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November 18, 2022

Award-Winning Publication

The Lehigh University Press is proud to announce that Dr. Sarah Fatherly's Gentlewomen and Learned Ladies: Women and Elite Formation in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia (Lehigh University Press, 2008), is the winner of the 2010 Philip S. Klein Book Prize for the best book on Pennsylvania history. This prestigious award is given every two years by the Pennsylvania Historical Association.

November 18, 2022

Lehigh University Press Announces Three New Board Members

Lehigh University Press is proud to welcome three new board members to its family: Jessecae Marsh, Paul Brockman, and George DuPaul. An associate professor of psychology, Dr. Marsh serves as the Director of the Health, Medicine, and Society Program. She is a trained cognitive psychology, with interests in health reasoning and decision making and higher order cognition. Her research investigates how people’s beliefs about causal relationships influence their thinking, especially in regard to how they...

November 18, 2022

Lehigh University Press Announces New Director, Kate Crassons

We are proud to welcome Kate Crassons aboard as the new Press director. A member of Lehigh University’s English faculty, her research focuses on late medieval English literature and culture with a particular interest in religion. Her book, The Claims of Poverty: Literature, Culture, and Ideology in Late Medieval England was published by the University of Notre Dame Press in 2010. She is currently working on a new book project concerning faith, epistemology, and miracles...

November 18, 2022

Lehigh University Press joins Rowman & Littlefield Publishing

Lehigh University Press was delighted to join the academic consortium at Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group. Rowman & Littlefield is one of the largest independent publishers and distributors in North America. With its commitment to encouraging superior scholarship and its very high design standards, we look forward to continuing to publishing excellent scholarship while reaching more markets. RLPG is also at the forefront of electronic publishing, and our books will be simultaneously available through 48...

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...

November 18, 2022

May 2015 Issue of Choice

We are happy to announce that John Craig's book, The Ku Klux Klan in western Pennsylvania, 1921-1928, has a recieved a great review in the latest issue if Choice. You can read it below: Craig (Slippery Rock Univ.) provides an in-depth analysis of the rise and fall of the 1920s Ku Klux Klan in western Pennsylvania. Supported by an exhaustive list of sources, the author persuasively shows that the Klan was extremely active in the...

November 18, 2022

Lehigh University Press Publication Featured on PCN's "Pennsylvania Books"

Franklin L. Kury appears on the Pennsylvania Cable Network's program "PA Books" (premiering January 29, 2012). Kury's book, "Clean Politics, Clean Streams: A Legislative Autobiography and Reflections" was published by the Lehigh University Press in 2011 and recounts his efforts to enact an environmental amendment to the Pennsylvania state constitution, a comprehensive clean streams law, the gubernatorial disability law, and other significant pieces of legislation. For more information about this appearance, please visit www.pcntv.com.

November 18, 2022

Review of Law and Medicine in Revolutionary America: Dissecting the "Rush v. Cobbett" Trial, 1799

Marcia D. Nichols of the University of Minnesota Rochester has written a fantastic review of Linda Myrsiades' book Law and Medicine in Revolutionary America. This review was published in vol. 139, no. 2 of the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, and can also be found below: In 1797, Benjamin Rush sued William Cobbett for libel. Rush’s decision to address in the courtroom the biting criticism “Porcupine” had leveled at “Sangrado” during the 1797 yellow...

November 18, 2022

Lehigh University Press Announces New Series Editor

We are pleased to announce that Xi Lian, Professor of History at Duke Divinity School, will be the new series editor for our recently renamed series, "Studies of Christianity in China." A specialist in religious and intellectual encounters between China and the West, Professor Lian is the author of The Conversion of Missionaries: Liberalism in American Protestant Missions in China, 1907-1932 (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997) and Redeemed by Fire: The Rise of Popular Christianity...

Recent Praise for LUP Books

Tiffany Schubert interviewed on Mars Hill Audio.

Listen to the interview here.

Review of The Wife of Bath in Afterlife, by Betsy Bowden

Review in Journal of American Folklore.

"The Wife of Bath in Afterlife is a must-read not only for all serious-minded Chaucerian scholars but also for avid readers who earnestly endeavor to enhance their knowledge about theWife of Bath and to broaden their capacity for learning.”

-- Christina Pinkston, Norfolk State University

Review of Fiddled out of Reason, by John Willilam Knapp

Review in Papers on Language & Literature

"a valuable contribution to our understanding of the hymn as a literary and cultural phenomenon."

-- Joshua Swidzinski, University of Portland

Cover of The Final Days of Egard Allan Poe. Sepia-toned portrait of Poe.

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.

Cover of Poe and Women. Red book jacket with line drawing of a woman's head with a black cat sitting on top of her hair

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

Book cover of New Directions in Medieval Mystical and Devotional Literature

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

Book cover for Placing Charlotte Smith

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