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Cambridge University Press editor to discuss academic publishing


Dr. Linda Bree will present "Scholarly Publishing in the Humanities Today:  How to Get Your Academic Book Published," on Thursday, September 10, 1:30–2:30 p.m., in Foster Auditorium, 101 Pattee Library.

Bree's insight will be invaluable to scholars in the humanities, as she is in the unique position to discuss both sides of the scholarly publishing process from a personal perspective. She is the publisher of literature for Cambridge University Press, CUP, heading up the literature team, with direct responsibility for commissioning in medieval literature, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature, European and world literature, and most of CUP's wide-range of scholarly editions.

In addition Bree has a scholarly career having written a monograph on the eighteenth-century writer Sarah Fielding and edited or co-edited Sarah Fielding's The Adventures of David Simple (Penguin), Henry Fielding's Jonathan Wild (Oxford University Press, OUP), Jane Austen's Persuasion (Broadview) and Later Manuscripts (CUP).  She has just delivered an edition of Henry Fielding's Amelia to Broadview and is currently working on Moll Flanders for OUP.

The occasion of Bree's visit to Penn State is her work with Dr. Sandra Spanier, Penn State professor of English and general editor of the Hemingway Letters Project. They are working closely on the long-term project that will result in the publication of a 12-volume scholarly edition of Hemingway’s more than 6,000 letters. Bree also works closely with Penn State Professors James L. W. West III, editor of the Cambridge Edition of the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Michael Anesko, one of the general editors of the newly established Cambridge Edition of Henry James.

The presentation is open to the public. For more information, contact Stephanie Cramer. 814-863-2179 or sfc10@psu.edu

Sponsored by the Department of English, the College of the Liberal Arts, and the University Libraries.

editor’s contact: Catherine Grigor, manager  of Public Relations and Marketing, University Libraries, cqg3@psu.edu, 814-863-4240.