During our 125th anniversary year, we are featuring friends of LUP through celebrations and conversations about LUP and the publishing industry more widely. For this next piece, we have Christabel Scaife, Senior Commissioning Editor at LUP, in conversation with Sherryl Vint, Professor of Science Fiction Media Studies at the University of California Riverside, founding journal co-editor, … Continue reading
In Praise of… Mary Whitby
To celebrate our 125th anniversary this year, we are taking the opportunity to highlight and thank a selection of key figures in LUP’s recent history. The next post in this series has been written by our Senior Commissioning Editor Clare Litt, who has taken the opportunity to reflect on Mary Whitby's impact on LUP, and … Continue reading
Focus on… Early Career Academics
As part of our 125th anniversary celebrations we are taking a look at the future of academic publishing with a spot light on early career academics. In this post we hear from Maria Czepiel whose work has been published in the Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (BHS), recognised across the world as one of the front-ranking journals in the field of Hispanic research, and a journal which started life at LUP in 1923 and last year celebrated its 100th anniversary.
In Conversation with… Ann Cleeves
As part of our 125th anniversary, we are celebrating authors who published their first work with LUP and have gone on to have successful writing careers. Here is Alison Welsby, Editorial Director at LUP, in conversation with the acclaimed and award-winning crime fiction writer, Ann Cleeves, whose first published work was a chapter in LUP’s … Continue reading
In Praise of… Charles Forsdick
To celebrate our 125th anniversary this year, we are taking the opportunity to highlight and thank a selection of key figures in LUP's recent history. To start this series, our Chief Executive Officer Anthony Cond reflects on the impact of LUP's former Editorial Advisory Board Chair Charles Forsdick following their first meeting almost twenty years … Continue reading