Kay Pritchett, professor of Spanish at the University of Arkansas, has won the South Central Modern Language Association 2012 Book Prize! We interviewed Professor Pritchett on her interest in Spanish poetry and her award-winning book, In Pursuit of Poem Shadows: Pureza Canelo’s…
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Author profile: Emily Grosholz on translation
Emily Grosholz discusses the craft of translation and her most recent collaboration with French poet Yves Bonnefoy: Début et fin de la neige / Beginning and End of the Snow. The book, published by Bucknell University Press in 2012, includes…
Author Profile: George Haggerty on Horace Walpole’s Letters
In a study that offers a lively account of eighteenth-century life through the perspective of one of its greatest eccentrics, Horace Walpole, George Haggerty opens a window onto both the history of masculinity in the eighteenth century and the codification…
Author Profile: Priscilla Archibald on “Imagining Modernity in the Andes”
Priscilla Archibald’s new book, Imagining Modernity in the Andes (2011), deals with the intersection of projects of modernity and cultural representation in the Andes through the lens of Peruvian novelist and anthropologist Jose Maria Arguedas. Her study charts the social,…
Author Profile: Daniel Shapiro on translating Cipango
Daniel Shapiro is the translator of Cipango, published by Bucknell University Press in 2010. The book has received outstanding exposure, including a starred review in Library Journal, a review by translator Edith Grossman in The American Poetry Review, and additional…
Author Profile: Joan L. Brown on Confronting Our Canons
What is a canon and why does it matter? Author Joan L. Brown, Elias Ahuja Professor of Spanish at the University of Delaware, attempts to answer these complex and loaded questions in her recent book Confronting Our Canons: Spanish and…
Greg Clingham “Reads Ahead” toward the Future of Publishing
BUP would like to recognize our director, Greg Clingham, who is currently featured in an interview on the Bucknell University homepage. Greg’s piece is part of a series entitled “Ask the Experts,” a weekly discussion with a University faculty or…