American Studies, Black Studies, Education, European Studies, French studies, German Studies, Hispanic Studies, history, Italian Studies, Literary Studies

*One month left* Enter our Emerging Scholars Competition in Black Studies!

Peter Lang Publishing is delighted to announce the 2021 Peter Lang Emerging Scholars Competition in Black Studies. Proposals are invited from emerging scholars in Black Studies for single-author books to be evaluated by a distinguished editorial board. Proposals should be submitted to Laurel Plapp (L.PLAPP@peterlang.com) by 31 August 2021 and consist of an abstract (including… Continue reading *One month left* Enter our Emerging Scholars Competition in Black Studies!

American Studies, Black Studies, British Studies, Competition, Education, French studies, German Studies, Hispanic Studies, Italian Studies

Proposals invited! 2021 Peter Lang Emerging Scholars in Black Studies Competition

Peter Lang Publishing is delighted to announce the 2021 Peter Lang Emerging Scholars Competition in Black Studies. Proposals are invited from emerging scholars in Black Studies for single-author books to be evaluated by a distinguished editorial board. Proposals should be submitted to Laurel Plapp (L.PLAPP@peterlang.com) by 31 August 2021 and consist of an abstract (including… Continue reading Proposals invited! 2021 Peter Lang Emerging Scholars in Black Studies Competition

Art History, Book launch, French studies, Italian Studies

Book launch for Rossella Maria Bondi’s new book @MFOxford #Italian #French

Rossella Maria Bondi will discuss her new book, Γ€ la recherche de l’homme nouveau. Alberto Savinio et les avant-gardes Γ  Paris 1911-1937, on 4 March 2021 at 8pm GMT, at an online event co-organised by the Maison FranΓ§aise d'Oxford and the Oxford Italian Association. She will be joined by Dr Barbara Giraud-Pavlov (Oxford Brookes University),… Continue reading Book launch for Rossella Maria Bondi’s new book @MFOxford #Italian #French

African literature, American literature, English literature, Francophone literature, French studies, German Studies, Hispanic Studies, Indigenous Studies, Irish Studies, Italian Studies, Latin American Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Science Fiction, Women's Studies, World literature

Peter Lang at the Modern Language Association conference #MLA21 @MLANews @PeterLangGroup

We are pleased to be a part of this year's virtual Modern Language Association conference, on 7-10 January 2021! Our Senior Commissioning Editor Dr Laurel Plapp will be in attendance and welcomes virtual meetings to chat about publishing with us. Please email her atΒ l.plapp@peterlang.comΒ to arrange a call. ** A drop-in session with Laurel Plapp is… Continue reading Peter Lang at the Modern Language Association conference #MLA21 @MLANews @PeterLangGroup

Italian Studies, Memory Studies

New Books in Italian Studies from Peter Lang: SIS Themed Conference 2020 @Soc4ItalStudies #Italian #Italy

We are pleased to be a part of this year's virtual Society for Italian Studies Themed Conference: Visions of ItalyΒ on 10-11 September 2020, hosted by the University of Kent! Italian Studies is thriving at Peter Lang, with several new publications we are delighted to share with you virtually. Please redeem your 30% conference discount by… Continue reading New Books in Italian Studies from Peter Lang: SIS Themed Conference 2020 @Soc4ItalStudies #Italian #Italy

African Studies, Austrian Studies, British Studies, Caribbean Studies, critical race studies, Critical Theory, Cultural History, European Studies, French studies, German Literature and Culture, German Studies, Hispanic Studies, Irish Studies, Italian Studies, New series

Series launch: Imagining Black Europe @TheGSA

Peter Lang is pleased to announce the launch of the new book series Imagining Black Europe Edited by Tiffany N. Florvil and Vanessa D. Plumly This series seeks to publish critical and nuanced scholarship in the field of Black European Studies. Moving beyond and building on the Black Atlantic approach, books in this series will… Continue reading Series launch: Imagining Black Europe @TheGSA

Cultural History, Cultural Studies, French studies, German Studies, Hispanic Studies, Italian Studies, Literary Studies

Invitation for proposals: Cultural History and Literary Imagination book series

New proposals are welcome for the book series Cultural History and Literary Imagination Series Editors: Christian J. Emden (Rice University) and David Midgley (University of Cambridge) This series promotes critical inquiry into the relationship between the literary imagination and its cultural, intellectual or political contexts. The series encourages the investigation of the role of the… Continue reading Invitation for proposals: Cultural History and Literary Imagination book series

African Studies, Book launch, Italian Studies, migration studies

Photos from the launch: Migration and the Contemporary Mediterranean @TORCHOxford

Migration and the Contemporary Mediterranean: Shifting Cultures in Twenty-First-Century Italy and Beyond, edited by Claudia Gualtieri, was launched on Friday 25 January atΒ The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH). Volume editor Claudia Gualtieri (University of Milan) was joined by Elleke Boehmer (Professor of World Literature in English at Oxford) andΒ Maeve Moynihan and Lena Hart… Continue reading Photos from the launch: Migration and the Contemporary Mediterranean @TORCHOxford

African Studies, Book launch, critical race studies, Italian Studies, migration studies

Book launch: Migration and the Contemporary Mediterranean @TORCHOxford

Migration and the Contemporary Mediterranean: Shifting Cultures in Twenty-First-Century Italy and Beyond, edited by Claudia Gualtieri, will be launched on Friday 25 January at The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH). Migration and the Contemporary Mediterranean: Shifting Cultures in Twenty-First Century Italy and Beyond is a new publication in the TORCH Race and ResistanceΒ Programme's… Continue reading Book launch: Migration and the Contemporary Mediterranean @TORCHOxford

Italian Studies

Era mio padre published

Italian political terrorism of the 1970s has produced in its aftermath a rich body of memorial writing, created not only by victims or perpetrators but also by the secondary victims of violence, often children of the dead, who many years after their loss ask why their parents or relatives were chosen as targets, what it… Continue reading Era mio padre published