Michael Magoulias

Michael Magoulias began his publishing life somewhat improbably as a sub-editor on British Vogue and Tatler, where he wrote captions for the “Bystander” section (“pictures from the world’s best parties”). After this youthful dalliance, his subsequent career has been devoted to the sustaining rigors of academic and professional publishing. At Gale Research (now Cengage) he edited numerous collections of literary criticism and was  editor of the Shakespearean Criticism series He later worked at Chadwyck-Healey (now part of ProQuest) in a new product development capacity as that firm moved its digital publishing of large text collections from CD-ROM to the web. For a 14-year period, he was firmly situated in the STM world as an employee of Elsevier’s FDC Reports subsidiary, starting out as an Editor for “The Pink Sheet,” covering the business and regulation of the pharmaceutical industry. As that business made the transition to the web, Michael took over management of its sales and marketing operations, achieving major growth in site-license sales while maintaining healthy rates of renewals and new orders for its significant individual subscription segment. Before leaving Elsevier in early 2012, he was Publishing Director for The Lancet, where developed business plans for several new journals and implemented strategies for growing the Lancet portfolio’s presence in the US. Since April 2012, he has served as Director of the Journals Division of the University of Chicago Press, where he oversees a portfolio of over 50 journals that span the full range of intellectual endeavor from the humanities and social sciences to the physical and life sciences. He is a graduate of Merton College, Oxford, where he read Modern History.