Welcome to the inaugural ’sup? @ SUP blog post—a new monthly forecast of what’s coming up for the Press. We’ll cover what titles are slated to launch in the coming weeks and other press-related news.
Out this month:
Blinded By Sight | Osagie Obasogie
Seeing Race Through the Eyes of the Blind
Available for pre-order this month
“Obasogie uncovers answers to questions which suggest color blindness in society will not lead to an imagined racial utopia, and challenges our assumptions about racial equality in America.”
Watch an interview with Obasogie and learn how Ray Charles inspired his research.
What Is a Classic? | Ankhi Mukherjee
Postcolonial Rewriting and Invention of the Canon
What Is a Classic? revisits the famous question posed by critics from Saint-Beuve and T.S. Eliot to J.M. Coetzee to ask how classics are created in our postcolonial and global era.
Refugees of Revolution | Diana Allan
Experiences of Palestinian Exile
Anthropologist Diana Allan imbedded herself in a Palestinian refugee camp to document the lives of those struggling to survive in the geopolitical limbo of Beirut: “The results are stark and troubling,” says Kirkus Reviews.
Can Green Sustain Growth? | John Zysman & Mark Huberty
From the Religion to the Reality of Sustainable Prosperity
Insightful and timely, this book brings together eight original, international case studies to consider what we can learn from the implementation of green growth strategies to date.
Days of Revolution | Mary Elaine Hegland
Political Unrest in an Iranian Village
Mary Hegland was the only academic from the United States on the ground in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. This is her account of how one small village weathered the metamorphosis that profoundly changed a nation.
Also new:
- Religion in Public: Locke’s Political Theology | Elizabeth A. Pritchard
- His Hiding Place is Darkness: A Hindu-Catholic Theopoetics of Divine Absence | Francis X. Clooney, S.J.
- Current Flow: The Electrification of Palestine | Ronen Shamir
- Five Long Winters: The Trials of British Romanticism | John Bugg
- Rhinestones, Religion and the Republic: Fashioning Jewishness in France | Kimberley A. Arkin
In other news . . .
It's University Press Week!
In 1978 President Jimmy Carter proclaimed University Press Week to “honor the important role of university presses in advancing and preserving knowledge.” This year marks the second annual celebration of UP Week, coordinated by the American Association of University Presses (of which SUP is a proud and founding member!)
The ball on UP Week began rolling in October when The Economistand Publishing Perspectivesran articles all about university presses, “the world’s oldest media business.”
Yesterday our director, Alan Harvey, penned his thoughts on the future of scholarly communication. Stay tuned and to check the other university press blogs this week. Join us again on Friday for a virtual shindig on Innovation in Scholarly Publishing and follow the hashtag #upweek for more news and events.
New faces at SUP
We added two new faces to SUP this month:
Laura Kenney is the newest face to our production team. She inherited the reins from the newly retired, Judith Hibbard, who will be much missed at SUP.
Friederike Sundaram will work as an assistant editor in literary studies, philosophy and theology. She comes to us from Germany, where she previously worked with the inimitable Suhrkamp Verlag, and is currently pursuing a PhD in English Literature from the Free University of Berlin.
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