A workshop for graduate students, facilitated Prof. Bécquer Seguín (Assistant Professor of Iberian Studies, John Hopkins)
Humanists possess a reservoir of scholarly abilities that prime them for contributing to debates well beyond the academy. This workshop will introduce participants to the basics of writing for broad audiences. We will discuss how to get started in public writing, including the pitching, writing, editing, and publishing processes of newspapers, magazines, and websites. We will also consider the forms of writing that most allow scholars to draw from their academic training: reviews, essays, op-eds, interviews, and profiles. Lastly, we will see how interdisciplinarity, comparativism, and multilingualism can be helpful for public writing of all kinds.
Space is limited; RSVP to Anna Torres-Cacoullos (ait5095@illinois.edu) no later than Aug. 30.