Seeking Editors for AS

[Connie Eble]

SEEKING EDITORS FOR AMERICAN SPEECH

The American Dialect Society has appointed a search committee to
recommend a new Editor of American Speech to assume full
responsibilities no later than January 1, 2006, and a Book Review Editor
to begin as soon as practical.

American Speech, the quarterly refereed journal of the American Dialect
Society, is published by Duke University Press in Durham, North
Carolina.  The Managing Editor, Charles Carson, a full-time member of
the editorial staff of DUP, oversees the day-to-day operations of ADS
publications and the production of both American Speech and PADS.
The Editor works with the Associate Editor and members of the Editorial
Advisory Board to evaluate and select submissions for publication in the
journal in accordance with the Editorial Policy stated inside the back
cover of the journal.  The Editor may also from time to time plan
special issues.  The page-length and deadlines of the issues of American
Speech are matters of contractual obligation, and the Editor and
Managing Editor must work together to assure that these are met.  The
work of the Editor of American Speech can be done at a distance from the
DUP offices via telephone, fax, and email.
The Book Review Editor will select the books to be reviewed, assign them
to credible reviewers, set and maintain the length and due dates of the
reviews, and edit them for publication.  The Managing Editor will handle
the mailing of review copies to reviewers.

Members of the search committee are current Editor Connie Eble (chair,
cceble at email.unc.edu);  Robert Bayley ((rbayley@ utsa.edu); William
Kretzschmar (billk at atlas,uga.edu); and Charles Carson
(carson at duke.edu).  ADS members who are interested in applying for
either Editor or Book Review Editor or who wish to suggest candidates
should get in touch with any member of the search committee by January
1, 2004.