It’s an important milestone for a scholar when she actually starts getting invitations to publish articles in edited volumes (by people who are not her friends, acquaintances, or former grad school buddies I mean.)
I received such an invitation today from two important scholars in my field. They seem to have been impressed by my recent publications.
I feel important.
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Congratulations! Invitations to publish or give invited lectures will become ever more prevalent, I suspect.
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Thank you! ! And I hope so!
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As long as they don’t find out about how hopeless you are against squirrels….
“Oh, we’re sorry. We wanted an article from someone who can actually outwit a pack of rodents…”
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I can just imagine the biographical blurb that will accompany the article. “In spite of her impressive academic achievements and a solid record of publication, Dr. Bulochkina has demonstrated an unfortunate incapacity to withstand a squirrel critique of her bird-feeding skills. . .”
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Congratulations. You are decades ahead of me. I am hoping to reach this milestone sometime in my 70s.
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I’m following in your steps, though. I just had an article rejected because it isn’t Marxist enough. I mean, it’s Marxist all right, but not enough to “align itself with the journal’s goals.” Ideological purity is above all.
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Congratulations!
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