Workshop Leaders
Allie Rowland, St. Lawrence University
Shui-yin Sharon Yam, University of Kentucky
This workshop is designed for early career scholars who plan to turn their completed dissertation into a monograph. This workshop aims to demystify the publication process, discuss appropriate presses, help participants develop a dissertation-to-book plan, and cultivate a supportive writing community. In addition to small-group workshop sessions of a draft book proposal (facilitated by the co-leaders), participants will have the opportunity to meet with editors from university presses and practice their book pitches. Junior scholars from marginalized backgrounds are especially welcomed to apply. While there will not be assigned readings, participants will have access to a bank of successful book proposals from our field.
Note: This workshop has limited space for remote participation.
Shui-yin Sharon Yam is Associate Professor of Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies, and Faculty Affiliate of Gender and Women’s Studies, and the Center for Equality and Social Justice at the University of Kentucky. Her monograph Inconvenient Strangers: Transnational Subjects and the Politics of Citizenship, was published by the Ohio State University Press in 2019. It was shortlisted for the 2019 RSA Book Award, and won the 2020 CCCC Outstanding Book Award.
Allie Rowland is Maurer Associate Professor of Performance & Communication Arts at St. Lawrence University where she directs a communication across the curriculum program. Her monograph Zoetropes and the Politics of Humanhood was published by Ohio State University Press in 2020. It won the 2021 Book of the Year Award for the Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine and was shortlisted for both the 2021 RSA Book Award and the 2021 Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award for Outstanding Published Scholarship in Public Address.