The European History Workshop is holding a remote workshop on April 5th at 4pm with Dr. Kira Thurman to discuss how and where to pitch book publications and how to approach the writing process more generally. Dr. Thurman will be giving us a sneak peek of her introduction (this introduction must not be circulated outside the EHW) for her upcoming book, Singing Like Germans: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven and Brahms with Cornell University Press. During the workshop, we hope to discuss this introduction and the following questions:
- As an interdisciplinary scholar, how do you approach research, writing and publication?
- What is the process for turning a dissertation into a book?
- How do you approach publishers about your book project? Or do publishers approach you?
- What challenges do you face when writing a book and how can we minimize them? Are there ways for us to write our dissertations so that they are more easily translatable to books after graduation?
We expect, and hope for, a free-flowing conversation that will address these above topics as well as others that grad students might be concerned with regarding writing and publishing.
Dr. Thurman is a joint assistant professor in the University of Michigan history and German departments. She has had much success in academic and public spheres as an interdisciplinary scholar of black Germany and music.
If you would like to attend: please register here and email Albert or Cheyenne for a copy of her book Introduction
