On being an Editor and Publisher

Acquisitions at De Gruyter Open

As Managing Editor (Culture) I work in Open Access Book acquisitions for De Gruyter Open's OAB programme in Culture. Working together with a diverse team of Associate Editors, Reviewers and Language Editors  I use the opportunity of being on the ground-floor of an emerging academic paradigm to engage the high-quality work of scholars who might have historically been marginalized from academic publishing perhaps because their monographs are highly illustrated or they are working in areas of the world that haven been peripheral to European and American academia previously. The ethos I encourage in my division is one of lateral thinking and connectivity between diverse scholars.