Publication Insights: Publishing your first monograph

Publication Insights: Publishing your first monograph - panel discussion, 5pm Thursday 7 April 2022

The Elephant and the Bookseller, 1793 This lively panel discussion will focus on the academic publishing process. Early Career Researchers who have recently published their first (and second) art history/art curatorship monographs will share hints, tips, and anecdotes about their experiences of bringing a book to fruition. Topics discussed will include:

  • When and how to commence the publication process
  • Navigating the world of academic publishing
  • Key success factors for transitioning a thesis into a book
  • Logistics: finding the time and motivation to write
  • Learnings and insights
  • Audience Q&A

The panel will take place at 5pm Thursday 7 April 2022, online via Zoom

Link: https://unimelb.zoom.us/j/89424903435?pwd=ZjRzYmVyS0ZCYUp4amZIZks0dUlTQT09

Password: 252359

Panelists:

Christopher R. Marshall (Moderator) is Associate Professor of Art History and Museum Studies at the University of Melbourne. His publications on art history, museums and curatorship include the edited volumes Sculpture and the Museum (Ashgate, 2011; Routledge 2016) and The Legacies of Bernard Smith (Power, 2016), together with contributions to Museum Making; Making Art History and Reshaping Museum Space (Routledge, 2005, 2007 and 2012). His most recent publication on Baroque art, collecting and the art market is Baroque Naples and the Industry of Painting (Yale University Press, 2016).

Dr David Challis is a postdoctoral researcher and sessional teacher in the Art History program at the University of Melbourne. His research interests include exploring the historical underpinnings of the global art market and researching issues relating to the structure, operation and future developments of the contemporary art market. His first monograph, titled Foreign Currency Volatility and the Market for French Modernist Art was published by Brill in 2021.

Dr Anita Archer is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Contemporary Culture (ERCC) Research Unit at the University of Melbourne. Her research focuses on global art markets and auctions, valuations and pricing of contemporary art, and the activities of art world intermediaries. Her forthcoming monograph, Chinese Contemporary Art in the Global Auction Market, is due out with Brill in mid-May.

Dr Georgina Walker is an Early Career Researcher, Teaching Associate, and Fellow at the University of Melbourne, whose research has focused on the private museum and cultural philanthropy. Her first monograph, The Private Collector's Museum: Public Good Versus Private Gain was published by Routledge in 2019. Her new monograph, The Rise of the Contemporary Private Art Museum: China, Japan, South Korea and the Arabian Peninsula is under contract with the Routledge. Her forthcoming co-authored monograph, Reframing Art in Qatar and the United Arab Emirates (Routledge) will frame the distinct approaches to museums and cultural development that are found within these two complementary, but competing, Gulf states.