Corinna Norrick-Rühl
Election
Position
Name
Corinna Norrick-Rühl
Candidate statement
Corinna Norrick-Rühl, assistant professor of Book Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany; M.A. (2009) and PhD (2013) in Buchwissenschaft from JGU Mainz.
My teaching and research pertain to book history and contemporary publishing with a focus on 20th- and 21st-century issues and Anglo and German contexts. Just now, my research particularly concerns book sales clubs and translations/cultural transfer through books.
I am currently a member of the editorial boards of Publishing Research Quarterly (Springer) and Quaerendo (Brill) as well as deputy board member of Mainz University Press. I was SHARP’s regional liaison for Germany from 2012 to 2017 and have been Recording Secretary of SHARP since 2012. I hope to continue to contribute to SHARP in a new role as Director of Publications. I believe that SHARP’s publications are a stronghold of our society with the potential to broaden our understanding of the field. As SHARP moves forward, our publications will evolve. I consider it important to balance traditional structures with new impulses from changing academic publication environments, including Open Access initiatives. One of my top priorities in the new role would be to make SHARP News more visible and attractive to our membership as an online publication, but also as a forum for scholarly discussions.
My teaching and research pertain to book history and contemporary publishing with a focus on 20th- and 21st-century issues and Anglo and German contexts. Just now, my research particularly concerns book sales clubs and translations/cultural transfer through books.
I am currently a member of the editorial boards of Publishing Research Quarterly (Springer) and Quaerendo (Brill) as well as deputy board member of Mainz University Press. I was SHARP’s regional liaison for Germany from 2012 to 2017 and have been Recording Secretary of SHARP since 2012. I hope to continue to contribute to SHARP in a new role as Director of Publications. I believe that SHARP’s publications are a stronghold of our society with the potential to broaden our understanding of the field. As SHARP moves forward, our publications will evolve. I consider it important to balance traditional structures with new impulses from changing academic publication environments, including Open Access initiatives. One of my top priorities in the new role would be to make SHARP News more visible and attractive to our membership as an online publication, but also as a forum for scholarly discussions.