call for referees

[Benjamin Rifkin]

The AATSEEL Program Committee invites members of the Association to
volunteer to serve as referees for the 1998 Conference, to be held in San
Francisco in Dec. 1998.  Referees must be willing to read abstracts of
approximately one page in length for either the April 15 or August 1
deadline or both and return their recommendations to the designated
division head within two weeks of receipt.

Scholars willing to referee abstracts in literature and culture should
contact David Birnbaum (djb at clover.slavic.pitt.edu). Scholars willing to
referee abstracts in linguistics should contact Jane Hacking
(jhacking at kuhub.cc.ukans.edu).  Scholars willing to referee abstracts in
pedagogy should contact Benjamin Rifkin (brifkin at facstaff.wisc.edu).
Please indicate your area of expertise.

Two qualities are equally important in submissions referees:

Area Knowledge. The Program Committee especially encourages senior
scholars in the field to contribute to the referee process, but other
Association members who have sufficient conference and publication
experience and meaningful expertise in their disciplines are also
welcome to volunteer.

Administrative Reliability. Because of the number of people whose efforts
must be coordinated to achieve an efficient turnaround of submissions,
referees must be scrupulous about meeting deadlines. This also means that
referees must have regular access to email and fax.

Submitted on behalf of the program committee,

Benjamin Rifkin

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Benjamin Rifkin

Associate Professor of Slavic Languages
Coordinator of Russian-Language Instruction

Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures
University of Wisconsin-Madison
1432 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Dr.
Madison, WI  53706  USA

voice:  608/262-1623
fax:  608/265-2814
e-mail:  brifkin at facstaff.wisc.edu

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