History, Literature, News

Disability History Month

To mark Disability History Month in the UK, we've collated a reading list from our books and journals that engage with ideas and narratives of disability, particularly our Representations: Health, Disability, Culture and Society book series and our leading publication The Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies. A history of disability in England: From … Continue reading

Journals, Modern Languages, News, open access

Modern Languages Open: Call for Section Editors

Modern Languages Open (MLO), a peer-reviewed platform for the open access publication of research from across the modern languages to a global audience, is seeking Editors for the Hispanic Studies and the Portuguese & Lusophone sections

History, music

“However little he or we may now understand it”: Historicizing Queer Musical Gossip

New from Clemson University Press, Imagining Musical Pasts: The Queer Literary Musicology of Vernon Lee, Rosa Newmarch, and Edward Prime-Stevenson  explores the complicated archive of sources, interpretations, and people present in queer writings on opera and symphonic music from ca. 1880–1935. In this blog post, author Kristin M. Franseen introduces her book's serious use of … Continue reading

News

New senior appointments at Liverpool University Press

Liverpool University Press is pleased to announce two new senior appointments, with Professor Georgina Endfield FBA appointed to our Board of Directors, and Professor Claire Taylor, Gilmour Chair of Spanish, appointed Chair of the Editorial Advisory Board. A distinguished Professor of Environmental History has been appointed to the Board of Directors of Liverpool University Press.  … Continue reading