Faculty ADVANCEment Workshop: University Press Books

Attend a scholarly publishing seminar for faculty, led by Dr. Carole Sargent. She guides faculty members in all departments and programs at Georgetown University to book publishing at first-tier university presses and article publishing at peer-reviewed journals. This workshop also includes a bonus module on the written portion of major grants. Sargent has visited Chicago, Northwestern, Oxford, Cambridge, Columbia, Johns Hopkins, NYU, and many other presses, and she hosts university press editors on campus. Content for the seminar comes directly from these editors, and also from peer-reviewed journal editors.

Although the seminar is wholly suitable for first-time authors, the well-published have always been in the majority at her office, and they enjoy learning what's new in scholarly publishing and how to adapt to a changing acquisitions environment. You'll focus on how the abstract reflects your intellectual identity, political considerations at journals and book publishers, powerful ways to streamline any book or article, how to break into a higher publishing tier, and what grantors are really looking for.