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...future.This editorial process has made the Press’s name. “[It] embodies one of the great editorial traditions of scholarly publishing in this country or anywhere else,” says Peter J. Dougherty, Director of the Princeton University Press.FIRST IMPRESSIONSThe Press publishes about 200 manuscripts a year. Standards are high. Representatives of the press often scour academic conventions for the newest and freshest ideas. The nine acquisition editors follow scholars whose work might one day prove promising. Each is an expert in his or her field. “We’re lapsed academics...
...students respect their peers,” she says. “It’s really nice to have a sense of community—it gives you a sense of the aesthetics you believe in.”When she is not working on her newest manuscript of poems, Banerjee is an editor at the Dudley Review and also participates in the Cambridge Writers’ workshop. Unlike Bennett, she advocates expanding the fiction community on campus.“Harvard would do well to get more outlets for its writers, [more places] for students to showcase their...
...Manuscript editors then go through the draft to improve the quality of the prose. Before it can be printed, the manuscript must also be reviewed anonymously by two other experts in the field. Then the book, vetted and designed, can finally be sent out to the outside companies that compose and print the final product. Over the course of the process, Knoll says, “We shape, curate, and disseminate information...
...When she is not working on her newest manuscript of poems, Banerjee is an editor at the Dudley Review and also participates in the Cambridge Writers’ workshop. Unlike Bennett, she advocates expanding the fiction community on campus...
...Library’s Special Collections. Close to 40 percent of the graduate students who contact the Library hoping to consult the materials in Special Collections are not affiliated with Harvard, according to David R. Warrington, the Special Collections librarian. The department houses nearly 2,000 feet of linear manuscript, more than 200,000 rare books, and over 70,000 visual images. “The fellowship will support greater access, especially by young scholars with research budgets, to our unique materials,” said John G. Palfrey ’94, professor of law and vice dean...