March 4, 2025
How My Book Began Episode 4 | Tom Scott and Achim Kopp
*this transcript has been edited from the original audio for readability and length. Listen to the entire episode on Spotify and Apple. NRC Welcome and thanks for joining us on How My Book Began. I’m Nate Carpenter, managing editor of Lehigh University Press. I'm here today with two scholars, Tom Scott, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Professor of History at Mercer University, and Achim Kopp, who is Professor of Foreign Languages and...
January 3, 2025
How My Book Began Episode 2 | Gavin Hurley on Catholic Horror
*this transcript has been edited from the original audio for readability and length. Listen to the entire episode on Spotify and Apple. NRC: I'm here today with Gavin Hurley, a scholar, storyteller, and teacher. Gavin is an associate professor of communication and literature at Ave Maria University. He has published widely in the fields of communication, religion, rhetoric, and horror, and all of that comes to bear in his recent book, Catholic Horror and Rhetorical...
October 30, 2024
HMBB Episode # 1 | Kyle Brett
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October 8, 2024
How My Book Began Podcast
June 18, 2024
Review of Poe's Women
Poe's Women, edited by Amy C Branam Armiento and Travis Montgomery, has been reviewed in the Journal of Gender Studies. In her review of the collection Sara Williams writes: "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...
March 8, 2023
The Daily Iowan Reviews “The Child Witches of Lucerne and Buchau”
LUP authors Waltraud Maierhofer's and Jennifer Vanderbeek's translation of Eveline Hasler’s “Die Vogelmacherin” into English as “The Child Witches of Lucerne and Buchau” has been reviewed by The Daily Iowan. A brief excerpt: "While the original text explores political and religious violence, Maierhofer goes further and includes essential context for the novel. The introduction and annotations done by Maierhofer and Vanderbeek provides history buffs and witch enthusiasts alike the chance to better understand the role...
November 18, 2022
Review of Michael Snyder's Our Osage Hills
We are happy to share this wonderful review of Michael Snyder 's recent book Our Osage Hills! Ruby Hansen Murray of Osage News has deemed “Reading the book is like being part of a conversation with multi-generational references, listening to gossip from relatives.”
November 18, 2022
Article on Ethel Waxham Love
Rebbeca Hein, assistant editor of WyoHistory.org, has published an article on the life of Ethel Waxham Love, citing Barabra Love's Life on Muskrat Creek. You can find the complete write up here: https://www.wyohistory.org/encyclopedia/sticking-power-ethel-waxham-love.
November 18, 2022
2019 Willa Literary Awards
We would like to offer congragulations to the Love family for their book placing as a finalist in the Scholarly Nonfiction category of 2019's Willa Literary Awards. The book, Life on Muskrat Creek, written by Ethel Waxham and J. David Love, and edited by Frances Love Froidevaux and Barabra Love, tells the fascinating story of a family's day-to-day life on an isolated ranch in early twentieth-century Wyoming. You may find out more information here: https://lupress.lehigh.edu/publication/life-muskrat-creek.
November 18, 2022
Annoucing New Book Series Critical Conversations in Horror Studies
Lehigh University Press is happy to annouce the launch of a new book series entitled Critical Conversations in Horror Studies. Lehigh University's own Dawn Keetly, Professor of English, will take charge as series editor. Please check out the book description below for more information: Publishing cutting-edge research that is accessible to both general and academic audiences, this series takes on important critical conversations about horror. The series offers a broad scope of scholarly inquiry. Not...
