Land ownership—and engagement with land more generally—constituted a crucial dimension of female independence in eighteenth-century Britain. Because political citizenship was restricted to male property owners, women could not wield political power in the way propertied men did. Given its foundational…
Category: Author Interview
Celebrate National Poetry Month with Wendy Thompson
In celebration of National Poetry Month, we’ve invited Wendy M. Thompson to talk with us about her new poetry collection, Black California Gold. In this debut collection, Thompson traces the past and present of California’s Bay Area, exploring themes of family,…
Biomythography Bayou: A Conversation with the Author
Biomythography Bayou is more than just a book of memoir; it is a ritual for conjuring queer embodied knowledges and decolonial perspectives. Blending a rich gumbo of genres—from ingredients such as praise songs, folk tales, recipes, incantations, and invocations—it also…
How does Bucknell University Press #StepUP? Through a Commitment to Publishing Translations
In the summer of 1978, U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaimed the first University Press Week. Since 2012, members of the Association of University Presses have celebrated this week with events, celebrations, reading lists, and a blog tour. The theme of this year’s UP…
Teaching the Eighteenth Century Now: an Interview with the Editors
In Teaching the Eighteenth Century Now: Pedagogy as Ethical Engagement, teacher-scholars of “the long eighteenth century,” a Eurocentric time frame from about 1680 to 1832, consider what teaching means in this historical moment: one of attacks on education, a global…
Women and Music in the Age of Austen: an Interview with the Editors
Women and Music in the Age of Austen highlights the central role women played in musical performance, composition, reception, and representation, and analyzes its formative and lasting effect on Georgian culture. This interdisciplinary collection of essays from musicology, literary studies,…
Making Modern Spain: An Interview with Azariah Alfante
In her first publication, Making Modern Spain: Religion, Secularization, and Cultural Production, Azariah Alfante explores the work of select nineteenth-century writers, intellectuals, journalists, politicians, and clergy who responded to cultural and spiritual shifts caused by the movement toward secularization in…