Course Outline

Platform Matters III: WordPress — The Author’s Perspective

Rebecca Schneider, Professor of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University and author of Standing Still Moving: Arts of Gesture in Lateral Time (in progress)

WordPress Training Session

Jake Camara, Founder and President, Jake and Company

WordPress Training Session (Cont’d)

Design Matters: Considerations and Strategies

Crystal Brusch, Digital Publications Designer, Brown University

Willow Rambert, Digital Design Director, Studio Rainwater

Integrating Narrative and Design

Shahzad Bashir, Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Humanities, Brown University and author of A New Vision for Islamic Pasts and Futures (MIT Press, 2022)

Victoria Hindley, Acquisitions Editor, Visual Culture and Design, MIT Press

Preservation

Andrew Majcher, Head, Digital Services and Records Management, Brown University

Jasmine Mulliken, Production and Preservation Manager for Digital Projects, Stanford University Press

Copyright and Fair Use Policies

Patricia Fidler, Publisher for Art and Architecture, Yale University Press

Suzanne Preston Blier, Allen Whitehill Clowes Chair of Fine Arts and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University

Funding Opportunities

Renée Ater, Provost Visiting Professor in Africana Studies, Brown University and author of Contemporary Monuments to the Slave Past (in progress)

Elaine Sullivan, Associate Professor of History, University of California, Santa Cruz and author of Constructing the Sacred: Visibility and Ritual Landscape at the Egyptian Necropolis of Saqqara (Stanford University Press, 2020)

Pitches and Proposals

Walter Biggins, Editor in Chief, University of Pennsylvania Press

Hannah Brooks-Motl, Assistant Acquisitions Editor, Amherst College Press & Lever Press

Sara Jo Cohen, Senior Acquiring Editor, University of Michigan Press

Dawn Durante, Editor in Chief, University of Texas Press

Friederike Sundaram, Senior Editor for Digital Projects, Stanford University Press

Caitlin Tyler-Richards, Acquisitions Editor, Michigan State University Press