Publicity
Review Copies
If you are requesting a review copy of a University of Virginia Press title, please submit your request either via e-mail to Emily Grandstaff at egrandstaff@virginia.edu or on your publication’s letterhead. Please be sure to include the mailing address to which we should send the review copy.
Please note:
- We are able to supply gratis review copies only for books published within the last two years.
- Review copy requests may take up to 4 weeks to process. If you are working under a deadline, please provide that information.
- Due to the high volume of requests we receive, we are often unable to provide updates on the status of review copy requests.
If submitting on letterhead, please send your request by fax to 434-982-2655, or by mail to:
University of Virginia Press
Publicity Department
PO Box 400318
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4318
Press Releases (all PDF’s)
Fall 2011
Belzoni: The Giant Archaeologists Love to Hate by Ivor Noël Hume
Salomé by Oscar Wilde: A New Translation by Joseph Donohue
The Sight of Silence: John Cage’s Complete Watercolors by Ray Kass
Frank Batten: The Untold Story of the Founder of the Weather Channel by Connie Sage
Chesapeake: The Aerial Photography of Cameron Davidson
Xu Bing: Tobacco Project, Duke, Shanghai/Virginia, 1999-2011
At Home with Apartheid by Rebecca Ginsburg
The Afterlives of Animals by J. M. M. Alberti
The Reason of the Gift by Jean-Luc Marion
Virginia Fishing Guide, 2nd Edition by Bob Gooch
Talking Shop by Peter Betjemann
My March to Liberation by Paul Strassmann
The Nation’s Nature by James D. Drake
Early Modern Virginia by Douglas Bradburn and John C. Coombs
Thomas Jefferson, the Classical World, and Early America by Peter S. Onuf and Nicholas P. Cole
Postcolonial Francophone Autobiographies by Edgard Sankara
Shaken Wisdom: Irony and Meaning in Postcolonial African Fiction by Gloria Nne Onyeoziri
Disaster Writing by Mark D. Anderson
Caribbean Literature and the Public Sphere by Raphael Dalleo
Ecocritical Theory: New European Approaches by Axel Goodbody and Kate Rigby
Community-Based Collaboration by E. Franklin Dukes, Karen E. Firehock, and Juliana E. Birkhoff
Spring 2011
The Golden-Bristled Boar by Jeffrey Greene
Wild Dog Dreaming by Deborah Bird Rose
Imagining Mount Athos by Veronica della Dora
High Rock and the Greenbelt by John G. Mitchell
Unnatural Rebellion by Ruma Chopra
Tom Paine’s America by Seth Cotlar
Culture and Liberty in the Age of the American Revolution by Michal Jan Rozbicki
Buildings of Hawaii by Don J. Hibbard
Mirrors of Memory by James W. White
Lost Communities of Virginia by Terri Fisher and Kirsten Sparenborg
Chick Lit and Postfeminism by Stephanie Harzewski
A Small Boy and Others and Notes of a Son and Brother and The Middle Years by Henry James
At the Cafe and The Talisman by Mohammed Dib
Contesting Slavery by John Craig Hammond and Matthew Mason
Awards
Rotunda’s Presidential Recordings of Lyndon B. Johnson Digital Edition has been named the recipient of the 2011 PROSE Award for Best eProduct in the Humanities. Presented by the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers, the PROSE awards recognize the very best in professional and scholarly publishing by bringing attention to distinguished books, journals, and electronic content in more than 40 categories.
We would like to congratulate Neil Kodesh, whose Beyond the Royal Gaze: Clanship and Public Healing in Buganda has won the 2011 Herskovits Award. Presented by the African Studies Association, the award is given each year to the most important scholarly work in African studies published in English.
Ann McCleary’s essay on Turnpike Towns from Warren R. Hofstra and Karl Raitz’s The Great Valley Road of Virginia: Shenandoah Landscapes from Prehistory to the Present has won the Publication Award of the Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians for the best article in a book format.
Julie Campbell’s The Horse in Virginia has been awarded the Library of Virginia’s People’s Choice Award for Nonfiction. The winners were chosen by readers voting in public libraries and bookstores, as well as online.
Don Hibbard has been awarded the 2011 Community Service – Historic Preservation Award for Buildings of Hawaii. Given by the Hawaii Chapter of the American Society of Interior Designers, the award is part of their Design Excellence Awards.
Julie Campbell’s The Horse in Virginia has been awarded 1st place for a non-fiction history book by the National Federation of Press Women. In addition, the book has been selected as a finalist for the Library of Virginia’s People’s Choice Award for Nonfiction.
Laura J. Beard’s Acts of Narrative Resistance: Women’s Autobiographical Writings in the Americas has been selected as a winner of the 2010 President’s Book Award at Texas Tech University. This award honors books published by Texas Tech faculty which display the amazing variety of work being done and the broad range of interests at the university.
Warren R. Hofstra and Karl Raitz’s The Great Valley Road of Virginia: Shenandoah Landscapes from Prehistory to the Present has been awarded the Allen G. Noble Book Award of the Pioneer America Society: Association for the Preservation of Artifacts and Landscapes. Named for the renowned geographer, Allen G. Noble, the prize in his honor is granted annually for the best-edited book in the field published within two years of the award.
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.
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.
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS)
March 22-25, 2012
San Antonio, TX
American Society for Environmental History (ASEH)
March 28-31, 2012
Madison, WI
Virginia Forum
March 29-31, 2012
Harrisonburg, VA
Society of Architectural Historians (SAH)
April 18-22, 2012
Detroit, MI
Book Expo America (BEA)
June 5-7, 2012
New York, NY
Booth #3430
Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR)
July 19-22, 2012
Baltimore, MD
American Political Science Association (APSA)
August 30 – September 2, 2012
New Orleans, LA
Southern Historical Association (SHA)
November 1-4, 2012
Mobile, AL
Charleston Conference Vendor Showcase
Charleston, SC
November 7, 2012
American Academy of Religion/Society for Biblical Literature (AAR/SBL)
November 17-20, 2012
Chicago, IL
Booth #311
American Historical Association (AHA)
January 3-6, 2013
New Orleans, LA
Modern Language Association (MLA)
January 3-6, 2013
Boston, MA