Publications
Blood Cultures: Medicine, Media, and Militarisms
Spilling blood, managing blood, banking blood, and even sucking blood defined 20th-century America from Alcatraz Island to Guantánamo Bay.
Combining science studies, popular culture, and anti-racist feminist and queer politics, Blood Cultures examines how blood saturated the twentieth-century US cultural imaginary, slipped into laws and policies, flowed across screens, and seeped into our most intimate encounters.
Cathy Hannabach traces how these gendered, sexualized, and racialized blood practices were violently mobilized in the service of US empire, as well as creatively transformed by feminist, anticolonial, anticapitalist, and queer artists and activists.
Praise for Blood Cultures
"A stunning multi-disciplinary, transnational analysis of the role of blood in giving life to American modernity."
—Eric Smoodin, author of Paris in the Dark: Going to the Movies in the City of Light, 1930–1950
"Essential reading for transnational American studies, gender and sexuality studies, and science and technology studies."
— Julie Sze, author of Fantasy Islands: Chinese Dreams and Ecological Fears in an Age of Climate Crisis
Articles
PhD Mentorship Series: How To Be a Good Mentee
In Part 3 of Ideas on Fire’s mentorship series, I tackle how to keep your new academic mentorship relationships strong over the long term by being a good mentee.
Building Personal Academic Websites
Your professional website services as a central hub for information about you and your projects. Here are tips on how to build an academic website that showcases your awesome work.
How to Design Accessible Events
Accessibility is a social justice issue, but many academic events still are not accessible to most bodies. Here we offer concrete strategies (for any budget) to design your event for the widest audience possible.
Ideas on Fire’s 2016 Year in Review
2016 has been a whirlwind at Ideas on Fire. Here I offer a brief “year in review” highlighting some of the most exciting things to come out of IoF in the last 12 months.
Book and Dissertation Structure: Creating Your Chapters
You’re sitting on pages and pages of notes, potential outlines, and paragraphs on various topics but have yet to find the big, overarching structure or framework that ties all that stuff together into a cohesive manuscript. Here’s how to create a framework for your book or dissertation.
Podcast Interview Tips for Academics, Artists, and Activists
Podcasts are a fantastic way for authors, artists, and cultural workers to get the word out about their work, market their books, and connect with new audiences. Here are my best tips on how to be a good podcast guest or how to best prepare for a podcast interview.
Organizing and Accessing Your Digital Resources
Most of the research and teaching materials we accumulate these days is digital: articles, pdfs, videos, websites, images, and audio files. So how do we keep track of all that stuff?
New Guide on Academic Book Marketing for Authors
You conceptualized, researched, wrote, edited, and published an academic book that has the potential to have a huge impact on the world. But to have that impact, your book needs to get into the hands of the right people. My new guide Book Marketing for Academics teaches you how to do just that.
Book Marketing: Audience and Author Platform
Your author platform is what gets your book noticed, sold, and used by your ideal audience—and every book needs a specific audience. Here’s how you can identify your audience and build your author platform. An excerpt from my new publication Book Marketing for Academics.
Book Marketing: Creating Your Social Media Plan
Most authors know they should be promoting their book on social media. But what does that actually mean? And how do you do it effectively? Good social media marketing begins with a plan. Learn more in an excerpt from my new publication Book Marketing for Academics.
Apps to Boost your Time Management and Productivity
As an interdisciplinary academic, you have a ton of stuff to do. Finding apps that help you do that stuff can often be the difference between feeling overwhelmed and feeling on top of things. This week we share our favorite apps and tools for writing, time management, scheduling, and email.
How to Survive Your First Semester of Grad School
Welcome to academia! Grad school provides fantastic opportunities to develop your professional skills, connect with smart and passionate scholars, and build a multifaceted career. Here’s how you can rock your first semester and set yourself up for a great grad school experience.
How to Make the Most of the Last Month of Summer
Many academics dread August 1—it means that classes, committees, and department meetings are starting soon. But it is also a great opportunity to revisit summer goals, evaluate your work spaces and writing routine, and make decisions that ensure you rock this final month of summer and the academic year.
How to Choose References for a Postac/Altac Job Search
How to identify the best references and recommenders for jobs beyond the academy: references that highlight your unique skills and fit.
How to Have a Happy, Productive Travel Season
Academics travel quite a bit. Travel interrupts our usual routines, as we don’t have access to our regular resources and schedules. So how can we get the most out of our travel?