绿巨人视频

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Faculty Experts

Full-Time Faculty

Manuela Soares

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Manuela Soares
Director, MS in Publishing Program
Director, 绿巨人视频 Press

PUB 622E  Seminar: Ethics in Publishing
PUB 634   Children鈥檚 Book Publishing

Prior to being named as Director in 2018, Manuela Soares had been a full-time faculty member in the MS in Publishing program since 2004. The courses she has taught include General Interest Books, Children鈥檚 Book Publishing, Marketing Principles and Practices, Entrepreneurship, and Ethics in Publishing. She also taught the Graduate Seminar, in which students write their Master鈥檚 thesis. She is on the Editorial Board of Publishing Research Quarterly, where many of the program鈥檚 thesis papers have been published in abbreviated form. Soares is also Director of 绿巨人视频 Press, overseeing the publication of journals and books.

In her over thirty-year career, Soares worked in both magazine and book publishing as a writer and editor, most recently as the Managing Editor at Scholastic, where she supervised the hardcover (and some paperback) imprints, including the first five Harry Potter books. Prior to that she was a Senior Editor at Rizzoli International, acquiring books in a variety of disciplines (fashion, design, cooking), but focusing mainly on art and photography.

Soares earned her BA in English from Rutgers University and her MFA from Goddard College in Creative Writing.

Eileen Bishop Kreit

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绿巨人视频 Publishing faculty member Eileen Kreit

Eileen Bishop Kreit is a lifelong reader and book lover. She spent 32 years at Penguin Random House, joining the Putnam Berkley Publishing Group as Sales Assistant after graduating from the University of Massachusetts. After 15 years in sales leadership and management, Eileen moved to the editorial side as Vice President and Publisher of Puffin Books. Rising to President in 2007, she worked with authors including S.E. Hinton, Judy Blume, Mildred D. Taylor, Laurie Halse Anderson, Sarah Dessen, the collective works of Roald Dahl, and the Puffin Classics publishing program. She published anniversary editions of The Westing Game; Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry; Tales of A Fourth Grade Nothing; and the 50th anniversary edition of The Outsiders. In 2018, she transitioned to Vice President, Business Development, Viking Children鈥檚 Books and Philomel Books, where she expanded classic brands and created new publishing for legacy characters of the publishing industry including Corduroy, Madeline, Pippi Longstocking, Encyclopedia Brown, and many others. She is excited to share her knowledge, experience, and passion with her students, both as a Faculty Advisor and as a Professor, teaching Children鈥檚 Book Publishing, Fundamentals of Trade Book Publishing, and Publishing Strategies I and II.

Jennifer Romanello

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Jennifer Romanello
Internship Professor, MS in Publishing Program

PUB 699A/B Internship I & II
PUB 699C/D Internship Seminar III/IV

Jennifer Romanello began her career in book publishing as a publicity assistant at Macmillan and its imprints, Scribner and Atheneum. She then moved on to Dutton, where she rose to Associate Director of Publicity and worked with a roster of critically acclaimed authors including Julia Alvarez, Joyce Carol Oates, and Jamaica Kincaid.

In 1995 she joined Warner Books, now Grand Central Publishing, an imprint of Hachette. She was VP, Executive Director of Publicity there for many years and worked with a wide range of bestselling authors including Nicholas Sparks, David Baldacci, Nelson DeMille, and Brad Meltzer, among others.

Jennifer has previously taught as an adjunct instructor in the undergraduate Publishing Studies program at Hofstra University. She recently completed her MFA in Creative Writing with Distinction from Hofstra University and her poems have been published in Ovunque Siamo and VIA: Voices in Italiana-Americana (forthcoming). Her poems 鈥淥mphalos鈥 (2018) and 鈥淚 terri鈥 (2015) received first place in the Concorso Internationale di Poesia held in Messina, Sicily.

Professor Emeritus

Sherman Raskin

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Sherman Raskin

Sherman Raskin is an Emeritus Professor at 绿巨人视频. He established the MS in Publishing program in the Dyson College of Arts and Sciences at 绿巨人视频in 1984. Over the years of his tenure, Professor Raskin successfully oversaw the program through many changes and challenges in the publishing industry. He retired as Director of the program in 2018.

Previously, Professor Raskin was Associate Chair, then Chair of the English Department. He also served as the Director of 绿巨人视频 Press from 1988-2018. 绿巨人视频 Press is well known for its studies of Virginia Woolf and Medieval literature.

Professor Raskin holds a BFA degree in Dramatic Arts and an MA degree in English from Columbia University.

He is currently enjoying his retirement with his wife Paula, traveling and spending time with his grandchildren.

Adjunct Faculty

Ken Brooks

President of Treadwell Media Group
Email: kbrooksjr@pace.edu

PUB 612 Information Systems

Joseph Caserto

Joseph Caserto Art Direction + Design
Email: jcaserto@pace.edu

PUB 633 Introduction to Publication Design
PUB 635 Digital Image Creation, Manipulation, & Management

Erin Cox

Senior Associate, Rob Weisbach Creative Management
Email: ecox@pace.edu

PUB 609 Digital Issues in Publishing

Jacqueline deMontravel

Editorial Director, Engaged Media Lifestyle Group
Founder,

PUB 622Q Social Media Marketing

Thomas A. Di Mascio

Director of Supply Chain Management and Logistics,
DC Entertainment

PUB 608 Financial Aspects of Publishing
PUB 622H Seminar on Books & Magazines: Introduction to Supply Chain Management

Britney Fitzgerald

Social Media Manager, American Museum of Natural History
Email: bfitzgerald2@pace.edu

PUB 622N Digital Audience Development

Christine Ford

VP of Product Management
Kantar, a WPP company

PUB 622J Seminar on Books & Magazines: Practical Applications of Product Management in Digital Media

Ivy Jacobson Ford

Managing Editor, Apartment Therapy and The Kitchen
Email: ijacobson@pace.edu

PUB 604 Professional Editing: Rewriting and Line Editing

Vincent Forgione

Operations Manager
Hearst Business Media
Email: vforgione@pace.edu

PUB 607 Magazine Production & Design

David M. Hetherington

Chief Marketing Officer, KnK Business Software
Email: dhetherington@pace.edu

PUB 608 Financial Aspects of Publishing
PUB 622F Seminars: Critical Financial Issues in Book Publishing, Mergers and Acquisitions

Paul Levitz

Former President & Publisher, DC Comics
Email: plevitz@pace.edu

PUB 613 The Future of Publishing: Transmedia
PUB 615 Publishing Comics and Graphic Novels

Elena Donovan Mauer

Writer, Editor, Content Consultant
Email: emauer@pace.edu

PUB 624 Editorial Principles & Practices
PUB 626 Magazine Writing & Editing

Jillian McBain

Finance Director, Grand Central Publishing, Hachette Book Group
Email: jmcbain@pace.edu

PUB 608 Financial Aspects of Publishing

Thad McIlroy

Principal at The Future of Publishing
Email: tmcilroy@pace.edu

PUB 622M Metadata for Publishing

Tina McIntyre

Business and Marketing Strategist
Email: tmcintyre@pace.edu

PUB 628 Marketing Principles & Practices

Nellie McKesson

Co-Founder and CEO of Hederis
Email: nmckesson@pace.edu

PUB 621 E-Books: Technology, Workflow, and Business Models

Andrea Monfried

Founder of Andrea Monfried Editions
Email: amonfried@ pace.edu

PUB 610 Fundamentals of Trade Book Publishing

Kathleen Ortiz

Founder of KO Media
Email: kortiz@pace.edu

PUB 622A Entrepreneurship

Jessica Napp

Associate Director of Publicity, Rizzoli New York

PUB 628 Marketing Principles & Practices

Patricia Payton

Senior Manager, Provider Relations, for ProQuest, part of Clarivate
Email: ppayton@pace.edu

PUB 622M Metadata for Books

James Perry

VP, Director of Finance for Random House Children鈥檚 Books
Email: jperry@pace.edu

PUB 608 Financial Aspects of Publishing

Carl Potts

Former Executive Editor, Marvel Comics
Email: cpotts@pace.edu

PUB 622P Writing and Editing Comics & Graphic Novels

Peggy Samedi

Production/Social Media Contributor
Random House
Email: psamedi@pace.edu

PUB 606 Book Production and Design

Kirsten D. Sandberg

Editor-in-Chief, Blockchain Research Institute
Email: ksandberg@pace.edu

PUB 632 Academic Publishing
PUB 624 Editorial Principles & Practices
PUB 618 Legal Aspects of Publishing

Jason Wells

Marketing Director, APA Style, APA Books, LifeTools Nonfiction, and Magination Press Children's Books, The American Psychological Association
Email: jwells2@pace.edu

PUB 637 Children's Book Marketing

Veronica Wilson

National Digital Sales Director
Meredith Corporation
Email: vwilson@pace.edu

PUB 629 Magazine Circulation: Print & Digital
PUB 630 Magazine Advertising Sales: Print & Digital