Managing Editor of SMART :
- Approximately one-third to one-half of the salary for the position involving the editorship: soliciting and receiving papers and books for review; mailing out books for review to readers; mailing potential submissions to readers for review, receiving comments and sharing with authors (including back and forth correspondence relative to readers’ comments for changes to submissions); receiving completed book reviews; compiling, editing, and formatting each issue with articles and book reviews; sending final copy of each issue to the press; receiving all bound copies of the journal; mailing out bound issues to subscribers (paid by the university).
- All mailing costs (solicitation mailings for subscriptions [$400], mailing copies of the journal to subscribers [$900], and mailing books sent out for review [$300]) and all supplies (paper, envelopes, toner cartridges, misc. office materials, etc. [$500]) (paid by the university).
- The small SMART account that has accumulated from subscriptions over many years now totals approximately $23,000, which pays for the publication of two issues of the journal per year, or about $3,500-$4,000 (depending on the size of the issue), which is partly offset by monies from subscriptions which now total around 50, most of which are universities (or about $1,800 per year) (paid from the SMART account).
- Travel to Kalamazoo to attend the Congress each year (sometimes paid by the university and at other times paid by the SMART account). For the past few years, I have not been traveling to the conference but rather soliciting papers using information from the conference program and sending invitation letters to presenters.
The person taking over will also be responsible for housing all back issues of SMART, a database of subscribers and readers, files of subscriptions and some previous correspondence, and the SMART financial account.
For more information about this opportunity, please contact Kristie Bixby, the current Managing Editor of Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching (SMART), at kristie.bixby@wichita.edu.
