Writing Travel

Series Editor
Jeanne Moskal
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The Writing Travel series publishes work in the new field of travel studies.

The series publishes . . .

• Editions of out-of-print travel books or previously unpublished travel memoirs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.

Submission Information

For complete submission guidelines, see

http://www.parlorpress.com/submissions

Your proposal should outline the rationale and projected audience for the book and its relation to other books in the field; include the book's table of contents or a chapter outline, the estimated length and the timetable for completion, and the introduction and a sample chapter. Please also send the c.v. of the author or editor.

Contact Information

Queries should be directed to Jeanne Moskal, Department of English, Campus Box 3520, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC  27599-3520. Email inquiries should be directed to editor@parlorpress.com.

Parlor Press is an independent publisher of scholarly and trade titles in print and multimedia formats, including Acrobat eBook and Night Kitchen (TK3). For additional submission information or to find out about Parlor Press publications visit the website, http://www.parlorpress.com, write to Parlor Press, 816 Robinson St., West Lafayette, Indiana, 47906, or e-mail David Blakesley <editor@parlorpress.com>. 765.409.2649