In 2015, the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, in collaboration with the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the College of the Arts, launched a competitive Publication Subvention Program in the Humanities that supports academic books under contract with a scholarly press with up to $1,500 per book. As of May 2021, 17 subventions have been awarded and 14 books have been published. In many cases, the publication subvention allows authors to include important illustrations and have the book priced affordably, increasing its impact and accessibility for faculty and students.
The subvention program is instrumental in supporting quality book publications at affordable prices for humanities scholars at UF.
Book Spotlight
M. Elizabeth Ginway (Professor, Spanish and Portuguese Studies) published Cyborgs, Sexuality, and the Undead: The Body in Mexican and Brazilian Speculative Fiction with Vanderbilt University Press in December 2020.
The monograph expands the traditional purview of speculative fiction in all its incarnations (science fiction, fantasy, horror) beyond the traditional Anglo-American context to focus on work produced in Mexico and Brazil across a historical overview from 1870 to the present. The design of the book cover was selected by the Association of University Presses for its annual 2021 AUPresses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show.
Emily Hind (Professor, Spanish and Portuguese Studies) published Literatura infantil y juvenil Mexicana: Entrevistas with Peter Lang in September 2020.
The book includes interviews with authors, critics and editors of Mexican children’s and young adult literature. It reflects the history and the explosion of sales of children’s and young adult literature in Mexico by the 21st century.
Maya Stanfield-Mazzi (Professor, Art History) published Clothing the New World Church: Liturgical Textiles of Spanish America, 1520-1820 with University of Notre Dame Press in February 2021.
This is the first book-length broad survey of church textiles of Spanish America, one that also closely examines selected local developments.