Context - I am a PhD student in a humanities discipline, and, like everyone else in this age of publish or perish, I am looking to my scholarly laurels. In thinking about ways to do this, I've come across what seems to be a bit of a US/UK cultural difference, and so I wanted to seek the general a_a opinion. I'm at a US university, and all my US contacts have spoken against trying to prepare a chapter of my thesis as an article, saying that it will detract from the interest of publishers in the... read more
