Inside Higher Ed reports that “it is widely suspected that she’s been targeted for her reporting on race,” and William Eggington, writing for the New Republic, takes Hannah-Jones’s case as an indication that the institution of academic tenure is itself in disrepair. Last week, the board “took the highly unusual step” of overriding the Hussman School of Journalism’s recommendation that Hannah-Jones be awarded tenure alongside her recent appointment as Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism. Let’s take them down.” Grove is also starting a paid one-year fellowship program, a “crash course” in publishing open to applicants outside traditional publishing circles.įaculty leaders from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are urging their board of trustees to vote on Nikole Hannah-Jones’s tenure case immediately. Gay told the Times that she will be accepting submissions this summer from writers with or without agents: “There are so many barriers and so many gates. Roxane Gay Books will publish three books per year, focusing on underrepresented voices.
Roxane Gay is starting an imprint with Grove Atlantic.
