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Publishing in the arts, humanities, and social sciences since 1968.

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See our current and forthcoming titles in the Bucknell University Press 2024 to 2025 catalog.

Click here to see the full catalog:
tinyurl.com/bdeakh64

#literarystudies #LatinAmerica #18thcenturystudies #Caribbean #Spanishhistory #Austen #Germanstudies #humanities
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Under Pressure to Cut Costs, a University Closes Its Press

Bucknell University says it’s closing its storied academic press to focus more resources on undergraduate students. But faculty and other scholars say the press has long been a part of the value proposition at a... https://bit.ly/43UmxVK
November 12, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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This is devastating news. Bucknell UP's team has been incredibly kind, patient, and supportive with my first book. I'm forever grateful. This is so sad.

Support the GD humanities, including the presses!!!
very much saddened to learn that bucknell university press will be closing. they took a chance on my first book when other presses said it was too short or too narrowly focused on minor authors.

www.chronicle.com/blogs/letter...
Letter | Bucknell University Press to Close
This should alarm university presses nationwide, writes Aníbal González-Pérez.
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August 25, 2025 at 1:21 AM
#Newbook: Body Language: Medicine and the Eighteenth-Century Comic Novel by @katalves18c.bsky.social 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
November 20, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Honored to see Emilia Pardo Bazán's "The White Horse and Other Stories" included in this @literaryhub.bsky.social round-up featuring great books in translation from university presses:
tinyurl.com/5fmbz24n

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

#translation #spanishliterature #readtheworld
November 19, 2025 at 6:03 PM
There are a multitude of ways that university presses #TeamUP. Today, we delve into how we take collective action.

@bucknellupress.bsky.social is proud to #TeamUP locally and around the world. From us to you, thank you for a wonderful #UPressWeek.

#ReadUP #TeamUP #UPWeek
November 14, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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.

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

#AfricanTheatre #Translation #ReadUP #TeamUP #UPWeek
November 13, 2025 at 3:37 PM
This #UniversityPressWeek, and every week, we're proud to #TeamUP against book bans. We're grateful for our October 2 blog post, "Teaming up against book banning," to be included in the #UPWeek Blog Tour, and to promote the right to #ReadUP.

To read: tinyurl.com/46wkfapw

#TeamUP #ReadUP #UPWeek
November 12, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Congratulations to Linda Zionkowski, Mimi Hart, and all contributors to "Women and Music in the Age of Austen," winner of the American Musicological Society's Ruth A. Solie Award for an outstanding essay collection of exceptional scholarly merit.

For more: lnkd.in/dNa_gmK9
#ReadUP #TeamUP #UPWeek
November 11, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Join us in celebrating #UPWeek 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!

To read: tinyurl.com/42a387fz

#TeamUP #ReadUP #UPWeek
November 10, 2025 at 4:45 PM
To wrap up #BannedBooksWeek, we’d like to spotlight a BUP title recently added to the list of books banned across the country; “Cigar Smoke and Violet Water” by Joyce Tolliver was number 307 on April’s list of purged books.

To learn more: tinyurl.com/2etuxzzd
October 10, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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. #Romanticism #AnimalStudies #Posthumanism tinyurl.com/mr3mj8p3
October 9, 2025 at 3:09 PM
To highlight #BannedBooksWeek, we’ve published a new blog post recounting the history of the @bucknellu.bsky.social Banned Books Committee and the community’s support for our #FreedomToRead.

To read: tinyurl.com/46wkfapw
October 8, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Happy #BannedBooksWeek! Celebrate your #RightToRead by checking out the events sponsored by our friends in the Bucknell English Department, Bertrand Library, Mondragon Books, and Lewisburg community!

See the full event list here: bucknell.libcal.com
October 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
To celebrate #NationalTranslationMonth, we’ve compiled a list of books in translation in our newest blog post! Use code RUP30 on book purchases published by @bucknellupress.bsky.social for a discount and free US shipping.

To read, shop our catalog, and more: linktr.ee/bucknellupress
September 29, 2025 at 5:58 PM
On Sunday, September 14 at 4pm, don’t miss Wendy M. Thompson at Book Passage Bookstore & Café in Corte Madera, California, where she will read from *BLACK CALIFORNIA GOLD*, alongside @terraoliveira.bsky.social, author of Itinerant Songs (Recenter Press).

To order: tinyurl.com/hvrrnjmv
September 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Thank you @mngupbooks.bsky.social for highlighting our Contemporary Irish Writers series!

Built on on the legacy of our foundational Irish Writers Series from the 1970s, 40 volumes strong: www1.bucknell.edu/script/upres...

#IrishStudies #IrishWriters #IrishLit
This series brings theoretically informed perspectives to a consideration of the work and lives of Irish writers, providing discussions of interpretive issues at a time when Irish Studies is being vigorously rethought.

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@bucknellupress.bsky.social #IASIL2025 #IrishStudies
July 30, 2025 at 6:43 PM
If you're in the Bay Area, treat yourself to this discussion and reading by poet Wendy Thompson from her affecting new collection, "Black California Gold." Sausalito Books by the Bay, Thursday 6/26 at 6pm. In conversation with Felecia Gaston.

About the book: tinyurl.com/2upvvnvd

#bayarea #poetry
June 17, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Celebrate Bloomsday with the man himself.
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#jamesjoyce #bloomsday #Ulysses
June 16, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Nothing pleases us more than seeing our authors' work feted! Congratulations to @laurelvhankins.bsky.social whose new book "The Art of Retreat: Domestic Romanticisms in the Early United States" is just out this month.

For more or to order: tinyurl.com/msdwwzur. Use discount code RUP30 for 30% off.
May 21, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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heyyyy, thanks Tom! Great to see it out and about!
Excited to get my copy of @laurelvhankins.bsky.social’s The Art of Retreat. A must read for anyone interested in the development of fiction in the United States!
May 7, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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@bucknellupress.bsky.social has reminded me that as you’re planning summer reading or sending purchase recommendations to your library, you can use discount code RUP30 for 30% off The Art of Retreat: tinyurl.com/yhunwhzm
The Art of Retreat - Bucknell University Press
The political and cultural fantasy of home as a retreat from the pressures of the world first emerged in the U.S. alongside two major nineteenth-century lit...
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May 21, 2025 at 1:43 PM
To round off National Poetry Month, check out our latest blog post! We interviewed Michael Naydan about Ukrainian poetry, Bohdan Ihor Antonych's works, and the process of translating poetry

Click here to read:
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#NationalPoetryMonth #Poetry #Ukraine
April 29, 2025 at 3:44 PM
For National Poetry Month, check out our latest blog post! We interviewed Wendy Thompson about her recent collection of poetry BLACK CALIFORNIA GOLD

Click here to read:
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#poetry #nationalpoetrymonth #bayarea #california
April 15, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Sharing an article by @bucknellupress.bsky.social translator Michael Naydan @psupress.bsky.social

Is There Hope in Actual Negotiations between Ukraine and Russia?, by Michael M. Naydan

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April 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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"Black California Gold" by Wendy M. Thompson

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Published by Bucknell University Press. @BucknellUPress

#California #Poetry #Migration #AfricanAmerican
April 14, 2025 at 3:34 PM