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Series Spotlight – Critical Arab American Studies

Once per month on What’SUP, we want to highlight one of our series, looking ahead to what sorts of projects we’re excited to publish in the future from the people who work closely on the series, and focusing on some recently published titles. For this inaugural Series Spotlight, we’re looking at our Critical Arab American Studies series. Syracuse University Press’ Critical Arab American Studies series examines the experiences, nuances, challenges, and joys of Arab American life. Born out of the our earlier Arab American Writing series, which included fiction, poems, and memoirs, this new list features a range of innovative…

Series Spotlight: TV and Pop Culture

Celebrating over twenty-five years of groundbreaking scholarship, our Television and Pop Culture series offers a wide variety of volumes about American television and popular culture, including updated classics like the widely course-adopted Watching TV. Topics examine individual shows, specific genres, creators and producers, and the history and evolution of the medium. Since its founding, the series has expanded to include more aspects of American popular culture and mass entertainment such as vaudeville, comics, movies, and radio broadcasting. From the Acquisitions Editor, Heather Stauffer As the television medium has transformed in the era of streaming and internet platforms, so too has…

Syracuse University Press News and Reviews

Recent coverage and events Electric Lit publishes an illustrated interview with author Ibtisam Azem about The Book of Disapperance. Teach Me How to Whisper named 2024’s Book of the Year by Lyric Poetry & Poetics. Dennis Connor interviewed on WSYR’s Tell Me Something Good about The Gilded Age on Syracuse’s James Street. The History of the mansions on James Street is explored in a Syracuse.com piece on Dennis Connors and his book, The Gilded Age on Syracuse’s James Street. The Chicago Tribune interviews Walter Podrazik and Harry Castleman about their process and updating Watching TV to the new edition. The…

UP Week 2024: A History of Stepping Up for Books

Behind every great fortune there is a crime, and behind every noble proclamation there is politics. Granted, as aphorisms go, mine may not sing quite like Balzac’s. But as we celebrate University Press Week and raise up those books that some would ban or burn, let’s remember this: Proclamations don’t just happen. They must be worked at to matter. Take the urtext of University Press Week, the proclamation signed on June 14, 1978 by then-President Jimmy Carter recognizing “American University Press Day.” Funny thing was, Carter signed the proclamation three days after the designated day of June 11 had passed….

Welcome to What’SUP: The Syracuse University Press Blog

Hello, readers! When I started as the Press’s new director in spring 2023, I knew about its history of publishing smart, innovative books in Middle Eastern, Irish, and Jewish studies, its long commitment to scholarship on peace and conflict resolution, and its groundbreaking analyses of television. The Press is also known for books in sports history, geography, community literacy, and another set of “studies”—Native American, Arab American, and disability. In recent seasons, for example, we’ve published a treatise on how the future of our planet may depend on the philosophies of Indigenous cultures, a translation of stories about a trailblazing…