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  • Celebrating Carmen Martín Gaite with Joan L. Brown

    Spanish author Carmen Martín Gaite, Spain’s most honored contemporary woman writer, was recognized for her short novel El balneario [The Spa] with the Café Gijón Prize in 1954, won the Nadal Prize in 1957 for her second novel Entre visillos (Behind the Curtains), and earned Spain’s National Prize for Literature for her 1978 novel El […]

  • Global Black History at Bucknell University Press

    As Black History Month comes to a close, continue to celebrate, learn, and amplify Black stories. The Bucknell Press continues to partner with the Griot Institute for the Study of Black Lives and Cultures by publishing the  Griot Project Book Series, an interdisciplinary series of “monographs, collections of essays, and poetry exploring the aesthetics, art, […]

  • Inventing the Velocipede with Corry Cropper and Seth Whidden

    Velocipedomania: A Cultural History of the Velocipede in France is a collection that foregrounds the significance of the nineteenth-century French invention that later developed into the modern bicycle. Edited by Corry Cropper, professor of French at Brigham Young University, and Seth Whidden, professor of French literature, Queen’s College, Oxford, the book includes three original source texts […]

  • A New Colophon for Bucknell University Press

    Bucknell University Press is pleased to announce the rollout of a new colophon, debuting with its fall-winter 2022-23 publications. The fresh design features BUP’s name and an icon depicting the recognizable tower atop Bucknell’s beautiful Ellen Clarke Bertrand Library, with its distinctive finials and bison weathervane. The new branding signals BUP’s “intention to advance and […]

  • Continued praise for Magical Realism and the History of Emotions in Latin America by Jerónimo Arellano

    Jerónimo Arellano’s book, Magical Realism and the History of the Emotions in Latin America, continues to receive high accolades. Read on for praise of the recent Bucknell Press publication. Iconoclastic in spirit, Magical Realism and the History of the Emotions in Latin America is the first study of affect and emotion in magical realist literature. […]

  • University Press Week Day 4

    #ReadUP on these 10 noteworthy Bucknell UP titles published in the last 10 years Fire on the Water: Sailors, Slaves, and Insurrection in Early American Literature, 1789-1886 By Lenora Warren “Readers will find Fire on the Water an important contribution to the study of slavery and abolitionism. Moreover, this book also makes major contributions to Black […]

  • University Press Week Day 3

    Bucknell UP’s partnership with Rutgers UP a way for small presses to #KeepUP with the times Like many citizens of the UP community, Bucknell University Press proudly participates in several collaborative relationships on and off our beautiful Lewisburg, Pennsylvania campus. Locally, we copublish a book series with Bucknell’s Griot Institute for the Study of Black […]