More PhDs work off the tenure track than on it and cultural studies scholars often make awesome academic editors. Come learn how to train for it at the Ideas on Fire workshop at the 2018 Cultural Studies Association conference.
Events
Your Interdisciplinary Writing Superpower: A Workshop
Your interdisciplinary training can be your superpower. In this hands-on workshop, you’ll learn how to craft a writing routine that fits your real life, use your interdisciplinarity to write and teach a variety of subjects, and plan classroom activities to improve both your and your students’ writing.
Breaking into Academic Editing: A Workshop for Editors
What is academic editing all about? In this introductory-level session at the 2018 ACES Society for Editing conference in Chicago, three academic editors—Cathy Hannabach, Sarah Grey, and Summer McDonald—will cover the ins and outs of scholarly editing.
Writing for Research: Using Writing to Think, Teach, and Create
Writing is often presented as the end game: first you research, then you write it all up for publication. But writing is actually crucial to doing research itself.
Publishing Your First Book: A Workshop for Early-Career Faculty
Revising your dissertation into a book requires more than cutting the lit review and adding a new chapter. It requires framing the entire project from a student exercise to a cohesive scholarly contribution that diverse audiences will actually buy.
A Farewell to Ibid.: Editing Footnotes
A workshop on the fine art of editing footnotes and endnotes in nonfiction at the 2018 ACES Society for Editing conference.
Revising Your Dissertation into a Book: A webinar
How to find a new frame for the project and identify your audiences, what needs to be cut and what needs to be added, and how you can construct that strong narrative arc necessary to turn it from a dissertation into a scholarly book.
Building Your Professional Academic Community
Building a diverse, professional community of colleagues is one of your key jobs in grad school, as networks and communities shape your career(s) much, much more than any publishing, teaching, or service will. Join us for this webinar and learn how to build yours.
Podcasting for Public Intellectuals: A How-To Guide
Podcasting allows hosts, scholars, audiences, activists, teachers, students, and broader communities to connect scholarly research to public conversations and contribute to new worlds. Learn how grad students, staff, and faculty can use podcasts for public intellectual work; the process of producing your own podcast; and the cultural politics of podcasting as independent, networked media.
Using Your Dissertation to Build a Career Beyond Academia
Ideas on Fire has teamed up with Beyond the Professoriate to teach you how to use your dissertation to build a non-academic career. Come learn how to use your dissertation structure and topic to learn concrete skills relevant to careers beyond the academy, build the networks you need for your non-faculty career, and navigate the sometimes fraught position of being a PhD student who is actively seeking a non-academic career.