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Upcoming Exhibits
The University of Virginia Press will be exhibiting books
and meeting with authors at the following conferences. If
you're attending, please drop by and see us.
Modern Language
Association (MLA)
December 27-30, 2009
Philadelphia, PA
Booths 616 & 618
American Historical
Association (AHA)
January 7-10, 2010
San Diego, CA
American
Library Association (ALA) Midwinter Meeting
January 15-19, 2010
Boston, MA
Booth 2465 (sharing with Island Press)
American
Society for Environmental History (ASEH)
March 10-14, 2010
Portland, OR
Organization of American
Historians (OAH)
April 7-10, 2010
Washington, D.C.
Booth 314
Society of Architectural
Historians (SAH)
April 21-25, 2010
Chicago, IL
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In Memoriam: Merrill Peterson
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2009 Walker Cowen Manuscript Prize
Competition in Eighteenth-Century
Studies
We invite submissions for the Walker
Cowen Memorial Prize. The prize
is awarded to the author of a scholarly
book-length manuscript in eighteenth-century
studies, including the Americas
and the Atlantic world. Submissions
may be in history (including history
of science), literature, philosophy,
or the arts. The competition is
held annually.
The winner of the Cowen Prize will
receive a $5,000 award and will
be offered an advance publishing
contract by the University of Virginia
Press. The prize honors the late
Walker Cowen, second Director of
the Press from 1969 until his death
in 1987.
Click here for an official
application form
Request an application form
or send queries to:
Angie Hogan
The University of Virginia Press
PO Box 400318
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4318
arh2h@virginia.edu
Application deadline
To be considered for the 2009 award,
manuscripts should be submitted
no later than November 1, 2009.
Manuscripts will not be returned.
Foreign-language works first published
in Europe will also be considered
for the prize and for translation
into English. Announcement of the
winning manuscript will be made
in April 2010.
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Virginia Joins the Modern Language
Initiative
The University of Virginia Press
has joined another collaborative
publishing venture supported by
a grant from the Andrew
W. Mellon Foundation
. Called the "Modern
Language Initiative"
(MLI), this endeavor is meant to
create new publishing opportunities
for innovative scholarship in the
literatures of the non-Anglophone
world. The grant will allow the
five participating university presses
(including Fordham, California,
Pennsylvania, and Washington) to
identify, publish, and promote first
books by scholars in the fields
of language and literature as well
as rhetoric, film, the performing
arts, and popular culture.
As the publisher of a translation
series in francophone literature
from the Caribbean and Africa, Virginia
will especially be looking for studies
of these literatures that demand
a knowledge of French. Similarly,
Virginia publishes Caribbean literary
studies that often demand a knowledge
not only of French but also of Spanish,
Portuguese, and Dutch. Studies of
these multilingual literatures will
be better served now with this financial
assistance from the Mellon Foundation.
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The American Literatures Initiative
The University of Virginia
Press is one five presses collaborating
on the American
Literatures Initiative
, an innovative, entrepreneurial, cooperative
effort to expand the number of books published
in literary studies and to increase the
audience for them by using common resources
available to the five presses through a
grant from The Andrew M. Mellon Foundation.
We welcome submissions for
our series New
World Studies
, which publishes interdisciplinary, multilingual
research that seeks to redefine the cultural
map of the Americas, encompassing the Caribbean
and continental North, Central, and South
America. We also consider work in twentieth-century
American literature, Black American literature
and culture, and ethnic and postcolonial
studies in language and literature. Please
contact our Humanities Editor, Cathie Brettschneider
at cib8b@virginia.edu.
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Kaminski Among "Best of the
Best"
John P. Kaminski's Founders
on the Founders: Word Portraits from
the American Revolutionary Era
has been selected as one of the titles
of "The Best of the Best from
the University Presses: Books You
Should Know About." This program,
presented at the American Library
Association's 2009 annual meeting
in June, highlighted 21 titles reviewed
for the University Press Books
Selected for Public and Secondary
School Libraries.
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