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UBC English Language & Literatures is pleased to invite you to “Genre and Voice: Writing and Publishing in Trying Ti mes\,” 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).
Re gister 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 Thu rsday\, October 31st at 12:00 pm PT.
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Academic format ions in the academy are shifting quickly\, as are our reading habits. How d oes 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 resear ch 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 Univers ity Press\, will discuss the challenges and possibilities of new modes of w riting as well as offering a guide to the genre differences between a disse rtation and a book\, and the unexpected difficulties of second and subseque nt books.
Ken Wiss oker is Senior Executive Editor at Duke University Press\, acquiri ng books across the humanities\, social sciences\, and the arts. In additio n to his duties at the Press\, he serves as Director of Intellectual Public s at The Graduate Center\, CUNY. He has published more than fourteen-hundre d books which have won over one hundred and eighty prizes. Among the author s whose books he has published are Stuart Hall\, Donna Haraway\, Eve Kosofs ky Sedgwick\, Achille Mbembe\, Lauren Berlant\, Jack Halberstam\, Sara Ahme d\, Katherine McKittrick\, Christina Sharpe\, Fred Moten\, and Lisa Lowe. H e has also worked with artists and writers including Lorraine O’Grady\, Gre g Tate\, Randy Weston\, Fred Wesley\, Cherrie Moraga\, and Alexis Pauline G umbs. You can follow him on X here.
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