Publishing Now

Young Adult Publishing

Posted on March 20, 2023March 20, 2023 by Della Zazzera, Elizabeth

Publishing NOW presents

Young Adult Publishing

with Peter Knapp, Crystal Maldonado, and Stephanie Stein

April 3, 2023, 5:00pm

Live • Online • Registration required

Peter Knapp (partner and agent, Park & Fine), Crystal Maldonado (author and UConn alum), and Stephanie Stein (Senior Editor, HarperCollins), answer your questions and demystify the world of young adult publishing. 2022–23 UCHI/CLAS Undergraduate Humanities Research Fellow Rylee Thomas will moderate the discussion.

Please submit any questions you have for our panel of experts via this google form.

Peter Knapp is a partner and literary agent at Park & Fine Literary and Media, where he oversees the children’s and young adult fiction department. His clients include the New York Times bestselling authors Soman Chainani, Ayana Gray, Adalyn Grace, Rachel Griffin, Shelby Mahurin, Ginny Myers Sain, and Amélie Wen Zhao, and award winners and critically acclaimed authors such as Emily Bain Murphy, Julia Drake, Ryan La Sala, and Kate O’Shaughnessy. Peter first began his foray into publishing while interning in the book-to-film departments of several film studios and production companies, including New Line Cinema and Overture Films. Upon graduating, he began work as a story editor at Floren Shieh Productions, a literary scouting agency that consulted on film and TV adaptations for Los Angeles-based studios and production companies. He joined Park & Fine, then the Park Literary Group, in 2011. Peter is a graduate of New York University, and now lives in Brooklyn with his husband.

Crystal Maldonado is a young adult author with a lot of feelings. Her debut novel, Fat Chance, Charlie Vega, is a 2021 New England Book Award winner, a Cosmopolitan Best New Book, and a POPSUGAR Best New YA Novel. Her newest novel, No Filter and Other Lies, explores teenage life in the social media age—and the lies we tell to ourselves and others.

Stephanie Stein is a senior editor at HarperCollins Children’s Books, where she acquires middle grade and YA fiction and graphic novels for the Harper and HarperTeen imprints. In her eleven years at Harper, she has worked with critically acclaimed, bestselling, and award-winning authors including Rena Barron, Kiera Cass, Femi Fadugba, Cynthia Hand, Michael Leali, Mark Oshiro, Ava Reid, Misa Sugiura, and Shveta Thakrar. She is also the lead editor of the #1 New York Times bestselling Warriors series by Erin Hunter.

ACCESS NOTE

This event will offer automated captioning. If you require accommodation to attend this event, please contact us at uchi@uconn.edu or by phone (860) 486-9057. We can request ASL interpreting, computer-assisted real time transcription, and other accommodations offered by the Center for Students with Disabilities.

Publishing Now: Access, Representation, Collaboration

Posted on November 17, 2022November 17, 2022 by Della Zazzera, Elizabeth

Publishing NOW and the Digital Humanities and Media Studies Initiative present

Publishing Now: Access, Representation, Collaboration

Victoria Hindley (MIT Press) and Allison Levy (Brown University Digital Publications)

November 30, 2022, 2:00pm

Homer Babbidge Library, Humanities Institute Conference Room

This event will also be livestreamed with automated captioning. Register to attend virtually.

Victoria Hindley and Allison Levy will be talking about publishing in the context of larger concerns such as diversity, access, and collaboration and their work with their “On Seeing” series—an experiment in multimodal publishing that hopes to shape new conversations about how we see, comprehend, and participate in visual culture.

Victoria Hindley is Acquisitions Editor of Visual Culture and Design at the MIT Press and the founding organizer of the Press’s Grant Program for Diverse Voices. Known for its forward-looking intellectual rigor and distinctive design, the MIT Press has been publishing groundbreaking work since the 1960s.

Allison Levy is the Director of Brown University Digital Publications.

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Publishing NOW: How to Work with an Academic Press

Posted on March 7, 2022March 11, 2022 by Della Zazzera, Elizabeth

Publishing NOW

How to Work with an Academic Press

Leah Pennywark (Humanities Editor, University of Minnesota Press)

March 21, 2022, 1:00pm

Live • Online • Registration required.

Leah Pennywark, Humanities Editor at the University of Minnesota Press, will offer tips and insights for working with an academic press. She is also offering virtual half-hour-long one-on-one meetings for prospective authors on March 22. These appointments are for UConn-afiliated faculty only. Interested parties should sign up for an appointment via Calendly.

Leah Pennywark is Humanities Editor at the University of Minnesota Press where she acquires in a wide range of disciplines, including American studies, cultural studies, literary criticism, and cinema and media studies. Her interests include gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, and emerging cultural formations. She is passionate about argument-driven work that is politically and culturally engaged. Before joining the University of Minnesota Press, Pennywark served as assistant editor at Stanford University Press, where she focused on political science, international relations, security studies, and Middle East studies. Prior to that, she served as acquisitions assistant at Purdue University Press, where she completed a PhD in American literature. She has an MA in literature from the University of Rochester and a BA in English from Rice University.

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Publishing NOW: Publishing about Race Now

Posted on January 3, 2022January 20, 2022 by Della Zazzera, Elizabeth

Publishing NOW

Publishing about Race Now

Lewis R. Gordon (Philosophy, UConn)

in conversation with Michael P. Lynch

January 31, 2022, 4:00pm

Live • Online • Registration required.

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In conversation with Michael P. Lynch, Lewis R. Gordon will discuss his new book, Fear of Black Consciousness (2022), “a groundbreaking work that positions Black consciousness as a political commitment and creative practice, richly layered through art, love, and revolutionary action.”

Lewis R. Gordon is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut. He works in the areas of Africana philosophy, existentialism, phenomenology, social and political theory, postcolonial thought, theories of race and racism, philosophies of liberation, aesthetics, philosophy of education, and philosophy of religion. He has written particularly extensively on Africana and Black existentialism, postcolonial phenomenology, race and racism, and on the works and thought of W. E. B. Du Bois and Frantz Fanon.

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Publishing Now: How to Publish for the Public

Posted on November 17, 2021November 19, 2021 by Della Zazzera, Elizabeth

Publishing NOW

How to Publish for the Public

with Emily Costello (The Conversation), Jaime Fuller (Lapham’s Quarterly), and Ben Platt (Public Books)

December 1, 2021, 1:00pm

Live • Online • Registration required.

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Editors from three digital publications that regularly publish the work of academics for a popular audience will offer advice and tips to scholars looking to write for the public.

Emily Costello is managing editor at The Conversation. Jaime Fuller is web editor at Lapham’s Quarterly. Ben Platt is editorial director at Public Books.

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Publishing Now: Publishing about Politics after (?) Trump

Posted on October 21, 2021October 21, 2021 by Della Zazzera, Elizabeth

Publishing NOW

Publishing about Politics after (?) Trump

with Susan Herbst (Political Science, UConn)

November 1, 2021, 4:00pm

Live • Online • Registration required.

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In conversation with Alexis L. Boylan, Susan Herbst will discuss her new book, A Troubled Birth: The 1930s and American Public Opinion. A Troubled Birth explores the decade “public opinion” became a commercial and political commodity, and how the circumstances of its origin undergird challenges to democracy today.

Susan Herbst is University Professor of Political Science and President Emeritus. She is author of five books, most recently, A Troubled Birth: The 1930s and American Public Opinion from the University of Chicago Press. Before coming to UConn, she was Professor and Chair of Political Science at Northwestern University, Dean of Liberal Arts at Temple University, and CAO for the University System of Georgia. She holds a B.A. in Political Science from Duke University and a doctorate in Communications from the University of Southern California.

November 10, 2021

4:00pm

HBL, 4-209

DHMS: Discriminating Data Book Discussion Group

April 27, 2022

4:00pm

HBL, 4-209

Publishing NOW: How to Apply for a UConn Internal Grant

Posted on September 23, 2021September 27, 2021 by Della Zazzera, Elizabeth

Publishing NOW

How to Apply for a UConn Internal Grant, Humanities-Style

with Dr. Matthew Mroz (Internal Funding Coordinator, Office of the Vice President for Research)

October 6, 2:00pm, Homer Babbidge Library, 4–209

This event will also be livestreamed. Register to attend virtually.

Dr. Matthew Mroz is the Internal Funding and Limited Submissions Coordinator and a member of the Research Development Services team in UConn’s Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR). Dr. Mroz oversees all aspects of the OVPR’s seed grant competitions, manages the internal review and selection process for limited submission opportunities, coordinates OVPR grantwriting training programs, and generally does whatever he can to support faculty members seeking to grow their research.

He has a PhD in English Literature and Rhetoric from UConn, where he studied and taught early modern literature (particularly the work of John Milton). He also has served as Assistant Director of First-Year Writing at UConn and taught extensively in that program.

In this talk, he will give an overview of the seed grant funding available to researchers in the humanities, explore how grant funding, including internal seed grants, can enhance the productivity and impact of humanities scholars, and answer questions about the application and review process.

If you require accommodation, including live transcription, to attend this event, please contact us at uchi@uconn.edu or by phone (860) 486-9057.

Publishing NOW: How to Start a Series and How to Write for One

Posted on September 13, 2021September 23, 2021 by Della Zazzera, Elizabeth

Publishing NOW

How to Start a Series and How to Write for One

with Bhakti Shringarpure (English & Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies) and Grégory Pierrot (English)

September 27, 4:00pm, Homer Babbidge Library, 4–209

This event will also be livestreamed. Register to attend virtually.

Bhakti Shringapure is the editor for the new series Decolonize That! from O/R Books, as well as the editor-in-chief for Warscapes magazine. Grégory Pierrot is the author of Decolonize Hipsters, the first book published in the new series. They will talk about what it’s like to start and to write for a new series and offer tips for anyone looking to do the same.

If you require accommodation, including live transcription, to attend this event, please contact us at uchi@uconn.edu or by phone (860) 486-9057.

Publishing NOW 2021–2022

Posted on September 10, 2021September 24, 2021 by Della Zazzera, Elizabeth

We have an amazing line-up of Publishing NOW events this year. Check out all of them below.

9/27 at 4:00pm: Bhakti Shringarpure and Grégory Pierrot on how to start a new book series and how to write for one.
10/6 at 2:00pm: Matthew Mroz on how to apply for a UConn internal grant, humanities-style.
11/1 at 4:00pm: Susan Herbst on publishing about politics after (?) Trump.
12/1 at 1:00pm: How to publish for the public, featuring editors from Lapham’s Quarterly, Public Books, and the Conversation.
1/31 at 4:00pm: Lewis Gordon on how to write about race now.
3/23 at 1:00pm: Leah Pennywark (University of Minnesota Press) on how to work with an academic press.

Publishing NOW presents

Young Adult Publishing

with Peter Knapp, Crystal Maldonado, and Stephanie Stein

April 3, 2023, 5:00pm

ACCESS NOTE

Publishing NOW and the Digital Humanities and Media Studies Initiative present

Publishing Now: Access, Representation, Collaboration

Victoria Hindley (MIT Press) and Allison Levy (Brown University Digital Publications)

November 30, 2022, 2:00pm

ACCESS NOTE

Publishing NOW

How to Work with an Academic Press

Leah Pennywark (Humanities Editor, University of Minnesota Press)

March 21, 2022, 1:00pm

ACCESS NOTE

Publishing NOW

Publishing about Race Now

Lewis R. Gordon (Philosophy, UConn)

January 31, 2022, 4:00pm

ACCESS NOTE

Publishing NOW

How to Publish for the Public

with Emily Costello (The Conversation), Jaime Fuller (Lapham’s Quarterly), and Ben Platt (Public Books)

December 1, 2021, 1:00pm

Access Note

Publishing NOW

Publishing about Politics after (?) Trump

with Susan Herbst (Political Science, UConn)

November 1, 2021, 4:00pm

Publishing NOW: How to Start a Series and How to Write for One

Publishing NOW: How to Apply for a UConn Internal Grant

Fellow’s Talk: Drew Johnson

Fellow’s Talk: Carol Gray

DHMS: Algorithmic Arts and Humanities at UConn

DHMS: Jessica Johnson and Kim Gallon on Black Beyond Data

Fellow’s Talk: Erik Freeman

Publishing NOW: Publishing about Politics after (?) Trump

Fellow’s Talk: Anna Ziering

Dissertation Grant Writing Workshop

DHMS: Daniel Rosenberg on the History of Data and Information

Fellow’s Talk: Sarah Willen

DHMS: Discriminating Data Book Discussion Group

DHMS: Wendy Chun on Discriminating Data

Publishing NOW: How to Publish for the Public

Fellow’s Talk: Shiloh Whitney

Fellow’s Talk: Meina Cai

Publishing NOW: How to Write about Race Now

Fellow’s Talk: Laura Mauldin

DHMS: Anke Finger on The Digital Dissertation

DHMS: Audrey Watters on Teaching Machines

Fellow’s Talk: Kathryn Moore

Fellow’s Talk: Prakash Kashwan

Fellow’s Talk: Micki McElya

Publishing NOW: How to Work with an Academic Press

Fellow’s Talk: Shardé Davis

Nikole Hannah-Jones

Fellow’s Talk: Sherie Randolph

Fellow’s Talk: Fiona Vernal

Publishing NOW

How to Apply for a UConn Internal Grant, Humanities-Style

with Dr. Matthew Mroz (Internal Funding Coordinator, Office of the Vice President for Research)

October 6, 2:00pm, Homer Babbidge Library, 4–209

Publishing NOW

How to Start a Series and How to Write for One

with Bhakti Shringarpure (English & Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies) and Grégory Pierrot (English)

September 27, 4:00pm, Homer Babbidge Library, 4–209

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