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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...

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...

Recent Praise for LUP Books

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