And some people, in the meanwhile, keep getting articles accepted for publication.
OK, one article. And they have requested revisions. These will be big, important revisions and I’m only given 60 days to make them.
On the positive side, these are very good revisions that make a lot of sense to me. I feel like the reviewers have hinted that I can take the argument as far as it would go.
This is an important article for me because this is a completely new area of research for me. It has nothing to do with either the Bildungsroman or nationalism. This will be a beginning of a new major research project for me.
At the same time, this article matters to me because I used it to prove to myself that you can still do research while teaching 3 courses. I researched and wrote it in its entirety during the Spring semester. I used to worship at the altar of “you can’t write during a teaching semester, research can only be done in summer”, but now I’m over that shit.
The suggested revisions make me very happy because I believe that I still have a lot to learn as a scholar and I’m grateful for useful suggestions from my reviewers.
I love research, people. Especially when it gets accepted for publication.
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