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,…
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Alimentary Orientalism | An Excerpt
The most recent title in Bucknell University Press’s landmark Transits series, Alimentary Orientalism: Britian’s Literary Imagination and the Edible East, traces exotic ingestion as a motif across a range of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century texts, considering how, why, and whither writers…
#SpeakUP: Imagining Alternatives to Workism
Guest post by Ryan Hediger Get up, go to work. It seems as inevitable and natural as sunrise. This simple directive orients much of our lives, both directly and indirectly, informing our notions of education, morality, and community. From youth…
National Translation Month 2023 Reading List
September is National Translation Month, when we celebrate authors and the translators whose work expands access to books for new audiences, while preserving their character and content. To close out the month, we compiled a list so you can continue…
Book Discussion: Eighteenth-Century Environmental Humanities
How can the fields of environmental humanities and eighteenth-century studies inform and vibrantly benefit one another? Join Bucknell University Press and Transits series editor Miriam Wallace as we host volume editor Jeremy Chow, assistant professor of English at Bucknell University,…