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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



In Memoriam: Merrill Peterson

The University of Virginia Press is saddened by the passing of colleague and friend Merrill Peterson on September 24, 2009. Peterson was a nationally renowned historian and one of the leading authorities on the life and career of Thomas Jefferson. One of the many books Peterson published with the UVA Press, The Jefferson Image in the American Mind won the prestigious Bancroft Prize in 1961.Peterson also wrote the Pulitzer-nominated Lincoln in American Memory. Following his retirement from teaching at UVA, Peterson volunteered for the Peace Corps and served in Armenia. From this experience came the book "Starving Armenians": America and the Armenian Genocide, 1915-1930 and After. With the UVA Press, Peterson also published John Brown: The Legend Revisited and The President and his Biographer: Wodrow Wilson and Ray Stannard Baker.


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.

 

 

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.

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

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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