
The Writing Travel series publishes work in the new field of travel studies.
* Editions of out-of-print travel books or previously unpublished travel memoirs
* English translations of important travel books in other languages
* Theoretical and historical treatments of ways in which travel and travel writing engage such questions as religion, nationalism/cosmopolitanism, and empire; gender and sexuality; race, ethnicity, and immigration; and the history of the book, print culture, and translation
* Biographies of significant travelers or groups of travelers (including but not limited to pilgrims, missionaries, anthropologists, tourists, explorers, immigrants)
* Critical studies of the works of significant travelers or groups of travelers
* Pedagogy of travel and travel literature and its place in curricula
* Original travel writing that explicitly engages its generic precedents or the historically complicated conditions of travel.