Workshops

Laurel Harris - Rider University
Lauren Rosenblum - Adelphi University

This workshop will discuss strategies for collaborative scholarship. We will begin by facilitating a discussion on collaboration and its potential to reconstruct academia as a more inclusive, equitable, and productive space. Most of the workshop time will then be spent writing with a partner in response to prompts or on existing projects. Collaborators can attend together, or the organizers can pair collaborators before the workshop. We will conclude with a reflection of the process, next steps, and ideas on how to overcome obstacles. We welcome participants working in any media (digital or otherwise) on projects in any phase of development.

Claire Buck - Wheaton College
Liz O'Connor - Washington College
Ravenel Richardson - Case Western Reserve University
Aimee Wilson - University of Kansas

Writing groups can be a key to professional productivity. While graduate programs often facilitate them, adjunct faculty, independent scholars, faculty at teaching-centered institutions, and mid-career scholars may find it difficult to create a sustainable group. This workshop will help participants articulate their writing group needs and identify a format to meet those needs. Before the workshop, participants will complete an intake form and read a short article by Helen Sword on best practices. During the workshop, presenters will discuss personal writing group challenges and successes, along with advantages and disadvantages of particular formats. Participants will then break into groups (based on intake forms) to outline attainable goals, discuss the next piece they want to revise, and, ideally, exchange contact information to create groups post-MSA.

Philip Leventhal - Columbia University Press

This workshop will bring together commissioning editors from leading university presses and series editors to address a range of practical, intellectual and professional issues involved in conceiving, writing, and proposing a monograph in modernist studies and related fields.

Patty Argyrides - Queen’s University
Michelle Rada - Brown University

Academia is more than just individual scholarship: it is knowing how to communicate, collaborate, and build relationships with peers and professors, which can be intimating for emerging scholars. This workshop aims to provide techniques for graduate students seeking to improve their networking skills in academic settings, and offer guidance on striking a balance between independent research, collaborative projects, and student social life.