Randolph Petilos
Assistant Editor
A native of the fiftieth state, which I don’t visit as often as I should, I have been in the Press’s acquisitions department since 1989, after receiving a BA (1984) from Harvard University and an MA (1985) from the University of Chicago. In addition to assisting the editorial director of the Press’s books division in acquiring books in literary studies, I also focus on medieval and early modern studies, the occasional volume of poetry/criticism, and selected titles in music. I am a roving humanist by nature and profession, and my recent acquisitions for the Press reflect these varied interests: Chasing the Pearl-Manuscript: Speculation, Shapes, Delight, by Arthur Bahr; New York Trilogy, by Peter Balakian; The Kinds of Poetry I Want: Essays and Comedies, by Charles Bernstein; Apocalyptic Ecologies: From Creation to Doom in Medieval English Literature, by Shannon Gayk; John Donne’s Physics, by Elizabeth Harvey and Timothy Harrison; Textual Magic: Charms and Written Amulets in Medieval England, by Katherine Storm Hindley; Waste and The Wasters: Poetry and Ecosystemic Thought in Medieval England, by Eleanor Johnson; The Librarian’s Atlas: The Shape of Knowledge in Early Modern Spain, by Seth Kimmel; Black Knights: Arabic Epic and the Making of Medieval Race, by Rachel Schine; Out of the Mouths of Babes: Infant Voices in Medieval French Literature, by Julie Singer; Atlas’s Bones: The African Foundations of Europe, by D. Vance Smith; and Beyond Individualism: Portraying Collective Selfhood in Latin American Literature and Art, by Lois Parkinson Zamora.
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