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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.
Society
for Architectural Historians (SAH)
April 1-5, 2009
Pasadena, CA
African
Literature Association
April 15-18, 2009
University of Vermont
BookExpo America
(BEA)
May 28-31, 2009
New York, NY
Society
for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR)
July 16-19, 2009
Springfield, IL
American
Political Science Association (APSA)
September 3-6, 2009
Toronto, CA
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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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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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Bober Among "Best of the Best"
Natalie S. Bober's Thomas
Jefferson: Draftsman of a Nation
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 2008
annual meeting in June, will highlight
24 titles reviewed for the University
Press Books Selected for Public and Secondary
School Libraries 18th Edition.
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Laney Prize Goes to Greene
The Austin Civil War Round Table
of Austin, Texas, has awarded its 2007 Laney
Prize to A. Wilson Greene's Civil
War Petersburg: Confederate City in the Crucible
of War. The Laney Prize is given for
distinguished scholarship and writing on the
military and political history of the American
Civil War.
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