Humanities Research Center

Writing and Publication Support

The Humanities Research Center offers a variety of support resources for faculty through every stage of publishing—whether you’re writing your first book, your second or seventh.

The HRC supports book publication across a wide range of subjects within the humanities, arts, and humanistic social sciences.

Write-on-Site

The Humanities Research Center and College of Humanities and Sciences invite you to join us for writing sessions in the Valentine House (920 W. Franklin St.), every Friday from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. in Room 201. Regular writing sessions offers accountability and support, while fostering shared interests in humanities scholarship. Coffee, breakfast and snacks are provided.

Faculty, lecturers, postdocs and graduate students from all disciplines who are working on academic writing projects (whether fellowship or grant applications, articles/essays, book projects, edited volumes, research reports, fiction or nonfiction) are welcome to attend!

View our calendar to see all upcoming dates.

Working Groups

Writing the First Book

This writing group provides a supportive and rigorous forum in which junior faculty can engage with each other as they work on their first scholarly monographs. The group reads and discusses draft chapters, book proposals for submission to presses and applications for fellowships and grants. It also invites senior colleagues to visit, talk about their experiences in writing and publishing their first books, and share strategies for successful and timely completion of a book project. Faculty and graduate students from all schools and colleges at VCU are welcome.

The Second Book Writing Group

This writing group provides a supportive and rigorous forum for mid-career faculty to work on second (and third or fourth) monographs. This interdisciplinary book writing group will schedule meetings occurring regularly enough that each member can present work-in-progress once during the semester. Such sessions will offer substantive group discussion of each individual chapter or work-in-progress. Groups may schedule other, optional activities, as desired. Faculty from all schools and colleges at VCU are welcome.

Learn more about our working groups.