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Dissertation into book: A conversation with William Germano

This session is geared at current graduate students and recent post-docs interested in what's involved in transforming a dissertation into a book.

William Germano is Professor of English Literature and Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and the author of Getting It Published: a Guide for Scholars and Anyone Else Serious about Serious Books (University of Chicago Press, 3/e forth. spring 2016) and From Dissertation to Book (University of Chicago Press, 2/e 2013). He writes a biweekly blog for the Chronicle of Higher Education’s Lingua Franca blog; he has also published essays on writing and publishing in the Chronicle and elsewhere. His scholarly work includes essays on opera, Shakespeare, and cinema. The Tales of Hoffmann (2013) was published in the British Film Institute’s Film Classics series.

His current projects include a guide to revising prose, a cultural history of eye charts, and Shakespeare at the Opera: A History of Impossible Projects, which considers operatic interpretations of Shakespeare beyond the usual canonical suspects.

During a first career as a scholarly publisher, he worked as editor-in-chief of Columbia University Press and then as vice-president and publishing director at Routledge, a position he held for nineteen years.