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In this week’s blog post, MQUP author Jennifer Grubbs looks back to the tragic murder of 32-year-old Heather Heyer, shedding light on the troubled and hostile nature of the current American political climate. Through her contextualization of recent civil unrest in America, Grubbs explores the consequences of white nationalism and the … Read More >

McGill-Queen’s University Press is thrilled to announce that Gregory Forth’s A Dog Pissing at the Edge of a Path: Animal Metaphors in an Eastern Indonesian Society is the winner of The Bookseller’s 2020 Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year. Forth is the first Canadian author and … Read More >

Aside from a wonderful 2012 edition of William Kirby’s Le Chien d’or, McGill-Queen’s University Press has not published many books about the beloved animal that resides in a third of all Canadian homes. Fortunately, our Fall 2019 catalogue returned dogs to the literary spotlight. Three vastly different books employed … Read More >

We’ve been anxiously awaiting the release of George Cartwright’s Labrador Companion in order to do this blog post! Edited by Marianne P. Stopp, this fascinating book presents several newly discovered Cartwright manuscripts that document his experiences operating a series of merchant stations in southern Labrador between 1770 and 1786.

Although his focus is firmly on instruction in … Read More >

We are delighted to announce that three MQUP titles have been awarded a 2016 Canada Prize! 

“These books are representative of the tremendous scholarship produced in our country,” said Stephen Toope, President of the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Two of this year’s winners examine Québec’s history—one looking at how two prominent … Read More >

Today, March 8th is International Women’s Day. The pledge this year is “Pledge For Parity” (#PledgeForParity). Last week, one of our new titles, “Solitudes of the Workplace: Women in Universities” by Elvi Whittaker was featured on University Affairs’ website. I thought today was the perfect day to share the excerpt as it touches on the issues of … Read More >