Past Events

DRN: Publish or Perish? A Roundtable on Publishing for PhD Researchers

DRN Events – Lucy Bradnock, Edwin Coomasaru, Steve Edwards

  • 3 December 2024
  • 5:30 – 7:00 pm
  • This is an event for Doctoral Researchers Network (DRN) members. You can find out more about the network here.
  • Online

PhD researchers often feel pressured to publish their research but it is often unclear on exactly what to publish, where to publish it and how to navigate the publication process. Tailored for those currently studying for a PhD, this informal roundtable is a fantastic opportunity to hear from editors of three leading art history journals: Art History, the Oxford Art Journal and British Art Studies.

We will begin with an informal discussion with our panellists, which will cover topics such as identifying the right forum for research, essential tips for submission and balancing the pressure of publication with your day-to-day research. However, this event is also designed to give you an opportunity to ask your questions on any aspect of publication in an open and friendly setting.

Image: Jacob van Campen, Vanitas Still Life with Scull with Laurel Wreath, Book and two Burning Candles, 1645-1650, oil on panel, 86.6 × 86 cm. Digital image courtsey of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

About the speakers

  • Lucy Bradnock is Dean for Research at the Courtauld, where she is a reader in modern and contemporary art history. She is Editor of the journal Art History. Her publications include the monograph No More Masterpieces: Modern Art After Artaud (Yale, 2021) and the edited volumes Lawrence Alloway: Critic and Curator (Getty, 2015) and Pacific Standard Time: Los Angeles Art, 1945–1980 (Getty, 2011). Her writing is included in exhibition catalogues produced by the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, ICA Boston, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Copenhagen Contemporary and Barbican Art Gallery, and in art history journals including Art History, Art Journal, Oxford Art Journal, Getty Research Journal, Journal of the Archives of American Art and Tate Papers.

  • Edwin Coomasaru is an historian of modern and contemporary British art and an editor of the journal Visual Culture in Britain. He has been awarded postdoctoral and research fellowships at the University of Edinburgh, the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (PMC) and the Courtauld Institute of Art. He previously worked as a research assistant on the Association of Art History’s anti-racist and decolonial resource portal. Formerly a contributing editor at British Art Studies, Edwin has also co-edited a book on Imagining the Apocalypse: Art and the End Times (2022). He has written for peer-review journals (Art History, Third Text, The Irish Review, Irish Studies Review, Oxford Art Journal), alongside exhibition essays (the Barbican Centre, Autograph, Belfast Exposed, Townhall Cavan, Luan Gallery), as well as art criticism (the Irish Times, ArtReview Asia, Art Monthly, British Journal of Photography, Photoworks Annual, Burlington Contemporary, Architectural Review, Frieze).

  • Steve Edwards is a professor of history and theory of photography at Birkbeck, University of London. His publications include The Making of English Photography, Allegories (2006), Photography: A Very Short Introduction (2006), Martha Rosler the Bowery in two inadequate descriptive systems (2012) and the forthcoming volume – co-written with Gail Day – Amphibious Reality: Allan Sekula’s Documentary Poetics. He is Chair of the editorial board for Oxford Art Journal and an editor of the Historical Materialism book series as well as a convenor for the long-running University of London research seminar Marxism in Culture.