Julia Kostova is an acquisitions editor for the humanities at Oxford University Press. She oversees the Press's digital and scholarly reference publishing programs in the humanities. Her work in publishing, at OUP and at Telos Press before that, has focused on designing and promoting strategies and models for publishing scholarship digitally. Her current research interests are closely related to her editorial work. Recent papers and talks focus on the changing landscape of publishing, with a special emphasis on academic and reference publishing. Specifically, her work explores issues related to the production of knowledge in the new technological and media paradigm and economic conditions. She contributes to professional and scholarly venues like Publishers' Weekly, Hastac, and the OUPblog, and regularly takes part in major academic conferences like the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, American Academy of Religion/Society for Biblical Literature, and American Literature Association meetings. She has also written on issues in contemporary Eastern European literature, cinema, architecture and politics. Dr. Kostova has published over two dozen translations of articles on modern political philosophy in journals and edited collections. She is on the board of NYQ, a New York-based poetry magazine. She holds a doctorate in French literature from Rutgers University - New Brunswick and a B.A. in economics and accounting from St. Francis College in Brooklyn, New York.