Getting Your Book Published: A Roundtable
Time: Feb. 7, 2025, 10 a.m. - noon
Location: Zoom
Sponsored by the CNY Humanities Corridor
Whether you’re trying to publish your first book or your fifth, figuring out how to navigate the process successfully can be mysterious and challenging. At this online round table, area university press editors demystify the process by discussing the questions they most often hear from academic authors.
Communication Access Real-time Translation (CART) will be provided.
Panelists:
Rebecca Colesworthy is a senior acquisitions editor in gender and queer studies, education, and Latin American studies, among other fields, at SUNY Press. She writes a publishing advice column for the Chronicle of Higher Education, published a book in 2018 with Oxford UP, and holds a PhD in English from Cornell.
Laura Fish is an acquisitions editor at Syracuse University Press, where she acquires scholarly, nonfiction, and fiction book projects related to Middle East studies, Geography, and New York State studies. She received her PhD in Middle Eastern Literatures and Cultures at the University of Texas at Austin, focusing on Iranian cinema. Previously, she worked in acquisitions, marketing, and rights and permissions at the University of Texas Press and in marketing at the University of Washington Press.
Sonia Kane is editorial director at the University of Rochester Press. She has a PhD in English from the CUNY Graduate Center, with a specialization in the works of eighteenth-century British women writers.
Meagan Levinson is editorial director of Three Hills, the regional trade imprint at Cornell University Press. She is on the lookout for engaging stories, both fiction and non-fiction, that deepen our understanding of and appreciation for New York state and the greater Northeast. Before joining Cornell UP, Meagan held editorial positions at Princeton University Press, Penguin Random House, and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Heather Stauffer, moderator for this session, is editor-in-chief at Syracuse University Press. She acquires for the Irish Studies, Indigenous Studies, Jewish Studies, and TV/Pop Culture lists, among others. Having completed MA degrees in History and English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, she worked at the University of Nebraska Press for over a decade before joining Syracuse in the spring of 2024.
Supported by:
- CNY Humanities Corridor
- SU Humanities Center
- SU Office of Research
- SU Libraries