The Ideas on Fire Publishing Series returns this fall with a conversation about the vital role interdisciplinary journals play in shaping fields and scholarly communities.
Join us September 22, 2026, for Leading an Interdisciplinary Journal, which brings together faculty journal editors, scholars, and other publishing professionals to explore the intellectual, ethical, and logistical dimensions of interdisciplinary journal publishing.
We’ll discuss:
- Defining a journal’s scope, audience, and values
- Evaluating submissions across disciplines
- Managing the racially gendered labor of peer review and editorial decisions
- Ethically recruiting and mentoring reviewers
- Building justice-oriented, sustainable editorial workflows
Whether you publish interdisciplinary scholarship or serve as a journal editor, you’ll come away with a deeper understanding of how interdisciplinary journals make decisions—and practical strategies for cultivating strong scholarly communities within and beyond the academy through journal publishing.
📅 September 22, 2026, 12–1 pm Eastern
💻 Zoom
🎟️ Free
♿ Captioned + recorded; the recording will be sent to registrants afterward
🔗 Register
Speakers
Amber Jamilla Musser, Co-Editor, Social Text
Amber Jamilla Musser is chair of the Black, Race, and Ethnic Studies Program and a professor of English at the CUNY Graduate Center.
She is the author of Between Shadows and Noise: Sensation, Situatedness, and the Undisciplined (Duke University Press, 2024), Sensual Excess: Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance (NYU Press, 2018), and Sensational Flesh: Race, Power, and Masochism (NYU Press, 2014).
She is co-editor of Keywords for Gender and Feminist Studies from NYU Press and with Jonathan Beller is co-editor of Social Text.
M. Gabriela Torres, Co-Editor, Feminist Anthropology
Gabriela Torres is a professor of anthropology at Rhode Island College and Co-Editor in Chief of Feminist Anthropology and Dear Higher Education.
She advises the National Academies’ Action Collaborative on Preventing Sexual Harassment in Higher Education and has published over 35 articles, reports, and chapters on gender-based violence in addition to volumes on marital rape and sexual violence in intimacy.
Since 2011, US and Canadian courts have relied on her expertise in violence in Guatemala.
Cathy Hannabach, CEO, Ideas on Fire
Cathy Hannabach is the founder and CEO of Ideas on Fire, where she helps interdisciplinary academics transform vibrant ideas into powerful books and public projects that can spark meaningful social change.
Cathy’s vision for the future of publishing centers on creating pathways for interdisciplinary, community-grounded intellectual exchange that can drive real-world change.
Through her strategic approach to “editing as worldmaking,” Cathy helps scholars navigate the evolving landscape of scholarly communications, where traditional publishing models are being challenged and reimagined.
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