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germano, william. from dissertation to book. chicago: university of chicago press, 2005 .
derricourt, robin. an author’s guide to scholarly publishing. princeton: princeton university press, 1996 .
luey, beth. handbook for academic authors, 4th ed. new york: cambridge university press, 2002 .
———, ed. revising your dissertation: advice from leading editors. berkeley: university of california press, 2004 .
abouharb, m. rodwan. 2008. review of state repression and the domestic democratic peace. by christian davenport” (cambridge university press, 2007 .) journal of politics 70: 563 - 565 .
lsu press is one of the oldest and most prestigious academic publishers in the south. in addition to scholarly monographs, we also publish general interest books about louisiana and the south .
c. c. lockwood was born in kansas city, missouri, in the late 1940’s and grew up in fort smith, arkansas, where he graduated from southside high school. he moved to louisiana in 1967 to attend louisiana state university, where he received his b. s. in finance in 1971. during his early years in louisiana, he fell in love with the state’s swampy backcountry, and he abandoned plans for a career in business as soon as he graduated. he taught himself photography and headed for wild places, determined to make a living capturing images of nature. much of this time has been on a houseboat .
———. getting it published: a guide for scholars and anyone else serious about serious books. chicago: university of chicago press, 2001 .
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the university of illinois press was formally established in 1918, although prior to that time several monographs bore the imprint university studies. the first of these appeared in 1900; written by daniel kilham dodge, it was titled abraham lincoln: the evolution of his literary style .
the press' s initial publications in 1918 were a history of the first half - century of the university (founded in 1867) and another study of lincoln. the first director of the press was harrison e. cunningham, who also served as secretary of the university' s board of trustees during his thirty - year tenure. most of the books published under his direction were monographs by faculty members and recent doctoral students, issued as university studies in social science, language and literature, biological science, and medical science. the functions of the press also included the operation of the university' s printing division and mailing center, both of which remained under the press' s jurisdiction until the early 1970s .
the university press of kentucky has a dual mission—the publication of academic books of high scholarly merit in a variety of fields and the publication of significant books about the history and culture of kentucky, the ohio valley region, the upper south, and appalachia. the press is the statewide nonprofit scholarly publisher for the commonwealth of kentucky, operating under the university of kentucky libraries and serving all kentucky state - sponsored institutions of higher learning as well as five private colleges and kentucky' s two major historical societies .
harman, eleanor, et al. , eds. the thesis and the book: a guide for first - time academic authors, 2nd ed. toronto: university of toronto press, 2003 .
established at louisiana state university, the southern review immediately became a literary tastemaker. the launch of the southern review came about
on a bright sunday afternoon in late february, 1935 ,
when louisiana state university’s president drove his black cadillac to robert penn warren’s house in baton rouge to invite him, his wife, and their friend albert erskine on a drive to discuss creating a magazine of
distinctive character and quality .
cleanth brooks and charles w. pipkin were consulted; both joined the editorial staff. the southern review ’s first series ran 1935 to 1942 before closing due to the war. in 1965, the journal was revived under the editorship of lewis p. simpson and donald e. stanford, who launched the second series to great acclaim. lsu press became the southern review ’s publisher in 2011, allowing the journal to undertake new initiatives, such as reaching readers through a digital version in addition to the print quarterly .
abouharb, m. rodwan and david cingranelli. 2007. human rights and structural adjustment. cambridge: cambridge university press. choice outstanding academic title 2009 - winner. replication dataset & do file (zip) .
founded in 1897 at the university of maine, phi kappa phi was created to honor excellence in all academic disciplines .
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in 1979 richard l. wentworth was promoted to director; he had previously directed the louisiana state university press and had served as associate director and editor - in - chief at illinois since 1970. during his tenure the press became a leading publisher in american social history, with strong series in african american history, women' s history, immigration history, sports history, and particularly labor and working - class history. the most successful book in the series blacks in the new world is black leaders of the twentieth century (1982), edited by john hope franklin and series editor august meier. charles joyner' s down by the riverside: a south carolina slave community (1984) has sold more than 40, 000 copies—an astonishing quantity for a scholarly monograph .
abouharb, m. rodwan. 2007. review of democracy and war: institutions, norms, and the evolution of international conflict. by david, l. rousseau. ” (stanford university press, 2005). journal of conflict studies xxvii: 1 .
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a serendipitous university of illinois connection brought the press its greatest income - producing book. thunder below! the uss barb revolutionizes submarine warfare (1992), by admiral eugene b. fluckey, was completely subsidized by an officer on this submarine who was a graduate of the u of i. the press also licensed film rights to this exciting world war ii saga, and it has become a bestselling ebook .
ala offers thanks to the spectrum scholarship jury for their work in selecting the 2017 - 2018 spectrum scholars: chair twanna hodge, information literacy and collection development librarian, university of the virgin islands; vernica downey, metadata librarian - houghton library, harvard university; brenda linares, outreach and liaison librarian - university of north carolina; harvey long, graduate student - university of wisconsin - madison; rebecca martin, collections strategist and scholarly communications librarian - monroe c. gutman library, harvard graduate school of education; kate rojas, librarian - walter m. senkow elementary school, glenolden, pa; yasmeen shorish, data services coordinator, assoc. professor - james madison university; melanie toledo, library manager, ak - chin indian community; and patricia valdovinos, librarian, yolo county library .
the latest in a series of occasional profiles of poetry publishers. these questions were answered by marykatherine callaway, the director of lsu press .
with the arrival of willis g. regier as director in 1999 and joan catapano as associate director and editor - in - chief in 2000, the press broadened its list while continuing to build upon prior strengths. vibrant lists and series in communications and media studies, film studies, african american studies, and women' s studies, as well as multivolume documentary series focusing on the lives and works of margaret sanger and jane addams, indicate the press' s long - standing devotion to social history and women' s studies. from spring 2000 to winter 2010 the press led the history cooperative, initially developed in partnership with the american historical association, the organization of american historians, and the national academies press, to feature easily searchable electronic content from more than twenty notable history journals, hosted by the u of i press under the supervision of electronic publisher paul arroyo and his colleagues .
organizations based in california, new york state, as well as in atlanta, chicago, detroit, houston, seattle, new orleans, tucson, and washington d. c. , are welcome to apply for support from the readings & workshops program for their literary events .
due to the number of poetry manuscripts currently under consideration, we are not accepting new poetry submissions until october 2018. please check back then. thanks for your interest in lsu press .
wildlife photographer c. c. lockwood has lived and worked in fragile ecosystems whose preservation shapes his artistry. through words and images, he has captured the unique sense of space in wild places as diverse as louisiana swampland and the rugged back country of the american west. his work has earned him international acclaim as an environmental artist, including the sierra club’s ansel adams award for conservation photography. lockwood’s work continues to reflect changes and perils in the natural world. his eleventh book, marsh mission, is part of a years - long effort by lockwood to bring attention to the crisis of vanishing gulf coast wetlands. his newest book, louisiana wild, the lands protected and restored by the nature conservancy, portrays the good work this organization is doing on over 280, 000 acres of land in our state. c. c. said, “i felt like a kid in a candy store, when i started this project, for i got to visit swamps, lakes, marshes, prairies and oyster reefs form the arkansas border to the grand isle wetlands. ”
if we wish to consider your proposal further, we will ask to see the entire manuscript. initially the manuscript will be considered in - house. if we agree that the work has potential for our list, we will notify you and send the manuscript to outside anonymous readers for review. the review process normally takes four to six months. all positively reviewed manuscripts must be approved by the university press committee before we can proceed toward publication .
fiction proposals should include a cover letter, a one - page summary of the work, a brief sample from the work, and a current resume. lsu press does not accept fiction publication inquires via email .
abouharb, m. rodwan, and david cingranelli. 2005. “when the world bank says yes: determinants of structural adjustment lending, ” in gustav ranis, james raymond vreeland, and stephen kosack (eds .) globalization and the nation state: the impact of the imf and the world bank. routledge. pp 204 - 230 .
a major step in the development of the press occurred with the 1949 appointment of wilbur schramm as director. a prominent scholar in mass communications, schramm founded the institute for communications research and served as dean of the college of communications. schramm developed a strong list in communications, highlighted by the mathematical theory of communication, by claude e. shannon and warren weaver, and four theories of the press, by fred s. siebert, theodore peterson, and schramm. both volumes have gone back to press more than twenty times, attesting to their status as enduring backlist classics. the mars project, in which scientist wernher von braun laid out the potential for space travel, was published in 1953, several years before sputnik .
lsu press does not consider unrevised ph. d. dissertations. considerable differences exist between a dissertation and a book, and even the best dissertation will need to be revised before being accepted for publication. most commonly, scholars seeking to publish their revised dissertations will need to do the following :
the press' s long - standing interests in anthropology, folklore, african american studies, and women' s studies were united in 1977 with the publication of robert hemenway' s biography of zora neale hurston. because hurston was not widely known in those days, the press acquired paperback rights to her novel their eyes were watching god in order to provide readers with access to a literary work along with the new biography. during the ensuing decade more than 356, 000 copies of their eyes were sold—more than 75, 000 in the final year—before a commercial publisher reclaimed the paperback rights .
to date, the press' s most important book on a topic in american history probably has been the plains across: the overland emigrants and the trans - mississippi west, 1840 - 60, by john d. unruh jr. this magisterial 1979 study won seven awards, including the major awards of the american historical association and the organization of american historians, and was a finalist for the pulitzer prize. the publication of nauvoo: kingdom on the mississippi (1965), by robert bruce flanders, was initially viewed as a study in illinois history; in retrospect, it helped pave the way for the press' s development of a notable series of books in mormon history, with liz dulany acting as the long - time acquiring editor .
from 1975 until the 1990s, the series illinois short fiction typically offered four new collections annually, each by a single author. twice nominated by publishers weekly for the carey - thomas award for creative publishing, the series was long administered at the press by ann lowry, who also served as editor of the anthology prime number: 17 stories from illinois short fiction (1988) .
the press' s commitment to poetry endured for even longer. the first of several volumes by michael s. harper, published in 1971, was followed by more than a hundred fine volumes by a wide array of poets. my alexandria by mark doty, arguably the most successful collection, won the national book critics circle award and the t. s. eliot prize, among other accolades .
three illinois books have received the bancroft award from columbia university, considered by many to be the most prestigious award for a book in american history: eugene v. debs: citizen and socialist (1982), by nick salvatore; dark journey: black mississippians in the age of jim crow (1989), by neil r. mcmillen; and local people: the struggle for civil rights in mississippi (1994), by john dittmer. salvatore' s study of debs also received the dunning prize of the american historical association for the best first book over a two - year period .
in the 1960s the press was a partner in two exceptional undertakings. the first, uicsm high school mathematics (1959) by max beberman, was a pilot project for what became known as
the new math
when it was taken over by a commercial publisher in 1964. the illinois test of psycholinguistic abilities (1968) was developed by samuel a. kirk, james j. mccarthy, and winifred d. kirk. a multielement kit of materials, it was widely used by speech therapists and others to identify and differentiate disabilities and to organize remedial programs .
don jackson also developed a strong list in western u. s. history, to which he himself contributed significantly. he edited and wrote the introduction to the perennial bestseller black hawk: an autobiography (1955) and edited multivolume documentary works, notably the letters of the lewis and clark expedition (2nd ed. , 1978; still in print) and the papers of john charles fremont, before leaving illinois for virginia, where he became the founding editor for the papers of george washington project. science in the british colonies of america (1970), by raymond phineas stearns, is the press' s only volume to win a national book award .
the southern review... represents everything that is good in the world of literary publication. their dedication to aesthetic quality has been the gold standard in literary publication for over seventy - five years .
the southern review is one of the nation’s premier literary journals. hailed by time as
superior to any other journal in the english language ,
we have made literary history since our founding in 1935. we publish a diverse array of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by the country’s—and the world’s—most respected contemporary writers .
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no surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader. ” while reading lisel mueller’s collection, the need to hold still, i found myself mulling over robert frost’s well - known dictum. while writers may struggle to explain precisely how they arrive at such surprise, as readers we recognize it on a visceral level. as emily dickinson explains in another famous quote, this sense of discovery can make a reader feel “as if the top of [ one’s ] head were taken off. ”
we experience that discovery in a few startling poems by mueller, particularly two that take on the rich material of myth and allegory. in “testimony, ” for example, mueller retells the story of the birth of venus from the goddess’ perspective, rewriting a seaside fantasy into a cold, brutal reality. in mueller’s version of the tale, an accusatory venus reproaches a collective “you, ” the painters and other artists who have historically depicted venus’ birth as an eroticized event, or as one of singular beauty: “telling the story, you omit / that in the beginning my hair was green / seaweed, before it turned / into the yellow silk you admire. ” the charges continue: “you paint me floating ashore / with rose - tipped breasts, ” and “you say i stepped into heated shoes / of glittering white sand. ” here, the goddess sets the record straight .
mueller’s use of persona allows her to recast—and to criticize from the female speaker’s point of view—the fantasy of a sensual, stranded beauty. the final declaration arrives with a sense of both inevitability and surprise, and mueller establishes the persona’s authority through the accusatory tone, the series of brief declarations, and the specificity of images that counter the other, more pleasant version of the story: “starved dog, ” “scraggly leaves, ” and “rocks and shells” that “cut. ”
mueller’s skill at composing dense, compressed poems of human tragedy is perhaps best glimpsed in “the story, ” in which a storyteller depicts, in parable form, an incompatible couple seemingly fated for disaster .
here, a familiar narrative—a love story, a fable— becomes wonderfully strange. as explained in stephen dobyns’ best words, best order, mueller’s chosen metaphors—the female figure as water, and the male as fire— can be comprehended but are not easily encompassed. as a result, we are compelled to return to the poem again and again to more fully understand how one human might “burn” a beloved while trying to “be one, ” or how even love can lead to conditions under which we “cannot breathe. ”
in “the story, ” mueller depicts intimacy and conflict by recasting humans as elements of nature, a strategy that animates the poem’s intensity and desperation, the characters’ passion and antagonism. adding to the surprise in this poem is mueller’s resistance to resolution, as her speaker exhorts the listening children to “make up [ their ] own / ending, ” and then claims, “…they will, they will. ”
in other poems in the need to hold still, mueller adopts the perspective of figures from myth and folktale to shed light on a character’s motivations, or to reveal the misgivings of characters we typically encounter from a distance. framed by an epigraph from william stafford—“so, the world happens twice— / once what we see it as; / second it legends itself / deep, the way it is”—mueller’s collection draws on allegory to encourage us to more fully inhabit human experience. in particular, narrators in the book’s third section, a linked sequence called “voices from the forest, ” invite us to reenter familiar folktales and myths to confront human qualities that may prove to be our weaknesses: curiosity, trust, and innocence. in this sequence, superficiality, fickleness, lust, and envy also take center stage .
in the sequence’s first poem, “the voice of the traveler who escaped, ” for example, we hear from a character who failed to heed the warnings that the original tales were meant to provide, one who knows the terror of what happens when “…the witch / locks the door from the outside / and throws away the key” and now admonishes us to learn from his or her mistakes. the cautionary tone continues in the sequence’s second poem, “warning to virgins, ” which alerts young women to the “unspecified beast” who may come to court them, a shape - shifting figure who sometimes appears as a “bear / who lumbers to the door / of two young beauties, to be brushed / and petted, and to eat / out of their hands. ” in “a voice from out of the night, ” mueller’s speaker questions her attempt to inform and instruct, as the narrator seems to surrender to the idea that her words of warning are useless among the young and naive .
the eight poems in “voices from the forest” use folktale figures and extended metaphor to reveal our human weaknesses. “the story” and “testimony, ” however, possess an urgency in the telling that is rarely duplicated in the other poems. and while mueller’s “voices from the forest” sequence could have reinvented the form and content of classic material in ways that might startle the reader toward new insights, in some cases, what seem to be missing are the wonder and strangeness that compel us to return, again and again, to poems like “testimony” and “the story. ”
( graywolf, 2011), won the 2010 bakeless prize for poetry. ahmed’s writing has appeared in
. she holds an mfa from warren wilson college and lives near philadelphia. for more information, visit her website at
poetry judges that year: turner cassidy, john ciardi, inge judd, betty e. munger, john frederick nims, robert phillips, louise solano, paul zimmer
the morning of the poem by james schuyler won the pulitzer prize for poetry .
mueller immigrated to the united states from hamburg, germany at the age of 15 .
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eliminate or drastically reduce the “review of scholarly literature” section. while a standard feature of dissertations, such a review is superfluous in a book. you are no longer writing for your committee in fulfillment of degree requirements; you are writing as an authority on your chosen subject matter. cite to appropriate authorities in the notes, not the text .
pare down the notes, and eliminate discursive notes. most dissertations have roughly twice as many notes as necessary. again, you are now the authority. as such, exhaustive notation is overly defensive, not proof of sound scholarship .
weed out “scaffolding. ” many dissertations are highly structured: authors might begin each chapter with a statement of what is going to be argued and conclude with a statement of what has been argued, or they might divide each chapter into excessive headings and subheadings. recast your manuscript to improve its narrative flow .
cut, cut, cut. at every possible turn, tighten your prose. sharpen your argument. trust your readers to remember what has gone earlier in the text. repetition and wordiness only weaken a manuscript .
the biggest thrill is to read poems that grab you, poems you simply cannot leave halfway through .
eleanor ross taylor’s “captive voices”; lisel mueller’s “alive together”; david kirby’s “the biscuit joint”; and ava leavell haymon’s “eldest daughter. ” all offer poems that have deeply affected many readers .
rereading claudia emerson’s “late wife” is always a delight. additionally, i will often pick up and recommend to others the poets jacqueline osherow, marilyn nelson, steve scafidi and david huddle .
for example, had poems with floating lines and irregular spacing. it also had poems in the form of recipes and prose poems. j. michael martinez’s
had poems with both spanish and english, as well as italicized text pushed into the margins. it also had several images, fairly unusual in a poetry collection .
“small disasters seen in sunlight” by julia b. levine and “i watched you disappear” by anya krugovoy silver are two of the many wonderful collections that have recently come out .
we focus on poetry for one simple reason: it can change your life .
the outfield—a position made for him! when lefty gomez credited his success to a “fast outfield, ” the holy ghost thought he’d heard “vast, ” and he imagined that field could match his spaciousness, his inability to touch base, to stay within lines .
the high pop fly rising toward him kindled his old longing for the laws of motion —that pull toward an object he could never know. it floated out, patient as planets, amber and gold in the late afternoon sun, the crack of ash coming slower than the ball .
he saw two earths, wrapping their separate flights in sweeping lines of gravity, and then the little leather baseball plummeted right through him—grapeshot through flame— and thumped in the way of all real things against the grass near the fence .
i’m learning to wear grief like an old coat. too hot for the season. no place to lay it down .
i paint my house red. i think of old barns in the snow anointed with milk and blood. waste nothing: cover yourself
in the gore of the work. even god lived with the dead. i want to burn something into the white hill of my life. we are that used to wanting
we can’t think of shedding a good coat leaving it there for the mice to take home in bits each fiber bound for a nest .
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“herman melville crazy” was the assessment of a typical review of his pierre: or, the ambiguities, published in 1852, the year following the appearance of moby - dick. other... read more
in this volume, the author races between arriving and departing; her poems run with compulsion, to see the next place, hear a last voice, find a lost daughter or aunt, notice a... read more
this is an appropriate poet to carry on the tradition of walt whitman. the poems in this first collection may not contain “barbaric yawps, ” but they certainly speak... read more
the characters of margaret luongo’s short story collection are united not by outward demographics, but by a commitment to survival. most have reached a moment of crisis. there... read more
every child, everyone affected by hurricane katrina, and every animal lover will adore this sentimental yet informative book about the true story of molly the pony. accidentally... read more
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the louisiana state university press (lsu press) is a university press that was founded in 1935. it publishes works of scholarship as well as general interest books. lsu press is a member of the association of american university presses. lsu press publishes approximately 70 new books each year and has a backlist of over 2000 titles. primary fields of publication include southern history, southern literary studies, louisiana and the gulf south, the american civil war and military history, roots music, southern culture, environmental studies, european history, foodways, poetry, fiction, media studies, and landscape architecture. in 2010, lsu press merged with the southern review, lsu's literary magazine, and the company now oversees the operations of this publication.
the louisiana state university press (lsu press) is a university press that was founded in 1935. it publishes works of scholarship as well as general interest books. lsu press is a member of the association of american university presses. lsu press publishes approximately 70 new books each year and has a backlist of over 2000 titles. primary fields of publication include southern history, southern literary studies, louisiana and the gulf south, the american civil war and military history, roots music, southern culture, environmental studies, european history, foodways, poetry, fiction, media studies, and landscape architecture. in 2010, lsu press merged with the southern review, lsu's literary magazine, and the company now oversees the operations of this publication.