Impact: The Journal of the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching & Learning
Impact, the biannual online journal of the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching & Learning, publishes scholarly and creative nonfiction essays about the theory, practice, and assessment of interdisciplinary education. It also features essays that explore compelling connections between the ideas of great thinkers from different disciplines and times.
Make a Submission to Impact
You can make your contribution to Impact on its dedicated submissions website. Essays should be between 500 and 3,000 words in length.
Book Review Guidelines
1. Reviewers should recognize that their readers want reviews to provide answers to a handful of simple questions: What are the contents and argument of the volume at hand? How original and successful is it? Is the book worth a full read and/or acquisition? As a consequence, reviewers should attempt to strike a balance between descriptive summary and evaluation. Too much of either does a disservice to our audience.
2. Reviews of a single title should be between 500 and 1,250 words.
3. Formatting for citations should follow the conventions employed by the major style (APA, MLA, Chicago, ABA, CBE, etc.) of the field most relevant to the text under review. Do include a works-cited list if texts other than that under review are cited. If a text is so truly interdisciplinary as to resist any categorization, apply the citation format it employs.
4. Begin each review with a header in the following format:
Author or editor name (Last, First). Title of Book. Translator or editor name, if relevant. Place of publication: Publisher, Date. Series title, if relevant. Number of pages. ISBN in format reviewed.
These examples may be useful guides:
Heidegger, Martin. On the Way to Language. Trans. Peter D. Hertz. San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1971. 200 pp. ISBN (paperback): 0-06063-859-1.
Kearney, Richard. Modern Movements in European Philosophy. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1994. vi + 367 pp. ISBN (paperback): 0-71904-248-8.
Ricoeur, Paul. The Philosophy of Paul Ricoeur: An Anthology of His Work. Ed. Charles E. Reagan and David Stewart. Boston: Beacon Press, 1978. viii + 262 pp. ISBN (paperback): 0-80701-517-2.
5. The review may, but by no means must, have a title in addition to the header. If the review has a title, skip a line after the header, center the title on the second line after the header, skip another line, and then begin the text of the review on the following line.
If the review has no title apart from the header, simply skip a line after the header, and then begin the text of the review on the following line.
6. In every case, skip a line after the text of the review, and then indicate on the next line the reviewer’s name and institutional affiliation.
7. Submissions may be edited for length, tone, formatting, and clarity.
8. Reviews should be submitted to the Review Editor, Christopher K. Coffman (ccoffman@bu.edu), as an e-mail attachment.
9. Submissions should be produced in a timely fashion. A significant delay may result in reassignment of the review.
10. While Impact solicits many of its reviews, it is happy to consider proposals for reviews. If you would like to contribute, please contact the Review Editor with information about the text you would like to review and a statement indicating your qualifications. If you would like to serve as reviewer, but have no text in mind, please send your CV and a statement of interest to the Review Editor.