Reminder: Call for Applications: Digital Media Editor for Legacy (Deadline: 9.1.2024) – Society for the Study of American Women Writers

About the role

Join the editorial team at Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers as a Digital Media Editor. Founded in 1984, Legacy is the only journal to focus specifically on American women writers from the seventeenth through the early twentieth centuries.

Responsibilities

• Research, write, and post content on the journal’s social media sites (Facebook, Instagram, and Bluesky) and on the newly redesigned website.
• Create social media posts about news items, exhibits, collections, etc. that will appeal to the journal’s target audience.
• Work with the Legacy editorial team to develop content promoting the journal and individual issues.
• Edit and proofread digital content written by other members of the team.
• Attend biannual editorial meetings.
• In the second year, propose, solicit, edit, and publish an online forum in the website’s Legacy Salon in consultation with the Editor.

Requirements

• ABD in or a recent PhD from an English Department or related field, with a dissertation project that includes a substantial focus on American women writers up to 1950.
• In-depth experience (personal or professional) with social media.
• In-depth experience with WordPress.

No editing experience is required.

Benefits

• Training in editorial methods.
• A $1,000 annual stipend.
• Credit given in print and on the website.
• Experience working with the editorial team at Legacy.

Term: Two years (applications due 1 September 2024; final decision by 1 October 2024).