strategies are for avoiding such mistakes and getting published.  Much of the talk will focus on the two things that are absolutely necessary for getting published: a good argument and good writing. This talk will explain what makes a good argument, beginning with the premise that an argument is something with which a person can reasonably disagree and which must therefore be proven or argued. Form and content, as this talk will explain, are in many ways inseparable. A good argument with sloppy and incohesive paragraphs and basic grammar and syntax flaws will not see publication. Nor will articles written with the help of AI (since this is a form of plagiarism, and there is sophisticated detection software that most journals use).  While there are no shortcuts to getting published, there are some important things to consider that make the whole process easier—and that’s what this talk is about.