Exploring gender and virtue in Plutarch: read the first review in French of Lunette Warren's book by Julie Mestery @leverpress.bsky.social journals.openedition.org/etudesplaton...

"She hate me!" @shanedenson.bsky.social's new monograph on BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN is the first in @leverpress.bsky.social's film/minutes series, giving you a minute-by-minute look at the film and its context. liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

A guidebook for thinking about care work across a variety of disciplines and careers, PRACTICE DIALOGUES is out June 2026! This volume recasts the traditional discourses of "helping" and calls readers and academics to learn from care workers' wisdom as knowledge. Read more: buff.ly/rySYA93

New OA Book by Lever Press one of the publishers that @sheffielduni.bsky.social Library supports via its Open Scholarship Fund 🔓📘

BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN by @shanedenson.bsky.social is now available! As the inaugural volume of the film|minutes series, this book offers a minute-by-minute analysis of James Whale's 1935 masterpiece Bride of Frankenstein. Start reading here: buff.ly/U96DFVI

In case folks don't know, I'm also the senior acquiring editor at @leverpress.bsky.social, an open access academic publisher funded by liberal arts colleges and universities across the US, UK, and Europe. And I'm always interested to hear about book projects in the humanities and social sciences!

Your regular reminder that @leverpress.bsky.social not only published Open Access books, we don't charge authors or their institutions. And we pay you an honorarium to make up for the potential loss of royalties. We are proof that "things don't have to be this way."

A new week means a brilliant selection of new titles from our distributed presses. First up, "Knowing an Empire: Early Modern Chinese and Spanish Worlds in Dialogue" from Lever Press's ASIANetwork Books collection. Find it here: bit.ly/3Vcoc47 @leverpress.bsky.social @mackenziecooley.bsky.social

Woah, new edition of Screen Captures: Film in the Age of Emergency. Coming with @leverpress.bsky.social in spring 2026. #filmsky #books #booksky

Exploring our political, cultural, and technological contexts, on and off the screen, this new edition of SCREEN CAPTURES by @riffsandmeaning.bsky.social is out March 2026! Read more and pre-order your copy here: services.publishing.umich.edu/Books/S/Scre...

Lever Press authors Kelly and Katherine Ngo attended the Association for Moral Education conference in Finland! Their forthcoming volume TRADITIONAL CHINESE CHILDREN'S PRIMERS was featured, so pre-order your copy or bookmark the OA version here: services.publishing.umich.edu/Books/T/Trad...

new OA book, Knowing an Empire. Early Modern Chinese and Spanish Worlds in Dialogue, edited by Mackenzie Cooley & Wu Huiyi (in which I wrote a medieval chapter: "Imperial Territorial Data Before the Age of Print"), available here: www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...

This looks wonderful!

A mini-intro to the first part of our book, "Knowing an Empire" with @leverpress.bsky.social services.publishing.umich.edu/Books/K/Know...

This is a big one! Not only a hefty volume at over 600 pages, but it brings together incredible work comparing the craft of early modern Chinese and Spanish empires.

KNOWING AN EMPIRE by @mackenziecooley.bsky.social & Huiyi Wu is now available! This ASIANetwork Books collection reveals the dynamic dialogues between early modern China and Latin America through a new methodology. Start reading: services.publishing.umich.edu/Books/K/Know...

A huge congratulations to LP author Stefan Ekman and his book URBAN FANTASY on winning the 2025 Mythopoeic Myth and Fantasy Studies Award!🎉🎉🎉 Read the full announcement: www.mythsoc.org/news/news-20...

Congrats to Stefan Ekman and his book Urban Fantasy: Exploring Modernity through Magic, published by us at @leverpress.bsky.social, for winning the 2025 Mythopoeic Award for Myth and Fantasy Studies! www.mythsoc.org/news/news-20...

"Chris Campanioni explores how stories created in exile and passage shape modern media in DRIFT NET": Check out this interview with DRIFT NET author @chriscampanioni.bsky.social and @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social here: www.gc.cuny.edu/news/alumnus...

Alumnus Chris Campanioni explores how stories created in exile and passage shape modern media in his new book "Drift Net" www.gc.cuny.edu/news/alumnus...

from @leverpress.bsky.social's latest, The Detroit Genre , Vincent Haddad, @vincenthaddad.bsky.social

GLEANINGS FROM THE FIELD is part of @foodtank.bsky.social's 2025 Summer Reading List!🎉 Congrats to @williamgmoseley.bsky.social, Dan Trudeau, and Paul Schadewald on the feature. Read the full list: foodtank.com/news/2025/06...

Version 1.0 is now out! I added a wordcount display above the text editor. Don't know why I didn't think to do so earlier! You can always get the latest version through the DOI: doi.org/10.25740/xq3...

I also made an interactive version of my Bride of Frankenstein book, which I'll release when the book comes out in September!

It's alive!!! (Coming in September...)

Check out the workstation Lever Press author @shanedenson.bsky.social created for the film|minutes series! A combination video player and text editor, this software is designed for close analysis of videos in scholarly research. Check it out below:

Introducing the film|minutes video|graphic workstation I made a piece of software! It’s called the film|minutes video|graphic workstation. It’s pretty niche but cool if you want to take notes or do very close readings of films/videos. It's a combination video player and text editor designed for…

I can't capture in a photo how awesome the books in our film|minutes series at @leverpress.bsky.social look in print! Compact, beautifully designed volumes that take every minute of a film as a unit of analysis. Here's the first in the series by @shanedenson.bsky.social on Bride or Frankenstein.

IN THE KINGDOM OF THE THUNDER DRAGON by Betsy Bolton is now available! A journey through Bhutan that examines the mountain kingdom's history, gross national happiness, ethnic conflicts, and biocultural heritage, this book is a must-read. Start reading: myumi.ch/7926x @swarthmorecollege.bsky.social

We've got a dope new series at @leverpress.bsky.social that brings together science fiction and the environmental humanities:

An interdisciplinary collection to deepen our understandings of trigger warnings in a social justice context, TRIGGER WARNINGS: TEACHING THROUGH TRAUMA is out February 2026! Pre-order your copy or bookmark this page: services.publishing.umich.edu/Books/T/Trig...

Drift Net by alum Chris Campanioni (Ph.D. '22) is out now from @leverpress.bsky.social ! You can read or order the book here: www.leverpress.org

Today's the day!🎉🎉🎉 Start reading (or grab a copy) of DRIFT NET here: services.publishing.umich.edu/Books/D/Drif...

a guidebook, an itinerary, a study that centers migrant creators & reveals how migration has shaped today’s digital norms & produced an avant-garde of art born in translation from @leverpress.bsky.social ❤️‍🔥 @cunyenglish.bsky.social @paceuniversity.bsky.social & all my students

DRIFT NET by @chriscampanioni.bsky.social is now available to read online! Campanioni theorizes literature and art produced through experiences of migration, detention, and exile in this remarkable book. Start reading here: doi.org/10.3998/mpub... @paceuniversity.bsky.social

Support @leverpress.bsky.social and help reclaim the scholarly publishing system. Tell your librarian about us. Publish with us. Download our books. Talk about them on social media. We are free to and for everyone, but that requires library support behind the scenes.

You can read and download the book free here and buy a print copy for a pretty affordable $26.99. This is what we do at Lever Press: make awesome books by incredible scholars for EVERYONE to read for free, everywhere, any time.

Stefan Ekman's URBAN FANTASY: EXPLORING MODERNITY THROUGH MAGIC (@leverpress.bsky.social, 2024) is a finalist for the 2025 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Myth and Fantasy Studies!

Bad news. My 2021 book Screen Captures is now out of print. Newstar Books, the publisher, is wrapping up operations after fifty years. Good news. The book will be republished as a second ed next year with @leverpress.bsky.social I'm excited to be working with a press I've admired for a while.

A living exploration of contemporary Rome's urban transformations, inequalities, activisms, and social dynamics LIVING ROME: SPACE, IDENTITY, AND THE POLITICS OF BELONGING is out February 2026! Read more: services.publishing.umich.edu/Books/L/Livi...

New Release by Lever Press. One of the publishers supported by @sheffielduni.bsky.social Library Open Scholarship Fund

Really excited to have this out in the world!

The first book in our Re-Editions series, OUR LITTLE LIFE is now available! With this new edition, author and editor Juan Velasco restores and expands José Antonio Villarreal's original vision for POCHO. It's #OpenAccess so start reading: doi.org/10.3998/mpub.14601741

Forthcoming from @leverpress.bsky.social early next year, an edited collection thinking through "trigger warnings" in the classroom from multiple perspectives. You can learn more about "Trigger Warnings: Teaching Through Trauma" here: services.publishing.umich.edu/Books/T/Trig...

In 14 essays, ADAPTIVE FORMS examines media adaptation in contemporary science fiction films, including Arrival, Black Panther, Snowpiercer, and more. As the our newest addition to the Videographic Books series, it's completely #OpenAccess and out Oct. 7! myumi.ch/z99ZW

Love to see happy authors with excellent books! Even better when it's your own author!

Juan Velasco's book launch for OUR LITTLE LIFE was a hit! Pre-order your copy or bookmark the page for the OA version here: services.publishing.umich.edu/Books/O/Our-... #AcademicSky

🎉A huge congratulations to Stefan Ekman, author of URBAN FANTASY, on the being name a finalist in the non-fiction category of the Locus Awards!!🎉 It's #OpenAccess so start reading here: services.publishing.umich.edu/Books/U/Urba...

Also, to be clear, you don't need to buy the book to read it. It's Open Access. All of our books at Lever Press are OA. And if you want to publish excellent OA scholarship and be in the company of a Locus finalist, then... maybe you should be pitching your book to me at Lever Press!

Incredibly excited to see that Stefan Ekman's URBAN FANTASY (services.publishing.umich.edu/Books/U/Urba...) from @leverpress.bsky.social is a finalist in the non-fiction category. I'm so glad to see Ekman's book getting the recognition it deserves and being in such good company!