1. Presses and Processes: Participants will consider how to choose the right press for their monograph project and how the process of reaching out to editors works; also, what to expect in terms of timeline and, eventually, a contract. There will be a focus on titles and the writing assignment is to draft the book’s rationale/outline as for a book proposal. (Provisional teachers: Ben Carver and Deirdre Curtin)

2. How book purchasing works (and how this affects the proposal): This workshop focuses on the “comp titles” section of the book proposal as an essential move from thinking about the dissertation’s original contribution to the book’s place among comparable works (titles). To help think about the book in the marketplace, the subject specialist Librarian for Law will explain how book purchasing works. The writing assignment will be to draft the comp titles part of the book proposal. (Provisional teachers: Ben Carver and Valentina Spiga)

3. Transformations, from dissertation to book: This third workshop depends on input from Fellows/alumni who have recently published their first monograph. Course participants will read sections from the published monographs that the authors have selected and will talk to when presenting their own experiences of the process, from dissertation to book. This session might (again) be combined with a Law publisher visit, which would be open to a larger cohort of researchers. (Provisional teachers: Ben Carver and Fellows/alumni)

Participants receive feedback on the first two writing assignments. Maximum 12 researchers

Class meetings are as follows:

26/01/2026 14:00-16:00 @ Sala degli Stemmi, Villa Salviati

23/02/2026 14:00-16:00 @ Sala degli Stemmi, Villa Salviati

30/03/2026 14:00-16:00 @ Sala degli Stemmi, Villa Salviati