Christine Smallwood,
New York Times
October 15, 2018, 4 pm
Christine Smallwood is a writer and critic living in New York. Her reviews, essays, and short stories have been published in Harper’s, The New York Times Magazine, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, The New Yorker, Bookforum, The Paris Review, n+1, and Vice. She holds a PhD in English Literature from Columbia University and is a core faculty member of the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research.
George Thompson, CLAS Publisher-in-Residence Visit to UConn,
October 23-26
George Thompson will be returning to campus October 23-26 to continue the CLAS publisher-in-residence program, thanks to the support of Dean Davita Silfen Glasberg, UConn Humanities Institute, and Ken Foote of the Department of Geography.
George has visited UConn regularly since 2015. His visits are aimed at helping colleagues with their publishing projects. George is particular good at helping faculty develop book projects, but can help with all aspects of academic publishing across a wide range of fields.
George will be available for both group and one-on-one meetings.
If you would like to set a time for faculty in your department to meet with George, please contact Stephanie Beron at Stephanie.beron@uconn.edu or (860) 486-3656 to schedule an appointment.
Available times are listed online at https://goo.gl/dWefva:
If you haven’t had a chance to meet, George has been a professional editor since 1984, beginning his career at Johns Hopkins University Press as an acquisitions editor. At JHUP, George developed the geography and environmental studies list, including the “Creating the North American Landscape” series. In 1990, George founded the Center for American Places, which he directed and served as publisher until November 2010, when he founded his own imprint. Books developed and published under George’s care have won more than 100 book awards, honors, and prizes, including best-book recognition in 31 academic fields. George is also the editor, co-editor or author of five books of his own and has served as publisher-in-residence at a number of universities. More information is available here http://www.gftbooks.com/about.html
“Humanities for All” highlights The Encounters Series as one of its featured projects. read more here
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Our fellow from 2017-2018, Eleni Coundouriotis, Professor, Department of English has had a new article published.
Read here: http://politicsslashletters.org/exile-refugee-ethics-reading/
Deidre Bair, UCHI Visiting Fellow 2017-18 and famed Samuel Beckett scholar, noted in review of Beckett’s politics in The New York Review of Books.
On April 10, 2018, UCHI Director Michael P. Lynch interviewed Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times best-selling author Viet Thanh Nguyen for the final event of the 2017-2018 Publishing NOW series (https://humanities.uconn.edu/publishing-now/ ). Nguyen was at UConn as part of the UConn Reads program(https://uconnreads.uconn.edu/) and kindly found time to swing by UCHI and talk to faculty and students about his books, navigating the publishing world , finding time for creativity, and the role of the public intellectual. It was a lively dialogue and a fantastic way to end a year of brilliant conversation about the current state of publishing, ideas, politics, and the humanities.
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