Are you an artist or arts organization in the University of Iowa or Iowa City community with legal questions? If so, please plan to visit the Stanley Museum of Art for Legal Office Hours with the Iowa Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts (IVLA). The IVLA’s volunteer attorneys and law students will be available from 12:00 - 2:00 pm on November 4th to answer your questions and help you build your understanding of the legal environment inhabited by artists and arts organizations. We encourage you to fill...

Alia Hanna Habib is a literary agent and Vice President at The Gernert Company, which she joined in 2017 after starting her publishing career as a publicist at HMH and working as an agent at McCormick Literary. She is the author of Take It From Me: An Agent’s Guide to Building a Nonfiction Career from Scratch and of the publishing-themed Substack Delivery & Acceptance. Among the New York Times-bestselling and prize-winning clients she represents are Clint Smith, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Lauren Oyler...

The Nonfiction Writing Program presents Alia Hanna Habib, vice president and literary agent at The Gernert Company, for a publishing talk.

At The Gernert Company, Habib represents MacArthur Fellows, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists, National Book Award finalists, and numerous New York Times bestselling authors. She was profiled by New York Magazine for their special issue on “The 49 Most Powerful New Yorkers (You’ve Never Heard Of).”

Her book, Take it From Me, a guide to nonfiction writing...

Faculty and graduate instructors in the humanities are warmly invited to join us for a discussion with Professor Dan Sinykin of Emory University about teaching close reading skills. Together, we'll explore approaches to introducing close reading in the classroom, helping students develop their analytical skills, and making this foundational practice of literary study more accessible.

Sinykin is the co-editor, with Johanna Winant, of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century (Princeton University...