Workshops & Faculty Development Opportunities

As part of our mission to cultivate and advance collaborative research and build intellectual community throughout the region, we offer a variety of workshops throughout the year.

Newly-scheduled programs are advertised on our event calendar and via our listserv and usually require advance registration.

2026-27 Workshops: A Time to Write & A Time to Publish

1) How Successful Academics Write

• Friday, October 30, 2026 from 10am-12pm EDT
• Workshop with Helen Sword, Professor Emerita, University of Auckland

2) The Changing Landscape of Academic Book Publishing

• Friday, February 19, 2027 from 10am-12pm EST
• Workshop with Lever Press, NYU Press, Oxford University Press, and Syracuse University Press
  

Previous workshops include:

• Scholars to Storytellers: An Introduction to Trade Publishing
• Translating your Humanities Scholarship to Expand Reach and Recognition
• Getting Your Book Published, a Roundtable
• Peer Review Strategies: How to Give (and Receive) Feedback
• Every Summer Needs a Plan
• NEH Grant-Writing Workshop
• Open Access Publishing
• Land a Publisher for Your Scholarly Book
• Write an Outstanding Book Proposal
• Find Your Purpose, Reconnect with Your Writing
• Tools for Tackling the Imposter Syndrome
• Writing, Procrastination, and Resistance: How to Identify your Writing Blocks and Move Through Them
• Demystifying NEH Grants and Programs
• Unstuck: How to Move Past your Writing Barriers
• Building a Publishing Pipeline: Concrete Strategies for Increasing your Writing Productivity
• Come As You Are writing workshop