Getting Your Book Published: Publishers’ and Authors’ Perspectives

LSA-ADVANCE Workshops for Faculty 2023-24

This workshop is open to all U-M Faculty. This is a virtual workshop. A Zoom link will be shared with registrants via a Google Calendar invitation closer to the event date. If you have any questions, please contact advanceprogram@umich.edu. Please note that any non-U-M faculty registrants will have their registration dropped.

Becoming a published scholarly writer is part of what it means to be a professional academic. However, there are specific skills for the academic author to learn—from proposal to manuscript to first book and on to the books that will follow. This session will focus on the professional publishing knowledge every academic writer needs. Experts in academic publishing will address the key issues, review options and strategies, and field questions. In addition, a LSA faculty member who has recently successfully navigated the publishing process will sit on the panel to share her experience and advice. This workshop is designed primarily for faculty members in "book" fields in the humanities and social sciences, and will focus on individual monographs.

Presenters:

Anna Watkins Fisher, Associate Professor of American Culture and Digital Studies, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Anna Watkins Fisher is Associate Professor of American Culture and Digital Studies. Her research spans the topics of digital culture, contemporary visual culture, and critical theory. She is the author of The Play in the System: The Art of Parasitical Resistance (Duke UP, 2020) and Safety Orange (U Minnesota Press, 2021) and co-editor of New Media, Old Media: A History and Theory Reader (2nd ed, Routledge, 2015).

Charles (Chuck) Myers, Former acquiring editor in political science and law at the University presses of Chicago, Princeton, Kansas, and Michigan

Chuck Myers has acquired and published books on topics in political science and law at the university presses of Chicago, Princeton, Kansas, and Michigan. Chuck has both a JD and PhD from the University of Michigan. He has published many distinguished authors from Michigan including Scott Page, Lisa Disch, Ken Kollman, Carl Schneider, William Zimmerman, George Tsebelis, and Margaret Radin, not to mention work by Michigan PhD’s.

Host/Moderator:

Gregory Dowd, Associate Dean for Humanities, College of Literature Sciences and Arts