Bucknell University Press
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Bucknell University Press (BUP) was founded in 1968 as part of a consortium operated by Associated University Presses
and currently partnered with Rowman & Littlefield
. Since then it has published more than 1000 titles in the humanities and social and biological sciences. The first title was published in 1969.
Run by its director and editorial board, the Bucknell Press is an editorially independent organization. The editorial operations of the Press are supported and funded by the office of the Provost at Bucknell University
. The current Press Director is Greg Clingham, professor of English at Bucknell University
.
The Press receives about 400 proposals and inquiries a year and considers for publication about 70 manuscripts from authors all over the world. Each year it publishes an average of 35 books.
, and religion
, though it also publishes serious criticism and scholarship in Classics
, theory, cultural studies
, historiography
, psychology
and psychoanalysis
, political science
, and cultural and political geography
.
The Press maintains headquarters in Taylor Hall on the Bucknell University
campus in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.
Publishing Group, a large, international independent publisher of academic, trade, and popular books. Rowman & Littlefield are largely responsible for the production and distribution of books, and contracts for manuscripts accepted for publication are issued by Rowman & Littlefield.
Under the general editorship of Aníbal González of Yale University
, the Press’s series in Latin American studies features the work of many leading scholars in this diverse and broad field. The series aims to provide a forum for the best criticism on Latin American literature from a range of critical approaches. In particular, it deals with far-reaching questions of history and modernity, language and selfhood, power and ethics, and the human condition as a whole.
, Europe
, the Far East, Oceania
, and the Americas
in the long eighteenth century. The series also considers “global” perspectives of time, space, nature, economics, politics, environment, and material culture. The series is edited by Greg Clingham. This series replaces the "Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture" series, which ran at the Press from 1996-2010.
, explores aesthetic, artistic, and cultural products and intellectual currents of historical and contemporary Africa and of the African diaspora. Narrative serves as a thematic and theoretical framework for the project.
, the New Studies in the “Age of Goethe” series seeks to publish innovative, interdisciplinary research on Goethe that contextualizes the “Age of Goethe” within the fields of literature, history, philosophy, art, music, or politics. The general editor is Jane Brown, professor of Germanics and Comparative Literature, University of Washington.
Given the strong renewal of interest in Irish Studies over the past decade, the Bucknell University Press has commenced a Contemporary Irish Writers series under the editorship of John Rickard, professor of English at Bucknell University
. Monographs in the series provide an introduction to a single author’s life and work and include a general discussion of interpretive issues and strategies for understanding the author’s work.
Forthcoming titles in the series include Richard R. Russell on Bernard MacLaverty, Jonathan Allison on Seamus Heaney
, J. Fitzpatrick Smith on Ciaran Carson, and Borbála Faragó on Medbh McGuckian
.
campus.
.
Francie Cate-Arries, professor of Hispanic Studies at the College of William and Mary
, received the 2004 Honorable Mention for Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize from the Modern Language Association of America for her book Spanish Culture Behind Barbed Wire: Memory and Representation of the French Concentration Camps.
Associated University Presses
Associated University Presses is a publishing company based in the United States, formed and operated as a consortium of several American university presses. AUP was first established and incorporated in 1966, with the first titles bearing the AUP imprint appearing from 1968...
and currently partnered with Rowman & Littlefield
Rowman & Littlefield
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group is an independent publishing house founded in 1949. Under several imprints, the company offers scholarly books and journals for the academic market, as well as trade books. The company also owns a book distributor, National Book Network...
. Since then it has published more than 1000 titles in the humanities and social and biological sciences. The first title was published in 1969.
Run by its director and editorial board, the Bucknell Press is an editorially independent organization. The editorial operations of the Press are supported and funded by the office of the Provost at Bucknell University
Bucknell University
Bucknell University is a private liberal arts university located alongside the West Branch Susquehanna River in the rolling countryside of Central Pennsylvania in the town of Lewisburg, 30 miles southeast of Williamsport and 60 miles north of Harrisburg. The university consists of the College of...
. The current Press Director is Greg Clingham, professor of English at Bucknell University
Bucknell University
Bucknell University is a private liberal arts university located alongside the West Branch Susquehanna River in the rolling countryside of Central Pennsylvania in the town of Lewisburg, 30 miles southeast of Williamsport and 60 miles north of Harrisburg. The university consists of the College of...
.
The Press receives about 400 proposals and inquiries a year and considers for publication about 70 manuscripts from authors all over the world. Each year it publishes an average of 35 books.
About the Press
Traditionally the Press’s strengths have been in English and American literature, French literature, German literature, Hispanic Studies, philosophyPhilosophy
Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...
, and religion
Religion
Religion is a collection of cultural systems, belief systems, and worldviews that establishes symbols that relate humanity to spirituality and, sometimes, to moral values. Many religions have narratives, symbols, traditions and sacred histories that are intended to give meaning to life or to...
, though it also publishes serious criticism and scholarship in Classics
Classics
Classics is the branch of the Humanities comprising the languages, literature, philosophy, history, art, archaeology and other culture of the ancient Mediterranean world ; especially Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome during Classical Antiquity Classics (sometimes encompassing Classical Studies or...
, theory, cultural studies
Cultural studies
Cultural studies is an academic field grounded in critical theory and literary criticism. It generally concerns the political nature of contemporary culture, as well as its historical foundations, conflicts, and defining traits. It is, to this extent, largely distinguished from cultural...
, historiography
Historiography
Historiography refers either to the study of the history and methodology of history as a discipline, or to a body of historical work on a specialized topic...
, psychology
Psychology
Psychology is the study of the mind and behavior. Its immediate goal is to understand individuals and groups by both establishing general principles and researching specific cases. For many, the ultimate goal of psychology is to benefit society...
and psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis is a psychological theory developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud. Psychoanalysis has expanded, been criticized and developed in different directions, mostly by some of Freud's former students, such as Alfred Adler and Carl Gustav...
, political science
Political science
Political Science is a social science discipline concerned with the study of the state, government and politics. Aristotle defined it as the study of the state. It deals extensively with the theory and practice of politics, and the analysis of political systems and political behavior...
, and cultural and political geography
Political geography
Political geography is the field of human geography that is concerned with the study of both the spatially uneven outcomes of political processes and the ways in which political processes are themselves affected by spatial structures...
.
The Press maintains headquarters in Taylor Hall on the Bucknell University
Bucknell University
Bucknell University is a private liberal arts university located alongside the West Branch Susquehanna River in the rolling countryside of Central Pennsylvania in the town of Lewisburg, 30 miles southeast of Williamsport and 60 miles north of Harrisburg. The university consists of the College of...
campus in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.
Former Press Directors
- J.F. Carens 1968-1972
- Michael Payne 1972-1976
- Mills F. Edgerton 1976-1996
- Greg Clingham 1996–present
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group
In July 2010, the Press joined with Rowman & LittlefieldRowman & Littlefield
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group is an independent publishing house founded in 1949. Under several imprints, the company offers scholarly books and journals for the academic market, as well as trade books. The company also owns a book distributor, National Book Network...
Publishing Group, a large, international independent publisher of academic, trade, and popular books. Rowman & Littlefield are largely responsible for the production and distribution of books, and contracts for manuscripts accepted for publication are issued by Rowman & Littlefield.
Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory
Between 1974 and 1997, the Bucknell Press established an international reputation in Hispanic and Latin American Studies. Over the past decade, the Press’s publications in Peninsular and Latin American Studies have been particularly successful.Under the general editorship of Aníbal González of Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
, the Press’s series in Latin American studies features the work of many leading scholars in this diverse and broad field. The series aims to provide a forum for the best criticism on Latin American literature from a range of critical approaches. In particular, it deals with far-reaching questions of history and modernity, language and selfhood, power and ethics, and the human condition as a whole.
Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850
Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850 is a new series in comparative, intercultural studies in early modern and eighteenth-century studies as they extend down to the present time. Transits aims to provide transformative readings of the literary, cultural, and historical interconnections between BritainUnited Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
, Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
, the Far East, Oceania
Oceania
Oceania is a region centered on the islands of the tropical Pacific Ocean. Conceptions of what constitutes Oceania range from the coral atolls and volcanic islands of the South Pacific to the entire insular region between Asia and the Americas, including Australasia and the Malay Archipelago...
, and the Americas
Americas
The Americas, or America , are lands in the Western hemisphere, also known as the New World. In English, the plural form the Americas is often used to refer to the landmasses of North America and South America with their associated islands and regions, while the singular form America is primarily...
in the long eighteenth century. The series also considers “global” perspectives of time, space, nature, economics, politics, environment, and material culture. The series is edited by Greg Clingham. This series replaces the "Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture" series, which ran at the Press from 1996-2010.
Aperçus: Histories Texts Cultures
Aperçus: Histories Texts Cultures is a new series of guest-edited volumes launched by the Bucknell University Press. Under the editorship of Greg Clingham, it seeks to address contemporary interests in interdisciplinarity and globalism by exploring the relations among historiography, culture and textual representation.The Griot Project
The Griot Project, edited by Carmen Gillespie of Bucknell UniversityBucknell University
Bucknell University is a private liberal arts university located alongside the West Branch Susquehanna River in the rolling countryside of Central Pennsylvania in the town of Lewisburg, 30 miles southeast of Williamsport and 60 miles north of Harrisburg. The university consists of the College of...
, explores aesthetic, artistic, and cultural products and intellectual currents of historical and contemporary Africa and of the African diaspora. Narrative serves as a thematic and theoretical framework for the project.
New Studies in the Age of Goethe
Sponsored by the Goethe Society of North AmericaGoethe Society of North America
The Goethe Society of North America was founded in December 1979 in San Francisco as a non-profit organization dedicated to the encouragement of research on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and his age....
, the New Studies in the “Age of Goethe” series seeks to publish innovative, interdisciplinary research on Goethe that contextualizes the “Age of Goethe” within the fields of literature, history, philosophy, art, music, or politics. The general editor is Jane Brown, professor of Germanics and Comparative Literature, University of Washington.
Studies in Eighteenth-Century Scotland
Under the general editorship of Richard B. Sher of NJIT and Rutgers, the series is dedicated to producing lively, interdisciplinary scholarship on a wide variety of topics related to eighteenth-century Scotland.Bucknell Review
From 1954 until 2004, the Press published the Bucknell Review , a biannual scholarly journal of letters, arts and sciences, which ceased publication after 47 volumes. The Bucknell Review was published in hardback and paper cover and included work from some of the leading scholars in the humanities of the time. Under the long editorship of Harry Garvin, the journal came to prominence. Bucknell Review evolved out of Bucknell University Studies (1949–1954). It was succeeded by Aperçus: Histories Texts Cultures in 2004.Bucknell Review General Editors
- Gladys Cook 1954-1957
- Harry Garvin 1957-1984
- Michael Payne 1984-1990
- James Heath 1984-1985
- Mark Neuman 1986-1987
- Richard Fleming 1986-1987
- Pauline Fletcher 1990-2002
- Greg Clingham 2002-2004
Stories of the Susquehanna Valley
Stories of the Susquehanna Valley is an emerging environmental humanities series that seeks to articulate the largely under-documented cultural narratives of the Susquehanna Valley in central Pennsylvania. General editors of the series are Katherine Faull and Alf Siewers. By using current theoretical models in cross-disciplinary environmental studies, specifically focusing on the key relationships between narrative and the environment, the series seeks to provide a holistic voice to the broader river valley and create a stronger sense of place and pride in the local and regional communities tied together by the Susquehanna River.Irish Writers Series
In the 1970s, the Press published the Irish Writers Series, under the editorship of J.F. Carens. The series consisted of studies of more than 40 Irish writers of the 19th and 20th centuries. Each volume gives a full account of an Irish writer’s career and major works and considers the writer’s background in relation to his or her writings as a whole.Given the strong renewal of interest in Irish Studies over the past decade, the Bucknell University Press has commenced a Contemporary Irish Writers series under the editorship of John Rickard, professor of English at Bucknell University
Bucknell University
Bucknell University is a private liberal arts university located alongside the West Branch Susquehanna River in the rolling countryside of Central Pennsylvania in the town of Lewisburg, 30 miles southeast of Williamsport and 60 miles north of Harrisburg. The university consists of the College of...
. Monographs in the series provide an introduction to a single author’s life and work and include a general discussion of interpretive issues and strategies for understanding the author’s work.
Forthcoming titles in the series include Richard R. Russell on Bernard MacLaverty, Jonathan Allison on Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney is an Irish poet, writer and lecturer. He lives in Dublin. Heaney has received the Nobel Prize in Literature , the Golden Wreath of Poetry , T. S. Eliot Prize and two Whitbread prizes...
, J. Fitzpatrick Smith on Ciaran Carson, and Borbála Faragó on Medbh McGuckian
Medbh McGuckian
Medbh McGuckian is a poet from Northern Ireland.-Biography:She was born the third of six children as Maeve McCaughan to Hugh and Margaret McCaughan in North Belfast. Her father was a school headmaster and her mother an influential art and music enthusiast...
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Bucknell Series in Contemporary Poetry
In the 1990s, the Press published a series of books of poetry in conjunction with the Stadler Center for Poetry, also located on the Bucknell UniversityBucknell University
Bucknell University is a private liberal arts university located alongside the West Branch Susquehanna River in the rolling countryside of Central Pennsylvania in the town of Lewisburg, 30 miles southeast of Williamsport and 60 miles north of Harrisburg. The university consists of the College of...
campus.
Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture
The Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture series ran from 1996 to 2009, and published 51 titles that focused on the literature, history, and culture of the long eighteenth century in Britain, Ireland, and Europe. Included in the series were works ranging from large interdisciplinary cultural studies of the period to in-depth monographs on a single author.Current Series
Bucknell Press maintains six series of books in the humanities and social sciences:- Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory
- Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850
- Eighteenth-Century Scotland, sponsored by the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society
- Contemporary Irish Writers, edited by John Rickard, professor of English at Bucknell University
- New Studies in the Age of Goethe, sponsored by the Goethe Society of North America
- The Griot Project, directed by Carmen Gillespie, professor of English at Bucknell University
- Stories of the Susquehanna Valley
Current Editorial Board
- Greg Clingham (English)
- Isabel Cuñado (Spanish)
- Manuel Delgado (Spanish)
- Carmen Gillespie (English and the Griot Institute for Africana Studies)
- Param Bedi (Library and Information Technology)
- James Goodale (History)
- Janice Mann (Art History)
- Amy McCready (Political Science)
- Alice Poust (Spanish)
- John Rickard (English)
- Gary Sojka (Biology)
- Jeffrey Turner (Philosophy)
- Slava Yastremski (Russian and Comparative Humanities)
Notable Publications
In 2010, Dr. Sharon G. Feldman's book In the Eye of the Storm: Contemporary Theatre in Barcelona received the Serra d'Or Critics' Prize for Research in Catalan Studies from Serra d'Or magazine. Feldman is professor of Spanish and Catalan studies at the University of RichmondUniversity of Richmond
The University of Richmond is a selective, private, nonsectarian, liberal arts university located on the border of the city of Richmond and Henrico County, Virginia. The University of Richmond is a primarily undergraduate, residential university with approximately 4,000 undergraduate and graduate...
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Francie Cate-Arries, professor of Hispanic Studies at the College of William and Mary
College of William and Mary
The College of William & Mary in Virginia is a public research university located in Williamsburg, Virginia, United States...
, received the 2004 Honorable Mention for Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize from the Modern Language Association of America for her book Spanish Culture Behind Barbed Wire: Memory and Representation of the French Concentration Camps.