From Dissertation to Book: The Art of the Book Proposal
Thursday, December 3, 2020
4-6 pm (PST)
Virtual via Zoom (email for link)
Co-hosted by Morgan Ames, Hannah Zeavin, and the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine and Society
If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) to fully participate in this event, please contact the STS Futures Initiative team at stsfuturesinitiative@gmail.com with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days in advance of the event.
Our kick-off event, "From Dissertation to Book: The Art of the Book Proposal", will be held on Thursday, December 3rd from 4-6 pm. This panel, one of several which will examine the "hidden curriculum" of the professional academic world, will bring together the following panelists from both university and trade presses:
Katie Helke, Editor, MIT Press. She has been the editor of the STS list since 2014.
Audra J. Wolfe, Ph.D. is a writer, editor, and historian based in Philadelphia. Her editorial and publishing consulting company, The Outside Reader, supports the work of scholars and scholarly publishers. She has previously worked at the University of Pennsylvania Press, Rutgers University Press, and the Chemical Heritage Foundation, where she additionally produced an award-winning podcast, Distillations.
Moira Weigel is a writer, scholar, and founding editor at Logic magazine, currently at the Harvard Society of Fellows. She is the author of Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating (FSG Books). She received her PhD in Comparative Literature and Film and Media from Yale University in 2017
Xiaowei Wang is the Creative Director of Logic Magazine, and is the author of Blockchain Chicken Farm and Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside (FSGX Logic Magazine, 2020).
Caroline Eisenmann is a literary agent at Frances Goldin Agency in New York. Her clients include Kyle Chayka, Linda Rui Feng, Amanda Goldblatt, James Gregor, Theresa Levitt, Micah Nemerever, Jenny Odell, Peter Kispert, Kate Wagner, Michelle Webster-Hein, and Ye Chun. Authors represented by Caroline have won the Pushcart Prize, received a NEA Writing grant, and appeared on the shortlist for the National Book Award in fiction.