At the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Association for Documentary Editing (ADE), the University of Virginia Press was honored with a special Resolution of Appreciation for its “leadership, vision, and vital support in the field of documentary editing.”
Congratulations are in order for several contributors to our Best New Poets series. Scott Abels’ first full-length collection of poems, Rambo Goes to Idaho, was recently published by BlazeVOX. Scott’s poem “As Rambo Lay Dying” was published in Best New Poets 2011.
Winners of the 36th PROSE Awards were announced on February 2, and our electronic imprint, Rotunda, was honored for its digital edition of The Presidential Recordings of Lyndon B. Johnson, which won 2011 Best eProduct in the Humanities.
The University of Virginia Press is among a group of 70 scholarly publishers that are participating in the University Press Content Consortium (UPCC), which offers readers a new way to locate and browse e-books. You will find e-book editions of many of Virginia’s most recent titles here.
A reading of Joseph Donohue’s new translation of Oscar Wilde’s one-act tragedy Salomé was staged at Charlottesville’s Live Arts theater on December 2, 2011. This clip comes at a crucial moment in the play’s action, when Salomé, having danced for her stepfather Herodias, reveals to him what the price will be.
Join the University of Virginia Press and Joseph Donohue at Live Arts on Friday, December 2nd at 7:30 pm for a staged reading of this new translation of Salomé, directed by UVA Department of Drama Professor Kate Burke.