Learn strategies to manage the end-of-term crunch with energy to spare, avoid burnout, and lay the groundwork for a relaxing and productive winter break.
Learn how to articulate academic service priorities to yourself and colleagues and say no and yes in ways that align with your values and support your career.
Learn how to foster intellectual community in academic workplaces using reading and writing groups, engaging mentorship, and other strategies.
Host Cathy Hannabach interviews journalist and educator Emilly Prado about writing across genre and Black and Brown artivism in Portland.
Dismantle Magazine's interview with Ideas on Fire CEO Cathy Hannabach about building a feminist editing and indexing agency.
We've been expanding our editing and indexing team here at Ideas on Fire. Meet the new developmental editors, copyeditors, and indexers.
Learn how to move to a new city, settle in, and make any place feel like home—no matter how contingent the position or temporary the stay.
Cathy Hannabach chats with professor Tania Lizarazo about digital storytelling, collaborative research, and listening and learning together in public.
An overview of online remote teaching opportunities for PhDs seeking more flexibility and options in their teaching careers.
Host Cathy Hannabach interviews poet and professor Alix Olson about career transitions, pedagogy, queer kinship, and the limits of resilience.
Cathy Hannabach chats with professor and young adult novelist Ebony Elizabeth Thomas about the power of children's literature and speculative fiction.
Cathy Hannabach talks with author, editor, and podcast co-host Dennis Norris II about the writing process, making publishing more accessible, and difference as a source of strength.
Strategies to avoid the siren song of academic busyness, preserve your time, and finally take those weekends off—for real.
Strategies for surviving job burnout in the academy and beyond, including continuing on when you'd rather do just about anything else.
Part instructional session, part love letter to literature's favorite hangers-on. How to edit, use, and love footnotes and endnotes.
A behind-the-scenes look at how Dismantle Magazine co-founders Elise Chatelain and Sara Tatyana Bernstein are turning their side project into a career.
How to make career decisions in an era of uncertainty and with limited information, and learn to live with those choices even as circumstances change.
How to write a great author bio or speaker bio that introduces you to specific audiences and brings in professional opportunities.
Help navigating academic politics for new and contingent faculty, including finding allies, trusting colleagues, and knowing when to stay out of it.
Jenny L. Davis on Chickasaw language revitalization, Indigenous language activism, and building a world where all Indigenous people get to become elders.
Ideas on Fire's 2018 year in review, including client projects, live shows, workshops, conferences, and podcast episodes.
Craig Santos Perez talks about poetry as a social justice practice, communal storytelling, and the movement for a decolonial and demilitarized Pacific.
Interdisciplinary scholars often make fantastic academic editors. Here’s how you can get started building an interdisciplinary editing career.
Macarena Gómez-Barris talks about using art to fight extractive capitalism beyond the state, the politics of translation, and working in and with community.
Join us for a book launch party and discussion to celebrate the publication of Succeeding Outside the Academy: Career Paths beyond the Humanities, Social Sciences, and STEM.
Veronica Corzo-Duchardt talks about architectural surfaces, her research-based art practice, and the importance of intersectional creative collaboration.
How to manage social media for academics wanting to build their careers, publish scholarship, foster community, and improve their research.
Feminist scholar Imani Perry discusses critiquing patriarchy, academic productivity and self-care, and her fierce commitment to personal and social ethics.
Manuela Lavinas Picq talks about Indigenous Kichwa women in international politics, being a scholar in the Global South, and imagining Indigenous futures.
Embracing the seasonality of academic life can mean more creativity, productivity, and inspiration while also avoiding burnout.
Professor and writer Francesca T. Royster discusses the queer afterlives of soul music, her formidable family histories, and the power of storytelling.
An academic book tour is a fantastic way to publicize your new scholarly book. Here's how to put one together that fits your time, resources, and goals.
Librarian and archivist Stacie Williams discusses the politics of information, radical librarianship, and the problematics of digital preservation.
Professor Gayatri Gopinath discusses queering visual culture, revolutionary diasporic aesthetics, and the importance of mentoring queer scholars of color.
Heath Fogg Davis and Julian Gill-Peterson discusses getting rid of gender markers in public restrooms, IDs, sports, and educational institutions.
How to find and seize career opportunities related to teaching, writing, and mentorship to boost your career within or beyond academia.
Intellectual curiosity brings us to our research, but it can get lost along the way. Here are some tips on how to stay curious about your research.
Educator and sexologist Bianca Laureano talks about the radical work of women of color sexual health communities and feminist Afro-Latinx sex education.
Prepping your materials for tenure review is time consuming and stressful. But it is much easier if you keep things organized as you go. Here's how.
One of the worst parts of academic life is the constant moving. Here are our moving tips for academics on how to make it as painless as possible.
How to ask for a letter of recommendation from a professor or employer: what to include, how far in advance to ask, and how to follow up.
Career mentorship for how to find cultural studies jobs, identifying industries and workplaces, write applications, and rock interviews.
The interdisciplinary job search brings unique challenges and some pretty awesome opportunities. Learn how to plan a productive job search.
Professional training for one of the many cultural studies careers that let you harness your interdisciplinary superpower: academic editing.
Learn to harness your interdisciplinary superpower to connect with diverse communities, translate across difference, and build a vibrant career.
Keep these academic conference presentation tips in mind to share your work with the clarity and confidence you need to connect to your audience.
Learn how to actively choose whether to stay and finish your PhD or embark on your next adventure—and what to do once you've made your choice.
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha discusses her memoir Dirty River + how queer brown and disabled people write themselves into history.
Academic editing is one of the most fun of the editing careers. Learn what makes academic different and how much specialization you need.
