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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…

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….

Hi! My name is Emily and I am currently a senior majoring in Literary Studies and Creative Writing.  After interning with the literary magazine on campus, West Branch, I realized that I am fascinated with all of the detail and…

Guest blogger Jason S. Farr, of Marquette University, concludes University Press Week with his profound and personal post on disability and perception. When I was 29, I suddenly found myself struggling to hear professors speak in the graduate seminars I…

In recognition of day #4 of UP Week, two staff members tell you what it’s really like to be part of the small but dedicated team that makes up the Bucknell University Press. Working for the Bucknell University Press has…

Guest blog post by BUP author Tim Wenzell in recognition of University Press Week 2019 As humanism has evolved over the centuries, it has maintained and nurtured itself through empathy—having it, expressing it, and passing it on. In the humanities…

In honor of University Press Week 2019—the theme of which is “Read. Think. Act.”—we are speaking with Bucknell University Press authors whose work prompts us to think in ways that expand our perspectives, causes us to reflect, or prompts action….