About

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The Press

Lehigh University Press is housed in the Linderman Library, at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA. Our mission is to advance humanities and social sciences research through the publication of monographs, edited volumes, and primary source collections that make original contributions to humanities and social sciences scholarship. We are supported by editorial staff and a faculty board, and we follow standards set by the Association of University Presses including double-anonymized peer review. Our books are produced and distributed through a co-publishing agreement with Bloomsbury Publishing, which allows LUP to maintain full editorial control of projects while affording access to the significant resources of a large international publishing house.

History

Lehigh University Press was established in 1985 with support from Lehigh's Science, Technology, and Society (STS) program and the Lawrence Henry Gipson Institute for Eighteenth-Century Studies.

LUP's Director and Editorial Board manage the acquisition process of reviewing and selecting works for publication. Promising manuscripts are evaluated by scholars in appropriate fields, and their reports inform the Board's deliberations as it meets periodically throughout the year. Our books are produced and distributed by Bloomsbury Publishing.

The Press has had six directors: Nicholas Adams, professor of Art and Architecture; Stephen Cutcliffe, professor of history and director of Lehigh's STS program; Philip A. Metzger, for twenty years curator of Special Collections for the Lehigh University Libraries; Scott Paul Gordon, professor of English and co-director of the Gipson Institute for Eighteenth-Century Studies; Monica Najar, associate professor of history and co-director of the Gipson Institute for Eighteenth-Century Studies; and, since 2014, Kate Crassons, associate professor of English.

Board of Directors

Kate Crassons, Director of Lehigh University Press, Associate Professor, Department of English, Lehigh University

Paul Brockman, Professor, Joseph R. Perella and Amy M. Perella Chair, Perella Department of Finance, Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Research, Lehigh University

George DuPaul, Professor of School Psychology, Lehigh University

Eduardo J. Gómez, Professor, Department of Population Health, Director of the Institute of Health Policy and Politics, Lehigh University

Scott Paul Gordon, Professor, Department of English, Andrew W. Mellon Chair, Lehigh University

Dawn Keetley, Professor, Department of English, Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs, College of Arts and Sciences, Lehigh University

Michael Kramp, Professor, Department of English, Lehigh University

Jessecae Marsh, Professor, Department of Psychology, Associate Dean of Interdisciplinary Programs and International Initiatives, Lehigh University

Boaz Nadav Manes, University Librarian, Lehigh University

Monica Najar, Associate Professor, Department of History, Lehigh University

Recent Praise for LUP Books

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The Final Days of Edgar Allan Poe, by David F. Gaylin, has been "recommended for all readers" by Choice Reviews and was listed in their Community College Top 75 titles.

Poe and Women: Recognition and Revision, Edited by Amy Branam Armiento and Travis Montgomery

Review in the Journal of Gender Studies

"This engaging collection redresses the balance of Poe studies to consider his work from the perspective of women, those in his works and those reading them. . . . [It] offers a welcome emphasis on the irrepressibility of women in his work who ‘die but do not stay dead’"

-- Sara Williams, University of Hull

Book cover, Gender, Poetry, and the Form of Thought in Later Medieval Literature

Gender, Poetry, and the Form of Thought in Later Medieval Literature, Edited by Jennifer Jahner and Ingrid Nelson

Review in the Journal of English and Germanic Philology:

Very much in the spirit of Robertson's many impacts on our field, this collection opens a range of fascinating apertures into the medieval literary world that promise to be useful, both to fellow scholars and in a variety of literature classrooms.

--Emily Houlik-Ritchey, Rice University

New Directions in Medieval Mystical and Devotional Literature, Edited by Amy N. Vines and Lee Templeton

New Directions in Medieval Mystical and Devotional Literature not only makes a fitting tribute to a beloved scholar and teacher; it constitutes a significant contribution to the field in its own right. The essays in this beautifully presented book will be essential reading for anyone interested in late-medieval vernacular theology and its reception, both in England and beyond.

--Nicholas Watson, professor of English, Harvard University

Placing Charlotte Smith, Edited by Elizabeth A. Dolan and Jacqueline M. Labbe

Dolan and Labbe’s wide-ranging yet cohesive collection of essays offers a comprehensive and convincing breadth that succeeds in its mission of placing Charlotte Smith. Beyond Smithian scholarship, the volume comes at a prescient time.

--Heather Heckman-McKenna University of Missouri-Columbia

Wife of Bath in Afterlife: Ballads to Blake, by Betsy Bowden

Bowden delves into each case study so expansively that at the end of reading the book, the reader has been immersed in many different eighteenth-century cultural worlds. This is an immensely learned and valuable book that dares to be different and, as a result, breaks new ground.

-- Marion Turner, Jesus College, University of Oxford

Our Osage Hills: Toward an Osage Ecology and Tribalography of the Early Twentieth Century, Edited by Michael Snyder

Our Osage Hills: Toward an Osage Ecology and Tribalography of the Early Twentieth Century is a significant work. Snyder uses Mathews’ columns as a window into Mathews’ understanding of the Osage, its geology, its flora and fauna, as well as its human inhabitants.

-- Ruby Hansen Murray, Osage News