What the novella is to fiction, the short book is to academic publishing. Increasingly, academic publishers are thinking small. We have seen academic presses launch book series like University of Minnesota Press’s Forerunners, “Short books of thought-in-process scholarship, where intense analysis, questioning, and speculation take the lead,” Bloomsbury’s Object Lessons, “a series of concise, collectable, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things,” and New York University Press’s Avidly Reads, “short books about how culture makes us feel.” The success of such series indicates a demand for the short form academic work, but we wish to open the field, calling for submissions beyond these themes.
The University of Tampa Press, with its strengths in the study of history, drama, and literature, seeks submissions of short works of humanities scholarship, 20,000 to 35,000 words. We are particularly interested in manuscripts that feature topics and perspectives that have been overlooked in scholarly publishing. The University of Tampa Press is proud to be led by four women and we would welcome works in Gender and Women’s Studies as well. All requested manuscripts will be peer-reviewed in a double-blind process. Send queries to utpress@ut.edu. Please follow our regular submission guidelines for all Pith submissions.
