Brown University Library seeks to hire a creative, highly organized, and enthusiastic individual for the position of Assistant Editor, Brown University Digital Publications. Widely recognized as accessible, intentional, and inclusive, Brown University Digital Publications is helping to set the standards for the future of scholarship in the digital age. This is an exciting opportunity to join an innovative, expanding program committed to integrating diversity, equity, and social justice into the practice and production of digital publications for both scholarly audiences and the wider public.
The Assistant Editor will work as part of a multi-skilled team of experts to develop complex born-digital scholarship intended for publication with leading academic presses.
In close collaboration with the Director, the Assistant Editor will:
- Play a key role in supporting humanities scholars in the creation of new scholarly forms that present research and advance arguments in ways not achievable in a conventional print format, whether through multimedia enhancements or interactive engagement with research materials.
- Help conceptualize, research, and administer multimodal monograph projects by building rapport and working effectively with a wide range of collaborators.
- Contribute to the acquisitions process, undertake developmental editing, and copyediting as needed, manage timelines and budgets, and assist in the preparation of archival and multimedia assets for individual projects while working on multiple projects simultaneously.
- Take a proactive, critically engaged approach to digital content development, continuously looking for ways to support underrepresented voices and perspectives.
- Help administer national training workshops such as Born-Digital Scholarly Publishing: Resources and Roadmaps, an NEH Institute on Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities and Advancing HBCU Scholarship, Diversifying Digital Publishing; and will participate in relevant meetings and events across and beyond the Brown campus.
Application deadline: December 20, 2024