Peter Lang is delighted to announce Dr. Rey Conquer, The Queen’s College, Oxford, as the winner of the 2018 Institute of German Studies / Peter Lang Early Career Researcher Prize in German Studies. The winning monograph “Reading Colour: Four German Poets” will be published in 2019 in Peter Lang’s Studies in Modern German and Austrian Literature series. The Early Career Researcher Prize in German Studies is a collaboration between the Institute for German Studies at the University of Birmingham and Peter Lang. Proposals are invited each year from early career scholars in German Studies with connections to the UK and Ireland. Previous winners and runners-up include Dr. Lauren Selfe (“Representations of Muslim Woman in German Popular Culture, 1990-2016”, forthcoming in 2019), Dr. Peter Eckersley (“Power and Capacity in Urban Climate Governance. Germany and England compared“, published in 2018) and Dr. Jessica Wood (“Portraits of the Artist. Dionysian Creativity in Selected Works by Gabriele D’Annunzio and Thomas Mann“, published in 2017).

Peter Lang has signed an agreement with East China Normal University Press (ECNUP) to publish an English edition of ECNUP’s new series on the modernization of China’s educational system. ECNUP, founded in 1957, ranks among China’s top 10 university presses. Its education-focused publishing program has been translated into several languages and is also known for introducing Western educational and psychological theories that have influenced the Chinese curriculum. The “China’s Path to Education Modernization” series is planned to cover ten monographs that provide deep analyses, details and insights by top Chinese scholars in the field of educational research. The first volume in English will be published by Peter Lang in 2020 with nine more volumes to follow over the course of the next years.

Publishing group Peter Lang and the Istanbul private university Bahçeşehir Üniversitesi (BAU) have signed a cooperation agreement. It will initially be valid for two years starting in summer 2018. During this period, BAU supports publication projects from its approximately 1000 teachers and research assistants, which are submitted to Peter Lang and accepted for publication. Research in the humanities and social sciences, but also in engineering, is eligible for funding if the research subject touches on humanities topics. The objective of the cooperation is to make scientific research at BAU accessible to a broader international audience. The Peter Lang Publishing Group has had its own office in Turkey since 2015. Its editorial focus is on economics, political science, sociology as well as media and communication sciences. Publication languages are English, German and French (further information).

Two books, two winners: “Indigenous Cultural Capital. Postcolonial Narratives in Australian Children’s Literature” by Daozhi Xu has received the Biennial Australian Studies in China Book Prize 2018 for an Original Work of Scholarship in English. The monograph is the second volume in Peter Lang’s Australian Studies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives series. The series under the editorship of Prof. Anne Brewster from the University of New South Wales started in 2017 and has already published two award-winning titles: Its first volume “The Mabo Turn in Australian Fiction” by Geoff Rodoreda was granted the Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies (GAPS) Dissertation Award 2018.

Australian Studies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives showcases dynamic, innovative research on contemporary and historical Australian culture. More information on the book series can be found here. 

Dr. Jean Khalfa, Senior Lecturer in French Studies at Trinity College Cambridge, has taken on the editorship of Peter Lang’s Modern French Identities series. The series publishes monographs, editions or collection of papers based on recent research into modern French literature in English and French. Now in its 127^th volume, the series was previously edited by Dr. Peter Collier at the University of Cambridge. Peter Lang is pleased to announce the re-launch of the series under the new editorship and thanks Dr. Collier for his dedicated work over 20 years as editor of the series.

Peter Lang and the Bavarian State Library as negotiators of all consortia in Germany have signed a contract for the use of digital content. Under the agreement, participating libraries have the opportunity to acquire licenses for more than 10,000 e-books as thematic packages, Pick & Choose packages or Evidence-based Acquisition (EBA) without having to conclude their own license agreements. The agreement is effective immediately until and including 30.4.2019. A new addition is the Slavistik Online collection, which Peter Lang acquired in 2017 from Biblion Media.

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Effective immediately, Peter Lang takes over the publication of Stanford Slavic Studies. The academic book series was founded in 1987 at the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures of Stanford University and was published by Berkeley Slavic Specialties until 2016. The co-operation starts with volume 48, that will be published by Peter Lang in the third quarter of 2018.

The series seeks to introduce new perspectives in the study of modern Russian literary history from a national and international perspective. It was founded by Prof. Lazar Fleishman at the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures of Stanford University, who will continue to lead the editorship.

With the publication of Stanford Slavic Studies, Peter Lang further expands its portfolio in Slavic Studies. In 2017, the group took over the Slavic Studies list from German publisher Biblion Media consisting of around 1,300 backlist titles, 15 active series and two online portals Slavic Studies Online and Futurism Online.

Peter Lang series Women in German Literature, edited by Prof. Helen Watanabe-O’Kelly at the University of Oxford, is expanding its remit to broadly cover German cultural production and to now include studies relating to gender and sexuality. The series first launched in 1998 offering monographs and edited collections in German and English on women’s issues in German literature. As of volume 21, the series will continue under the new title Women, Gender and Sexuality in German Literature and Culture. Its broadened focus will foreground excellent research by scholars working in Gender Studies, Queer Studies and Sexuality Studies within a German context, thereby expanding on and complementing the existing volumes in the series.

23 editors and senior management representatives from Renmin University Press, East China University of Science & Technology Press, Peking University Press, Beijing Normal University Press and Guangdong Economy Publishing House gathered in Oxford on April 6 as part of a three-day study tour organized by Renmin University Press and Ian Taylor Associates Ltd. The group discussed trends in international publishing, book and rights sales in international markets and opportunities for cooperation with Adam Gardner (Peter Lang Group Commercial Director) and Na Li (Peter Lang Commissioning Editor China). Peter Lang represented the publishing sector within the programme, which included training, practical sessions and exchange of experiences and opinions at an international level.

Peter Lang has signed an agreement with Jisc, the UK’s higher education and skills sectors’ organization for digital services and solutions, to make Peter Lang’s e-book collections available for purchase through the agreements Jisc has negotiated for its members. The partnership provides universities and colleges in the United Kingdom with access to Peter Lang’s entire collection of 10,000+ DRM-free e-books by registering interest via the Jisc Collections platform at https://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/Catalogue/Overview/index/2815.

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