Calling all Mina Loy fans! Our forthcoming print companion to the scholarly website mina-loy.com will be out Sept. 15th. Learn more about the project and its print companion here: mina-loy.com/uncategorize...

I have a reissue of my 2021 book Screen Captures: Film in the Age of Emergency coming with @leverpress.bsky.social in March. Some kind folk said some kind things about it. Paperback is a reasonable $19.99. Ebook is free on Open Access! #FilmSky #BookSky services.publishing.umich.edu/Books/S/Scre...

“Trigger Warnings” from Lever Press is an interdisciplinary collection which aims to deepen our understanding of trigger warnings in a social justice context. Read more about the book here: bit.ly/4qXJtNf @leverpress.bsky.social

“what happens when a scholarly text is opened up, annotated, and accessed or acted out differently, which is to say reprocessed?”👇🏽 Drift Net’s “embodied methodologies” in @booksireland.bsky.social with the luminous @cmakris.bsky.social ❤️‍🔥⚡️

"The news today will be the movies for tomorrow." Arthur Lee. Screen Captures (March, 2026) @leverpress.bsky.social Post-Catastrophe-Film (May, 2026) @intellectbooks.bsky.social #FilmSky #CinemaSky #BookSky

One month to go! Screen Captures lands in print and on Open Access March 17. The essays cover a lot of ground but basically take in the period 2009-2021. Crash to Covid + emergencies between. 📽️ #FilmSky #BookSky #AcademicSky @leverpress.bsky.social services.publishing.umich.edu/Books/S/Scre...

Thanks for your patience, our website is back up and running! Start browsing here: www.leverpress.org

Check out this transatlantic Q&A with DRIFT NET author @chriscampanioni.bsky.social and poet @cmakris.bsky.social! The poets reflect on each other's work, their approaches to poetry in digital dynamics, and an avant-garde sensibility shaped by migration:

"The arc of the study and its use of autoethnographic narrative, alongside close readings and interviews with asylum applicants and shelter directors, speaks to the book’s mobilization of critical-creative scholarship." Read more about DRIFT NET by @chriscampanioni.bsky.social:

After almost a decade of correspondence, exchange of work and editorial activities, Chris Campanioni (New Jersey) and Christodoulos Makris (Dublin) met in person in New York City in January 2025. Here, they reflect on each other's work. @cmakris.bsky.social booksirelandmagazine.com/work-that-ha...

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Screen Captures: Film in the Age of Emergency is out in about month with @leverpress.bsky.social. This is just some of the films, people, and cultural debris discussed. @leverpress.bsky.social #FilmSky #BookSky #Cinema

A living exploration of contemporary Rome's urban transformations, inequalities, and social dynamics, LIVING ROME is now available to read online! Start reading here: doi.org/10.3998/mpub...

“Living Rome”, edited by Isabella Clough Marinaro and Will Haynes, explores contemporary Rome’s urban transformations, inequalities, activisms, and social dynamics. Find out more: bit.ly/3LZlKNp @leverpress.bsky.social

Check out the latest release from @leverpress.bsky.social

TRIGGER WARNINGS: TEACHING THROUGH TRAUMA is now available! This interdisciplinary collection deepens our understandings of trigger warnings in a social justice context. Start reading here: doi.org/10.3998/mpub...

Screen Captures: Film in the Age of Emergency is out in March with @leverpress.bsky.social. The book is full of all the trending topics. Trump (bluh!), Star Wars, Nic Cage, David Lynch, Superheroes, Valerie Solanas, climate change, A.I., robots, North Korea, Covid. 📽️ #BookSky #FilmSky #AcademicSky

Grab a copy or bookmark SCREEN CAPTURES here: services.publishing.umich.edu/Books/S/Scre...

@leverpress.bsky.social is publishing a second edition of my 2021 book Screen Captures: Film in the Age of Emergency in March 2026. Which emergency? All of them. Excited to see this in print (again) and available as Open Access. #filmsky #booksky #academicsky

Kick off your 2026 reading goal with Katherine and Kelly Ngo's TRADITIONAL CHINESE CHILDREN'S PRIMERS, the first anthology of its kind in a European language. Start reading online for free here: doi.org/10.3998/mpub...

Predictably, publishers have made partnerships with AI companies to handle production. And even more predictably, it's not going well AT ALL. You can and should choose a publisher based on their operational ethics. @leverpress.bsky.social is platinum OA, library-funded, and we *do not* use AI.

Out next year with @leverpress.bsky.social

OPEN ACCESS MUSICOLOGY VOL 3 is now available! These multimedia-rich essays for students and teachers of music history and ethnomusicology are essential for the music classroom. Start reading: doi.org/10.3998/mpub...

Pre-order Stephen's book below! services.publishing.umich.edu/Books/S/Scre...

Excited to see Screen Captures in the 2026 @leverpress.bsky.social catalog.

Folks in modernist literary studies, but on the lookout for our book on Mina Loy coming next September!

The Lever Pres Spring & Summer 2026 catalog is here! From urban studies of contemporary Rome to explorations of pilgrimage in the Garhwal Himalaya region, there's something for everyone. Browse here: buff.ly/Xo1eOta

A companion text to the award-winning web resource, TRAVELS WITH MINA LOY by Suzanne W. Churchill, Linda A. Kinnahan, & Susan Rosenbaum is out Sept 2026! Read more and pre-order here: services.publishing.umich.edu/Books/T/Trav...

New from Lever Press, Katherine and Kelly Ngo bring over two millennia of Chinese education to life in "Traditional Chinese Children’s Primers", the first English anthology of eleven classic texts teaching generations of children language, virtue & culture. @leverpress.bsky.social bit.ly/4759WQd

A really cool book I've been working on about pilgrimage and politics in the Himalayan borderlands of India.

Tracing the Garhwal Himalaya region's sacred history, GOD'S OWN LAND by James G. Lochtefeld is out April 2026! Read more and pre-order here: services.publishing.umich.edu/Books/G/God-...

The book will be published by @leverpress.bsky.social in print and Diamond Open Access as part of their new Film|Minutes series. The brilliant @shanedenson.bsky.social wrote the first volume for the series on BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN, available here: www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...

Today I finished and filed my monograph on THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE, in which I break down the entire film into 60-second segments and discuss them one at a time. It's been a challenging but hugely rewarding book to write — and now it's finally done!!

We're about a month away from the pub date of the latest OPEN ACCESS MUSICOLOGY issue! Pre-order your copy of the essay collection here: services.publishing.umich.edu/Books/O/Open...

Archivists, if there's anything I've learned from the Field Guide, it's that you're going to want to pre-order this book in case it someday rapidly goes out of print and is almost inaccessible to laymen and students while all formal publications still regularly cite it.

Out now, #openaccess Traditional Chinese Children’s Primers: A Sourcebook, edited by Katherine Ngo and Kelly Ngo Lever Press #histchild #histed doi.org/10.3998/mpub...

The theme of #UniversityPressWeek is #TeamUP and we're doing just that by working with so many great UPs to produce and digitally host vital scholarly books (on Fulcrum) and journals (on @janewayolh.bsky.social). @aupresses.bsky.social

New #OpenAccess volume by Huiyi Wu and Mackenzie Cooley: "Knowing an Empire: Early Modern Chinese and Spanish Worlds in Dialogue" 🗺️ The book unveils how both empires developed comparable systems to gather, order, and wield knowledge about their local worlds. 🔗 bit.ly/3XqwYN #HistSci #Sinology

Our Asian Library ordered a copy of this for the general collections. You can consult the #OA book at the link below!

The new addition to our Re-Editions series, TRADITIONAL CHINESE CHILDREN'S PRIMERS, is now here! The first-of-its-kind anthology in English covers Chinese children's texts from 2nd century BCE to the late 20th century. Start reading: buff.ly/tRF9G9q

A groundbreaking digital ethnography of the Otherkin community, HUMAN* BEING by @devinproctor.bsky.social is out August 2026! Read more and pre-order your copy here: buff.ly/hvMOZgC @elonuniversity.bsky.social

👻 Happy Halloween! What better time to discover the inaugural volume in Lever Press's film|minutes book series?: 'Bride of Frankenstein' by @shanedenson.bsky.social dissects the 1935 classic through sound, technology, and time itself minute-by-minute.🎃 🍿 bit.ly/3JzEdPr @leverpress.bsky.social

Very excited for this upcoming title publishing later next year from @leverpress.bsky.social. It's a digital ethnography of the Otherkin community! (And the cover is glorious.) Proctor has some amazing things to say about the digital mediation of identity, belonging, queerness, and (non-)humanness.

Join the contributors of GLEANINGS FROM THE FIELD for an interactive virtual session exploring food studies, civic engagement, and collaborative partnerships in higher ed on Nov 6! Register here:

Featuring accounts of how blindness and low vision intersect with other identity dimensions, SHIFTING BLIND IDENTITIES IN HIGHER EDUCATION is out July 2026! Read more and pre-order your copy here: buff.ly/DCcq6R7

Join the contributors of GLEANINGS FROM THE FIELD for an interactive virtual session exploring food studies, civic engagement, and collaborative partnerships in higher ed on Oct 28! Register here: seed-coalition.org/programs/mem...

"Who owns knowledge, who produces it, and how—and, most importantly, who pays for it—are central questions for researchers, publishers, and university librarians now more than ever. Lever Press answers these questions with a collective yawp: "we do." Read more about our OA mission: buff.ly/UTiIdYL

Join the contributors of GLEANINGS FROM THE FIELD for two interactive virtual sessions exploring food studies, civic engagement, and collaborative partnerships in higher ed! Register for the Oct. 28 and Nov. 6 sessions here: seed-coalition.org/programs/mem...

A book about science fiction films and adaptation, in videographic (i.e. video essay) form!

ADAPTIVE FORMS by Gregory Brophy & Shawn Malley is now available to read online! This new edition to our Videographic series examines media adaptation in contemporary science fiction film through 14 video essays. Start reading and watching here: buff.ly/1K6d7Z0