Writing for Readers: Academic Publishing in a Time of Change
There are many differences between research presented in dissertation form and as a scholarly book. As scholars, we are trained to research and write within a field of specialists. Taking a thesis and making it work as a book requires changes in form, style, content, and presumed audience. Subsequent books, which usually begin from scratch, require different kinds of decisions than revising a thesis, yet those choices are rarely addressed. This talk will explore those problems and discuss how to think about writing first and subsequent scholarly books at a time of change in the academy and in publishing.
Speaker
Ken Wissoker is the Editorial Director of Duke University Press, acquiring books in anthropology, cultural studies, and social theory; globalization and post-colonial studies; Asian, African, and American studies; music, film and television; race, gender and sexuality; science studies; and other areas in the humanities, social sciences, media, and the arts. He joined the Press as an Acquisitions Editor in 1991; became Editor-in-Chief in 1997; and was named Editorial Director in 2005. In addition to his duties at the Press, he serves as Director of Intellectual Publics at The Graduate Center, CUNY in New York City.
He has published almost a thousand books which have won over 100 prizes. Among the authors whose books he has published are Stuart Hall, Donna Haraway, Achille Mbembe, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Jack Halberstam, Charles Taylor, José David Saldivar, Lisa Lowe, Lauren Berlant, Brian Massumi, Arjun Appadurai, Sara Ahmed, Chandra Mohanty, and Cherríe Moraga. He has written on publishing for The Chronicle of Higher Education and in Cinema Journal, and writes a column for the Japanese cultural studies journal “5.” He speaks regularly on publishing at universities in the US and around the world.
Sponsors
- VP Research (VPR)
- Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) Dean's Office
- David See-chai Lam Centre (DLC)
- Department of English (ENG)
- Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies (GSWS)
- Department of Sociology and Anthropology (SA)
- Institute for Transpacific Cultural Research (ITCR)
Lecture
Date
Monday, September 18, 2017
Time
4:00pm - 5:30pm
Place
SFU Harbour Centre
515 West Hastings Street
Vancouver
1410 Segal Centre
Light refreshment will be served.
Please register here.
Workshop
Date
Tuesday, September 19, 2017
Time
9:30am - 4:30pm
Place
SFU Burnaby
Academic Quadrangle 6106
Workshop
Date
Wednesday, September 20, 2017
Time
10:00am - 4:30pm
Place
SFU Harbour Centre
515 West Hastings Street
Vancouver
1510 Tree Island Industries Conference Room