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Notre Dame Press Titles Named 2022 Foreword INDIES Finalists

Author: Madilynn O'Hara

2022 Indies Book Of The Year Finalists

The University of Notre Dame Press is proud to announce that on March 9, 2023, six of our titles were selected as Finalists for the 2022 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards

More than 2,500 entries in over 55 genres were submitted for consideration. The Finalists were determined by Foreword’s editorial team. Winners are now being decided for bronze, silver, and gold titles by teams of librarian and bookseller judges from across the country.

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Notre Dame Press Celebrates Two Team Members

Author: Steffi Marchman

The University of Notre Dame Press is proud to celebrate two of our team members: Kathryn Pitts and Rachel Kindler.

It is with both joy and sorrow that we announce the retirement of Kathryn Pitts, Marketing and Publicity Director, on March 16th. For nearly three decades, Kathryn has led marketing and publicity campaigns for more than a thousand Notre Dame Press books and authors, which have included national and international media attention in The Guardian

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New Book by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew Coming in April from Notre Dame Press

Author: Kathryn Pitts

"Global Initiatives of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew" edited by John Chryssavgis

As the spiritual leader of 300 million Orthodox Christians worldwide, His All-Holiness Bartholomew, Orthodox Archbishop of Constantinople-New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch, has long been a beacon for strengthening interreligious and interfaith dialogues on the world stage. On April 1, 2023, the University of Notre Dame Press will publish Global Initiatives of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew: Peace, Reconciliation, and Care for Creation

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Notre Dame Book Symposium for “Incomprehensible Certainty” by Thomas Pfau

Author: Kathryn Pitts

"Incomprehensible Certainty" by Thomas Pfau

On Thursday, March 9, 2023, at 4:00pm EST, the Departments of English, German and Russian Languages and Literatures, Philosophy, and Theology at the University of Notre Dame, with the University of Notre Dame Press, will co-host a book symposium

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Catholic Schools and the Common Good series launches first book, “The Case for Parental Choice”

Author: Kathryn Pitts

"The Case for Parental Choice: God, Family, and Educational Liberty"

On March 15, 2023, the University of Notre Dame Press will publish The Case for Parental Choice: God, Family, and Educational Liberty by John E. Coons

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Notre Dame Press Books Explore Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI’s Theological Legacy

Author: Kathryn Pitts

Explorations in the Theology of Benedict XVI

We are saddened to hear of the passing of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, who died on December 31, 2022, at the age 95, and join the Church around the world in mourning this great loss.

Before he was elected pope in 2005, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had a distinguished career as one of the most important theologians of the last century. It was widely held that “Benedict was the most influential intellectual force in the Church in a generation,” write Ian Fisher and Rachel Donadio in The New York Times

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“Disturbing Spirits” by Beverly A. Tsacoyianis Receives Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award

Author: Madilynn O'Hara

"Disturbing Spirits" by Beverly A. Tsacoyianis

The University of Notre Dame Press is proud to announce that Beverly A. Tsacoyianis’s book Disturbing Spirits: Mental Illness, Trauma, and Treatment in Modern Syria and Lebanon has received a Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award for 2022. This award is presented yearly to academic works on account of “their excellence in presentation and scholarship, the significance of their contribution to the field, their originality and value as an essential treatment of their subject, and significance in building undergraduate collections.” 

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Brenda Deen Schildgen receives the Helen and Howard Marraro Prize for “Dante and Violence”

Author: Madilynn O'Hara

"Dante and Violence" by Brenda Deen Schildgen

The University of Notre Dame Press is proud to announce that Brenda Deen Schildgen, distinguished professor emerita of comparative literature at the University of California, Davis, received this year’s Helen and Howard Marraro Prize for her book Dante and Violence: Domestic, Civic, Cosmic

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Notre Dame Press to Publish Best-Selling Author Tomáš Halík’s New Book “Touch the Wounds”

Author: Kathryn Pitts

"Touch The Wounds" by  Tomáš Halík

On March 1, 2023, the University of Notre Dame Press will publish Tomáš Halík's new book Touch the Wounds: On Suffering, Trust, and Transformation, translated by Gerald Turner. The book will be released during Lent.
 
Czech Roman Catholic priest, philosopher, theologian, and scholar, Tomáš Halík is a best-selling author in Europe and the United States. His previous books with Notre Dame Press, I Want You to Be: On the God of Love

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Notre Dame Press Presents its Spring 2023 Catalog of Publications

Author: Madilynn O'Hara and Kathryn Pitts

Notre Dame Press Spring 2023 Catalog

The University of Notre Dame Press is proud to present its Spring 2023 catalog. This collection will engage readers across a variety of disciplines, including theology, philosophy, political science, and other areas that align with the academic strengths of the University of Notre Dame. These titles illustrate our commitment to maintaining an innovative and sustainable publishing program with our campus partners and our internationally acclaimed list of authors.

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Notre Dame Press Celebrates University Press Week, November 14–18, 2022

Author: Kathryn Pitts

Next Up University Press Week 2022

As University Press Week enters its second decade of celebrating excellence in university press publishing, Next UP has been chosen as the theme for this year’s event.

The theme highlights the dedicated work performed by those in the university press community to seek out, engage, advance, and promote the latest scholarship, ideas, best practices, and technology. University presses are incredibly creative and resourceful, working in concert with their authors, readers, and institutional and business partners, and Next UP

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2022 Winner of the Ernest Sandeen Prize in Poetry Announced

Author: Elizabeth Gregory

Vickie Vértiz, author of "Auto/Body"

Vickie Vértiz is the 2022 winner of the Ernest Sandeen Prize in Poetry. Vértiz is an award-winning Mexican American poet, writer, and professor whose work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Los Angeles Review of Books

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Nobel Prize–winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s “March 1917, Book 2,” is Available in a Paperback Edition

Author: Kathryn Pitts

March 1917, Book 2

During this year's Nobel Prize season, the University of Notre Dame Press is proud to announce the release of a new paperback edition of our Nobel Prize in Literature winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's March 1917: The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 2

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Notre Dame Press Book Festival and Book Sale Coming in November

Author: Kathryn Pitts

Notre Dame Press Book Festival and Book Sale

The University of Notre Dame Press is pleased to announce our annual Notre Dame Press Book Festival and Book Sale will take place on November 15–16, 2022, 10:00 am to 6:00 pm EST, in the Hesburgh Library Concourse. Every year, students, faculty, and community members flock to the Book Festival and Book Sale to peruse and purchase paperback and hardback books at exceptionally low prices. Offerings include a huge selection of overstock and damaged books at $5 paperback and $7 hardback, new and recent titles at a 40% discount, autographed books, and prizes.…

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Notre Dame Press Welcomes Katie Campbell and Megan Levine

Author: Notre Dame Press News

Katie Campbell and Megan Levine

The University of Notre Dame Press is excited to announce that we have added two new team members in marketing/sales and acquisitions: Katie Campbell, Marketing and Sales Assistant, and Megan Levine, Editorial Assistant.

Katie Campbell comes to Notre Dame Press from PLUS (Professional Liability Underwriting Society) in St. Paul, Minnesota, where they were a content specialist. Katie, who graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 2018, has held publishing internships at Ave Maria Press and Notre Dame Press and is the founder of Ketchup Creative Writing Group. We are delighted to have them back under the Golden Dome. You can reach Katie at: kcampbe9@nd.edu

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"The Glory and the Burden": The Book to Read Leading up to Midterm Elections

Author: Elizabeth Gregory

"The Glory and the Burden, Expanded Edition" by Robert Schmuhl

The recent reversal of Roe V. Wade, combined with President Joe Biden’s latest 42% job approval ratings, lend themselves to a potentially unpredictable outcome in the United States midterm elections on November 8, 2022. University of Notre Dame professor emeritus Robert

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Legendary Land Institute Co-Founder Wes Jackson to Discuss “An Inconvenient Apocalypse” at Prairie Festival 2022

Author: Elizabeth Gregory and Kathryn Pitts

Wes Jackson, co-author, with Robert Jensen, of "An Inconvenient Apocalypse"

This year, The Land Institute is bringing back its Prairie Festival 2022 after a two-year hiatus from its outdoor venue in Salina, Kansas. Wes Jackson, co-founder and president emeritus of The Land Institute, and one of the foremost figures in the international sustainable agriculture movement,

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Notre Dame Press Observes National Hispanic and Latinx Heritage Month With Book Publication and Event at the New York Public Library

Author: Madilynn O'Hara and Kathryn Pitts

Celebrate Hispanic and Latinx Heritage Month

Every year, National Hispanic and Latinx Heritage Month runs from September 15 through October 15, commemorating the history, culture, and contributions of Americans whose ancestry can be traced to over 20 countries in Latin America, including Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean. During this year’s celebration, the University of Notre Dame Press is happy to announce its release of

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