UBC English Language & Literatures is pleased to invite you to “Genre and Voice: Writing and Publishing in Trying Times,” a visiting speaker lecture featuring Ken Wissoker, Senior Executive Editor of Duke University Press, and Director, Intellectual Publics, at the City University of New York (CUNY).
Register via the link below and scroll to read the talk abstract and speaker bio.
This is an in-person event. We look forward to seeing you on Thursday, October 31st at 12:00 pm PT.
Genre and Voice: Writing and Publishing in Trying Times
Abstract
Academic formations in the academy are shifting quickly, as are our reading habits. How does a scholar turn their dissertation into a first book or write a second, as aims and expectations shift? We are well-trained to write up our research for those in our immediate field, but how might scholars reach readers in other fields or outside the academy? What about more experimental genres of writing and thinking? Ken Wissoker, a long-time editor at Duke University Press, will discuss the challenges and possibilities of new modes of writing as well as offering a guide to the genre differences between a dissertation and a book, and the unexpected difficulties of second and subsequent books.
About the Speaker
Ken Wissoker is Senior Executive Editor at Duke University Press, acquiring books across the humanities, social sciences, and the arts. In addition to his duties at the Press, he serves as Director of Intellectual Publics at The Graduate Center, CUNY. He has published more than fourteen-hundred books which have won over one hundred and eighty prizes. Among the authors whose books he has published are Stuart Hall, Donna Haraway, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Achille Mbembe, Lauren Berlant, Jack Halberstam, Sara Ahmed, Katherine McKittrick, Christina Sharpe, Fred Moten, and Lisa Lowe. He has also worked with artists and writers including Lorraine O’Grady, Greg Tate, Randy Weston, Fred Wesley, Cherrie Moraga, and Alexis Pauline Gumbs. You can follow him on X here.
