News and Events
- Teach Me How to Whisper receives South Korea’s Book of the Year Award
December 20, 2024
Gjekë Marinaj’s Teach Me How to Whisper was recognized as South Korea’s 2024 Book of the Year from the literary journal “Lyric Poetry & Poetics.” The journal, which represents all of South Korea’s major universities, is among the country’s most authoritative forums for literary culture.
- The Hammam Through Time and Space reviewed in The Jordan Times
December 9, 2024
Julie Peteet’s new book The Hammam through Time and Space was reviewed in The Jordan Times.
- War Remains is reviewed in the International Journal of Middle East Studies
November 18, 2024
“Khayyat’s monograph is refreshing in its unorthodox and cross-disciplinary choice of objects and methodological approach.” Now available, War Remains: Ruination and Resistance in Lebanon by Yasmine Khayyat examines the aesthetics of ruination and resistance in contemporary Lebanese cultural productions. Read the full review
- Book Talk with Peter Lourie at the Adirondack Experience
November 13, 2024
The Adirondack Experience hosted Peter Lourie, author of River of Mountains, for a book discussion in their series, In the Adirondack Library. Each month, selected authors will provide a brief overview of their work, followed by insightful interviews with Mitch Teich of North Country Public Radio. The program will conclude with a Q&A session, giving you ...
- Salt Journals reviewed in The Middle East Eye
October 28, 2024
Salt Journals: Tunisian Women on Political Imprisonment was reviewed in The Middle East Eye.
- Mosbahi on The Markaz Review’s Top 10 List
October 28, 2024
Hassouna Mosbahi’s novel We Never Swim in the Same River Twice, translated by William Hutchins, was included in The Markaz’s Top 10 Fall Reading List.
- Celebrating Indigenous Peoples Day
October 14, 2024
For Indigenous Peoples Day, we’re celebrating the work of poet and member of Haudenosaunee tribe Eric Gansworth, whose book, A Half-Life of Cardi-Pulmonary Function charts the tensions of those struggling against the norms of the dominant culture with humor, heart and image-laden lines. Below are excerpts from A Half-Life of Cardi-Pulmonary Function, including some of the ...
- “Stateless” receives USC Book Prize Honorable Mention from ASEEES
September 20, 2024
Congratulations to Talar Chahinian! Her recent book Stateless: The Politics of the Armenian Language in Exile received a 2024 University of California Book Prize Honorable Mention from the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies.
- Gjeke Marinaj’s “Teach Me How to Whisper” Receives Major Romanian Literary Prize
August 20, 2024
Albanian-born American poet Gjekë Marinaj’s book of poetry, Teach Me How to Whisper was awarded Romania’s “Mihai Eminescu” International Poetry Prize. The award was presented on June 14 in Craiova, Romania, in a ceremony held at the Gloriae Art Gallery. Announcing the prize, the prestigious Romanian literary journal “Constelatii Diamantine” noted that “Teach Me How to ...
- Boletes of Eastern North America in Fungi Magazine
August 16, 2024
The latest issue of Fungi Magazine includes a review of Boletes of Eastern North America, noting the new edition is “an improved version of the 2016 release and though the changes may seem subtle, they do make this a much more useful tool.”
- Michelle Hartman at Women and Memory Forum in Cairo
01/13/2025
- Emily Orlando Book Launch at Fairfield University
01/27/2025
- SU Press at the American Conference for Irish Studies in Savannah
02/23/2025 - 02/26/2025