The Research and Publications Committee of the Association for Writing Across the Curriculum invites you to a roundtable on Publishing Your First Book or Edited Collection in Writing Studies.
If you’re contemplating publishing a book or edited collection in writing studies—or just want to learn more about the process—please join us for advice from our panelists followed by a discussion.
Wednesday, April 30, 3-4pm ET (2-3pm CT, 1-2pm MT, 12-1pm PT)
Panelists include Dr. Sweta Baniya, Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Professional and Technical Writing and Affiliate Faculty of Women and Gender Studies at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Michael Pemberton, Professor of English at Georgia Southern University; and Elizabeth Wardle, Roger & Joyce Howe Distinguished Professor of Written Communication.
Please sign up for the event using this link: https://iu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6K9Z7pmROABXGwm
A WebEx link to the event will be provided upon registration.
Questions? Contact Tom Deans, Professor of English, UConn, and Chair, AWAC Research and Publications Committee (ude.nnocu@snaed.mot)
More on our panelists:
Dr. Sweta Baniya, Assistant Professor of rhetoric and professional and technical writing and an affiliate faculty of Women and Gender Studies at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Through a transnational and non-Western perspective, her research focuses on transnational coalitions in disaster response, crisis communication, and non-Western rhetoric. Her open access book explores transnational activism in the April 2015 Nepal Earthquake and 2017 Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. Dr. Baniya’s scholarship has appeared in Technical Communications Quarterly, Technical Communications, Enculturation, and Journal of Business & Technical Communication among others.
Michael Pemberton, Professor of English at Georgia Southern University
A past president of the International Writing Centers Association (IWCA), Michael has published six books and more than 100 articles on writing center theory, tutoring ethics, and writing technologies. He was a founding Editor of the first national WAC journal, Across the Disciplines, and the founding Series Editor of Across the Disciplines Books. Currently, he serves as the Director of the CWPA Consultant-Evaluator Service and the Associate Publisher for Journals at the WAC Clearinghouse. He was named a Distinguished Fellow of the Association for Writing Across the Curriculum in 2021 and received the Muriel Harris Outstanding Service Award from the IWCA in 2022. From 2017-2023, he was a co-PI of the Text Recycling Research Project, an NSF-funded research study of text recycling ethics, practices, and policies in STEM journals.
Elizabeth Wardle, Roger & Joyce Howe Distinguished Professor of Written Communication
Elizabeth currently directs the Roger and Joyce Howe Center for Writing Excellence at Miami University, and previously directed writing programs at University of Central Florida and University of Dayton. She is the founding series editor of Writing Research, Pedagogy, and Policy with Utah State University Press and Retrospectives editor for Composition Forum. Her books include Writing about Writing, Naming What We Know: Threshold Concepts of Writing Studies, and Writing Expertise: A Research-Based Approach to Writing and Learning Across Disciplines. Her current project is a trade book with Wiley, Writing Rediscovered: Nine Concepts to Transform Your Relationship With Writing, which will be published this fall.
