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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...

Cambria Press Author Q&A for Shirley Hazzard: Literary Expatriate and Cosmopolitan Humanist

Cambria Press is pleased to present the following Q&A session with Dr. Brigitta Olubas on her recently published book, Shirley Hazzard: Literary Expatriate and Cosmopolitan Humanist. Shirley Hazzard’s work has been extensively and extravagantly praised by writers and reviewers, such as Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Richard Ford, who raves that “if there has to be one best writer working in English...

Read the author interview with Professor William Dalessio on his recently published book, Are We What We Eat?

Cambria Press is pleased to announce that Are We What We Eat? Food and Identity in Late Twentieth-Century American Literature by William Dalessio is now available. Below is a transcript of the Q&A session with Professor Dalessio.  ************************ 1. Why did you decide to write this book? I decided to write Are We What We Eat? Food and Identity in...

Sacred Display by Miriam Robbins Dexter and Victor H. Mair Wins the Sarasvati Award for the Best Nonfiction Book in Women and Mythology!

Cambria Press congratulates Professors Miriam Robbins Dexter and Victor H. Mair on their book, Sacred Display: Divine and Magical Female Figures of Eurasia, winning the Sarasvati Award for the Best Nonfiction Book in Women and Mythology! This book which discusses erotic and magical goddesses and heroines in several ancient cultures; such a wide-ranging cross-cultural and cross-temporal view of this genre...

Great Review for What Is Eating Latin American Women Writers: Food, Weight, and Eating Disorders

Cambria Press congratulates Professor Renée S. Scott on the outstanding review by Feminist Collections of her book, What Is Eating Latin American Women Writers: Food, Weight, and Eating Disorders. The journal commends the study because “Scott’s work navigates a great geographical swath, and so it has much to offer beginners and specialists alike.” The review also adds that “this book might...

Read the author interview with Professor Elizabeth Soliday on her recently published book, Childbirth in a Technocratic Age

Cambria Press is pleased to announce that Childbirth in a Technocratic Age: The Documentation of Women’s Expectations and Experiences by Elizabeth Soliday is now available. Below is a transcript of the Q&A session with Professor Soliday.  ************************ 1. Why did you decide to write this book? I decided to write Childbirth in a Technocratic Age: The Documentation of Women’s Expectations...

Cambria Press Countdown to the 2012 International Studies Association Annual Conference has begun!

The countdown to the International Studies Association (ISA) annual conference in San Diego has begun! To kick things off, Cambria Press is proud to announce that North Korea Demystified is scheduled for publication this year. The editor of this forthcoming book by Cambria Press is Han S. Park with Regan Damron and Jonathan Polk . Watch an interview with Dr....

Cambria Press author Lillian Craton’s Book Praised by Victorian Studies for being “useful and compelling”

Cambria Press congratulates Lillian Craton on the outstanding review of her book The Victorian Freak Show: The Significance of Disability and Physical Differences in 19th-Century Fiction by renowned scholar Marlene Tromp in Victorian Studies, which states that Professor Craton’s book is “an important contribution” and that “the most significant innovation of the project is the way in which Craton uncovers the often...

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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