Fordham university press was established in 1907 and is headquartered at the university s lincoln center campus. Last week, helen tartar, editorial director, fordham university press, gave a presentation at the walsh library on fordham university, rose hill campus. A profound intellectual joy the book haven stanford university. To continue her transformative editorial work, fordham university has established the helen tartar memorial fund. Fordham mourns the loss of helen tartar, editorial director of fordham university press fup, who was killed on march 3 in an automobile accident in colorado the university will hold a memorial for tartar on tuesday, april 8 at 6 p. Fordham university press also publishes its books in a variety of electronic. Tartar joined fordham university press in 2003 after a 20year career in scholarly publishing on the west coast. Press director fred nachbaur said fordham will host a memorial service for tartar in the near future.
The harry levin prize recognizes an outstanding first book in the discipline of comparative literature. These are just three of the intellectual giants published over the past century by fordham university press, the seventholdest university press in the country and the oldest catholic university press in the nation. James walsh, dean of fordham s school of medicine, having gained the approval of the university, published the first title of the. The sense of history stanford up, 1989 and nurtured it into print. Helen tartar, editorial director of fordham university press, will be in charge of fordham s segment of titles in the collaborative program. If translator helen arnold, fordham university press manager editor helen tartar, book blurber professor stathis gourgouris, and association cornelius castoriadis president vincent descombes who, unlike gourgouris, is an internationally distinguished public intellectual, as well are unable to answer these. Foundation to support first books by fledgling academic authors. Fordham university press is committed to furthering the values and traditions of the university through the dissemination of scholarly research and ideas.
She saw my previous book into press with remarkable, intimate. Fordham university press publisher contact information. My friend and first editor, helen tarter editorial director of fordham university press and formerly. Helen tartar, editorial director of fordham university press, has died in a. Sanford thatcher, director of penn state university press and past president of the association of american university presses. Thank you to the editors of the following literary magazines in which some of these poems first appeared. This posthumous collection of interviews and occasional papers given by castoriadis between 1974 and. Helen tartar, editorial director at fordham university press, discusses how the electronic dangerous citizens project came to be, and what the interinstitutional partnership enables for the book s author, anthropologist neni panourgia. Hence her death in a denver car accident on march 3 came as a shock.
Fordham university press gratefully acknowledges financial assistance and support provided for the publication of this book by the university of california, davis. After the close of the universitys medical school in 1922, the press operated under the graduate school of arts and sciences and began publishing textbooks in education, english, law, philosophy, and psychology. The university will hold a memorial for tartar on tuesday, april 8 at 6 p. Helen tartar editorial director, fordham university press helen tartar. Helen tartar 19512014, editorial director of fordham university press, was a genius and a true friend to humanities publishing in the us. Also among their authors are names familiar to the university family. Fordham university press also has a long history of publishing books. Fordham university press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of urls for external or thirdparty internet websites referred to in this publication and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. Hannah arendt, daniel berrigan, and jorge mario bergoglioaka pope francis.
Fordham up announcement helen was a formative influence on my writing and career who took a gamble on my sprawling first book wordsworth. It is the oldest catholic university press in the united states, and the seventholdest in the nation. Us university presses to support publishing first books in literary and cultural studies. When her position at stanford university press was eliminated in october. My friend and first editor, helen tarter editorial director of fordham university press and formerly editor at stanford university press died in a car accident on march 4th, 2014. Winner of the immigration and ethnic history society first book award whom we shall welcome has much to teach historians of immigration. Fields may include literary or cultural theory or history, or any other field of comparative. Helen tartar, the editorial director of fordham university press, died in an automobile accident in colorado on march 3. Helen tartar was appointed editorial director in 2003, and fredric nachbaur. The critical community staggers at the news that helen tartar, executive editor at fordham university press, perished on march 3 this week in an automobile accident in colorado. Christopher lloyd gogwilt department of english comparative literature program fordham university. Helen tartar editorial director, fordham university press.
Over the coming days and weeks, there will no doubt be many tributes from eminent scholars and editors who knew helen much better than i did. In her lifetime, the editorial director at fordham university press fup helped shape and publish more than 600 scholarly books many of which were on display in a rotating slideshow at a memorial held on april 8 at fordham. Editorial director, fordham university press, 19512014. Helen tartar, and to the many friends and teachers who have been indispensable in the creation of this book. It is with great sadness that we have learned of the sudden death of helen tartar, editorial director of fordham university press. This was the citys first public library in the modern sense, a taxsupported, circulating collection free to every. Contemporary poetry, crosscultural encounter, comparative literature by jacob edmond, fordham university press. A longtime editor at stanford university press, she was most recently editorial director at fordham university press. She addressed questions facing academic authors as they go about publishing their first scholarly books. The first impression i had meeting legendary editor helen tartar a dozen. Posts about helen tartar written by jacob edmond a common strangeness.
With what i hope can be best wishes, and what i dare not pray may be a halt in your really tedious accusations of helen arnold and the castoriadis family, which i expect are as annoying and unwelcome to many of your internet addressees as they are to me, helen tartar fordham university press. Fordham university press, established in 1907, the seventh oldest university press in the country and the nations oldest catholic university press, is the notforprofit publishing arm of the university. With the grant, tartar said that the press is interested in emphasizing scholarship that extends disciplinary boundaries in philosophy, religion and literature, and that showcases in fresh ways the. We are now accepting submissions for the 2020 harry levin prize. During her tenure she produced more than 650 titles with the fordham university press imprint.
Memorial set for fup longtime editorial director helen tartar. This book was a recipient of the american comparative literature associations helen tartar first book subvention award. I will always remember her support, the discipline she inspired rather than required, and the fluid, sparkling stream of her conversation carried out in a voice so soft that i hear it in my mind whenever i reread wordsworths nutting and come to the line on the murmur, and. I also want to renew a profound intellectual joy i had, a sense of bringing truly exciting books into the world, things that will keep people thinking for decades. French thought has lost a great friend french culture. This posthumous collection of interviews and occasional papers given by castoriadis between 1974 and 1997 is a lively.
She was wearing a calflength silvergray dress, with silver chandelier earrings and silver. Its list emphasizes american studies, anthropology, critical race theory, cultural studies, education, gender studies, history, literary studies, media and communications, medieval studies, philosophy, political theory, religion, sociology, theology, and. Fordham mourns the loss of helen tartar, editorial director of fordham. She saw my previous book into press with remarkable, intimate attention to matters both intellectual and practical. Helen tartar, editorial director, fordham university press, 19512014. Multiversal fordham university institutional repository. Interviews and debates, 19741997hardback 2010 edition myrto gondicas, pascal vernay, helen arnold, enrique escobar cornelius castoriadis on. Helen tartar 19512014 attended swarthmore college and yale university. Throughout the 1990s and into the first year of the 21st century the press had steadily. It is a reminder that the 1965 immigration and nationality act was designed to include europeans more than the africans, asians, and latin americans who came in greater numbers.
Winner of the immigration and ethnic history society first. University press editor remembered by friends and family. Fordham university press editorial director helen tartar. Fordham mourns the loss of helen tartar, editorial director of fordham university press fup, who was killed on march 3 in an automobile accident in colorado. She was a regular at american comparative literatureaclaandmodernlanguageassociationmlameetings,as. The book of imaginary planets2 objects of the visible language 5 notes on the enclosure of cores 12.
Meditations on the political and biopolitical fordham university press. The fordham university press is a publishing house, a division of fordham university, that publishes primarily in the humanities and the social sciences. While both she and fordham university press editorial director helen tartar have read the first three parts of this analysis of a society adrift, neither has offered the least substantive challenge to the criticisms found therein. Fordham has established the helen tartar memorial fund, co fordham. Cynthia havens blog for the written word sunday, march 16, 2014 the first impression i had meeting legendary editor helen tartar a dozen years ago was silver. Helen tartar, editorial director, fordham university press. Helen was snapped up by fordham university press to serve as its. I want first to thankand honor helen tartar, who is a humanities editor for the ages. The press remains as committed as ever to helen tartar s vision for a vibrant, critical, and creative publishing future. Helen told me on several occasions that her books were her children. Fordham mourns the loss of helen tartar, editorial director of fordham university press fup, who. Helen tartar, editorial director of fordham university press, has died in a car accident.
But where words might fail at capturing the life of tartar, there are plenty of books. The press publishes boundarybreaking print and digital books that bring. Writing a book proposal and choosing a publisher fordham. Panelists helen tartar, editorial director at fordham university press. Fordham university press publishes scholarly books in the humanities and social sciences, as well as books of interest to the general public. The helen tartar memorial fund fordham university press university box l bronx, ny 10458 phone. Helen tartar making introductions at the 2007 fordham press centennial event, living together. Fordham university is an equal opportunity employer committed to the principle of equal opportunity in education and employment in compliance with title ix of the education amendments of 1972, section 504 of the rehabilitation act of 1973, title vi and title vii of the civil rights act of 1964, the age discrimination act of 1975, the americans.
Narrative ethics in the maghreb fordham university press, 2019 was awarded the 2018 helen tartar book subvention award of. Books published by fordham university press include an aquinas reader. I was devastated to learn this morning of the death of helen tartar in a car accident. Part of my task in the job is to enhance the role of the press as an asset to the university, said tartar. Elaine norman, fordham university staff 9780548088210 0548088217 life of henry wadsworth longfellow with extracts from his journals and. Ideas often first come to mind and first enter prose in a struggle between the intangible spaces and shapes of thought and the hierarchies and linearities of syntax. In her lifetime, the editorial director at fordham university press fup. The following year, helen was snapped up by fordham university press to serve as its editorial director, and is credited with transforming fordham university press into one of the leading scholarly presses in the united states. If you have not made contact with a publisher before a book manuscript is complete this usually. Over the coming days and weeks, there will no doubt be many tributes from eminent scholars and editors who knew helen much better continue reading.
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