Introduction: Early Career Researcher Issue IX

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In lieu of an abstract, we include here the first paragraph of the introduction:

With this issue, gender forum continues its series of Early Career Researcher Issues, which invite scholars in the early stages of their
academic careers to publish scholarly articles and reviews that investigate notions of gender and sexuality in (Anglophone) literature and culture. I had the pleasure to act as guest editor for this issue, collaborating initially with my fellow Ph.D. student Alexandra Novacov under the supervision of Judith Rauscher, one of the general editors of gender forum , and then, after Alexandra had to withdraw from the project for organizational reasons, with Judith Rauscher. Being able to work with other early career researchers on their papers for a peer reviewed, open access publication like gender forum has offered me the opportunity to gain insights into processes of scholarly publishing that sometimes remain behind closed doors. It has been wonderful to be part of a publication project that commits to facilitating the discursive participation as well as to promoting a higher visibility of the work of early career researches in the academic community, including researchers from outside Germany.