How Will I Get Tenure If You Won't Publish My Book?

A Workshop for Junior Faculty and Graduate Students in the Humanities and the Social Sciences on First Books and the Dilemma of Publishing Today.
When: WEDNESDAY, October 15, 2003
4-6PM
Where: Room 401 UH


With Willis Regier, Director, University of Illinois Press and Sander L. Gilman, Director, the Humanities Laboratory, UIC.
Given the severe reduction in academic publishing and the increased demand for book publications for hiring, tenure, and promotion:
  1. How can you transform your dissertation into a book? (Or)
  2. How can you best prepare to write a dissertation that is eventually able to be transformed into a book?
  3. What is the difference between a dissertation and a book?
  4. What are publishers looking for in the initial proposal?
  5. How can you get support for time to write?
  6. How long should a book be?
  7. Any other questions you want to ask.
This will be a two-hour open forum with presentations by the speakers and questions from you.
Details will then be announced of the Humanities Laboratory's FIRST-BOOK SERIES with the University of Illinois Press. The Humanities Laboratory will subvent three first books a year for the next three to five years to be selected through a process to be announced at the workshop.
Seating is limited so please RSVP to Dawn Marlan at dmarlan@uic.edu or (312) 413-4247.
Plase visit the First-Book Series webpage for additional information.
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