Academics Write

Agustín Fuentes talks about his book, Sex is a Spectrum , how to write carefully about sex/gender without reproducing stereotypes, and how much work goes into writing for a variety of audiences.

Katelyn E. Knox & Allison Van Deventer talk about their book, The Dissertation-to-Book Workbook , how to reorganize a book draft around book questions and chapter answers, and why it is important to know your evidence well before making an argument. You can find out more about the book and the program they run ⁠at dissertationtobook.com .

Andrew Brandel talks about his book, Moving Words , how he turned his dissertation into a book, and how to find the right press for a monograph.

Damani Partridge talks about his book, Blackness as a Universal Claim , how Black Power is mobilized by non-Black people of color in Germany, and what this means for Blackness.

Rachael Cayley talks about her book, Thriving as a Graduate Writer, what makes graduate students especially vulnerable, and why academic writing should be seen as something to learn.

Sezen Ünlüönen talks about how she wrote her dissertation and two novels at the same time during her Ph. D., the importance of being a well-rounded human for writing, and the wonders of the Pomodoro technique for sustaining a writing practice.

Helen Sword talks about her new book, Writing with Pleasure , why thinking about pleasure in academic writing is important, and how to bring arts and crafts into the writing space. You can find out more about her work and the programs she runs at helensword.com .

Anand Pandian talks about doing justice to what we write about, experimental modes of writing in ethnography, and how what we write about affects how we write.

Elizabeth Chin talks about how turning her dissertation into a book mended her relationship with her project, her role as the editor-in-chief of the American Anthropologist, and what early career researchers should not do as they turn a dissertation chapter into a journal article. Follow her on Twitter @LabSpecEth .

In this episode, Laura Portwood-Stacer talks about the Book Proposal Book, why brilliance cannot be a criterion to write a book, and her work in demystifying the publishing process. You can find out more about her work and the programs she runs at manuscriptworks.com .

In this episode, Kaya Williams (Harvard) talks about taking inspiration from fiction, why writing the dissertation is easier compared to the book, and how she is turning her dissertation into a book now.

In this very first episode of Academics Write, William Germano talks about the advice on writing your dissertation as a book, the necessary skills for becoming a good editor, and his most recent book, On Revision.