PhD Courses in Denmark

Dates and time: 31 January, 28 February and 31 March 2025 from 13:00 to 16:00.

This PhD course aims to improve the ability of PhD students to write articles for international academic journals in the fields literary and cultural studies. To do so, the course offers a series of workshops where participants and lecturers exchange tricks of the trade by discussing selected texts on academic writing, exemplary articles as well as the participants’ own drafts. Throughout, the course will focus on the art of advancing an argument, making claims for significance, and addressing the specific audience and gatekeepers of the journal in question. It will also engage with the differences between national and international publishing. As the fields of literary and cultural studies cut across UCPH’s departmental delineations, the course will be co-arranged by IKK, NorS, and EnGeRom and involve a lecturer from each research environment (Mikkel Frantzen, Tobias Skiveren, and Tina Lupton). In that way, the course will help junior scholars from different arenas in literary and cultural studies to increase their chances of publishing in international venues.

Target group
PhD students in literary and cultural studies, but all scholars are welcome to apply. The course will also be open to postdocs. Depending on the number of applications, the organizers will consider converting to hybrid format.

Course lecturers
Tina Lupton, professor, EnGeRom
Mikkel Frantzen, associate professor, IKK
Tobias Skiveren, associate professor, NorS

Programme
WORKSHOP I: INTRODUCTION (TOBIAS SKIVEREN)

In this workshop, we will discuss general guidelines for academic journal publishing, drawing on selected texts on academic writing. The aim is to demonstrate how to advance an argument, make claims for significance, and address the specific audience and gatekeepers of the desired journal.

WORKSHOP II: ADVANCING AN ARGUMENT AND MAKING CLAIMS FOR SIGNIFICANCE (TINA LUPTON)

In this workshop, we will discuss the participants’ own drafts, focusing specifically on introductions and abstracts. The aim is to cultivate the ability to shape arguments and claims for relevance in accordance with the norms and debates in the desired journals. The first half of the participants will submit a draft (introduction and abstract) a week before this workshop. All participants will prepare feedback on selected drafts. Tina Lupton, moreover, will offer her personal advice on international journal publishing.

WORKSHOP III: ADVANCING AN ARGUMENT AND MAKING CLAIMS FOR SIGNIFICANCE (MIKKEL FRANTZEN)

In this workshop, we will discuss the participants’ own drafts, focusing specifically on introductions and abstracts. The aim is to cultivate the ability to shape arguments and claims for relevance in accordance with the norms and debates in the desired journal. The second half of the participants will have to submit a draft (introduction and abstract) a week before this workshop. All participants will prepare feedback on selected drafts. Mikkel Krause Frantzen, moreover, will offer his personal advice on international journal publishing.

Language: English

ECTS: 2.5

Max. numbers of participants: 12

Application and preparation
To apply, please send an email to tobiasskiveren@hum.ku.dk no later than 1 November 2024 with a short abstract for the article that you’d like to work on during the course (max 200 words).

Before the 2nd and 3rd workshop, you’ll be asked to submit an introduction and abstract for feedback.

Further information
For more information about the PhD course, please contact the course organizer (tobiasskiveren@hum.ku.dk).

Literature
Workshop I

Eric Hayot: “The Uneven U”, The Elements of Academic Style. Writing for the Humanities, Columbia 2014, Columbia University Press, pp. 59-73

Graff, Gerald and Cathy Birkenstein: “Introduction: Entering the Conversation”, They Say/I Say: The Moves that Matter in Academic Writing, New York 2021 [2006], W. W. Northon & Company, pp. 1-18

Graff, Gerald and Cathy Birkenstein: “Her point is: The Art of Summarizing’”, They Say/I Say: The Moves that Matter in Academic Writing, New York 2021 [2006], W. W. Northon & Company, pp. 32-46

Graff, Gerald and Cathy Birkenstein: “As a result: Connecting the Parts?’”, They Say/I Say: The Moves that Matter in Academic Writing, New York 2021 [2006], W. W. Northon & Company, pp. 47-56

Laura Belcher: “Some Publishing Terms and Processes”, Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks, Chicago 2019, Chicago University Press, pp. 10-13

Laura Belcher: “Advancing Your Argument”, Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks, Chicago 2019, Chicago University Press, pp. 60-88 (you do not have to do the exercises)

Laura Belcher: “Selecting a Journal”, Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks, Chicago 2019, Chicago University Press, pp. 110-149

Laura Belcher: “Crafting Your Claims for Significance”, Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks, Chicago 2019, Chicago University Press, p. 190-202 (you do not have to do the exercises)

Laura Belcher: “Opening and Concluding Your Article”, Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks, Chicago 2019, Chicago University Press, p. 280-307 (you do not have to do the exercises)

Laura Belcher: “Strengthening Your Structure”, Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks, Chicago 2019, Chicago University Press, pp. 256-279 (you do not have to do the exercises)

Williams, Joseph M.: “Lesson 2: Actions”, “Lesson 3: Characters”, and “Lesson 8: Concision”, Style. The Basics of Clarity and Grace, 5th edition, New York 2015 [2009], Pearson, pp. 7-33 and pp. 82-93.