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Brilliant Book Review for Shirley Hazzard: Literary Expatriate and Cosmopolitan Humanist!

Cambria Press congratulates Dr. Brigitta Olubas on yet another fabulous review on her highly praised book Shirley Hazzard: Literary Expatriate and Cosmopolitan Humanist! The journal Contemporary Women’s Writing praises the book, stating that: “To read Brigitta Olubas’s Shirley Hazzard: Literary Expatriate and Cosmopolitan Humanist must be to have something like the experience of the readers of feminist recovery projects in...

Happy New Year! Usher in 2013 with a Nobel Prize Winner!

HAPPY NEW YEAR! The 2013 MLA annual convention in Boston promises to be an especially exciting one because Nobel Prize Winner in Literature Gao Xingjian will be attending! Many new titles for Cambria Press will be showcased, including Nobel laureate Gao Xingjian’s long-awaited book Gao Xingjian: Aesthetics and Creation. There are two MLA sessions being held for Gao Xingjian: 1)    ...

Cambria Press Book Review: Shirley Hazzard: Literary Expatriate and Cosmopolitan Humanist — Scrupulously Scholarly!

Cambria Press congratulates Dr. Brigitta Olubas on the glowing review review of her book, Shirley Hazzard: Literary Expatriate and Cosmopolitan Humanist, by The Australian. The book review praises the book for being “scrupulously scholarly” and adds that Olubas’s “primary observations are laid down on vast tranches of secondary reading, and she situates Hazzard’s achievement within contemporary developments in literary theory....

Cambria Press author Brigitta Olubas at the First International Conference on Shirley Hazzard hosted by the New York Society Library

Cambria Press is proud to be the first academic publisher of the first book-length study on Shirley Hazzard, the acclaimed international writer. Dr. Brigitta Olubas, author of  Shirley Hazzard: Literary Expatriate and Cosmopolitan Humanist, will be at the first writers panel on Shirley Hazzard hosted by the New York Society Library. This will take place on September 7, 2012. Registration is...

Outstanding Review for David Foster: The Satirist of Australia

Cambria Press congratulates Dr. Susan Lever (general editor of the Cambria Australian Literature Series) on the recent outstanding review of her book, David Foster: The Satirist of Australia, by Australian Literary Studies, which praises the work—among other reasons––because “Lever begins the very necessary work of bridging the gap between generalist studies of European or British satire and the idiosyncrasies of...

Cambria Press Book Series Highlight for MLA 2012: Cambria Australian Literature Series

The Cambria Australian Literature Series  focuses on critical studies of writing by Australians, with a particular emphasis on contemporary Australian fiction. In recent decades Australian fiction publishing has outstripped critical study, with the work of many important writers receiving little more critical attention than newspaper and journal reviews, with occasional articles in scholarly journals or collections by diverse critics. This...

Book Launch for Historical Portraits of Women Home Scientists at the Australia and New Zealand History of Education Society international conference coming up!

Cambria Press authors Professor Tanya Fitzgerald (La Trobe University) and Professor Jenny Collins (Unitec Institute of Technology) will have their book launch for Historical Portraits of Women Home Scientists: The University Of New Zealand, 1911–1947 at the Australia and New Zealand History of Education Society international conference at the University of Auckland on December 6, 2011. There will be a public...

Cambria Press New Publication: Historical Portraits of Women Home Scientists: The University Of New Zealand, 1911–1947

The unusual history of women scientists working from home in New Zealand in the early 1900s is revealed in Cambria Press‘s latest publication, Historical Portraits of Women Home Scientists: The University Of New Zealand, 1911–1947, by Tanya Fitzgerald and Jenny Collins. The book is now available and you can learn more about the research that went into this book by...

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