<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>A correction:  "they did not wish to publish work by a graduate student," not "they did not with..."</div><div><br></div><div>My apologies.  </div><div><br></div><div>DM<br><br>Sent from my iPad</div><div><br>On Oct 26, 2012, at 5:57 PM, "McCann, David" <<a href="mailto:dmccann@fas.harvard.edu">dmccann@fas.harvard.edu</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">I
write to the Korean Studies website with a notice about a scholarly paper, and
a cautionary tale.</span><span style="font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span style="font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">The
notice has to do with an article published in the journal and website <i>Asian
Women, </i>based at Sookmyung Women’s University in Seoul.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>The title of the article, published in
Vol. 27 # 2, 2011, of the journal is "</span><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:
16.0pt;font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">The
Performance of Virtue and the Loss of Female Individuality in Chosôn Korea: A
Feminist Reading of the Tale of Ch’unhyang</span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:
16.0pt;font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-style:
italic">.”</span></span></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Times;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-style:italic"><o:p> The article
was actually written by two people, one given credit in the journal, and the
other, supposedly because she does not have the Ph.D., given none.</o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Times;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-style:italic"><o:p> For the
scholarly record, I would note here that the other author of the article, whose
name was omitted from the published article, is Ivanna Yi, a graduate student
in the Ph.D. program in Korean literature at Harvard.</o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Times;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-style:italic"><o:p> For the
Korean Studies community, however, I would also sound this cautionary
note.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>The journal in question, <i>Asian
Women</i>, deliberately removed the name of the second author because they did
not with to publish work by a graduate student.<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes">  I</span>nformed of their error, the journal has refused to
make a correction.</o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Times;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-style:italic"><o:p> I offer this
case as a cautionary tale.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> 
</span>Whatever its other virtues may be, the journal <i>Asian Women</i> does
not respect the individuality of all the members of the scholarly, academic
community in which it seeks to play a part.</o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><br></div><div>David McCann</div>

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