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Thanks to all who participated in the LASA 2015 pop quiz–we had nearly 100 entries. The correct answer is Roberto Bolaño! Congrats to Sol Palaez, Ana Paula Höfling, and Casey Drosehn, who answered correctly and won books of their choice! If you did not win, you can still get the book you want with the LASA discount. Orders placed by June...

#LASA2015 Pop Quiz! Come to the Cambria Press booth (#7) in the book exhibit hall and submit your answer. You could win a free book of your choice! Download this flyer for a 35% discount for you and your library. Offer ends on June 15. Like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter. See the Cambria Press website for...

The following is an interview with Currie Thompson, author of Picturing Argentina: Myths, Movies, and the Peronist Vision: Question: Why did you decide to write Picturing Argentina: Myths, Movies, and the Peronist Vision? Currie Thompson: I wanted to investigate three interrelated topics: Argentine cinema, Peronism, and the evolution of social norms reflected in cinema. Argentina is the home of one...

LASA 2015: LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES SCHOLARS MUST VISIT BOOTH #7! New Book Highlight! “The Brazilian slave past and its African heritage are emerging in urban and rural areas in various forms led not only by activists but also by scholars engaged with local black communities.” – Ana Lucia Araujo Ana Lucia Araujo, Professor of History at Howard University, has just...

If you missed Geoffrey B. Elliott’s session this morning at the 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies, you can still catch him on Saturday either at “From Frodo to Fidelma: Medievalisms in Popular Genres” (1:30 p.m.) or at “Martin and More: Genre Medievalisms” (3:30 p.m.) Be sure to get a flyer–it has a coupon code for 35% off–from him for...

#Kzoo15 attendees, mark your 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies program schedules for the following sessions by these contributors to the exciting forthcoming book edited by Helen Young, The Middles Ages in Popular Culture. This book is in the Cambria Studies in Classicism, Orientalism, and Medievalism book series (General Editor: Nickolas A. Haydock). See below for the session times for...

“A raiding island culture in a fantasy series immediately conjures Vikings—and even prompts formal argument in favor of that impression—bespeaking a decidedly Northern and Western European bias. Recognizing and negotiating that bias to show that these figures were more likely inspired by the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest allows for a broader conception of what the genre can be...

Cambria Press congratulates Professor Lauren Beck (Mount Allison University) on the outstanding review of her book Transforming the Enemy in Spanish Culture: The Conquest through the Lens of Textual and Visual Multiplicity in the journal Hispania, which states that “the appeal of this book should be as broad as its subject matter; it could easily find a home on the bookshelf...

The AAS 2015 conference was one of the best and busiest for Cambria Press, especially on Saturday during the book launch event for Dorothy Wong and Gustav Heldt’s China and Beyond in the Mediaeval Period, which is part of the Cambria Sinophone World Series headed by Victor Mair (University of Pennsylvania). The winners for the AAS pop quiz were also...