The AWP conference is virtual this year! From March 3rd through the 5th, AWP will be hosting hundreds of sessions, all online! Wesleyan University Press is pleased to announce we are participating as an exhibitor. View our Exhibitor Page here. Please visit to learn more about our press and some of our new books and our…
Join Us At MLA…
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If you are attending the all virtual 2021 MLA conference, please check out these events with Wesleyan authors! Presentations by Claudia Rankine, Fred Moten, M. NourbeSe Phillip, Evie Shockley. 235 – Presidential Plenary: Poetics of Persistence in Black Life Friday, 1/8/2021, 12-1:45 PM Presentations by multiples scholars on Samuel R. Delany in relation to a…
Recent Award Winning Music Titles from Wesleyan
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Wild Music: Sound and Sovereignty in Ukraine by Maria Sonevytsky received the 2020 Lewis Lockwood Award from the American Musicological Society (AMS). The Lockwood Award honors each year a musicological book of exceptional merit published during the previous year in any language and in any country by a scholar in the early stages of his…
Wesleyan UP at SEM 2020
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We are pleased to be participating in the Society for Ethnomusicology’s 2020 Virtual Annual Meeting, kicking off on October 22nd. Check out events with these Wesleyan authors and editors… Julia Byl Thursday, October 29, 2:00 – 3:30pm Panel Session 9G: Music, Labor, Commerce Chair Saturday, 2:00 – 4:00pm Panel Session 12J: Proselytizers, Preachers, and Music in Colonial…
Two Wesleyan UP books finalists for Connecticut Book Awards
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We are thrilled that two Wesleyan titles are honored by the Connecticut Center for the Book as finalists for 2020 Connecticut Book Awards. Sol LeWitt: A Life of Ideas is a finalist in the nonfiction category. And Forever Seeing New Beauties: The Forgotten Impressionist Mary Roger Williams, 1957–1907 is a finalist for the 2020 Spirit…
Summer Sale On All Wesleyan Music Titles!
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View a list of music titles here. Award Winners Wesleyan University Press was founded in 1957 and our books have won many awards. Books in our music series are no exception! Recent Favorites We always have great new titles! Be sure to sign up for our mailing list. Books for Courses If you’d like to…
Congratulations Abigail Chabitnoy, winner of a Colorado Book Award!
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Colorado Humanities has awarded Abigail Chabitnoy with the Colorado Book Award in the Poetry Category, for her first collection of poetry, How to Dress a Fish. Winners of the 2020 Colorado Book Awards were announced and read briefly on Saturday, May 30, during a celebratory virtual event held. Please click here, view to the Facebook Live video.…
Happy International Dance Day!
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Why not celebrate by checking out one of our recent dance books? Use discount code Q301 when you purchase through our distributor, HFSbooks.com.
Get outside in CT…Walk, fish, bird, and fly!
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Walk, fish, bird, or fly? Connecticut has it all. The weather is warming, we’ve been cooped up by social distancing, and Governor Ned Lamont has opened inland trout fishing season early to ease the crowding typical on normal opening day. As stated on Connecticut’s DEEP website, “Governor Lamont is urging all Connecticut residents to ‘Stay Safe,…
Supporting authors during CV-19 shutdowns
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Now is a good time to support authors! Especially those with new books, whose events have been cancelled or postponed. We hope that you are able to support your local bookstores by ordering through stores that are operating or ordering ebooks, as available, through your favorite bookstore. IndieBound has some instructions on ordering eBooks through…
