[KS] CALL FOR MANUSCRIPTS: Short Introductions to Korean Studies: a new BRILL series

[Vladimir Tikhonov]

Short Introductions to Korean Studies: 
a new BRILL series (https://brill.com/page/forthcoming_siks )

Series Editors:

Holly Stephens (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Vladimir Tikhonov (Oslo University, Norway)
Barbara Wall (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Myungji Yang (University of Hawai’i at Manoa, USA)


Editorial Board:

Vladimir Glomb (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
Su Yun Kim (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Pierre-Emmanuel Roux (Université Paris Cité, France)
Bonnie Tilland (Leiden University, the Netherlands)

CALL FOR MANUSCRIPTS
With everything Korean--from K-pop to radical feminism or North Korean military capacity—attracting keen attention from media and the public in recent years, this series aims to provide succinct, high-quality introductions to all things Korean, pre-modern, modern and contemporary. These comprehensive, research-based introductions will:
- present reliable information and high-quality analysis to a popular audience
- address in-depth topics from a range of fields, including Korean society, politics, culture, history and thought. 
- provide academic rigor while also giving a broad summary of the topic.
- be suitable for the undergraduate classroom, while concurrently serving as a reliable source of knowledge about Korea for the media and general public.
We invite authors to propose their own topics for the series, but possible examples could include:
•	The Korean Empire (1897-1910)
•	Traditional Poetry in classical Chinese
•	Literary culture in Chosŏn Korea
•	Traditional medicine of Chosŏn Korea
•	Archaeology of the Three Kingdoms Period
•	K-dramas of the Twenty-First Century 
•	K-films in the time of the Korean Wave
•	Post-developmental statehood in South Korea
•	Democratization in South Korea
•	Civil society and social movements in post-authoritarian South Korea
•	Labour and precarity in post-1998 South Korea
•	North Korean military
The introductions should be ca 100-150 pages long (40-60,000 words), written in jargon-free, readable style, suitable for the wider public including undergraduates and non-specialists. We strongly advise non-native English speaker authors to have their manuscripts checked and corrected by native English speaker editors before submission. It is planned that all the volumes in this series will be published in Open Access, using financial support from the Association for Korean Studies in Europe (AKSE). Authors are cordially invited to submit proposals for manuscripts to the publisher at BRILL, Paola La Battaglia (paola.labattaglia at brill.com ) and Iulia Ivana (iulia.ivana at brill.com ). Please consult the following BRILL guidelines for further details on proposal submission.
  
Guidelines for a Book Proposal
Please include:
Aims & Scope
A 1‒2 page overview of the work and how it contributes to scholarship. Based on the nature of the project, you may use the following questions as a guide:
- How does your work address the goals of the series?
- How do you situate your introduction against existing literature?
- How will your work be structured? And what is the rationale behind that structure?
- How will you balance the need for academic rigor while keeping the book accessible to undergraduates and the general public?
- What competing titles have been published, and how does yours differ from these?
- In short, how will your introduction contribute into making your topic accessible?
Table of Contents
An annotated outline, including an abstract of each chapter. Is any of this information subject to change?
Sample
If available, include some representative material for the project such as the introduction, a sample chapter, including a brief description of special production issues such as artwork or non‐Western scripts.
Length
Provide an estimate of the length of the project (word count including footnotes, number of illustrations, maps and tables).
Time Schedule
What is the proposed submission date of the completed manuscript for review? Please note that we do not usually send drafts or unrevised theses for peer review.
Exclusivity
An indication of whether you are submitting your proposal to a number of prospective publishers and a sentence or two explaining why you are submitting your proposal to Brill. As a rule, Brill will not start formal review rounds when your work is being considered by another publisher.
CV
A resume of your work experience and publication history.
What Happens Next?
Each proposal receives a thorough evaluation by Brill. If we think a proposal may be
suitable for one of our series, it is sent for review to the editorial board of the series. We
are usually able to let you know within 4 weeks if we would like to see the completed
manuscript.
Peer Review
Only final manuscripts are sent for peer review, in most cases to two readers. We endeavor to keep the review process double‐anonymous, i.e. the reviewer does not know the name of the author and vice versa. However, complete anonymity is difficult if manuscripts refer to the author (i.e. a footnote saying “see my article, etc.”), or when information about your work in progress is advertised on your personal website. With edited volumes it is also difficult to keep the identity of the contributors and editors anonymous. Sometimes, the reviewer allows us to give the author their name for further correspondence and advice. The reviewer may make suggestions for improvement, but it is important to understand that the review is not meant for detailed advice on how to proceed with the finalization of the manuscript, or what approach to take. Decisions by Brill usually come in one of three forms:
• Negative decision: Brill has decided to decline your manuscript for publication.
• Positive decision, conditional on revision: the reviewer and/or the editorial board may offer to publish conditional on certain revisions. After revision the manuscript will be returned to the reviewer and/or the editorial board. Some advice may not be conditional but will beat the discretion of the author. Depending on the amount of revision needed a contract or letter of intent to publish may be offered.
• Positive decision: the editor will offer you a contract for publication based on the existing manuscript.
It usually takes around 3-4 months before we are able to send you a report.
Contract
As a general rule we only offer a contract for publication after we have received a positive recommendation following the peer‐review process. In some cases, the acquisition editor may decide to offer a contract on the basis of a proposal only. However, publication will then still be dependent on a positive outcome of the peer‐review process. Contracts for edited volumes are signed by the editor or editors and contributors are asked to sign separate consent‐to‐publish forms.
Production
The production stage takes up to 5 months. In this period your manuscript will be professionally typeset. You’ll receive page proofs to check and base your index on, the cover will be designed, the ebook and the print book will be created.
Rights Reserved to Authors
Brill has a clear and generous open access and archive policy allowing authors to make use of their intellectual property without compromising the commercial value of the work for Brill. You will find up‐to‐date information on our Rights and Permissions page
 



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