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| New Reading from Northwestern University Press
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| New Website Coming SoonNorthwestern University Press is currently developing a new Web-site to better serve our users. If you have any questions about Northwestern titles or titles from our Distributed Press clients please be in touch with Parneshia Jones at p-jones3@northwestern.edu or 1-847-491-7420, or browse around our current Website. We thank you for your patience.
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| 2009 Nobel to Northwestern Author
Northwestern University Press congratulates Herta Müller, winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature.
In 1998, Northwestern University Press published two translations of the Romanian-born German writer’s work into English: the paperback edition of Mueller's novel The Land of Green Plums and the original hardcover translation of her novel Travelling on One Leg.
Müller is the second Northwestern author to be awarded, joining 2002 Nobel Laureate Imre Kertesz.
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| Northwestern University Press awarded prestigious Mellon GrantThe Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded $818,000 to Northwestern University for a Northwestern University Press initiative entitled "Global Encounters."
The initiative will enable the Press to collaborate with Northwestern faculty in two key areas: African Studies and Theatre and Performance Studies.
“This is an exciting opportunity because the grant provides avenues for the Press to build on its long-standing expertise in publishing on African studies and theatre, to develop new capabilities in online publishing, and to explore expanded international markets,” said Donna Shear, director of Northwestern University Press.
The grant will allow the Press to work with the Program of African Studies (PAS) to bridge the scholarly publishing gap between western and African scholars, said Sani Umar, associate professor of African Studies and a co-principal investigator on the grant.
The other part of the grant will enable the Press to work with faculty in the School of Communication to initiate new approaches to learning about theatre and performance studies. It will allow faculty to document --in print and online--performances, scripts, and scholarly and community conversations around three themes: “Festival Latino,” “Solo/Black/Woman” and “Black Theatre Is Black Life,” a history of black theatre in Chicago since 1930. E. Patrick Johnson, chair of the department of read more ...
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