In this episode we talk to Russian scholar Natalia Rumak (The Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University), about her research and publications, especially her article Sherlock and Shārokku: ‘Nerdy’ detectives in the West and in the East which appeared in our recent Lonely Nerds special issue. We move on to talk about the highs and lows of being a publishing academic, focusing in on issues of native and non-native speakers writing in different languages. We finish as always by offering advice to potential early career authors for publishing in future issues of Exchangesand other journals
