Writing the Book Manuscript

Event Description

This BCaT Lab Applies Session will help attendees think through the process of preparing their first manuscript for publication. This session is geared toward early career scholars whose research focuses on Digital Studies, Communication, Race, and/or Black studies. Our dynamic panel includes:

Dr. Kishonna Gray (@kishonnagray), Associate Professor in Writing, Rhetoric, & Digital Studies and Africana Studies at the University of Kentucky and author of Intersectional Tech: Black Users in Digital Gaming (LSU Press, 2020), Race, Gender, & Deviance in Xbox Live (Routledge, 2014), and co-editor of Feminism in Play (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2018) and Woke Gaming (University of Washington Press, 2018)

Presented by the Black Communication and Technology Lab

Dr. Raven Maragh (@ravenmaragh), Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies and Film and Media Studies at Washington University in St. Louis and author of the forthcoming book Reshaping Black Resistance: Strategic Rearticulations in the Digital Age (University of California Press)

Dr. Aria Halliday, Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and African American and Africana Studies at the University of Kentucky and author of Buy Black: How Black Women Transformed US Pop Culture (University of Illinois Press)

Caitlin Tyler-Richards, Acquisitions Editor at Michigan State University Press moderated by Dr. Catherine Knight Steele