This event has been postponed until early fall 2024. We will update this page and email those who already registered for this event when we have more details.
Publishing a Journal Article in Iberian Studies
Featuring: Pedro Garcia-Caro (Periphērica, University of Oregon), Julia Hernández (Bulletin of the Comediantes, NYU), Therese Martin (Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies, CSIC), Justin Berner (Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, NYU)
Chair: Simon Doubleday (Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies, Hofstra University)
Friday, April 26th from 12-1:30pm on Zoom
Join us for a roundtable conversation to talk about both the intellectual and practical challenges of writing a journal article. We will cover topics including adapting dissertation material into an article, pitfalls to avoid, working with editors and with revision comments, and writing strategies. The event is open to everyone but we especially encourage graduate students and early-career scholars to attend.
This event has been postponed until early fall 2024. We will update this page and email those who already registered for this event when we have more details.
Speaker Bios:
Simon R. Doubleday is Professor of History at Hofstra University (New York). His books includeThe Lara Family: Crown and Nobility in Medieval Spain (2001), The Wise King: A Christian Prince, Muslim Spain, and the Birth of the Renaissance(2015), and, with the late Bernard F. Reilly, León and Galicia under Queen Sancha and King Fernando, forthcoming with the University of Pennsylvania Press in July 2024). He has co-editedIn the Light of Medieval Spain: Islam, the West, and the Relevance of the Past (2008); Border Interrogations: Questioning Spanish Frontiers (2008); Why the Middle Ages Matter: Medieval Light on Modern Injustice (2011); and Galicia no tempo de Afonso X [Galicia in the age of Alfonso X] (2021).He was Founding Editor ofthe Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies and for the first decade of its existence served as Editor-in-Chief, a role to which he is delighted to be returning in 2025; he is also past President of the American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain. He has received multiple grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and a John Simon Guggenheim fellowship.
Pedro Garcia-Caro bio forthcoming.
Julia Hernández, Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish at New York University, is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work bridges the fields Classics and Hispanic Studies. With training in both areas, she specializes in the history of ancient Greek—from its teaching to its translation to its reconstructed literary production—in the early modern Spanish-speaking world. Her teaching and research also explore the intersections of Classics, Early Modernity, and US Latinx identity. Julia serves as Associate Editor of the international early modern Spanish theater journal Bulletin of the Comediantes and is co-founder and steering committee member of the international scholarly organization Hesperides: Classics in the Luso-Hispanic World.
Therese Martin is Senior Researcher and head of the Department of Medieval Studies at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) in Madrid. She has held Fulbright, Mellon, de Montêquin, Kress, Getty, and CASVA fellowships in support of her research on the intersections of medieval Iberia’s multiple cultures, women’s involvement with art and architecture in the central Middle Ages, and Romanesque construction and decoration. Her prize-winning publications include “Crouching Crossbowmen in Early Twelfth-Century Sculpture: A Nasty, Brutish, and Short(-Lived) Iconography,” Gesta (2015); and “The Margin to Act: A Framework of Investigation for Women’s (and Men’s) Medieval Art-Making,” in ‘Me fecit.’ Making Medieval Art (History), a special issue she edited of the Journal of Medieval History (2016). She is the author of Queen as King: Politics and Architectural Propaganda in Twelfth-Century Spain (Brill, 2006), and the editor of The Medieval Iberian Treasury in the Context of Cultural Interchange, Expanded Edition (Brill, 2020, open access: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004424593) and of Reassessing the Roles of Women as ‘Makers’ of Medieval Art and Architecture (Brill, 2012; paperback 2015). The latter publication resulted from her project of the same name, funded by a 1.2 million euro European Research Council Starting Grant (2010-2015). A Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, she previously served on the Editorial Board of Gesta and the Hispanic Research Journal. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies.
Justin Berner is the Managing Editor for the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies. An Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow in the department of Spanish and Portuguese at NYU, Justin previously served as the Global Perspectives on Society Postdoctoral Fellow at NYU-Shanghai and he received his PhD in Hispanic Languages and Literatures from the University of California, Berkeley. Justin’s research focuses on modern and contemporary Spanish cultural production, with a particular interest in how different media represent the interrelations between humans and the environment.