Hear from faculty and administrators from academic institutions as well as non-academic employers and learn strategies for navigating their job searches both within and beyond the academy.
Events
Cultural Studies Podcasts: Public Scholarship & Beyond
Learn how grad students, staff, and faculty can use podcasts for public scholarship and teaching, and how to produce your own podcast.
Prepping for Altac or Postac Careers in Grad School
How you can build a non-academic or alternative academic career while in grad school and put your interdisciplinary training to work.
Dissertation Writing Help: Organizing Your Dissertation Chapters
You have an awesome dissertation topic. You’ve assembled your team of advisors. You’re even rocking the writing process. But how do you put it all together? Come learn how to organize your dissertation chapters—both big-scale (across the dissertation as a whole) and small-scale (within each chapter).
Working Well with Academic Advisors and Committee Members
Concrete strategies for finding the right dissertation advisors and working well with them over your time in grad school.
Writing Academic Book Proposals for Scholarly Presses
Learn the elements of a compelling book proposal for scholarly presses, how to make your proposal shine, and how to find the right publisher for your scholarly book.
How to Create a Semester Plan that Fits Your Real Life
How to map out a great semester with big goals and a holistic vision for what you want to accomplish.
Make It Work: Doing Cultural Studies Beyond the Academy
How cultural studies prepares people for careers as artists, activists, editors, podcast hosts, writers, and filmmakers.
Beyond the Professoriate Conference: PhDs Beyond the Academy
Join Ideas on Fire at the 2016 Beyond the Professoriate conference, a virtual conference for PhDs in career transition.
Meet the Author: Blood Cultures: Medicine, Media, and Militarisms
Meet the Author event about my new book Blood Cultures: Medicine, Media, and Militarisms.