“Vocation/Profession”

A Workshop with Dan Sinykin

Assistant Professor of English, Emory University

Editor, Contemporaries at Post45

Friday, Nov. 21, 2:00  – 4:00 PM

In this second part of Vocation/Profession, Dan Sinykin, editor of Contemporaries at Post45, will give an overview of public facing scholarship: a map of its terrain, the protocols of pitching your writing to editors, and the ways in which we can translate our scholarship to the very different audiences and timescales of public writing.

All students, faculty, and other members of our community are welcome. In the interest of expanding access to these public venues, the workshop will prioritize the work of graduate students. We will read and workshop pre-circulated pieces, of about 2,000 – 3,000 words. These will be made available in the leadup to the event.

Both events are open to all graduate students, faculty, and other members of our communities. To join the workshop, RSVP here.

Participants are invited to read beforehand Dr. Sinykin and Edwin Roland’s “Against Conglomeration: Nonprofits and American Literature after 1980” and Sinykin’s “How Capitalism Changed American Literature” at Public Books. The latter will bridge Friday’s discussion to the workshop on public writing on Saturday.

For more information, please contact Mitch R. Murray at m.murray@ufl.edu

Dan Sinykin is assistant professor of English at Emory University. His first book, American Literature and the Long Downturn, was published in 2020 by Oxford University Press. The Conglomerate Era is under contract at Columbia University Press. Sinykin is also editor of contemporaries at Post45 and a prolific public writer. His work appears in Los Angeles Review of Books, Public Books, Dissent, Avidly, Guernica, Salon, and other venues.

This event is made possible by the support of the Working Group for the Study of Critical Theory, the Department of English, and the Marston-Milbauer Eminent Scholar.

For further information on the Working Group for the Study of Critical Theory (SCT@UF) and opportunities for involvement in future events, see our website at https://sct.english.ufl.edu