Emily Silk

“I am acquiring books in religion, literature, and U.S. history and culture. While I range widely in terms of period and subfield, I am especially interested in books that reach across disciplines and join surprising arguments with compelling narratives. In literary studies, I also welcome submissions for new translations, anthologies, and collected/selected editions. Recently, I have signed books on the role of nostalgia in Atlantic world empire-building; the political theory of the American Populist movement; early modern Asian migration and displacement to the Spanish Americas; the history of the Black Atlantic press sphere in the era of decolonization; and the politics of contemporary Russophone avant-garde poetry.

I also manage two series at HUP: the I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History, published in collaboration with the Villa I Tatti; and Harvard Historical Studies, published in collaboration with the Harvard History Department.”

Contact: [email address] • @emsilk10

Recent Books

Wonders and Rarities: The Marvelous Book That Traveled the World and Mapped the Cosmos
Travis Zadeh

The House in the Rue Saint-Fiacre: A Social History of Property in Revolutionary Paris
H. B. Callaway

A Greeting of the Spirit: Selected Poetry of John Keats with Commentaries
Susan J. Wolfson

Suzuki: The Man and His Dream to Teach the Children of the World
Eri Hotta

Eurasia without Borders: The Dream of a Leftist Literary Commons, 1919–1943
Katerina Clark

Cotton Mather’s Spanish Lessons: A Story of Language, Race, and Belonging in the Early Americas
Kirsten Silva Gruesz

Travels with Tocqueville Beyond America
Jeremy Jennings

A Feminist Theory of Refusal
Bonnie Honig

The Sound of Modern Polish Poetry: Performance and Recording after World War II
Aleksandra Kremer

Being a Jesuit in Renaissance Italy: Biographical Writing in the Early Global Age
Camilla Russell

Here and There: Sites of Philosophy
Stanley Cavell, edited by Nancy Bauer, Alice Crary, and Sandra Laugier

Scarcity: A History from the Origins of Capitalism to the Climate Crisis
Fredrik Albritton Jonsson and Carl Wennerlind