The Bucknell University Press was founded in 1968, when it became part of Associated University Presses. Since 1997 its director has been Greg Clingham, a professor of English at Bucknell.

The Press receives about 400 serious inquiries annually and considers for publication about 75-80 manuscripts from authors all over the world. From these the Press publishes on average 40 books per annum. While the editorial operations of the Press are independent and funded by the office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs at Bucknell, AUP is responsible for the issuance of contracts, production, and distribution of books.

Since 1969, Bucknell has published over 600 books mainly in English and American literature and criticism, Hispanic and Latin American Studies, French Studies, German Studies, philosophy, religion, and international relations. Due in part to the sustained efforts of former director Mills F. Edgerton, Bucknell now has an international reputation for scholarship in Hispanic Studies. In the 1970s the Press published the Irish Writers Series, under the editorship of J. F. Carens, and a small but eminent number of books in Animal Behavior under the editorship of Douglas Candland. Since 1976 the Press has published the Bucknell Review, a biannual hardcover scholarly journal of letters, arts, and sciences, under the general editorship of Pauline Fletcher, a professor of English at Bucknell. It is now in its 45th volume.

The Press has recently launched three new series of monographs to capitalize on new and experimental interdisciplinary scholarship in the humanities and social sciences: Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory, under the editorship of Anïbal González (Pennsylvania State University); Bucknell Studies in the Hispanic Enlightenment, under the editorship of Michael Iarocci (UC Berkeley); and Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture, under the editorship of Greg Clingham (Bucknell University). The Press also now publishes a series in Contemporary Poetry, under the direction of Cynthia Hogue and the Stadler Center for Poetry at Bucknell.

Bucknell invites submissions of serious criticism and scholarship in the humanities and social sciences, especially in English and American literature and criticism, Hispanic and Latin American Studies, Classics, theory, cultural studies, historiography (including the history of law, of medicine, and of science), philosophy, anthropology, ethnography, psychology and psychoanalysis, sociology, religion, political science, cultural and political geography, and various interdisciplinary combinations of the above.

For full information, including a list of all publications, visit the Bucknell web site at www.departments.bucknell.edu/univ_press/, or contact the director, Dr. Greg Clingham, Bucknell University Press, Lewisburg, PA 17837; (570) 577-3674; clingham@bucknell.edu