Celebrity Professors

Celebrity Professors
Call for Chapters

Celebrity is ...

This book aims to xxx

Background

In 2012 Katherine Chaddock published The Multi-Talented Mr. Erskine: Shaping Mass Culture through Great Books and Fine Music, a biography of Julliard's first president who had achieved considerable fame through his musicianship and publishing of popular fiction. Before that she published an article about him, The Making of a Celebrity President, in which she argued that Erskine, professor of English at Columbia University, was one of the first "celebrity professors."

As Katherine was working on her biography of Erskine we had multiple conversations about the idea of "celebrity professors," a topic of conversation that has only continued since then. She toyed with the idea of doing a whole book about this topic and then moved on to another project and suggested I take it up. I decided I would but only if I did it as an edited volume. I think the topic lends itself well to that approach as it allows for multiple approaches and voices -- and will surely bring a richness to this topic that wouldn't be possible with a single author.

My own work on popular culture xx

Timeline

Call for Abstracts and Papers - Open now!

March 1, 2022 - Abstracts and drafts of chapters will be accepted through this date to be used in the formal book proposal.

Spring 2022 - Formalize book contract with publisher

September 15, 2022 - Final submissions are due. You do not need to have submitted an abstract earlier in the process to submit a chapter.

Fall 2022 - Papers under review.

January 2023 - Notification to authors invited for inclusion to volume (likely with requested revisions).

Winter/Spring 2023 - Revision time!

Summer 2023 - Submit to publisher

Submissions

What to submit?

Biographies, historical studies, critical xxx, personal journeys