Annual Report 2021 by Fordham University Press

FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS ANNUAL REPORT

2021

CONTENTS

1 L E T T E R

19 F R O M

T H E

D I R E C T O R

A U P R E S S E S

H I G H L I G H T S

W E E K

23 R E S O U R C E S

11 R E V I E W S

R I G H T S

C O R N E R

24 &

M E N T I O N S

I N T E R N A T I O N A L

S U B S I D I E S

A W A R D S

15 V I R T U A L

M E D I A

O N L I N E

S O C I A L

F I N A N C I A L

S U M M A R Y

E V E N T S

18 e M A R K E T I N G

27 S T A F F

B O A R D

D I R E C T O R S

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MARCH 2022 Dear Readers,

the first Black woman to graduate from Fordham School of Law.

I am excited to share the Fordham University Press (FUP) 2021 Annual Report with you. Before I do so, I’d like to

Our anthropology list continues to grow in exciting

thank Fr. Joseph M. McShane, outgoing President of

directions, including titles like Hijras, Lovers, Brothers:

Fordham University, for his unending support of the Press

Surviving Sex and Poverty in Rural India

and his commitment to scholarly publishing during his 19

Vaibhav Saria, which offers a fuller account of trans lives

years as President of the University, and to wish him well

and Indian society today. It won the 2021 Joseph W. Elder

as he moves on to his next journey. All of us will miss him.

Prize in the Indian Social Sciences and the 2021 Ruth

I am honored to have worked for him and published

Benedict Prize, Association for Queer Anthropology.

(page 14) by

books that align with the Jesuit mission of cura personalis and men and women for others. We will carry on his

Celebrating its tenth anniversary and recognizing how the

legacy by publishing books that uphold the values and

study of Catholicism has evolved, we have rebranded our

traditions of the University itself.

Catholic Practice in North America series to Catholic Practice in the Americas and added Jessica Delgado as

Despite the challenges and emotional toll of the

co-editor with John Seitz. It aims to contribute to the

pandemic, people found solace in books. In particular,

growing field of Catholic studies by publishing books

book publishing and print sales had a strong year in

devoted to the historical and cultural survey of Catholic

2021. FUP maintained its publishing output of 60 original

Practice in the Americas, from the colonial period to the

titles annually. We are proud of all of them, but I’d like to

present. The most recent release, Missions Begin with

highlight a few for their unique contributions to our

Blood: Suffering and Salvation in the Borderlands of New

mission and ability to raise our spirits in troubling times.

Spain

The Book of Tiny Prayer: Daily Meditations from the

interpretation of the role of martyrdom to the centrality of

Plague Year

(page 2) by Micah Bucey with a Foreword

(back cover), by Brandon Bayne, offers a novel

the Jesuit enterprise in New Spain’s northern frontier.

by Pádraig Ó Tuama, bears witness to the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, but its spirit is universal, inviting

Many of our books received reviews in mainstream and

all to quiet themselves, name the pain and the joy around

academic media and prestigious scholarly awards. I invite

them, and recommit to the change required for collective

you to turn to

liberation even during the worst of times.

our recognition.

Gasoline Dreams: Waking Up from Petroculture

(page

pages 11 through 14 to get a closer look at

We will continue to build our digital collection, find

22) by Simon Orpana is a graphic novel that confronts

opportunities for funding of open access, and reach wider

our habits, narratives, and fantasies head-on to help

audiences. We received $106,000 in subsidies this past year

break our petroleum dependency.

to support our publishing efforts, including translations, expanded art programs, digital enhancements, and open

Peter Quinn’s Fintan Dunne trilogy builds on our

access.

commitment to publishing books about New York and by New York authors through reissues of literary fiction and

Thanks to my staff for their continued hard work and

contributes to our recently established imprint New York

dedication to the mission of FUP and to the FUP Board for

ReLit

(pages 7 and 8).

Eunice Hunton Carter: A Lifelong Fight for Social Justice

(page 13) by Marilyn S. Greenwald and Yun Li, 2022 PROSE Awards Category Winner - Biography & Autobiography, is a fascinating biography of a social

their time, engagement, and commitment to the Press.

Warmest regards,

Fred

justice and civil rights trailblazer and the only woman

FREDRIC W. NACHBAUR

prosecutor on the Lucky Luciano mob trial. She was also

DIRECTOR

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HIGHLIGHTS

revmicahbucey @caspertk: Congrats to @RevMicahBucey for creating this beautiful little book of prayers from the plague year! @thatrabbicohen: This is truly a must-read work for anyone who cares about prayer, grief, compassion, hope, and humanity. Thank you @RevMicahBucey. @merylnyc: My wonderful friend @RevMicahBucey's book just arrived. It's a blessing to have it in our home.

NG ld I T o IN s s R P ie p d 2n + co 00 0 , 2

November 1, 2021 Praying for & Praying with: Micah Bucey & Cláudio Carvalhaes in Conversation December 17, 2021 A Night with Micah Bucey and The Tiny Book of Prayer January 11, 2022 The Queer Power of Prayer with Rev. Micah Bucey

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HEALING THROUGH MEMOIR Jonathan Alexander's two new books grapple with lingering effects of homophobia

Ran excerpt October 7, 2021

October 1, 2021 One of Lambda Literary's Most Anticipated LGBTQIA+ Books for October October 25, 2021 Skylight Books Podcast Series: Jonathan Alexander with Julietta Singh November 4, 2021 Book Talk: Cruising into Age—Getting Older Queerly November 9, 2021 As seen at Book Soup and Skylight Books (Los Angeles, CA).

Faculty Book Talk @ UC Irvine PAGE 03

SNEAK PEEK! 2022 Frantz Fanon Outstanding Book Award “White Reconstruction is in the spirit of Fanon’s action: unveiling hidden destructuring systems to better combat them. Through it, Professor Dylan Rodríguez is contributing to shifting the geography of reason. The intellectual community is thankful.”—President Hanétha Vété-Congolo, Caribbean Philosophical Association

PODCASTS & INTERVIEWS Black Power Media, 3/15/21 Revolutionary Left Radio, 3/12/21 In the Black Podcast, 3/4/21 This Is Revolution, 1/13/21 Interview with Millennials Are Killing Capitalism, 1/7/21

FORDHAM PRESS FAVORITES: THE MUST-READ BOOKS OF 2021 Robin Shannon, the host of Fordham Conversations, talks with two members of the oldest Catholic university press in the United States, Director Fred Nachbaur and Associate Director and Director of Marketing & Sales, Kate O'Brien-Nicholson, about their must-read books for 2021.

. . . A major book by a noted scholar.

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". . . thoughtful, thorough, and bracingly corrective study of twentiethcentury American housing reform at its finest . . ." —MARTIN NEW

YORK

FILLER,

REVIEW

BOOKS

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New York ReLit publishes reissues of historical, literary fiction about New York or written by authors from New York. ONE OF THE TOP TWENTY BOOKS EVERY IRISH AMERICAN SHOULD READ —IRISH CENTRAL

As seen @OblongBooks PAGE 07

GLUCKSMAN IRELAND HOUSE (NYC) Peter Quinn in-conversation with Lenwood Sloan

Juneteenth

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Online Resources In 2021, Fordham University Press contributed to JSTOR's Open Library companion to the Schomburg Center's Black Liberation Reading List. Overall, monthly usage of content in the Open Library increased, on average, 136% from February–November 2021. Notably, 47% of usage came from users without institutional affiliation, highlighting the tremendous reach of content being made openly available

Top Downloads by Chapter 870 Downloads "James Baldwin: Race, Religion, and the Love of Humanity"

514 Downloads "An Abolitionism Worthy of the Name: From the Death Penalty to the Prison Industrial Complex"

without access barriers Articles that received the most usage tended to be introductions to more complex topics and overviews that

429 Downloads "'Mass Incarceration' as Misnomer: Domestic War and the Narratives of Carceral Reform"

summarized scholarship across disciplines

DeGruyter University Press Library eBook Collection The University Press Library (UPL) is a digital library of eBook collections from 16 prestigious university presses that are internationally recognized as some of the best presses in the world. Fordham University Press is supplying frontlist titles to the UPL on on a rolling basis. In addition, DeGruyter is converting backlist titles that were previously unavailable as WebPDFs and adding them to the platform.

928 backlist files have been converted to WebPDFs 285 backlist files are in process of being converted 500+ WebPDFs from 2014 onward have been added

to the platform.

As books publish, the collection continues to grow.

Participating presses are those at Columbia, Cornell, Fordham, Harvard, New York, Pennsylvania State, Princeton, Rutgers, Stanford and Yale Universities, as well as the presses at the Universities of California, Chicago, Hawaii, Pennsylvania, Toronto and Texas.

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“MUSE in Focus” is a series of curated resources comprising content from participating publishers across Project MUSE’s broad corpus, designed to contribute interdisciplinary, scholarly context to current events and issues.

Each project is carefully assembled by MUSE’s content development team in collaboration with publishers, editors, and top scholars to provide an interdisciplinary survey of scholarship for researchers, instructors, and general readers alike.

Project Muse 84,112

Digital Asset Snapshot

Downloads

Top Books Ecological Form: System and Aesthetics in the

WebPdfs 22.3%

Age of Empire Realizing the Witch: Science, Cinema, and the Mastery of the Invisible Of Elephants and Toothaches: Ethics, Politics,

Pdfs 55.3%

and Religion in Krzysztof Kieslowski's 'Decalogue'

JSTOR 171,729

ePubs 22.4%

Downloads

Top Books Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates Journey into Social Activism: Qualitative

UPSO

Approaches

18,290 Downloads

The Insistence of Art: Aesthetic Philosophy After

Top Books

Early Modernity

DigitalResearch@Fordham

A Reformation Debate: John Calvin & Jacopo Sadoleto

95,669 Downloads

Political Theologies: Public Religions in a Post-

Top Books

Secular World

Infectious Liberty: Biopolitics between Romanticism and Liberalism

Beyond the Mother Tongue: The Postmonolingual Condition

Scrolls of Love: Ruth and the Song of Songs The River of Dreams: The Hudson Valley in Historic Postcards

New Open Access Titles Orphaned Landscapes: Violence, Visuality, and Appearance in Indonesia

Cold War Reckonings: Authoritarianism and the Genres of Decolonization

Patricia Spyer

Jini Kim Watson

Funded by the Swiss National Science

Funded by TOME: Toward an Open

Foundation

Monograph Ecosystem

A Reader in Early Franciscan Theology: The Summa Halensis

Infectious Liberty: Biopolitics between Romanticism and Liberalism

Lydia Schumacher and Oleg Bychkov

Robert Mitchell

Funded by King's College, UK

Funded by TOME: Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem

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Understanding the Bronx A Reading List

NOTABLE REVIEWS & MENTIONS America Magazine, September 2021

Literary Hub, July 2021

The Kingdom Began in Puerto Rico: Neil Connolly’s

Before the Fires: An Oral History of African American Life

Priesthood in the South Bronx

in the Bronx from the 1930s to the 1960s

Angel Garcia

Mark Naison and Bob Gumbs

Children's Literature Association Quarterly, Spring 2021 Theory for Beginners: Children’s Literature as Critical

That Further Shore: A Memoir of Irish Roots and American Promise John D. Feerick, Foreword by Thomas J. Shelley

Thought Kenneth B. Kidd

Modern Language Quarterly, September 2021 The Geological Unconscious: German Literature and the

Commonweal, May 2021

Mineral Imaginary

Womanpriest: Tradition and Transgression in the

Jason Groves

Contemporary Roman Catholic Church Jill Peterfeso

National Catholic Reporter, January 2021 The Kingdom Began in Puerto Rico: Neil Connolly’s

DC Metro Theater Arts, October 2021

Priesthood in the South Bronx

Reginald Rose and the Journey of 12 Angry Men

Angel Garcia

Phil Rosenzweig

New York Review of Books, November 2021 Full Stop: Reviews. Interviews. Marginalia., July 2021

Sunnyside Gardens: Planning and Preservation in a

The Hawthorn Archive: Letters from the Utopian Margins

Historic Garden Suburb

Avery F. Gordon

Jeffrey A. Kroessler

Ms. Magazine, August 2021 Eunice Hunton Carter: A Lifelong Fight for Social Justice Marilyn S. Greenwald and Yun Li

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Philosophy Today, Fall 2021

TMR: The Medieval Review, April 2021

On Universals: Constructing and Deconstructing

Whose Middle Ages? Teachable Moments for an Ill-

Community

Used Past

Étienne Balibar, Translated by Joshua David Jordan

Andrew Albin, Mary C. Erler, Thomas O'Donnell, Nicholas L. Paul, and Nina Rowe, Editors, Introduction

Pittsburgh City Paper, January 2021

by David Perry, Afterword by Geraldine Heng

My Daily Actions, or The Meteorites S. Brook Corfman, Foreword by Cathy Park Hong

U.S. Catholic, January 2021 Send Lazarus: Catholicism and the Crises of

Politics & Gender, Issue 17(3) 2021

Neoliberalism

Shell Shocked: Feminist Criticism after Trump

Matthew T. Eggemeier and Peter Joseph Fritz

Bonnie Honig

Politics, Religion & Ideology, October 2021 Passing Orders: Demonology and Sovereignty in American Spiritual Warfare S. Jonathon O'Donnell

The Economist, September 2021 Reginald Rose and the Journey of 12 Angry Men

Publishers Weekly (2021) Her Wilderness Will Be Her Manners Sarah Mangold, Foreword by Cynthia Hogue Gasoline Dreams: Waking Up from Petroculture Simon Orpana, Foreword by Imre Szeman, Afterword by Mark Simpson

Phil Rosenzweig

The Nation, June 2021 Shell Shocked: Feminist Criticism after Trump Bonnie Honig

Theological Studies Religion of the Field Negro: On Black Secularism and

From Factories to Palaces: Architect Charles B. J. Snyder and the New York City Public Schools Jean Arrington with Cynthia S. LaValle, Foreword by Peg Breen Reading Shakespeare Reading Me Leonard Barkan

Black Theology Vincent W. Lloyd

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Awards Winners The Frantz Fanon Prize White Reconstruction: Domestic Warfare and the Logics of Genocide Dylan Rodríguez

PROSE Awards Category Winner - Biography & Autobiography Eunice Hunton Carter: A Lifelong Fight for Social Justice Marilyn S. Greenwald and Yun Li

New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance Book Award The Princeton Fugitive Slave: The Trials of James Collins Johnson Lolita Buckner Inniss

HTI Book Prize Commodified Communion: Eucharist, Consumer Culture, and the Practice of Everyday Life Antonio Eduardo Alonso

Ruth Benedict Book Prize Hijras, Lovers, Brothers: Surviving Sex and Poverty in Rural India Vaibhav Saria

African Literature Association First Book Award The Tongue-Tied Imagination: Decolonizing Literary Modernity in Senegal Tobias Warner

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The French Voices Translation Award Living in Death: Genocide and Its Functionaries Richard Rechtman, Translated by Lindsay Turner Foreword by Veena Das Adapt! On a New Political Imperative Barbara Stiegler, Translated by Adam Hocker

American Association for Italian Studies Book Prize Old Schools: Modernism, Education, and the Critique of Progress Ramsey McGlazer

Helen Tartar First Book Subvention Prize A Grammar of the Corpse: Necroepistemology in the Early Modern Mediterranean Elizabeth Spragins

Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences Hijras, Lovers, Brothers: Surviving Sex and Poverty in Rural India Vaibhav Saria

Shortlisted MLA Prize for a Scholarly Edition Cathay: A Critical Edition Ezra Pound, Edited by Timothy Billings Introduction by Christopher Bush Foreword by Haun Saussy

Publishing Triangle Awards My Daily Actions, or The Meteorites S. Brook Corfman, Foreword by Cathy Park Hong

MSA First Book Award The Fact of Resonance: Modernist Acoustics and Narrative Form Julie Beth Napolin

Modernist Studies Association First Book Prize Thinking Through Crisis: Depression-Era Black Literature, Theory, and Politics James Edward Ford III

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EVENTS VIRTUAL EVENTS

60+ LIVE EVENTS

5 EXHIBITS VIRTUAL EXHIBITS

20+ PAGE 15

May 20, 2021 92nd Street Y Class Series: New York’s Forgotten Gems

May 27, 2021 92nd Street Y Class Series: New York in Ruins— The Lost Buildings

June 1, 2021 Book Talk with The Skyscraper Museum

June 3, 2021 92nd Street Y Class Series: The Lobster Palaces and Gilded Age-Residences

June 10, 2021 92nd Street Y Class Series: To be Buried like a Pharaoh— Woodlawn and Green-Wood Cemeteries

"I wrote a book on the bodies and labor that go into the shaping of the film image before and beyond what appears on-screen. I titled the book Girl Head, one of the crasser nicknames for the China Girl, an image of an enigmatic woman used in film laboratories and that sometimes appears on film leader. For the avant-garde filmmaker Bruce Conner, the China Girl was the symbol of all that cinema keeps hidden, an “image normally kept hidden but is there, an implicit part of the movies.” This program is about making explicit all such hidden images. Look closely and

Genevieve Yue

you’ll see the China Girl here, too."—

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TOP VIEWED

EVENTS 48th Annual Conference: National Center for Collective Bargaining in Higher Education Round Table Review on Just Universities: Catholic Social Teaching Confronts Corporatized Higher Education Gerald J. Beyer

299 Views Roundtable on Geoffrey Bennington's Scatter 2: Politics in Deconstruction Simon Glendinning, Peggy Kamuf, and Naomi Waltham-Smith discuss Scatter 2

167 views Meet the Press: A discussion with Cornell University Press, Fordham University Press, and Yale University Press Fredric Nachbaur, Director of Fordham University Press - Panelist

109 Views 1/14/2021 | Book Talk with the Curran Center for American Catholic Studies The Kingdom Began in Puerto Rico: Neil Connolly’s Priesthood in the South Bronx

01/19/2021 | Book Talk with The Tenement Museum A is for Asylum Seeker: Words for People on the Move / A de asilo: palabras para personas en movimiento

2/16/21 | The Bloomingdale Neighborhood History Group Notable New Yorkers of Manhattan’s Upper West Side: Bloomingdale–Morningside Heights The Neighborhood Manhattan Forgot: Audubon Park and the Families Who Shaped It

3/19/21 | The Long 2020: Libby Anker, William Connolly, and Bonnie Honig Shell-Shocked: Feminist Criticism after Trump

4/20/21 | A World in the Making: Reflections on Clara Han's Seeing Like a Child Seeing Like a Child: Inheriting the Korean War

6/18/21 | Totality Inside Out Roundtable Totality Inside Out: Rethinking Crisis and Conflict under Capital

9/27/21: The Scalpel of Writing: Writers Read Louise DeSalvo Chasing Ghosts: A Memoir of a Father, Gone to War The House of Early Sorrows: A Memoir in Essays

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