student journal | Dr. Shannon Finck

OUROBOROS: A Journal of the Publishing Industry’s Innovations and Reinventions

Students in my Fall 2024 ENGL 3140: Editing for Publication class spent the semester brushing up on their editing skills while reading Dan Sinykin’s Big Fiction, a history of literary publishing and conglomeration in the US. Meanwhile, they put their skills and knowledge to work, creating an online journal that reflects their own interests in…

Lit Que(e)ries: A Journal

Students in my Spring 2024 LGBTQ+ Literature class (ENGL 3695/WGSS 3910) created, edited, and published their own open-access journal with essays organized into thematic clusters (modeling their work on ASAP/J, Post45 Contemporaries, etc.). This was my first time doing a collaborative project at this scale with students, and the final product reflects the beautiful, ambitious,…