Northwestern University Press

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Northwestern University Press
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Northwestern University Press is an American publishing house affiliated with Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. It publishes 70 new titles each year in the areas of continental philosophy, poetry, Slavic and German literary criticism, Chicago regional studies, African American intellectual history, theater and performance studies, and fiction.[4] Parneshia Jones is director of the press.[5] It is a member of the Association of University Presses.[6]

History

Founded in 1893, Northwestern University Press was initially dedicated to the publication of legal periodicals and scholarly legal texts. In 1957, the Press was established as a separate university publishing company and began expanding its offerings with new series in various fields.

Notable Publications, Imprints, and Series

Northwestern University Press publishes a wide range of titles. In 1963, the Press published Viola Spolin's landmark volume, Improvisation for the Theater: A Handbook of Teaching and Directing Techniques, which has sold more than 100,000 copies since its publication, and Northwestern's theater list includes works by Tony and Academy Award winners such as Mary Zimmerman, Tracy Letts, Bruce Norris, and Horton Foote, as well as playwrights David Ives, Craig Wright, and Ike Holter.

Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, (SPEP)

SPEP is a series of scholarly monographs and translations founded by

Paul Ricoeur, and Edmund Husserl. The current series editor is Anthony Steinbock.[7] The series was founded as a collaboration with the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, and has been described as "one of the high watermarks in the society’s development."[8]

TriQuarterly Books

In 1990, Northwestern University Press established a fiction and poetry imprint under the imprint name

Hurston-Wright Legacy Award.[9]

Melville

In the 1950s, the Modern Language Association (MLA) established the Center for Editions of American Authors (CEAA), which proposed to organize textual editing and publication projects for major American authors.[10] Melville scholar Harrison M. Hayford engaged Northwestern University Press to publish definitive editions of Melville's body of work, which would be established through analysis and review of Melville works at the Newberry Library. The library contained 6,100 items, including at least one copy of every printing of each of Melville's books published in his lifetime, since Melville made textual changes.[11] Completed in 2017, the series includes fifteen volumes.

Studies in Russian Literature and Theory (SRLT)

Founded by Slavicist

Nabokov. More than a hundred monographs have been published in the series since 1989.[12] Awards in the series include Jenny Kaminer's Women with a Thirst for Destruction: The Bad Mother in Russian Culture winner of the Heldt "Best book in Slavic/Eastern European/Eurasian women's studies" prize.[13]

Curbstone Books

In 2010, Northwestern University Press acquired the publisher of international literature and Latin American voices,

Le Clézio.[15]

Honors

The Press has received many accolades, including major translation awards for

Nobel Prize for Literature, Hungarian author Imre Kertész. Florida, a novel by Christine Schutt, was a finalist for a National Book Award in 2004. Northwestern University Press published Herta Müller
's novel Traveling on One Leg which won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2009.

NU Press's "Forest Primeval" won the 2017 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and Patricia Smith's Incendiary Art won the same award in 2019.[16] . Also for "Incendiary Art", Patricia Smith (poet) won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for poetry in 2018.[17]

Distributed Presses

Northwestern University Press is the distributor for Lake Forest College Press[18] and Tia Chucha Press.[19]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Publishers served by the Chicago Distribution Center". University of Chicago Press. Retrieved September 12, 2017.
  2. ^ "Our Publishers | Scholarly Books". Archived from the original on December 3, 2017. Retrieved December 2, 2017.
  3. ^ "Eurospan - University Presses". Archived from the original on December 27, 2017. Retrieved December 27, 2017.
  4. ^ "About Us". Northwestern University Press. Northwestern University. Retrieved December 1, 2019.
  5. ^ Kirch, Claire. "Parneshia Jones Named Director of Northwestern University Press". www.publishersweekly.com. Publishers Weekly. Retrieved September 11, 2020.
  6. ^ "Our Members". Association of University Presses. Retrieved January 30, 2023.
  7. ^ "Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy". Northwestern University Press. Northwestern University. Retrieved December 1, 2019.
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  9. ^ Staff writer. "TriQuarterly". Northwestern University Press. Northwestern University. Retrieved May 26, 2020.
  10. ISBN 978-0199855759
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  11. ^ Herman Melville Collection, 1846-present, Council on Library and Information Resources, 2012
  12. ^ Morson, Gary Saul. "Studies in Russian Literature and Theory". nupress.northwestern.edu. Northwestern University. Retrieved May 10, 2020.
  13. ^ "Awards: Past Recipients". awsshome.org/. Association For Women in Slavic Studies. Retrieved September 28, 2020.
  14. ^ Canfield, Kevin (2010). "Northwestern Acquires Curbstone". Poets & Writers Magazine.
  15. ^ "Curbstone Books". Northwestern University Press. Northwestern University. Retrieved September 24, 2020.
  16. ^ "TUFTS POETRY AWARDS: Previous Winners & Finalists". Claremont Graduate University. Claremont Graduate University. Retrieved September 24, 2020.
  17. ^ Staff, Harriet. "Los Angeles Times Book Prizes for Patricia Smith & Jenny Zhang!". Poetry Foundation. Poetry Foundation. Retrieved January 7, 2019.
  18. ^ "Lake Forest College Press". Northwestern University Press. Northwestern University. Retrieved September 29, 2020.
  19. ^ "Tia Chucha Press". Northwestern University Press. Northwestern University. Retrieved September 29, 2020.

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