TQC, The University of Connecticut’s first fully open-access graduate journal, is born right here in LCL

The 2014-2015 academic year saw the foundation of The Quiet Corner Interdisciplinary Journal, the University of Connecticut’s first fully-digital, open-access graduate journal. With the help of LCL, LANGSA, El Instituto (Institute of Latino/a, Caribbean, and Latin American Studies), and Digital Commons@UConn, The Quiet Corner published its first issue this past May. Founders Carlos Gardeazábal Bravo, William Stark, and Charles LeBel – all Ph.D. candidates in LCL’s Spanish Studies section – launched the project as a means to gain insight into the online publishing industry and to create a space for graduate students to showcase their research. According to its mission statement:

The Quiet Corner Interdisciplinary Journal is an open-access, bi-annual research forum edited by graduate students of humanities, arts, and social sciences at the University of Connecticut (LCL, ELIN). The journal facilitates interdisciplinary collaboration towards cultural and social awareness, providing a locus for scholarly engagement across disciplines to promote critical thinking, research and creativity. The journal’s flexible focus centers on texts in a variety of languages, including but not limited to points of (dis)connection among worldwide literary, cultural and performance studies; digital, analogue and environmental humanities; translation and foreign language instruction.

The inaugural issue, titled “Translation Across the Arts, Culture, and Theory”, includes articles based on work presented at LANGSA’s 2014 “Found in Translation” conference by authors from the UConn graduate community and beyond. Issue 2 of The Quiet Corner, which will also be a collaboration with LANGSA, is expected to land in early Spring, 2016. Visit www.thequietcornerjournal.com to view the current issue or contact quiet.corner.journal@gmail.com for more information on TQC.

 

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