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Publishing in the arts, humanities, and social sciences since 1968. Bucknell University Press books are sold and distributed by Rowman & Littlefield.

Bucknell University Press is a leading publisher of eighteenth-century studies, Luso-Hispanic studies, and Latin American studies, while also publishing extraordinary occasional texts in other areas of the humanities, including philosophy, environmentalism and ecocriticism, Africana studies, Irish literature, French literature, and cultural studies. As a small, faculty-run organization working clo

sely with people in many universities in the U.S., the U.K., and beyond we are committed to seeking, encouraging, and disseminating engaging, enterprising scholarship that is accessible to educated readers of different kinds. While embracing digitalization, our print books continue to reflect our appreciation of high production values as well as the widespread desire for beauty in the books that people read.

12/03/2025

December 9 marks the release date of two BUP titles: the first-time paperback edition of "Citizens of Memory: Affect, Representation, and Human Rights in Postdictatorship Argentina" by Silvia Tandeciarz and "Narrating Infertility in Spain" by Catherine Bourland Ross.

"Citizens of Memory" explores efforts at recollection in post-dictatorship Argentina and the hoped-for futures they set in motion. Tandeciarz suggests that by inciting deep reflection and an active engagement with the legacies of state violence, interventions like those studied here may advance transitional justice and contribute to the construction of less violent futures.

To order "Citizens of Memory": https://tinyurl.com/3e56pz7v

"Narrating Infertility in Spain," the first study of infertility in post-2008 female-authored texts, analyzes discussions of adoption, assisted reproduction, egg and s***m donation, and the decision not to have children due to economic or social instability. By examining the work of five writers and vocal activists, Ross situates infertility in Spain within the cultural context of the Great Recession, while considering it as a business, a crisis, a stigma, and a class issue, and offering broader understandings of contemporary fertility challenges in Spain and beyond.

To order "Narrating Infertility in Spain": https://tinyurl.com/3hfn2d3h

12/02/2025

To celebrate next week's release of "Narrating Infertility in Spain, BUP has published a new blog post. In “Reproduction and Re-Production: Narrating Infertility with Dr. Catherine Bourland Ross," we sat down with Dr. Ross to discuss her upcoming book, the illusion of choice in the contemporary fertility landscape, and the importance of reproductive literature on our bookshelves.

To read: https://tinyurl.com/bdddntzr

12/01/2025

: Body Language: Medicine and the Eighteenth-Century Comic Novel by Kathleen Tamayo Alves examines the intersections of British 18C comic fiction and medical discourse, adding "a vital chapter to the study of medicine, literature, and gender in the period."

To order: tinyurl.com/3vpz7crk

11/19/2025

Honored to see our new paperback edition of Emilia Pardo Bazán's "The White Horse and Other Stories" included in this Literary Hub round-up featuring great books in translation from university presses:
https://tinyurl.com/5fmbz24n

For more about the book: https://tinyurl.com/3kuhhpk5

11/14/2025

There are a multitude of ways that university presses . Today, we delve into how we take collective action.

Bucknell University Press is proud to with several events, organizations, and societies locally and around the world. From Bucknell University Press to you, thank you for a wonderful .

11/13/2025

We are proud to share that Contemporary Francophone African Plays: An Anthology was awarded Honorable Mention for the American Society for Theatre Research Translation Prize, which recognizes an outstanding translation into English of a work in the field of theatre and performance studies. Congratulations to Judy Miller and her collaborators Sylvie Alix CHALAYE, Subha Xavier, Amelia Parenteau and Ninon Vessier on this distinction.

Contemporary Francophone African Plays: An Anthology brings together eleven groundbreaking Francophone African plays (1970–2021) in English translation for the first time. From Bernard Dadié’s Béatrice du Congo, Sony Labou Tansi’s I, Undersigned, Cardiac Case, and Sénouvo Agbota Zinsou’s We’re Just Playing, offering biting satire of colonizers and collaborators, to contemporary works like Koffi Kwahulé’s SAMO: A Tribute to Basquiat and Penda Diouf’s Tracks, Trails, and Traces… exploring diasporic identity, this collection captures over fifty years of African theatrical innovation.

The anthology bears witness to the Rwandan genocide (Yolande Mukagasana’s Rwanda 94), interrogates patriarchy (Werewere Liking’s Singuè Mura: Given That a Woman…), and revisits history through José Pliya’s The Sister of Zarathustra, which follows Elizabeth Nietzsche’s unsettling colonial project in Paraguay. With Gustave Akakpo’s The True Story of Little Red Riding Hood, Kossi Efoui’s The Conference of the Dogs, and Kangni Alem’s The Landing, these plays probe what makes life livable, and what is lost in the search for a life beyond Africa.

This innovative collection offers readers, educators, and theatre practitioners a vital window into the power and diversity of modern African drama.

About the award: https://lnkd.in/eCcEppTQ
About the book: https://lnkd.in/eWWkdfi5

11/12/2025

This , and every week, Bucknell University Press is proud to against book bans. In our October 2 blog post, "Teaming up against book banning," BUP director Suzanne E. Guiod puts it best: "Books open minds, deepen empathy, and challenge entrenched perspectives. Bucknell University Press enacts those values in its own publishing and is honored to stand with Bertrand Library at Bucknell University colleagues, Mondragon Books friends, and the Lewisburg community to protect and promote the right to read." We're grateful to be included in the Association of University Presses Blog Tour, and to promote the right to .

To read more: https://tinyurl.com/46wkfapw

11/10/2025

Join us in celebrating and the upcoming paperback release of "Citizens of Memory: Affect, Representation, and Human Rights in Postdictatorship Argentina" with a guest blog post by author Silvia Tandeciarz!

Says Bucknell University Press Director Suzanne Guiod, "Author Silvia Tandeciarz reflects on the shifting terrain of human rights, the fragility of democratic norms, and what it means to remain a 'citizen of memory' in an age of disinformation and forgetting."

To read: https://tinyurl.com/42a387fz

10/10/2025

To wrap up this year’s , we’d like to spotlight a Bucknell University Press title recently added to the list of books banned across the country.

“Cigar Smoke and Violet Water: Gendered Discourse in the Stories of Emilia Pardo Bazán” by Joyce Tolliver was published in 1998 and appeared on the list of 381 books purged from the Naval Academy Library earlier this year.

On “Cigar Smoke”: This study offers a critical consideration of six stories that are representative of the gendered narrative dynamics found in Pardo Bazán's short fiction, as well as of the contestatory impulses more evident in the stories than in the novels. The cultural and discursive context within which Pardo Bazán inserted herself as public figure and writer provides a frame for the critical discussion. In particular, the focus is on two central aspects of this discursive context: the important part that gender played in Pardo Bazán's published polemics with her male literary colleagues; and the reactionary response to the European feminist movements that filled the pages of the same mainstream journals where Pardo Bazán published the majority of her short fiction.

To learn more: https://tinyurl.com/2etuxzzd

10/09/2025

What do animals reveal about being human? New collection explores how Romantic-era art & literature used animal encounters—from Poe’s raven to Burns’s mouse—to question boundaries between human & nonhuman life. https://tinyurl.com/mr3mj8p3

10/08/2025

To highlight here at Bucknell University, BUP has published a new blog post written by our Editorial Assistant and BUP’s Banned Books Week Committee delegate, Molly Clay. “Teaming up against Book Banning” recounts the history of the Banned Books Committee at Bucknell University, which this year includes Bertrand Library at Bucknell University, Mondragon Books, Bucknell University Press, and Bucknell English: Creative Writing, Film/Media, Literary Studies, and fights the censorship books face across the country with community-wide support for our .

To read: https://tinyurl.com/46wkfapw

10/06/2025

It’s , which means the Banned Books Week Committee here at Bucknell University has been working tirelessly to organize a week full of events celebrating your .

This year, the theme is “Censorship is so 1984. Read for Your Rights,” invoking George Orwell’s “1984” and the dangers of censorship surrounding increasing attempts to ban books across the country. One of Bucknell University Press’s own has experienced this censorship: “Cigar Smoke and Violet Water: Gendered Discourse in the Stories of Emilia Pardo Bazán” by Joyce Tolliver was one of 381 books removed from the Naval Academy Library earlier this year.

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