2010 TAA Conference on Text and Academic Authoring
Ramada Mall of America Minneapolis, Minnesota
June 24-26, 2010
Friday, June 26, 2008
12:00 p.m. to 1 p.m.
Trinidad
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'But I never even took a dance class, so how can I publish in a dance journal?'
Moderator:
Paul Siegel, Professor of Communication, University of Hartford
This Roundtable is aimed at folks who want to brainstorm together ways of finding allied or perhaps not very allied fields to their own in which to seek publication outlets. Some fields seem to be natural fits: psychologists and sociologists, biologists and chemists, political scientists and historians, frequently do or at least consider publishing in each other's journals. But what of disciplines that do not share such natural proximity? If our eyes and ears and minds are open, we may be able to identify many non-obviously allied fields in which to publish, thus enhancing our c.v.'s in intriguing ways, and reaching new audiences for our research. Your moderator for the session, TAA President Paul Siegel, does not hold himself up as an expert on the phenomenon, but is a communication professor who has published in sociology journals, law reviews, and even once in a book of scholarly essays gathered by a professor of dance.
Paul Siegel is Professor of Communication at the University of Hartford, where he teaches a wide variety of classes. His specialty is communication law, and it is in this field where he writes textbooks. Communication Law in America and its companion Cases in Communication Law are in their second editions, available from Rowman & Littlefield. Siegel's Ph. D. is from Northwestern, with an M.A. from Wisconsin and a B.A. from New Mexico. He has been on the board of the ACLU for about twenty years, and was on staff as executive director for the ACLU of Kansas and Western Missouri back in the 1980s. His favorite things are theatre and his cats; his least favorite are mortality, and this nonsense about having to work for a living.
