Breakfast & conversation with Alan Thomas, Editorial Director at the University of Chicago Press, and Kathryn Lofton, Dean of Humanities.
Join the Whitney Publishing Project's inaugural editor-in-residence, Alan Thomas, and Dr. Kathryn Lofton, the FAS Dean of Humanities at Yale University, for breakfast and a conversation about scholarly publishing in the humanities.
Alan Thomas is the Editorial Director at the University of Chicago Press, where he acquires scholarly and trade books in the humanities. He looks for ambitious manuscripts marked by writerly assurance and unorthodox thinking, whether first books or those by established authors. In recent years he has acquired books by such notable authors as Teju Cole, Amitav Ghosh, Susan Stewart, and Anahid Nersessian. Kathryn Lofton is the Dean of Humanities for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Yale University, where she is also the Lex Hixon Professor of Religious Studies and American Studies. She has served as an editor-at-large for The Immanent Frame; co-curated (with John Lardas Modern) a collaborative web project on spirituality titled Frequencies; and currently co-edits (also with Modern) Class 200: New Studies in Religion, a book series with the University of Chicago Press.
