Publishing and Professionalization: A Professor and Editor’s Perspective for Graduate Students

This workshop for graduate students will offer a discussion of academic publishing and professionalization. Drawing on my experiences as executive editor of the journal Contemporary Literature, I’ll discuss what graduate students new to publishing should be thinking about as they approach journal publication, from how to revise a paper into an article to how to select a journal for submission. I’ll also seek to demystify the academic journal and book publishing process. Finally, I’ll discuss the broader landscape of US Ph.D. programs in English and the US job market. Participants are encourage to come with questions for an open-ended discussion. 

Timothy Yu is Martha Meier Renk-Bascom Professor of Poetry and professor of English and Asian American studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of Diasporic Poetics: Asian Writing in the United States, Canada, and Australia (Oxford University Press) and of Race and the Avant-Garde: Experimental and Asian American Poetry since 1965 (Stanford University Press), which won the Book Award in Literary Studies from the Association for Asian American Studies. He is also the author of the poetry collection 100 Chinese Silences (Les Figues Press), the Editor’s Selection in the 2014 NOS Book Contest. He is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First Century American Poetry and Nests and Strangers: On Asian American Women Poets (Kelsey Street Press), and he also serves as executive editor of the Journal of Contemporary Literature.