We are excited to announce the publication of “On Gathering,” our new special issue on collective and embodied modes of scholarly communication, edited by Dr. Katina L. Rogers (Inkcap Consulting).
This special issue is an exploration of the ephemeral—the stray thoughts, the side conversations, the discarded scraps and false starts that inform a published work of scholarship, usually invisibly. Just as mushrooms spring up from the rot of the forest floor and return nutrients to depleted soil, this issue suggests something new might emerge in scholarly communication from the decomposing remnants of what came before. Drawing on this metaphor of the ecological functions of fungi, the contributions collected here consider matters of interdependence, coalition building, and collective thriving in and beyond the university, even in less-than-pristine conditions.
The resulting collection reflects the many ways we gather and the many ways our thoughts take shape. Form and structure are objects of inquiry in many contributions, with creative and critical examinations of what relational scholarship looks like through postcards, invitations, podcasts, and multivocal pieces. Many contributors used the space to engage in collaborative work that self-reflectively considers the possibilities of collaborative writing. Others reflect on design studios, on academic administration, on grantwriting, on queer bibliography—all in order to better understand how we might bring about more justice, joy, and sustainability in our scholarly lifeworlds.
This special issue features work from: Lee Skallerup Bessette, Niya Bond, Katherine Bowers, Christina Boyles, Kath Burton, Maria Sachiko Cecire, Clare Daniel, Quinn Dombrowski, Liz Grumbach, Jacquelyne Thoni Howard, Jajwalya Karajgikar, Sheliza Ladhani, Anouk Lang, Bart Lenart, Purdom Lindblad, Erica Machulak, Mairi McDermott, Hannah McGregor, Liv Newman, Malcolm Noble, Sarah Pyke, Laura Reid, Sefat Rimpu, Roopika Risam, Enilda Romero-Hall, J. Nalubega Ross, Kathryn Ruddock, Amber Sewell, Eva Spiegelhofer, Silvia Stoyanova, Elizabeth Tavella, Stephanie Tyler, Amanda Wyatt Visconti, and Abigail Williams, as well as a book review of Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s Leading Generously (2024) by John Maxwell.
Please share this special issue with anyone in your network who may be interested in collective and embodied modes of scholarly communication!
Contents: https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/issue/336/info/
Volume 28 • Issue 1 • 2025 • On Gathering: Exploring Collective and Embodied Modes of Scholarly Communication and Publishing
Katina Rogers, “Editor's Gloss: The Process of Shared Knowledge Creation.” https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.6835
Amanda Wyatt Visconti, “Organized Futures: Speculative Design for More Just and Joyful Scholarly Infrastructure.” https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.6020
Enilda Romero-Hall, Clare Daniel, Jacquelyne Thoni Howard, Niya Bond, and Liv Newman, “A Feminist Scholars Collective Supporting the Growth and Dissemination of a Digital Guide: A Collaborative Autoethnography.” https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.5878
J. Nalubega Ross, “A Call For Papers: Postcards on Beauty, Method, and Ephemera.” https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.5942
Sheliza Ladhani, Stephanie Tyler, and Mairi McDermott, “Preserving Fugacious Stories Through Metho-Pedagogical Gatherings to Carry Forth Otherworlds.” https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.5937
Lee Skallerup Bessette, Katherine Bowers, Maria Sachiko Cecire, Quinn Dombrowski, Anouk Lang, and Roopika Risam, “Collective Praxis, Collaborative Publishing: The Case of the Data-Sitters Club.” https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.6093
Bart Lenart, Mairi McDermott, Laura Reid, Sefat Rimpu, Kathryn Ruddock, and Abigail Williams, “Collaborative Writing as a Process of Inquiry within Knowledge Ecologies.” https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.6033
Liz Grumbach, Christina Boyles, and Purdom Lindblad, “Design Studio as Method: Reparative Archives and Beyond.” https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.6168
Hannah McGregor, “No One Is In Trouble: Queer Feminist Collaborations in the Amplify Podcast Network, The SpokenWeb Podcast, and Witch, Please Productions.” https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.6098
Elizabeth Tavella & Eva Spiegelhofer, “In Dialogue with More-Than-Human Wor(l)ds: Collaborative Kinship and Relationality in Digital Publishing.” https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.6022
Amber Sewell, “Giving Voice to Community: Embodied Scholarship, Generative Discussion, and Other Affordances of Scholarly Podcasting.” https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.6036
Silvia Stoyanova, “Revisiting the Hermeneutic Project of the Fragment in its Exigency for a Digital Paradigm of Publication.” https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.6275
Kath Burton and Erica Machulak, “The Grant Writer's Paradox: Leveraging Public Scholarship Ideas When the Money is Uncertain.” https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.6017
Malcolm Noble and Sarah Pyke, “A Bibliographic Gathering: Reflecting on ‘Queer Bibliography.’” https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.6034
Jajwalya Karajgikar, “Feasting on Collaborations.” https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.5936
John Maxwell, Book Review: Leading Generously: Tools for Transformation by Kathleen Fitzpatrick. https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.7120
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