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  • Continued praise for Satire, Celebrity, and Politics in Jane Austen by Jocelyn Harris

    Jocelyn Harris’s new book, Satire, Celebrity, and Politics in Jane Austen, continues to receive high accolades. Read on for praise of the recent Bucknell Press publication. Please follow this link to a page where you can purchase Jocelyn Harris’s new book: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781611488395/Satire-Celebrity-and-Politics-in-Jane-Austen In Satire, Celebrity, and Politics in Jane Austen, Jocelyn Harris argues that Jane […]

  • Celebrating Black History Month with our Griot Project Book Series

    Celebrate and learn during Black History Month with texts from the Griot Project Book Series, an interdisciplinary series published in association with the Griot Institute for the Study of Black Lives and Cultures.  A griot is a central figure in West African cultures that historically held many functions, including community historian, cultural critic, indigenous artist […]

  • A Year in Reviews

    Before we ring in 2021, Bucknell University Press would like to take a moment to celebrate the awards and reviews our books and authors earned in 2020 and recognize their impact on scholarship around the world. Avenues of Translation: The City in Iberian and Latin American Writing Avenues of Translation edited by Regina Galasso and […]

  • Bucknell University Press 2020 Year in Review

    This year has been one we won’t soon forget. Every day seemed to bring another breaking news story, and the pandemic has kept us away from our friends, our families, and our coworkers. Still, there has been much accomplished in 2020, and we at the Bucknell University Press have been busy continuing to publish scholarly […]

  • Celebrating Jane Austen Day

    December 16th marks the 245th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth. In honor of this witty and astute writer, we’d like to share some of our favorite books that reconsider and elucidate her work. Each of these Jane Austen books were published as part of our longstanding Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850 series, which explores literary, artistic, cultural, […]

  • National Life-Writing Month

    You might know that November is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), but did you know that November is also National Life-Writing Month? Bucknell University Press’s catalog includes several exemplars of the genre, which we’re pleased to share with you here. The Memory Sessions by Suzanne Farrell Smith Suzanne Farrell Smith’s father was killed by a drunk driver […]

  • Interview with the Editors of Johnson in Japan

    Johnson in Japan, a new collection of essays exploring the influence of Samuel Johnson and his work on Japanese academic and literary culture, was edited by Kimiyo Ogawa and Mika Suzuki, and published in October by Bucknell University Press. Here the editors speak with Presidential Fellow Nate Freed to discuss the collection and the state […]