You’ve been awarded your PhD – congratulations! So how do you go about transforming your thesis into a book publication, and one that people may actually want to read?
Author, educator and publisher William Germano provides a masterclass in the art of transformation. He will unpack the 3 ‘A’s that are crucial for any author to tackle in preparing a manuscript for submission and publication:
Argument
Architecture
Audience
William will encourage you to consider whether your thesis should be reworked into a book; get you to answer the ‘so what?’ question that lurks behind the content of any scholarly publication; and help you to think through how the content, organisation and style all need to be modified to engage a less specialised reader.
Please note: this online event will begin at 4pm BST (11am EST), and will be recorded via video-conferencing software. After the event has taken place a link will be circulated to all attendees and remain available to view for a time-limited period.
William Germano teaches at Cooper Union, where he is professor in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and where he served as dean from 2006 until 2017. He teaches in the core, as well as offering electives on cross-disciplinary themes. Before joining Cooper Union, he directed programs in scholarly publishing, first as editor-in-chief at Columbia University Press and then as vice-president and publishing director at Routledge; during his publishing career he developed wide experience with disciplines in both the humanities and social sciences, publishing both established and groundbreaking scholars. He is the author of six books, including Getting It Published: A Guide for Scholars and Anyone Else Serious about Serious Books, now in its third edition (2016), From Dissertation to Book, now in a second edition (2016), and Revision: The Only Writing That Counts (2021), all published by the University of Chicago Press. With Kit Nicholls he has also written Syllabus: The Remarkable, Unremarkable Document That Changes Everything (Princeton, 2020). He has also published on Shakespeare, opera, film history, and visual measurement (Eye Chart, Bloomsbury, 2017). A frequent speaker at academic conferences, he conducts faculty workshops worldwide on conceiving, building, and repairing scholarly manuscripts.
The fee for this masterclass is just £1 (incl. VAT), and is payable in full online.
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This is a live online event which will be presented using video conferencing software. Joining instructions and full guidance will be provided by the W&A Team a week before the event start-date. Please note, all event timings are in UK time.
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At the speaker's discretion, event materials will be made available to attendees after the masterclass.
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A link to a recording of the masterclass will be circulated after the event. This will be made available to event attendees only, and for a time-limited period.
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This event will include written text and visuals. Please contact us in advance so that we can make arrangements to be sure all documents appear in a format that works for you.
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If you’d like to attend but have any questions or concerns regarding accessibility, then please email AccessWA@bloomsbury.com
