Writing It!
The Podcast About Academics & Writing
Displaying all 2 Episode of Writing It! with the tag “tenure”.
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Episode 59: When dissertations do not become tenure books & research becomes NYT Op-eds with Miriam Udel
September 22nd, 2025 | 58 mins 2 secs
dissertation, fellowships, literary agent, literature, modernity, publicist, tenure, translation, yiddish
We’re talking with Emory Professor Miriam Udel about lessons from a career full of writing highs and challenges, beginning with the realization that the dissertation will not become the first book. We talk about learning how to understand the gradations of rejection letters; the value of pitching editors in person; why spending time on works of translations may be highly worthwhile even when they do not count for tenure and promotion; when hiring a book publicist is useful for academics; writing Op-Eds; mentoring younger scholars; and having a memoir-in-progress in the drawer.
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Episode 31: Being Open to Collaboration
August 26th, 2024 | 28 mins 48 secs
animal studies, co-authorship, collaborative writing, scholarly monograph, social sciences, tenure
We’re speaking with Professor Anna Peterson (Religion, University of Florida). She received her PhD from the University of Chicago Divinity School and her AB from the University of California at Berkeley. Her research focuses on religion and social change, especially in Latin America; environmental and social ethics; and animal studies. Professor Peterson has decades of experience in something that is rare among humanities scholars: collaborative writing. What are the benefits and drawbacks of co-authored publications? We talk about why and when scholars might choose to collaborate with academics from other disciplines, as well as how a professor or a graduate student might signal interest in collaborative work.