Publications

Book Series

AU Press publishes several series in partnership with scholars or organizations in various disciplines. To submit your manuscript to a series, visit the individual series page to contact the series editor. Visit the Publish With Us page for general information about the Press and specific manuscript preparation guidelines.

This series features a broad range of new Canadian plays that have been professionally produced at least once and with an emphasis on the work of playwrights living in Alberta.

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Cultural Dialectics provides an open arena in which to debate questions of culture and dialectic—their practices, their theoretical forms, and their relations to one another and to other spheres and modes of inquiry.

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Fabriks: Studies in the Working Class

Series editor(s): Jason Russell, assistant professor, SUNY college

Fabriks: Studies in the Working Class provides a broad-based forum for labour studies research. Of particular interest are works that challenge familiar national and institutional narratives, focusing instead on gender-based, occupational, ethnic, and regional divisions among workers and on strategies for fostering working-class solidarity.

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Global Peace Studies

Series editor(s): George Melnyk, professor emeritus, University of Calgary

This interdisciplinary series is devoted to works dealing with the discourses of war and peace, conflict and post-conflict studies, human rights and international development, human security and peacebuilding.

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Issues in Distance Education

Series editor(s): George Veletsianos, professor, University of Minnesota, Bonnie Westby Huebner Chair in Education & Technology

This series offers informative and accessible overviews, research results, discussions and explorations of current issues, technologies and services used in distance education. Each volume focuses on critical issues and emerging trends, while noting the evolutionary history and roots of this specialized mode of education and training.

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Mingling Voices

Series editor(s): Manijeh Mannani, professor, Athabasca University

Mingling Voices invites the work of writers who challenge boundaries, both literary and cultural. This series welcomes original work—poems, short stories, and, on occasion, novels—written in English and invites the work of translators.

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OPEL (Open Paths to Enriched Learning)

Series editor(s): Connor Houlihan

The OPEL series offers introductory texts on a broad array of topics, written especially with undergraduate students in mind.

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Our Lives seeks instead to make available voices from the past that might otherwise remain unheard. This series aims to demonstrate that history is ultimately the story of our lives, lives constituted in part by our response to the issues and events of the era into which we are born.

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Recovering the Past: Studies in Archaeology

Series editor(s): Jack W. Brink

This series focuses on the archaeology of northwestern North America, including the northern Plains, Parkland, Boreal Forest, Sub-Arctic and Arctic regions. Recovering the Past aims to bring archaeology to a wider audience, and a strong emphasis is placed on works written in a clear and engaging style.

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The West Unbound focuses upon the ways in which various groups of Westerners—women, workers, Indigenous peoples, farmers, and people of various ethnic origins, among others—tried to shape the institutions and attitudes of the region. This series demonstrates that the social structures and cultural attitudes in both Canada and the United States are in constant evolution, with echoes of established mythologies constantly being challenged by new understandings and changing constellations of social forces.

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Working Canadians: Books from the CCLH

Series editor(s): Alvin Finkel and Greg Kealey

This series focuses on the lives and struggles of Canada’s working people, past and present, and on the unions and other organizations that workers founded to represent their interests. The books in the series span a wide range of genres—from oral histories, autobiographies, and memoir to works that document local and provincial labour movements to secondary analyses founded on careful research.

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The Writing in Residence series brings together a diverse range of texts by the artists invited to Athabasca University’s Writer in Residence program. These innovative works provide an opportunity to celebrate contributions made by prominent literary figures and highlight Athabasca University’s commitment to fostering literary excellence.

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