Kimberly Hirsh

Hey Internet! I’m interested in your perceptions. What are my superpowers? What are my areas of expertise?

The Barbie Selfie Generator is pretty fun.

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…the operating instructions of scholarly publishing rarely form a part of graduate training…

William Germano, From Dissertation to Book

Want to read: Malice House by Megan Shepherd 📚

Looking at my Scholarly Pipeline (Notion template I made, pay what you want) for the first time in a while & I’ve got an idea for a piece of scholarship that all I noted down was “JME Geekery.” Anybody else have any idea what I might have meant?

It’s been almost two years since I defended my doctoral dissertation. Before it was written, an editor had expressed interest in it. After it was written, I was very tired. I just couldn’t touch it. But we are in a critical moment for information literacy, and I think my research has some good contributions to make, so I’m going to start writing a book proposal.

For this project, I will be opening up my process and my reflections but not the content of the book proposal (and, if I get a contract, the book) itself. I’m starting by reading (like I always so). I’m going to read about how to turn a dissertation into a book and I’m also going to get myself up to speed on the FanLIS literature.

Won’t you join me?

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Write everything you want published as if there are people who make decisions and work within limited budgets—their checkbooks, or their libraries’ acquisition budgets.

William Germano, From Dissertation to Book

Want to read: Essential Pre-Raphaelites by Lucinda Hawksley 📚

Want to read: Haunted Texts by William Evan Fredeman 📚

Want to read: English Pre-Raphaelite Painters: Their Associates and Successors by Percy H. Bate 📚

Want to read: The Pre-Raphaelites by Laurence Des Cars 📚

Want to read: Flora Symbolica: Flowers in Pre-Raphaelite Art by Debra N. Mancoff 📚

Want to read: Pre-Raphaelite Women Artists ; Publ.on the Occasion of the Exhibition at Manchester City Art Galleries, 22 November 1997-22 February 1998 by Jan Marsh 📚

Want to read: Pre-Raphaelite Vision: Truth to Nature by Allen Staley 📚

Want to read: Pre-Raphaelite Painting Techniques by Joyce H. Townsend 📚

I blog for a lot of reasons. One of them is because blogging is a little like writing letters to your future self.

My current research contract (technically a postdoc) ends in early January. I constantly agonize over what to do next.

But it turns out past me knows what I want to do next. What both past and present me want to do is something I’m still figuring out how to turn into an income.

It took a couple years, but I finally created a page on my website curating all my writing about dissertating in the open.

Teenagers at this park are listening to the Macarena. Do I feel old or 15?

I love the Gothic Charm School book very much and am happy to have bought it as an ebook so I can re-read it as I travel, but I miss the special font for the Secret Goth Cabal. 💀📚

Want to read: The Pre-Raphaelite Art of the Victorian Novel by Sophia Andres 📚

Want to read: Reading the Pre-Raphaelites by Tim Barringer 📚

Want to read: The Pre-Raphaelites in Literature and Art by Dennis Sydney Reginald Welland 📚

Want to read: Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde by Tim Barringer,T. J. Barringer 📚

Want to read: Pre-Raphaelites in Love by Gay Daly 📚

Want to read: The Pre-Raphaelite Tragedy by William Gaunt 📚