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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.

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. 

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 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.

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 workshop on the fine art of editing footnotes and endnotes in nonfiction at the 2018 ACES Society for Editing conference.

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.