Lever Press Spring 2023

In this issue...

Announcements
Publishing Workshops
Meet the New Library Relations Manager
First Award Recognition: La Princesse de Clèves
New and Forthcoming Lever Press titles

OPEN ACCESS • PEER REVIEWED • BORN DIGITAL

Thank you for continuing to be a member!

Thanks to your support, Lever continues to give libraries a leadership role in the open access landscape and to publish titles that embrace interdisciplinarity and the liberal arts. We’re also pleased to welcome Hampshire College to the Lever Initiative!

Announcements

Lever’s Oversight Committee is pleased to announce that it will soon offer members of Jisc (a higher education consortium in the United Kingdom) the opportunity to pledge their support of Lever’s OA mission and join the Lever Initiative. This would be a first step in the goal of expanding Lever’s membership to our international library colleagues, and we hope to welcome several UK libraries to Lever in the coming months. We look forward to sharing more details at that time.

Publishing Workshops

Over the past year, Lever Press's acquiring editor, Sean Guynes, has held five publishing workshops for the faculty and librarians of Lever Press's member institutions.

These workshops typically run for an hour, with time for questions, and cover the major dos and don'ts of the book proposal process. It's a perfect introduction to the academic publishing process for faculty interested in getting started and librarians looking for resources to help faculty publish their book. In addition, Sean offers a brief introduction to Lever Press, our books, and what we offer as a unique, open access publisher dedicated to the advancement of scholarly work for all.

If you would like to host a publishing workshop at your institution, please contact Sean at sean@leverpress.org.

Meet the New Library Relations Manager

Kelsey Mrjoian (she/her) joined Michigan Publishing in January 2023 as the Library Relations Manager. She has more than 8 years of experience in book publishing and previously worked as the manager of the Spanish Distribution Program at Independent Publishers Group, where she developed close relationships with public and school libraries.

Her goal working with Lever Press is to connect with new and existing library supporters and help build the reputation of Lever Press within the scholarly community.

If you have any questions for Kelsey, please feel free to reach out at kmrjoian@umich.edu.

First Award Recognition: La Princesse de Clèves

La Princesse de Clèves was named 2023 Prose Award Finalist in the category of Best eProduct!

Since 1976, the Association of American Publishers’ awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE Awards) have recognized publishers who produce books, journals, and digital products of extraordinary merit that make a significant contribution to a field of study in the humanities, biological and physical sciences, reference and social sciences. Click h ere to learn more.

Read it on Fulcrum here

New and Forthcoming Lever Press Titles

Like a Captive Bird: Gender and Virtue in Plutarch

Lunette Warren

Like a Captive Bird offers a unique and fresh interpretation of Plutarch’s metaphysics which centers gender as one of the organizational principles of nature. It is aimed at scholars of Plutarch, ancient philosophy, and ancient gender studies, especially those who are interested in feminist studies of antiquity.

"This book deeply engages with relevant bibliography, including very recent scholarship on the topic. The breadth of the author’s knowledge of Plutarch scholarship is impressive, and complemented well by their knowledge of the literature on gender in the Greco-Roman world as well as the history of sexuality."

—Daniel W. Leon, Associate Professor of Classics at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Now Available for Pre-order!

Public Feminisms: From Academy to Community

Edited by Carrie N. Baker and Aviva Dove-Viebahn

Accessible and engaging to a broad range of readers, the essays in this volume are a rich resource for scholars interested in infusing their academic knowledge into the public sphere. This volume offers an opportunity to reflect on the meaning and importance of community engagement, and archives some of the important public-facing work feminists are doing today. Both faculty and graduate and undergraduate students, as well as administrators hoping to increase their schools’ connections to the community, will find this volume indispensable.

Coming soon! Available May 2023

South End Shout: Boston's Forgotten Music Scene in the Jazz Age

Roger R. House

Detailing the power of music in the city’s African American community, this book spotlights the era of ragtime culture in the 1900s to the rise of big band orchestras in the 1930s. This story is embedded in the larger social condition of Black Bostonians and the account is brought to life by the addition of 20 illustrations of musicians, theaters, dance halls, phonographs and radios used to enjoy the music.

“South End Shout is an important addition and correction to the story of jazz in Boston during a critical time in the evolution of the music as told through a richly detailed and studied Black lens. The people, streets and clubs come alive in South End Shout in ways that surprise and delight.”

—Larry Simpson, Berklee College of Music, Provost, Retired

Coming soon! Available June 2023

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