Edited by Catalina Neculai, James N. Corcoran and Bojana Petrić
Copy edited by Fiona Patterson. Designed by Mike Palmquist.
Advancing a complex narrative about global research production, Academic Publishing in a Fast-Changing World emphasizes the multi-dimensional nature of current debates and the folly of confining ourselves to disciplinary, theoretical, or methodological boundaries. Rather, the contributors to this edited collection embrace trans-, inter-, and multi-disciplinary approaches that enable us to make sense of, challenge, and change the nature of research communication. In so doing, they address macro-structural conditions and micro, granular experiences in ways that offer theoretical, methodological, ethical, and experiential insights into research, teaching, and research communication and make a strong argument for the value of engaging with English for Research and Publication Purposes (ERPP) as a trans/inter-disciplinary field.
Table of Contents
Note: The chapter titles in purple and marked EN/SP (English/Spanish) indicate the multilingual nature of the main text, while all chapters have abstracts in English and one other language (Arabic, Chinese, Romanian, Serbian, Spanish, Uzbek) as chosen by the author/s.
Catalina Neculai is an Assistant Professor at Coventry University in the Centre for Academic Writing where she leads the Writing for Research and Publication Purposes (WRPP) Development Programme. Catalina works across urban cultural studies and writing studies. She researches convergences between culture, community activism and “right to the city” politics, spatial, material and ideological processes of knowledge production mediated by research writing and research writing brokering. Catalina is co-convenor of the Academic Publishing and Presenting in a Global Context AILA Research Network and currently writing her second monograph on documentary cultures of anti-gentrification resistance in New York City.
James N. Corcoran is an Associate Professor at York University in Toronto, where he teaches in undergraduate ESL and TESL programs as well as the Linguistics and Applied Linguistics graduate program. His research focuses on the politics of (English) language teaching in domestic and international contexts as well as plurilingual scholars’ use of languages for specific purposes. He has published several books and articles on these topics including another 2026 edited volume with the WAC Clearinghouse, Plurilingual Perspectives on Scholarly Writing for Publication: Within, através, y au delà des frontières “nas Américas.”
Bojana Petrić is Professor of Applied Linguistics at Birkbeck, University of London, United Kingdom. Her research focuses on multilingual students’ and academics’ literacy practices and experiences, and the ways in which the institutional, social, historical and political contexts of writing and issues of self and other positioning affect writers and shape their texts. She has recently co-edited a volume on student writing, The Thesis Writing Journeys of Bachelor’s and Master’s Students: A Transnational European Perspective (Multilingual Matters, 2025).
Publication Information:
Neculai, Catalina, James N. Corcoran, & Bojana Petrić (Eds.). (2026). Academic Publishing in a Fast-Changing World. The WAC Clearinghouse; University Press of Colorado. https://doi.org/10.37514/INT-B.2026.2944
Series Editors: Series Editors: Steven Fraiberg, Michigan State University; Joan Mullin, University of
North Carolina at Charlotte; Magnus Gustafsson, Chalmers University of Technology; and Anna S. Habib, George Mason
University
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