Why the machine of peer review is grinding to a halt.
That sounds bad! But … what is the “humanities’ scholarly infrastructure”?
Most understand that in addition to teaching, college professors in humanities disciplines also do “research.” “The humanities’ scholarly infrastructure” is the mechanism that allows that research to be produced and disseminated. These journal articles, conferences, seminars, and edited volumes are where original ideas and concepts that will eventually become the boogeymen of right-wing moral panics first take shape, as the sum total of our collective knowledge is advanced.
• Tenure-track faculty are now a minority of the profession. There are, literally, fewer and fewer people around to do the work of peer review, editing, and vetting. The, who once did some of this work in the hopes of someday finding themselves on the tenure track are more likely to have recognized that that dog ain’t gonna hunt and it’s time to concentrate on work that will actually pay off.
• Those faculty who do remain find themselves increasingly burdened with work that has zero extrinsic reward and a vanishingly small amount of intrinsic reward. Raises for performance are virtually nonexistent. To improve their standing, faculty must seek out job offers from other institutions, which means spending more time on the kind of work that counts in a competitive marketplace—publishing articles and books—rather than doing peer review and journal editing.
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