Conversations with Williams Faculty About Writing and Publishing

April 14, 2009
Mike Glier, Professor of Art
Jon Gams, Director of Hard Press Editions

'Along A Long Line, the Blog Becomes A Book'

April 21, 2009
Christopher Bolton
Assistant Professor of Comparative and Japanese Literature

'Schoolgirls, Cyborgs, and other Serious Subjects: Inventing Mechademia'
On editing Mechademia. An Annual Forum for Anime, Manga, and Fan Arts (University of Minnesota Press).

Christopher will also introduce his most recent book, Sublime Voices: The Fictional Science and Scientific Fiction of Abe Kobo, Harvard Asia Center, 2009.

April 28, 2009
Nicole Mellow
Assistant Professor of Political Science

'Discovering Disunion: Writing about Red and Blue America'.
About writing her book, The State of Disunion. Regional Sources of Modern American Partisanship, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.

May 5, 2009
Eiko Maruko Siniawer
Assistant Professor of History

'An Unlikely Book: Ruffians, Yakuza, Nationalists: The Violent Politics of Modern Japan, 1860-1960', Cornell University Press, 2008.