On this episode, Katie is joined by Dr. Wendy Laura Belcher, an associate professor of African literature at Princeton University with a join appointment in the department of comparative literature and the department of African American studies. Wendy is the author of the best seller Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks: A Guide to Academic Publishing Success. She is also the very first guest that we ever had on the “Research in Action” podcast.
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Segment 1: Sabbatical Plans [00:00-11:13]
In this first segment, Wendy shares about what she’s been working on in the two years since she first appeared on the podcast.
In this segment, the following resources are mentioned:
- Belcher, W. (2009). Writing your journal article in twelve weeks: A guide to academic publishing success. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc.
- Belcher, W. (in progress). The black queen of sheba: Global history of an African idea.
- Belcher, W. (2012). Abyssinia’s Samuel Johnson: Ethiopian thought in the making of an English author. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Greenblatt, S. (2011). The swerve. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Segment 2: Setting Yourself Up for Sabbatical Success [11:14-21:25]
In segment two, Wendy shares some of the ways that she set herself up for effective sabbatical writing.
In this segment, the following resources are mentioned:
- Photo of Dr. Wendy Belcher using a Mirra 2 chair at her custom writing desk
Segment 3: Sabbatical Challenges [21:26-33:04]
In segment three, Wendy shares about some of the challenges of a writing sabbatical and how she is overcoming them.
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