Wilfrid Laurier University Press

Wilfrid Laurier University Press Founded in 1974, WLU Press is known for excellence in scholarly and trade publishing in the humanities and social sciences.

We have over 700 titles in print, ebook and audiobook formats. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram Scholarly books can transform processes, minds, and cultures. By publishing work of scholarly integrity in various formats, skillfully edited, designed, produced, and marketed, we participate in this transformation and advance new developments in scholarly discourse, contribute to education

within and beyond the university, and reflect both our local and global community through the world of ideas. Founded in 1974, Wilfrid Laurier University Press has established a reputation for excellence in scholarly publishing in the areas of history, literature, sociology, social work, life writing, film and media studies, aboriginal studies, women’s studies, philosophy, and religious studies. We publish 30—35 titles a year and have over 365 titles in print. We have been typesetting books electronically since 1984, and in 1994 became one of the first scholarly publishers in Canada to establish a Web presence. We have digitized our backlist, and WLU Press ebooks are available from Academic Pub/Sharedbook, Amazon Kindle, Apple iBooks, Barnes & Noble's Nook, Baker & Taylor's Blio, EBSCO/NetLibrary, EBL/Ebooks Corporation, Ebrary/Canadian Electronic Library, Google Editions, Ingram Digital/MyiLibrary, Kobo, Overdrive, PaperC GMB, Project MUSE (UPCC), and SONY Reader. Course pack opportunities are available from Academic Pub/ Sharedbook. We are also participants in Google Print. Our commitment to scholarly communication continues after publication with worldwide marketing and distribution and ongoing contact and cooperation with our authors. We have international distribution and sales representation and a presence at national and international book fairs and academic meetings. We have co-publishing partnerships with a range of organizations working with ideas, including the Canadian Corporation for the Study of Religion, the Centre for International Governance Innovation, the Association for Bahá’í Studies, and the Toronto International Film Festival. We are members of the Association of American University Presses, the Association of Canadian University Presses (and through them, the International Publishers Association), the Association of Canadian Publishers, the Organization of Book Publishers of Ontario, and the Canadian Booksellers Association. We provide prepress, typographic, subscription, and fulfillment services to a range of scholarly journals. We welcome proposals in the disciplines of the humanities and social sciences. We publish scholarly monographs and collections, trade books based on sound scholarship, and textbooks. We do not generally publish original fiction or poetry, children’s books, conference proceedings, or unrevised theses.

New this week! Deyohahá:ge:, “two roads or paths” in Cayuga language, evokes the Covenant Chain-Two Row Wampum, known as...
01/23/2025

New this week! Deyohahá:ge:, “two roads or paths” in Cayuga language, evokes the Covenant Chain-Two Row Wampum, known as the “grandfather of the treaties.” Famously, this Haudenosaunee wampum agreement showed how Indigenous people and newcomers could build peace and friendship by respecting each other’s cultures, beliefs, and laws as they shared the river of life.

Written by members of Six Nations and their neighbours, edited by Daniel Coleman, Ki'en Debicki, and Bonnie M. Freeman (McMaster University), this book introduces readers not only to the 17th-century history of how the Dutch and British joined the wampum agreement, but also to how it might restore good relations today.

Praise for Deyohahá:ge::
“Deyohahá:ge: brilliantly reminds us of our obligations and responsibilities to one another, and the more-than-human world. It shows that pathways can only be forged by respecting the waters, earth, fires, and skies through which all creation travels.”
- John Borrows, Loveland Chair in Indigenous Law, University of Toronto

https://www.wlupress.wlu.ca/Books/D/Deyohaha-ge3?utm_source=fb

New this week! Podcast Studies: Practice into Theory (Beckstead and Llinares, eds.) critically examines the emergent fie...
01/22/2025

New this week! Podcast Studies: Practice into Theory (Beckstead and Llinares, eds.) critically examines the emergent field of podcasting in academia, revealing its significant impact on scholarly communication and approaches to research and knowledge creation.

Lori Beckstead is an Associate Professor of sound media in the RTA School of Media at Toronto Metropolitan University in Toronto, Canada. Dario Llinares is an academic and podcaster whose research has focused on a range of cinema- and media-related themes.

Praise for Podcast Studies:
“This excellent collection embodies the essence of podcasting: relationship. Through an eclectic range of voices, podcast 'pracademics' generously share self-reflective insights into their practice, aptly mirroring the medium's meta tendencies. The anthology bridges podcasting and scholarship, convincingly demonstrating how practice provides context for theory.”
- Mia Lindgren

https://www.wlupress.wlu.ca/Books/P/Podcast-Studies?utm_source=fb

Today is the official release day of Soundin’ Canaan: Black Canadian Poetry, Music, and Citizenship, by Paul db Watkins....
01/21/2025

Today is the official release day of Soundin’ Canaan: Black Canadian Poetry, Music, and Citizenship, by Paul db Watkins. Part exploration of a key group of Black Canadian poets, part literary, cultural, and musical history, Soundin’ Canaan demonstrates how music in Black Canadian poetry is not solely aesthetic, but a form of social, ethical, and political expression.

Paul db Watkins is a Professor of English at Vancouver Island University. and has published widely on multiculturalism, hip-hop, Canadian poetry, jazz, DJ culture, and improvisation. Under his DJ alias, DJ Techné, he has completed several DJ projects that explore the spaces between poetry, hip-hop, and jazz.

Praise for Soundin’ Canaan:
“Soundin’ Canaan is an imaginative, innovative, original, and immensely generative study of the relations that connect Canadian Black poetry to music, multiculturalism, social membership, and citizenship.” – George Lipsitz

Watkins is the polyphonous polymath, not just reading the words, but listening for and sounding the Rastafarian aesthetics that trouble Luciferian ethics. In short, Watkins reads Black Can poems as mosaics of transgressive conjunctions. He is himself the Sage of the Remix, and intersperses his prose with shout-outs to YouTube videos and Spotify tracks of pertinent artistes. His playlist? Shakespeare and Shad; Ma Rainey and Martin Luther King. – George Elliott Clarke

https://www.wlupress.wlu.ca/Books/S/Soundin-Canaan?utm_source=fb

We're excited to share our January releases with you!  Visit our website to learn more www.wlupress.wlu.ca
01/15/2025

We're excited to share our January releases with you! Visit our website to learn more www.wlupress.wlu.ca

Celebrate Anne Innis Dagg, author of Pursuing Giraffe, and watch a screening of the movie The Woman Who Loves Giraffes f...
01/09/2025

Celebrate Anne Innis Dagg, author of Pursuing Giraffe, and watch a screening of the movie The Woman Who Loves Giraffes followed by Q&A with her daughter Mary Dagg and Alison Reid, the film's director. https://themuseum.ca/events/celebrating-a-local-hero-a-tribute-to-giraffologist-dr-anne-innis-dagg/
Hosted by THEMUSEUM in collaboration with the Anne Innis Dagg Foundation.

THEMUSEUM, in collaboration with the Anne Innis Dagg Foundation, invites you to an extraordinary evening honouring the life and contributions of Waterloo’s pioneering giraffologist, Dr. Anne Innis Dagg. Proceeds from the event will support the Anne Innis Dagg Foundation and its vital efforts in gi...

The 2025 MLA Annual Convention is being held from 9 to 12 January in New Orleans! Save 20% on select titles on our websi...
01/09/2025

The 2025 MLA Annual Convention is being held from 9 to 12 January in New Orleans! Save 20% on select titles on our website using the code MLA2025. If you're at MLA, please stop by the Ingram booth to browse selected WLU Press titles, including Autobiography as Indigenous Intellectual Tradition: Cree and Metis âcimisowina, by Deanna Reder, winner of the MLA Prize for Studies in Native American Literatures, Cultures, and Languages. https://www.wlupress.wlu.ca/Collections/MLA-2025

Happy Holidays from all of us at WLU Press! Our office will close December 21 and reopen on January 2.
12/20/2024

Happy Holidays from all of us at WLU Press! Our office will close December 21 and reopen on January 2.

This is the last weekend to take advantage of our 50th anniversary sale! Take 50% off books on our website with the code...
12/14/2024

This is the last weekend to take advantage of our 50th anniversary sale! Take 50% off books on our website with the code WLUP50 (and today and tomorrow you'll save the GST too!)

WLU Press has been officially recertified as a Benetech Global Certified Accessible Publisher. Benetech, a nonprofit tha...
12/12/2024

WLU Press has been officially recertified as a Benetech Global Certified Accessible Publisher. Benetech, a nonprofit that empowers communities with software for social good, issues this accreditation to those publishers who produce EPUBs that meet a full range of accessibility features required to support the needs of all readers, including those with disabilities and learning differences. Wilfrid Laurier University Press completed certification through eBOUND Canada, a not-for-profit that enables independent Canadian publishers to engage in the digital marketplace. Regular recertification ensures that publishers continue to support accessible publishing and people with print disabilities.

12/10/2024
We're thrilled to announce that Autobiography as Indigenous Intellectual Tradition: Cree and Métis âcimisowina, by Deann...
12/09/2024

We're thrilled to announce that Autobiography as Indigenous Intellectual Tradition: Cree and Métis âcimisowina, by Deanna Reder, has been named a 2024 Canada Prize Winner, awarded by the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Congratulations to all the Canada Prize winners and our publishing colleagues!
12/09/2024

Congratulations to all the Canada Prize winners and our publishing colleagues!

We're thrilled to announce that Autobiography as Indigenous Intellectual Tradition: Cree and Métis âcimisowina, by Deann...
12/09/2024

We're thrilled to announce that Autobiography as Indigenous Intellectual Tradition: Cree and Métis âcimisowina, by Deanna Reder, has been named a 2024 Canada Prize Winner. The prestigious Canada Prizes, presented by the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, are awarded in recognition of their inspiring, impactful and transformative scholarly books in the humanities and social sciences. https://www.wlupress.wlu.ca/Books/A/Autobiography-as-Indigenous-Intellectual-Tradition

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