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UPP Announces Contemporary Asian Catholics Series

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UPP Announces Contemporary Asian Catholics Series

The University of Pittsburgh Press is pleased to announce the launch of a new scholarly series: Contemporary Asian Catholics (CAC). CAC will publish scholarly books that explore how the most populous continent, Asia, and the world’s largest religious organization, Catholicism, intersect and redefine each other. Through different case studies, the series aims at redefining ways of approaching and conceptualizing processes through which Asian Catholicism is produced, contested, and shared. CAC will foster interdisciplinary research on Asian Catholics in contemporary societies, with the aim of understanding the sociocultural dynamics that characterize diverse Catholic communities in Asian and Asian diasporic settings. The…

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UPP Announces Between Asias and Americas Series

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UPP Announces Between Asias and Americas Series

The University of Pittsburgh Press is pleased to announce the launch of a new scholarly series: Between Asias and Americas. This ambitious new series will feature scholarship that bridges Asian studies and American studies (conceived hemispherically to include Latin American studies and Asian American studies), while bringing into closer dialogue “area studies” and “ethnic studies” approaches to timely topics in a range of disciplines, foregrounding work in the social sciences while also welcoming boundary-crossing research in the humanities. The series intends to become a platform for work that explores the flows and fluxes of populations, affects, cultures, ideas, technologies, and…

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UPP Mourns the Passing of Ed Ochester

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UPP Mourns the Passing of Ed Ochester

The University of Pittsburgh Press is deeply saddened at the passing of Ed Ochester—poet, teacher, and editor—who served as series editor of the Pitt Poetry Series from 1978 until his retirement in 2021. Terrance Hayes, Nancy Krygowski, and Jeffrey McDaniel, who took over as Pitt Poetry Series editors after Ochester’s retirement said, “As the new Pitt Poetry Series editors, having taken up Ed’s role this past spring, we will be doubling our efforts to bring attention to all Ed Ochester did for us, Pitt poets, and contemporary poetry. His role in the career of poets such as Sharon Olds, Toi…

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UPP at the Greater Pittsburgh Festival of Books

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UPP at the Greater Pittsburgh Festival of Books

The second annual Greater Pittsburgh Festival of Books takes place on Saturday, May 13 at the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary! The Festival is free to attend, and books will be available for purchase at the University of Pittsburgh Press table. Schedule of Events: 10–11 am: Ross Gay (Chapel Auditorium) 10 am: Lynn Emanuel (Poetry Tent) 12:45 pm: Nancy Krygowski (Poetry Tent) 1–2 pm: Marylynne Pitz (Long Hall, Room 204) 1:45 pm: Jan Beatty (Poetry Tent) 2:45–3:45 pm: Kathleen George (Long Hall, Room 210) The full schedule of events can be found on the Festival website.

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UPP at AWP Seattle

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UPP at AWP Seattle

AWP takes place in Seattle from March 8–11, and we would love for you to stop by our booth, our happy hour, one (or more!) of our author signings, and our author panels! If you’re not able to make it all the way to Seattle, you can peruse our online “exhibit booth” and get copies of our discounted titles shipped straight to your home. Conference Events Find us at booth #301/303 during exhibit hall hours for discounted poetry and short fiction titles, author signings (schedule below), or just for a chat! After hours, swing by the Seattle Beer Co. on Friday…

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