RSA Remote … OSU Press Coffee Hour: “Diversity and Inclusivity in Book Publishing”

RSA Remote … OSU Press Coffee Hour: “Diversity and Inclusivity in Book Publishing”

This next session in the RSA Navigating Publishing series will continue to demystify publishing from all sides--offering the perspective of a series editor, two authors, and an acquisitions editor--while also tackling the topic of representation, diversity, and inclusivity in publishing. Some topics and questions we’ll cover include:

• Why submit to a series and what do you need to be aware of when doing so?
• How can you attend to diversity, representation, and inclusion in your book project, even if such issues are not part of your central argument?
• How should you respond to peer review and when is it important to push back?
• How is publishing grappling with issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion? What are some issues facing publishing that authors should be aware of?
• What are the current structural impediments to diversifying not only the scholars being published but also the editors acquiring their books? How are people within structures of power working to address these impediments? What is the place of non-marginalized scholars in this work?
• What are some tips and resources for scholars from marginalized communities, or for those whose research topics or methodologies are not widely recognized in the field?

We will be sure to leave ample time for your own questions, and the acquisitions editor will hang around after the session to answer any additional questions.

Title: OSU Press Coffee Hour: “Diversity and Inclusivity in Book Publishing”

Date: Friday April 16, 2021

Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM EST

Panelists:  

Karma R. Chávez, Series Editor, Intersectional Rhetorics; University of Texas at Austin

Tara Cyphers, Acquisitions Editor, Ohio State University Press

Amanda Nell Edgar, Author, Culturally Speaking; The Rhetoric of Voice and Identity in a Mediated Culture; University of Memphis

Shui-Yin Sharon Yam, Author, Inconvenient Strangers: Transnational Subjects and the Politics of Citizenship; University of Kentucky

Moderator:

Tara Cyphers, Acquisitions Editor, Ohio State University Press

RSA Members as well as non-members are welcome to attend. Please CLICK HERE to register. You will receive the Zoom link and instructions on the morning of the event.