Sharing Inkcap Success Stories
Dear friends,
It's been awhile! I hope that the summer months have offered a welcome change of pace. I've been lucky enough to spend a few weeks visiting family in the mountains of Alaska and Colorado, and have loved the chance to breathe clean (if thin!) air and see all kinds of plants and animals and fungi. My kids still don't love hiking, but tasting wild huckleberries may have gotten them one step closer.
🎉 Celebrating Successes! 🎉
I don't write a lot about my consulting work on here, but as the new academic year begins I'm making an exception. It has been wonderful to see some collaborative, long-term efforts come to fruition and I want to take a moment to celebrate a few client successes. Read on!
Congrats to Full Spectrum Features, who received an NEH grant—their first!—to run a summer institute focused on Japanese American internment and resettlement, tailored to K-12 educators. The institute will build on the work of FSF's series of short narrative films on the topic. I worked with PI Dr. Ashley Cheyemi McNeil on proposal development and am delighted that the work will be funded.
The Department of Comparative Thought and Literature at Johns Hopkins University is poised to implement significant structural improvements to their doctoral program. Graduate students in the program engaged me as a consultant to make recommendations and help move the process forward. Congratulations to the students on this success!
Inés Vañó-García (Assistant Professor of Spanish, Saint Anselm College) successfully published the article, "A call for critical and open pedagogies in Spanish heritage language instruction" in the open-access Euroamerican Journal of Applied Linguistics and Languages (E-JournALL). I worked with Dr. Vañó-García to edit this article.
Isabel Estrada (Associate Professor of Iberian and Latin American Cultures, City College, CUNY) landed a book contract with Liverpool University Press for her book, D€MOCRAZY in Spain: Cinema and New Forms of Social Life in the Twenty-First Century. I worked with Isabel to edit her proposal and manuscript.
Kendra Sullivan (Director, Center for the Humanities, CUNY Graduate Center) and Ángeles Donoso Macaya (Professor of Modern Languages, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY), have a chapter forthcoming in the Routledge Companion to Publicly Engaged Humanities Scholarship, edited by Michelle May-Curry and Daniel Fisher-Livne. Their chapter, "Uneven Ground: Making the Public University Work Anywhere People Gather, Learn, and Grow," documents and reflects on their work with the Archives in Common project. I worked with the authors to edit the chapter.
Congrats to Jeremiah Perez-Torres, doctoral student at CUNY Graduate Center and John Jay College of Criminal Justice, who successfully defended the proposal for his doctoral dissertation: "Words Matter: Extremist Propaganda and Radicalization Discourse." I worked with Perez-Torres as an editor.
Join me in congratulating each of these scholars on their work!
✏️ Hire me ✏️
It has been such a pleasure to work with and learn from each of these clients. I have availability for new clients, so if you would like to work with me as an editor or consultant, please reach out! I can help take your work to the next level, whether it's an individual writing project or a major institutional shift. Let me help you with that painful editing task, that thorny structural question, that high-stakes grant proposal. Book a meeting or email me to learn more about how I can help you accomplish your goals this year.
🍄 Ways to connect with Inkcap 🍄
And finally, here's a reminder about ways you can connect with Inkcap:
Join our weekly cowriting session, Fridays from 2-4pm EST. Block the time off now before the semester gets busy! [zoom link]
Connect on Slack for ongoing discussions, link sharing, and collab ideas.
Stay tuned for a call for papers for a special issue of the Journal of Electronic Publishing, edited by Alyssa Arbuckle and Janneke Adema. This will be a unique opportunity for Inkcap friends to reflect on the kind of work we do together—through discussions, collaborations, quiet coworking, and shared affinities. I'm interested in exploring the indeterminacy and generosity that make Inkcap an unusual and precious space in the higher ed landscape. More soon!
Are there other ways you'd like to see this space grow? Let me know what interests you this year. Reading group/discussion sessions? An active project?
I'll have more to share before too long about writing projects, collaborative possibilities, and more. For now, I'm sending all warmest wishes for the start of a new year.
—Katina
