Jessica Burstein has been promoted from advisory editor to co-editor of the Journal of Modern Literature. Burstein has had a long career in editing, learning while serving as a lackey (the term “editorial assistant” had yet to be invented, and those chosen did not appear on the masthead) at Critical Inquiry; then serving as the first founding managing editor of Modernism/modernity, beginning in a room with a chair, a phone, and a rolodex, and putting together its early issues.
As an associate professor in the Department of English and adjunct in the Department of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington in Seattle, Burstein currently serves on the editorial boards of Modern Language Quarterly, as well as the advisory editorial board of Modernism/modernity. Their own critical work focuses on fashion and modernism; but they nurse a residual fondness for the history of sciences, and contemporary fiction. Burstein’s novel What It Was Like Not To Sleep With You has yet to find a press; meanwhile you can find Cold Modernism: Literature, Fashion, Art in an art history library near you.
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