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Parlor Press LLC is an independent publisher and distributor of scholarly and trade books in high quality print and digital formats. It was founded in 2002 to address the need for an alternative scholarly, academic press attentive to emergent ideas and forms while maintaining the highest possible standards of quality, credibility, and integrity. The Press's primary goal is to publish outstanding writing in a variety of subjects. Because the Press is unencumbered by the bureaucratic machinery of older publishing entities, the stress can be more on excellence and innovation than on marketability or pedigree. (This is not to suggest that these categories are mutually exclusive in every case.) The Press is managed by scholars and specialists in their respective fields, presently covering twelve book series, from initial peer review through production, distribution, and marketing. There are presently over 200 Parlor Press authors and another 75 developing new book projects. We have plans for growth into new areas, such as multimedia writing and other hybrid forms of print, visual, aural, and haptic media that can take advantage of new digital printing, publishing, and dissemination technologies. Parlor Press benefits from sharp reviewers across the disciplines who have been chosen because of their expertise, experience, and willingness to consider innovative work in these representative areas (in alphabetical order):
We consider new work well suited to one of our series themes: Aesthetic Critical Inquiry Free Verse Editions Lauer Series in Rhetoric and
Composition Lenses on Composition Studies << New New Media Theory Reference Guides to Rhetoric
and Composition The Renaissance Second Language Writing Visual Rhetoric and Prospects
in Visual Rhetoric Writing Travel One goal of Parlor Press is to republish in new editions or formats previously published work that has proven (unquestionably) to be a valuable resource for readers, writers, teachers, and scholars. Authors whose works have gone out of print and who retain the copyright to the work should contact the editor (editor@parlorpress.com). Such works may be candidates for republication, subject to further review and/or revision.
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The founder and publisher of Parlor Press is David Blakesley, who is also a Professor of English and Director of Professional Writing at Purdue University. His work as an editor and publisher includes The Writing Instructor, Rhetorical Philosophy and Theory (Southern Illinois University Press; series editor and founder), WPA: Writing Program Administration (production editor), and Pacific Review (managing editor). He has authored or edited five books: The Elements of Dramatism (2002; Longman), The Terministic Screen: Rhetorical Perspectives on Film (2003; Southern Illinois University Press; editor), Late Poems, 1968-1993 (2007; by Kenneth Burke; edited with Julie Whitaker), and The Thomson Handbook (2008; with Jeff Hoogeveen). His other research is includes articles and hypertexts on writing, visual rhetoric, film, technology, and Kenneth Burke. |
