If you are interested in reviewing a book, please write the CJ Forum Editor, Emily West, at ebwest@stkate.edu,briefly explaining your qualifications to review the book and any possible disqualifying factors. Because more than one individual may be interested in a given book, even qualified reviewers cannot be guaranteed the books they request.
Reviewer Qualifications: For books reviewed in the Forum section, reviewers should have appropriate and substantial experience with Classics teaching and pedagogy. A PhD is not required, but the reviewer should have practical experience teaching the subject in question at the relevant level. It is CJ Online policy that graduate students should not review books, if only for their own protection.
Conflicts of Interest: Potential reviewers should not request books in regard to which they might be seen as having a conflict of interest. Disqualifying conflicts of interest include (but are not limited to): a close personal friendship or relationship of some other sort with the author; being in the same department as the author; having had the author as a graduate student advisor, or having served on the author's dissertation committee; having worked closely with the author as an instructor or supervisor in graduate school; having read and commented on the manuscript or substantial portions of it before it was submitted to the press; and having read and approved the manuscript for the press for publication.
Word limit: In the interest of readability, reviews should be a maximum of 1500 words. If you believe that this is inadequate to deal with the book you have received, please contact the CJ Online Book Review Editor in advance to request an exception to the policy.
Although all reviews should contain some summary of what is said in the book, we are not looking for a simple precis of the contents. Instead, reviewers are asked to engage with and evaluate the material put forward in the book. In particular, reviews must address the potential pedagogical usefulness of the book. Disagreements and criticism should be directed at the content rather than the author; ad hominem attacks will not be published. CJ Online does not publish responses, but will publish corrections at a reviewer's request.
Reviews should be submitted within 3 months of receipt of the book. All reviews will be edited for style and content; your review will come back to you in most cases within two weeks of submission, with editorial suggestions and requests of various sorts.
All reviews should be in English. Reviewers whose native language is not English should have the review read and carefully edited by a native speaker before submission.