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#LASA2015 Attendees, Come See CONTEMPORARY HISPANIC POETS!

#LASA2015 Attendees, the latest book in the  Cambria Studies in Latin American Literatures and Cultures headed by Roman de la Campa (University of Pennsylvania) is now available! Contemporary Hispanic Poets: Cultural Production in the Global, Digital Age by John Burns has been published just in time for the 2015 LASA Congress! Poets writing in Spanish by the end of the...

Asian Studies: AAS 2015 Meet the Authors and Series Editor Event – Saturday (March 28) at 2 p.m.

Asian studies scholars at the AAS 2015 conference, come meet Victor Mair (University of Pennsylvania), general editor of the Cambria Sinophone World Series; Dorothy Wong and Gustav Heldt (University of Virginia), editors of the volume; and Tansen Sen (Baruch College), who is on the editorial board and a contributor; at the Cambria Press booth (601) in the AAS exhibit hall...

International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts: Authors of forthcoming Fantasy and Science Fiction Medievalisms presenting next week

Scholars of fantasy and science fiction studies attending next week’s International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, held in Orlando, will not want to miss the sessions of Dr. Helen Young (University of Sydney) and Professor Donald Riggs (Drexel University).  Dr. Young is the editor of the forthcoming book Fantasy and Science Fiction Medievalisms: From Isaac Asimov to A...

#BlackHistoryMonth: In Celebration

Many notable African Americans hailed from Memphis, including Veronica Coleman, Tennessee’s first black U.S. Attorney General. In her book Notable Black Memphians, Miriam DeCosta-Willis (a notable African American herself as the first faculty member of Memphis State University) provides a biographical and historical study which traces the evolution of a major Southern city through the lives of black men and...

#Slavery: African Heritage and Memories of Slavery in Brazil and the South Atlantic World (Ana Lucia Araujo) now available!

“Brazil imported the largest number of enslaved Africans during the Atlantic slave trade era […] Today, with the exception of Nigeria, the largest population of people of African descent is in Brazil […] Yet, Brazil has a complex relationship with its slave past; consequently, these complications spill over into the various dimensions of Brazil’s rich African heritage that originated from...

#Humanities Scholarship – Important and Growing

An excellent article from Inside Higher Ed regarding scholarship in the humanities, in which William (Bro) Adams, the head of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), said on Thursday that he wants to push humanities scholarship to become more directly connected to helping address the nation’s contemporary problems. There are also encouraging numbers from today’s Inside Higher Ed article...

#MLA15 Sinophone Scholars! Must-have book praised by world’s top Sinologists!

When a book is included in the series of the world-renowned Sinologist Victor Mair (University of Pennsylvania) and praised by top Sinophone scholars David Der-wei Wang (Harvard University), Shu-mei Shih (UCLA), and Quah Sy Ren (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), it is not surprising (but still very gratifying!) when it is praised in a journal review for being “[w]ell-written and researched”...

#MLA15 Mo Yan fans! Here’s the perfect complement to the Nobel laureate’s novels!

There couldn’t be a better endorsement than from Dr. Howard Goldblatt, the translator of Mo Yan’s novels: “I recommend this first full-length study in English to anyone who wants the perfect complement to their reading of Mo Yan’s novels.” Browse A Subversive Voice in China: The Fictional World of Mo Yan by Shelley Chan, associate professor of Chinese language and cultural...

#MLA15 Modern Poetry in China: A Visual-Verbal Dynamic

Cambria Press congratulates Paul Manfredi, professor of Chinese studies at Pacific Lutheran University, on the outstanding reviews of his book, Modern Poetry in China: A Visual-Verbal Dynamic. The Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art lauds the book for being “a very well-written, researched, illustrated and convincingly argued book that will no doubt be read widely among those with a specialist interest in...

#NWSA2014 Highlights: Groundbreaking Books for Women’s Studies

#NWSA2014 attendees, are these groundbreaking books in women’s studies in your library? Make sure they are and take advantage of the 30% discount on all titles (now until November 30, 2014). Use web coupon code BA188. Unnatural Reproductions and Monstrosity: The Birth of the Monster in Literature, Film, and Media Andrea Wood and Brandy Schillace Much has been written about...

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