Faculty and Staff Achievements, May 22, 2008

Linda Simon, professor and chair, Department of English, has been appointed editor of a new book series titled Mind and American Literature and published by Camden House, a division of the British publisher Boydell and Brewer.

This series will offer a forum for the publication of scholarly work investigating connections between literary texts and interdisciplinary inquiry into the broadly defined concept of mind. Books in the series will take a fresh view of literature from any genre in the contexts of questions and considerations that have emerged from such fields as philosophy, psychology, biology, neuroscience, linguistics, and anthropology. The series is committed to publishing fine writing, accessible to a wide range of educated readers.

Camden House is an imprint of the academic publisher Boydell & Brewer, of Rochester, N.Y. and Woodbridge, UK. Specializing since its founding in 1979 on German literature, literary criticism, and culture, Camden House is expanding its efforts in American literary studies through the Mind and American Literature series.