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Before diving into our summer’s worth of writing, faculty are invited to join a conversation with our panel to discuss tips for publishing short-form work in public-facing venues.

Tuesday, May 2
12:15 – 1:00 pm
Location: Center for Faculty Excellence (316 Gannett; located on 2nd floor of library)

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Moderator: Michael Trotti, Professor of History

Our Panel:
Raza Rumi Ahmad is Director, Park Center for Independent Media and founder of The Edge, co-editor of Ideas and Futures and is affiliated with a number of publications including The Friday Times, Naya Daur Media in Pakistan. He is also a visiting faculty at Brooks School of Public Policy, Cornell University. Raza has been a fellow at the New America Foundation, United States Institute of Peace and a member of think tank at Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics, Georgetown University.  He is the author of Delhi by Heart: Impressions of a Pakistani Traveller, The Fractious Path: Pakistan’s Democratic Transition and Identity and Faith and Conflict. His most recent book Being Pakistani: Society Culture and the Arts was published in June 2018 by Harper Collins, India.

Jennifer Spitzer is an Associate Professor of English at Ithaca College, where she writes and teaches about literary modernism, psychoanalysis, modern spiritualism, the medical humanities, and gender and sexuality. She is the author of Secret Sharers: The Intimate Rivalries of Modernism and Psychoanalysis (2023).  Her academic essays have appeared in Modernism/modernity, Journal of Modern Literature, Studies in the Novel, Modern Language Quarterly and elsewhere. Her public facing essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Avidly, and The Edge.

Michael Trotti is Professor of History at Ithaca College and author of short pieces in The Edge and Perspectives Daily, an online publication for historians.  He has published in the Journal of American History and Journal of Social History, and is the author of The Body in the Reservoir: Murder and Sensationalism in the South, and, most recently, The End of Public Execution: Race, Religion, and Punishment in the American South.

Patricia R. Zimmermann is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Screen Studies and Director of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival at Ithaca College. The author or editor of ten books, her most recent are Documentary Across Platforms: Reverse Engineering Media, Place, and Politics (2019) and Flash Flaherty: Tales from a Film Seminar (2021). Her public writing has been published in Docalogue, Ideas and Futures, Visible Evidence Forum, The Edge, Lingua Franca, Film Quarterly, Afterimage, and in festival and museum catalogues. She is Editor-at-Large of The Edge.

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