| Parent company | Bucknell University |
|---|---|
| Status | Active |
| Founded | 1968 |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | Lewisburg, Pennsylvania |
| Publication types | Academic publishing |
| Nonfiction topics | Various |
| Official website | http://www.bucknell.edu/universitypress |
Bucknell University Press (BUP) was founded in 1968 as part of a consortium operated by Associated University Presses and currently partnered with Rowman & Littlefield.[1] Since then it has published more than 1000 titles in the humanities and social and biological sciences. The first title was published in 1969.[2]
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.[3] 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.
Traditionally the Press’s strengths have been in English and American literature, French literature, German literature, Hispanic Studies, philosophy, 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.
In July 2010, the Press joined with Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, a large, international independent publisher of academic, trade, and popular books.[5] Rowman & Littlefield are largely responsible for the production and distribution of books, and contracts for manuscripts accepted for publication are issued by Rowman & Littlefield.
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, 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 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 Britain, 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.
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, edited by Carmen Gillespie of Bucknell University, 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.
Sponsored by the Goethe Society of North America, 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.[6] The general editor is Jane Brown, professor of Germanics and Comparative Literature, University of Washington.
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.
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.[7] 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.
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.
In the 1970s, the Press published the Irish Writers Series,[9] 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.[10] 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.
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 University campus.
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.
Bucknell Press maintains six series of books in the humanities and social sciences:[11]
In 2010, Dr. Sharon G. Feldman's book In the Eye of the Storm: Contemporary Theatre in Barcelona [12] 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 Richmond.[13]
Francie Cate-Arries, professor of Hispanic Studies at the College of William and Mary, received the 2004 Honorable Mention for Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize[14] from the Modern Language Association of America for her book Spanish Culture Behind Barbed Wire: Memory and Representation of the French Concentration Camps.[15]