In celebration of ALTA43, Bucknell University Press has assembled a list of books that may be of interest to attendees. Bucknell is a leading publisher in the humanities with a focus on literary studies, and maintains a broad interest in…
A Good Surprise in a Terrible Year
The Nobel Prize in Literature for Louise Glück A Guest Post by Lee Upton At last, a good surprise in a terrible year. My mother-in-law brought me the news first: Louise Glück had won the Nobel Prize. Glück has often…
Celebrating Marsha P. Johnson
On what would have been her 75th birthday, LGBTQ+ activist and icon Marsha P. Johnson made history yet again, almost thirty years after her passing. New York governor Chris Cuomo announced on August 24, 2020 that what was previously known as…
Call for Essays and Proposals: Teaching the Eighteenth Century Now
Bucknell University’s series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850 invites expressions of interest for essays or collections of essays that highlight the scholarship of teaching the long eighteenth century including the Romantic era. Proposals for edited volumes need not have…
Celebrating Our Female Authors
In honor of International Women’s Day, we wanted to take the time to highlight some of our incredible female authors. Fire on the Water: Sailors, Slaves, and Insurrection in Early American Literatureby Lenora Warren Lenora Warren tells a new story…
An Interview with Frieda Ekotto
Frieda Ekotto is a professor of comparative literature at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and currently serves as the chair of the department of Afroamerican and African studies. Her early work involves an interdisciplinary exploration of the interactions among…
Book Reviews
Early Puerto Rican Cinema and Nation Building: National Sentiments, Transnational Realities, 1897–1940Naida García-Crespo“In this groundbreaking study, the author roams knowledgeably across the fields of history, political science, and sociology…. Highly recommended.”– CHOICE Mikhail Bakhtin: The Duvakin Interviews, 1973by Slav N….