VQR
Ted Genoways, the editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review, announced major changes at the journal yesterday. VQR’s new publisher will be Jon Parrish Peede, most recently director of literature grants at the National Endowment for the Arts, in Washington. Peede was founding director of the NEA’s Operation Homecoming project, which has created a literary archive of writings by U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as an anthology and two documentaries. Also new to VQR is Donovan Webster, as deputy editor. Webster, previously a senior editor at Outside, is author of several books, writes for National Geographic, Smithsonian, Vanity Fair, and The New York Times Magazine, and is co-founder of an anti-land-mines organization.
In addition to the hires, VQR has appointed a new eight-person advisory board. The board includes one academic, UVa. media-studies professor, and Chronicle contributor, Siva Vaidhyanathan. These changes come after controversy engulfed VQR in the summer of 2010 with the suicide of its managing editor, Kevin Morrissey, amid allegations of bullying by Genoways. After a period in which VQR’s offices were closed and its publication suspended, an internal investigation by the university found questionable managerial practices by Genoways, as well as financial irregularities, but stopped short of saying he had committed workplace bullying.
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