Publishing Research Quarterly - Introducing Editor-in-Chief Jocelyn Hargrave and Associate Editor Jodie Lea Martire

Robert E. Baensch has been the Editor for the Publishing Research Quarterly journal for twenty-two years. Under his leadership, the journal expanded its global reach by publishing papers from over thirty countries.  With the emergence of new media, it extended the focus beyond books to address many new digital or online forms of publishing. It has been possible to increase the number of articles and book reviews and achieve the highest number of citations per article in comparison to six competing journals.

Springer would like to thank Robert for his tireless efforts on behalf of the journal for so many years and to congratulate him on his well-earned retirement. His legacy will certainly continue on in the journal with the new Editor-in-Chief he has chosen as well as the Associate Editor she has brought on. Please read the bios they have provided below and join us in welcoming both Jocelyn Hargrave and Jodie Lea Martire.

Editor-in-Chief Dr. Jocelyn Hargrave is an Australian-born Lecturer in Publishing at University of Derby, England. She completed her Masters (by Research) in the Publishing and Communications Program at The University of Melbourne in 2012, for which she investigated the impact of digital technologies on the educational publishing industry; and her doctorate in the Literary and Cultural Studies Program at Monash University in 2016, undertaking a historical appraisal of editorial style in early-modern England. Her research interests intersect contemporary publishing studies (with a particular focus on educational and academic publishing), literary studies and book history. She is the sole-author of Teaching Publishing and Editorial Practice: The Transition from University to Industry (Cambridge University Press, 2022), The Evolution of Editorial Style in Early Modern England (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), and numerous articles published in international journals such as Publishing Research Quarterly, Journal of Scholarly Publishing, Media History and, most recently, Antipodes; as well as co-editor with Dr Megan Peiser (Oakland University) of the summer 2022 issue of Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, entitled ‘“Women and other undesirables”: female creative and technical labour in nineteenth-century print culture’. Jocelyn is also a practising editor of print and digital content, with twenty-five years’ experience working in the publishing industry for such companies as Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press and Cengage Learning.

Associate Editor Jodie Lea Martire is a PhD candidate in the Centre for Communication and Social Change in the School of Communication and Arts at The University of Queensland (located on unceded Jagera and Turrbal lands). Her PhD thesis will investigate Australian minority-language publishing processes, considering them a manifestation of community publishing in defence of communities’ linguistic human rights. Jodie completed her Master of Communication at the same university; her minor thesis focused on the publishing strategies used by Australian micro- and small-press publishers to disseminate the voices of under-represented authors, as well authors’ assessments of those very strategies. Her research interests focus on justice, representation and power in the publishing industry, and she has had articles published in Publishing Research Quarterly and Antipodes. Jodie is also a published poet, and has worked and studied for over two decades in fields connected to publishing and language. Her in-house and freelance experience in the book trade includes roles as a writer, editor, translator, rights manager, publishing manager, librarian and bookseller; she continues to practise as an editor. When not examining the logistics and politics of contemporary publishing, Jodie is reading books for fun.