Amyrose McCue Gill
Founder, TextFormations
Lunch Seminar on Expanding Career Opportunities for PhDs:
"The Humanist Entrepreneur: Deploying Your Graduate Training Beyond the Academy"
Monday, March 26th 2018, 12:30pm
Executive Board Room, School of Nursing
This event is aimed at graduate students thinking about more and less outside-the-box answers to the question "Why am I doing a PhD?". Amyrose McCue Gill (PhD Berkeley, Italian Studies) is the co-founder and an editor and translator with TextFormations, a manuscript preparation services partnership launched in 2015. She will share her postdoctoral experiences and describe how her doctoral work in the humanities came to inform her current career path in unexpected ways. Amyrose is happy to answer questions from questing graduate students and postdocs about everything from the academic job market to balancing family and career; from business concerns (like finances and marketing) to publishing processes (like editing and translation).
Amyrose McCue Gill holds a PhD in Italian Studies from the University of California at Berkeley with specializations in Renaissance literature, early modern history, and women and gender studies. She has been a translator, editor, and project manager for over a decade, and handle projects in English, Italian, French, and Spanish. Her work in North America and Europe. With her colleague Lisa Regan, who earned her PhD in the History of Art, also from Berkeley, she established TextFormations, which provides customized support for writers and researchers in higher education, who are undertaking translation, writing, research, and publishing projects in North America, Europe, Asia, the UK, and the Commonwealth. They have assisted in bringing books to publication from university presses such as Cambridge, Yale, Oxford, Stanford, Toronto, as well as Palgrave, Brepols, Brill, Routledge, and many others; as well as articles published in peer-reviewed journals such as Representations, The Art Bulletin, and Renaissance Quarterly.
Amyrose McCue Gill
Founder, TextFormations
Mihoko Suzuki
Professor of English, and Director, Center for the Humanities
"Writing and Revising Articles, and Getting Them Published"
Monday, March 26th 2018, 3:30pm
Third Floor Conference Room, Richter Library
Mihoko Suzuki (journal editor) and Amyrose McCue Gill (article editor) are available to answer all of your questions about publishing articles in academic journals. What makes for a successful article? How do you choose an appropriate journal? What is the submission and peer review process like? When should I publish an article and how many should I publish? How long does it all take? This event will have a seminar format and will be driven by participant questions; come with all your worries and excitement about article publishing!
Amyrose McCue Gill
Founder, TextFormations
Ben Doyle
Publisher and Head of Literary Studies for the Scholarly Division, Palgrave Macmillan
Book Development Workshop:
"From Pitching Proposals to Peer Review and Production"
Tuesday, March 27th 2018, 3:30pm
Third Floor Conference Room, Richter Library
This workshop, led by Ben Doyle (publisher for literature with Palgrave) and Amyrose McCue Gill (editor and translator with TextFormations), is aimed at scholars with monograph projects (in mind or in hand) who want to know more about 1. How to pitch a book to a publisher; 2. How to revise a dissertation or manuscript for publication; 3. How to handle the peer review process; and 4. How to prepare for production and publication. We will also touch on edited volumes and on developmental editing but there will be time for lots of Q & A. Come with questions about any and all aspects of publishing books.
Amyrose McCue Gill holds a PhD in Italian Studies from the University of California at Berkeley with specializations in Renaissance literature, early modern history, and women and gender studies. She has been a translator, editor, and project manager for over a decade, and handle projects in English, Italian, French, and Spanish. Her work in North America and Europe. With her colleague Lisa Regan, who earned her PhD in the History of Art, also from Berkeley, she established TextFormations, which provides customized support for writers and researchers in higher education, who are undertaking translation, writing, research, and publishing projects in North America, Europe, Asia, the UK, and the Commonwealth. They have assisted in bringing books to publication from university presses such as Cambridge, Yale, Oxford, Stanford, Toronto, as well as Palgrave, Brepols, Brill, Routledge, and many others; as well as articles published in peer-reviewed journals such as Representations, The Art Bulletin, and Renaissance Quarterly.
Ben Doyle is Publisher and Head of Literary Studies for the Scholarly Division at Palgrave Macmillan. He has worked on the list for nine years, originally starting in 2009 as an Editorial Assistant. Ben oversees an editorial team of five people, based in London and New York
William Germano
Professor of English, The Cooper Union
The Professional Scholarly Writer:
A writing and publishing seminar for academic authors
Tuesday, May 1st 2018, 10:00am - 12:00pm in Ashe 427
This seminar focuses on the academic as publishing scholar: stressing an identity founded on three components – professional scholarly writer – this seminar is a faculty development initiative designed to increase the young scholar’s critical knowledge of academic publishing in relation to her or his own specific writing project.
The seminar explores strategies for strengthening skills in professional writing and project design as well as scholarly publishing best practice in the print + digital environment. While one focus of the session is the recent Ph.D. and his or her dissertation manuscript, the issues explored extend beyond that horizon: many of the skills required for revising a dissertation are, in fact, the same skills necessary for a productive scholarly writing life.
The session will cover such topics as the dissertation/book problem, the range of options facing the author, the role of self-presentation, the writing trajectory of the academic career, current practice in submission, print and non-print publication options, and the role of new media in the individual scholar’s writing and research program.
Who it’s for
The session is conceived to be of interest to any faculty member working in a discipline where “the book” – and its commitment to the narratability of scholarly research -- remains the primary unit of scholarly dissemination.
The ideal seminar will include scholars from a range of disciplines, both those in the humanities and those in the social sciences (and occasionally further afield). The crucial common bond is a dependence on narrative – and book publication – as the means by which research given usable shape and disseminated to its audience. A mix of disciplines around the table increases an awareness of disciplinary idiolects and of the writer’s obligation to an audience wide enough to sustain a publisher’s investment.
What we’ll do
Each participant is expected to submit a book proposal (no more than 10 pages) and a current c.v. The proposal should include:
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· a narrative description of the intended project
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· a guide to structure (chapters and some indication of their scope and contents)
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· notes on readership (market, competition, comparable titles of interest).
Please send materials by email in Word (not as PDFs) to germano@cooper.edu
Feedback is an important component of this seminar. Each proposal submitted by that date will receive written comments at the beginning of our session. Auditors are welcome. Unfortunately, written comments cannot be made available for auditors’ proposals. When we meet we’ll work through the conceptual and mechanical challenges of preparing scholarship usable by other scholars. It’s harder than it looks, but easier than it sounds. Maximum enrollment: twenty participants (plus auditors).
Workshop leader
Seminar leader: William Germano is author of Getting It Published: a Guide for Scholars and Anyone Else Serious about Serious Books (University of Chicago Press, 3/e 2016) and From Dissertation to Book (University of Chicago Press, 2/e 2013). He writes a biweekly blog for the Chronicle of Higher Education’s Lingua Franca blog; he has also published essays on writing and publishing in the Chronicle and elsewhere. Other books: The Tales of Hoffmann (BFI Film Classics, 2013), on Powell and Pressburger’s 1951 opera-film, and Eye Chart (Bloomsbury, 2017), a short cultural history of visual measurement.
During a first career as a scholarly publisher, he worked as editor-in-chief of Columbia University Press and as vice-president and publishing director at Routledge, a position he held for nineteen years.
Among the authors he has published: Theodor Adorno, Gloria Anzaldúa, Sacvan Bercovitch, Kate Bornstein, Edward Branigan, Judith Butler, Terry Castle, Michel de Certeau, Jonathan Culler, Arthur Danto, Paul de Man, Gilles Deleuze, Vine Deloria, Jr., Jacques Derrida, Denis Donoghue, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, James Elkins, Emory Elliott, Dario Fo, Diana Fuss, Peter Galison, Marjorie Garber, Sander Gilman, Stephen Greenblatt, Antonio Gramsci, Jerzy Grotowski, David Halperin, Donna Haraway, bell hooks, Linda Hutcheon, Fredric Jameson, Martin Jay, E. Ann Kaplan, David Kastan, Evelyn Fox Keller, Julia Kristeva, Amitava Kumar, Biddy Martin, Tania Modleski, Antonio Negri, Stephen Orgel, Andrew Parker, Constance Penley, Edward Said, Mark Seltzer, Kaja Silverman, Kenneth Silverman, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Peter Stallybrass, Konstantin Stanislavski, Michael Taussig, Gary Taylor, Cornel West, Raymond Williams, Paul Willis, John Winkler, Jack Zipes, and Slavoj Žižek.
Valeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City and grew up in South Korea, South Africa and India. An acclaimed writer of both fiction and nonfiction, she is the author of the essay collection Sidewalks; the novels Faces in the Crowd and The Story of My Teeth; Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions; and Lost Children Archive. She is the recipient of a 2019 MacArthur Fellowship and the winner of two Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, The Carnegie Medal, an American Book Award, and has been nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Kirkus Prize, and the Booker Prize. She has been a National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" honoree and the recipient of a Bearing Witness Fellowship from the Art for Justice Fund. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Granta, and McSweeney's, among other publications, and has been translated into more than twenty languages. She is a Writer in Residence at Bard College and lives in New York City. 
L. Maren Wood,
Peter Berkery
Peter Potter, who was editor-in-chief at Cornell University Press since 2006, became Director of Publishing Strategy for University Libraries at Virginia Tech in January 2016. Before Cornell, he worked at The Pennsylvania State University Press as editor-in-chief and associate director, and held editor and acting director positions at the Wesleyan University Press. Throughout his nearly 30 years in university press publishing, Potter has been a leader in efforts to integrate new technologies into scholarly publishing practices, specifically working to leverage the complementary strengths of a university press and a university library to elevate faculty research, for example by helping to launch the Office of Digital Scholarly Publishing at Penn State--one of the first centers to be jointly sponsored by a university library and a university press. He received his bachelor's degree in history from Virginia Tech and his master's degree in history from the University of Virginia. 
Kelly Miller,
Timothy Norris,
Martin Tsang,