Katelyn Knox Assistant Professor of French

Finish Your First Academic Book with Less Stress

So, you’ve written a dissertation. Congratulations! But how do you turn it into a book? The Dissertation-to-Book Workbook is the answer. It offers a series of manageable, concrete steps with exercises to help you clarify your book’s core priorities, pinpoint your organizing principle, polish your narrative arc, evaluate your evidence, and thread your book’s main ideas through its chapters. Indispensible to anyone with an academic manuscript in progress, the prompts, examples, checklists, and activities will give you confidence about all aspects of your project.

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I’m an Associate Professor of French at Louisiana State University, where I specialize in 20th- and 21st-century French and Francophone literature, music, and culture.

My first book, Race on Display in 20th- and 21st-Century France, came out in 2016 with Liverpool University press. I’m now working on my second book, tentatively titled Mediating Francophone Afropea, which will examine how ultracontemporary Afropean authors and artists blur boundaries between literature and music.

Since 2017, Allison Van Deventer and I have been supporting scholars in navigating the book publishing process. In 2023, we published The Dissertation-to-Book Workbook (U Chicago Press), which helps you understand how to craft a compelling and focused book. We share advice on the academic book publishing process, establishing sustainable routines, and how to find more time for the things that matter most to you on dissertationtobook.com

Finish Your First Academic Book with Less Stress

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