Exchanges' Editor-in-Chief
Role Overview
Exchanges' Editor-in-Chief (EIC) has overall operational and strategic command of the journal, in terms of all processes, personnel and performance. They are the leading brand ambassador, key liaison and advocate for the journal locally, nationally and internationally. Moreover, in delivering on the journal’s mission they are required to routinely demonstrate expertise within the praxis and ethics of scholarly communications and publication.
Functionally, the EIC plays a key role in reviewing all new journal submissions including originality checks, before deciding on their progression and assignment to editorial team members. They appoint, train and support the Editorial Board and associate editors, delivering authoritative decisions as necessary. Alongside monitoring the progress of each manuscript, the EIC also conducts all final format checking, performing pre-publication preparations and post-publication publicity for each new issue. Additionally, they project manage each special issue, working closely with the external leads, and since 2020 also hosts the Exchanges Discourse podcast.
With strong expertise in areas like academic writing, communication and publication, the EIC is often involved in training, courses and events seeking to develop these core research competencies for others. This includes work at Warwick across partnership networks as well as at external conferences, workshops, seminars and symposia.
Key Responsibilities
Advocacy, Promotion & Marketing
Collation, Copyediting & Proof-Reading
Editorial Author & Call for Paper Lead
Educator, Promoter & Advocate
Globally Distributed Team Manager
Open Publication Expert
Manuscript Progression Monitoring
Podcast Host & Producer
Policy Holder, Reviewer & Development
Procedure & Process Documentation
Reputational & Relationship Management
Rights Management & Copyright Advisor
Standards & Ethics Lead
Submission Review, Acceptance & Decline
Technical Advisor & Developer Liaison
Trouble-Shooter & Platform Oversight
Dr Michelle Devereaux
Dr Devereaux was first appointed to the role of Editor-in-Chief in December 2025 after serving on the Exchanges editorial board since 2022. She completed her doctorate in Film Studies at the University of Edinburgh in 2017, and from 2020 to 2022 she was a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Film and Television Studies at the University of Warwick. She has taught various screen studies subjects at Warwick, the University of Edinburgh and the University of Birmingham and has led online continuing-education classes in film for the New York cultural institution the 92nd Street Y.
Dr Devereaux's research emphasises the interdisciplinary nature of screen studies, focusing on the intersections of gender and feminist theory, moral philosophy and theory of mind, film ethics, aesthetics, genre studies, the social sciences and affect and emotion theory. Her monograph, The Stillness of Solitude: Romanticism and Contemporary American Independent Film, was published in 2019 by Edinburgh University Press, and her work has also featured in Screen, Film Quarterly, The Bloomsbury Guide to Sofia Coppola (Bloomsbury Academic, 2023) and Television with Stanley Cavell in Mind (University of Exeter Press, 2023). She is co-editor of the upcoming interdisciplinary collection Love, Desire and Stanley Cavell (Routledge, 2025), part of the Warwick Series in Humanities edited by IAS Director Alison Cooley, and has work featured in upcoming edited collections on the film studio A24 and contemporary Australian cinema, both from Edinburgh University Press.
Before developing her keen interest in and knowledge of academic research and publishing, Dr Devereaux worked extensively as an editor for various consumer print and web publications in North America and the UK and was a prolific, longtime film and arts journalist.
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