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Lever Press @leverpress.bsky.social · 4h

Join the contributors of GLEANINGS FROM THE FIELD for two interactive virtual sessions exploring food studies, civic engagement, and collaborative partnerships in higher ed! Register for the Oct. 28 and Nov. 6 sessions here: seed-coalition.org/programs/mem...

Seed Talks - Seed Coalition

Members can join their colleagues from Minnesota and Iowa for resource-sharing, and idea generation around civic and community engagement.

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sean guynes @guynes.bsky.social · 23h

A book about science fiction films and adaptation, in videographic (i.e. video essay) form!

Lever Press @leverpress.bsky.social · 1d

ADAPTIVE FORMS by Gregory Brophy & Shawn Malley is now available to read online! This new edition to our Videographic series examines media adaptation in contemporary science fiction film through 14 video essays. Start reading and watching here: buff.ly/1K6d7Z0

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Lever Press @leverpress.bsky.social · 1d

ADAPTIVE FORMS by Gregory Brophy & Shawn Malley is now available to read online! This new edition to our Videographic series examines media adaptation in contemporary science fiction film through 14 video essays. Start reading and watching here: buff.ly/1K6d7Z0

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Stephen LN @riffsandmeaning.bsky.social · 5d

A second edition of Screen Captures is coming next year with @leverpress.bsky.social and one of the most wonderful things about it is that it will be available in physical formats and freely available Open Access.

services.publishing.umich.edu/Contributors...

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Arnaud Macé @arnaudmace.bsky.social · 16d

Exploring gender and virtue in Plutarch: read the first review in French of Lunette Warren's book by Julie Mestery @leverpress.bsky.social journals.openedition.org/etudesplaton...

L. Warren, Like a Captive Bird - Gender and virtue in Plutarch

Like a Captive Bird s’intéresse à la question de la place des femmes dans l’œuvre de Plutarque, à la fois dans les Moralia et les Vies parallèles. Lunette Warren, dans ce livre issu de sa thèse, fa...

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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 25d

"She hate me!" @shanedenson.bsky.social's new monograph on BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN is the first in @leverpress.bsky.social's film/minutes series, giving you a minute-by-minute look at the film and its context.
liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

The cover of the book BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN, with images from the film (showing Frankenstein's monster and the Bride herself) in geometrically arranged and differently colored segments.

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Lever Press @leverpress.bsky.social · 27d

A guidebook for thinking about care work across a variety of disciplines and careers, PRACTICE DIALOGUES is out June 2026! This volume recasts the traditional discourses of "helping" and calls readers and academics to learn from care workers' wisdom as knowledge. Read more: buff.ly/rySYA93

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Peter Barr @tweeterbarr.bsky.social · 28d

New OA Book by Lever Press one of the publishers that @sheffielduni.bsky.social Library supports via its Open Scholarship Fund 🔓📘

Lever Press @leverpress.bsky.social · 29d

BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN by @shanedenson.bsky.social is now available! As the inaugural volume of the film|minutes series, this book offers a minute-by-minute analysis of James Whale's 1935 masterpiece Bride of Frankenstein. Start reading here: buff.ly/U96DFVI

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Lever Press @leverpress.bsky.social · 29d

Start reading (or grab a copy) here! services.publishing.umich.edu/Books/B/Brid...

Bride of Frankenstein

The inaugural volume in the film|minutes book series, this book offers a close, minute-by-minute analysis of director James Whale’s iconic 1935 masterpiece Bride of Frankenstein. Alternating between a...

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Lever Press @leverpress.bsky.social · 29d

BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN by @shanedenson.bsky.social is now available! As the inaugural volume of the film|minutes series, this book offers a minute-by-minute analysis of James Whale's 1935 masterpiece Bride of Frankenstein. Start reading here: buff.ly/U96DFVI

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sean guynes @guynes.bsky.social · Sep 8

In case folks don't know, I'm also the senior acquiring editor at @leverpress.bsky.social, an open access academic publisher funded by liberal arts colleges and universities across the US, UK, and Europe. And I'm always interested to hear about book projects in the humanities and social sciences!

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sean guynes @guynes.bsky.social · Aug 29

Your regular reminder that @leverpress.bsky.social not only published Open Access books, we don't charge authors or their institutions. And we pay you an honorarium to make up for the potential loss of royalties. We are proof that "things don't have to be this way."

Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · Aug 29

"Things don’t have to be this way, open-science experts say: These fees are imposed entirely by publishers. The most prominent examples are Springer Nature and Elsevier, for-profit enterprises that generate billions in revenue."

www.chronicle.com/article/maki...

Making Your Research Free May Cost You

Under a new requirement that NIH-funded research be freely, immediately available, some journals are forcing researchers to pay to publish.

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Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · Aug 25

A new week means a brilliant selection of new titles from our distributed presses. First up, "Knowing an Empire: Early Modern Chinese and Spanish Worlds in Dialogue" from Lever Press's ASIANetwork Books collection.

Find it here: bit.ly/3Vcoc47
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Promotional graphic for "Knowing an Empire: Early Modern Chinese and Spanish Worlds in Dialogue". The graphic shows the book's forest green cover on the far left, flanked on the right by a summarising paragraph which says: "A comparative study showing how early modern China and Spain built and balanced their empires through parallel systems of local knowledge, governance, and global exchange."

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Stephen LN @riffsandmeaning.bsky.social · Aug 22

Woah, new edition of Screen Captures: Film in the Age of Emergency. Coming with @leverpress.bsky.social in spring 2026.
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Lever Press @leverpress.bsky.social · Aug 22

Exploring our political, cultural, and technological contexts, on and off the screen, this new edition of SCREEN CAPTURES by @riffsandmeaning.bsky.social is out March 2026! Read more and pre-order your copy here: services.publishing.umich.edu/Books/S/Scre...

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Lever Press @leverpress.bsky.social · Aug 22

Exploring our political, cultural, and technological contexts, on and off the screen, this new edition of SCREEN CAPTURES by @riffsandmeaning.bsky.social is out March 2026! Read more and pre-order your copy here: services.publishing.umich.edu/Books/S/Scre...

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Lever Press @leverpress.bsky.social · Aug 18

Lever Press authors Kelly and Katherine Ngo attended the Association for Moral Education conference in Finland! Their forthcoming volume TRADITIONAL CHINESE CHILDREN'S PRIMERS was featured, so pre-order your copy or bookmark the OA version here: services.publishing.umich.edu/Books/T/Trad...

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Alexis Lycas @lxslcs.bsky.social · Aug 12

new OA book, Knowing an Empire. Early Modern Chinese and Spanish Worlds in Dialogue, edited by Mackenzie Cooley & Wu Huiyi (in which I wrote a medieval chapter: "Imperial Territorial Data Before the Age of Print"), available here: www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...

Knowing an Empire: Early Modern Chinese and Spanish Worlds in Dialogue

Revealing dynamic dialogues between early modern China and Latin America through a new methodology Knowing an Empire: Early Modern Chinese and Spanish Worlds in Dialogue unveils how these two vast emp...

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Hilde De Weerdt @hildedw.bsky.social · Aug 14

This looks wonderful!

Alexis Lycas @lxslcs.bsky.social · Aug 12

new OA book, Knowing an Empire. Early Modern Chinese and Spanish Worlds in Dialogue, edited by Mackenzie Cooley & Wu Huiyi (in which I wrote a medieval chapter: "Imperial Territorial Data Before the Age of Print"), available here: www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...

Knowing an Empire: Early Modern Chinese and Spanish Worlds in Dialogue

Revealing dynamic dialogues between early modern China and Latin America through a new methodology Knowing an Empire: Early Modern Chinese and Spanish Worlds in Dialogue unveils how these two vast emp...

www.fulcrum.org

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Mackenzie Cooley @mackenziecooley.bsky.social · Aug 17

A mini-intro to the first part of our book, "Knowing an Empire" with @leverpress.bsky.social

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sean guynes @guynes.bsky.social · Aug 13

This is a big one! Not only a hefty volume at over 600 pages, but it brings together incredible work comparing the craft of early modern Chinese and Spanish empires.

Lever Press @leverpress.bsky.social · Aug 13

KNOWING AN EMPIRE by @mackenziecooley.bsky.social & Huiyi Wu is now available! This ASIANetwork Books collection reveals the dynamic dialogues between early modern China and Latin America through a new methodology. Start reading: services.publishing.umich.edu/Books/K/Know...

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Lever Press @leverpress.bsky.social · Aug 13

KNOWING AN EMPIRE by @mackenziecooley.bsky.social & Huiyi Wu is now available! This ASIANetwork Books collection reveals the dynamic dialogues between early modern China and Latin America through a new methodology. Start reading: services.publishing.umich.edu/Books/K/Know...

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Lever Press @leverpress.bsky.social · Aug 5

A huge congratulations to LP author Stefan Ekman and his book URBAN FANTASY on winning the 2025 Mythopoeic Myth and Fantasy Studies Award!🎉🎉🎉 Read the full announcement: www.mythsoc.org/news/news-20...

The Mythopoeic Society: 2025 Mythopoeic Awards winners announced

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sean guynes @guynes.bsky.social · Aug 5

Congrats to Stefan Ekman and his book Urban Fantasy: Exploring Modernity through Magic, published by us at @leverpress.bsky.social, for winning the 2025 Mythopoeic Award for Myth and Fantasy Studies! www.mythsoc.org/news/news-20...

Cover of Ekman's Urban Fantasy, which is mostly black, two hooded figures at the bottom, and a vertigo-inducing image of skyscrapers in the center.

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Lever Press @leverpress.bsky.social · Jul 31

"Chris Campanioni explores how stories created in exile and passage shape modern media in DRIFT NET": Check out this interview with DRIFT NET author @chriscampanioni.bsky.social and @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social here: www.gc.cuny.edu/news/alumnus...

Alumnus Reframes Migration as a Creative Force in Literature and Media

Chris Campanioni explores how stories created in exile and passage shape modern media in "Drift Net."

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CUNY Graduate Center @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social · Jul 30

Alumnus Chris Campanioni explores how stories created in exile and passage shape modern media in his new book "Drift Net" www.gc.cuny.edu/news/alumnus...

Chris Campanioni and his new book, "Drift Net: The Aesthetics of Literature and Media in Migration"

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