Senior Commissioning Editor Michelle Houston offers a quick glimpse into the
exciting highlights coming to the literature, theatre, film, and television list in 2025
Since joining MUP in early 2024, I’ve had the privilege of engaging with some incredible scholars and their work. 2025 is shaping up to be even better with some exciting books publishing, like Screening Sherlock, launching the new Multiplexities series, the paperback edition of Maryam Mirza’s Resistance and its discontents in South Asian women’s fiction in the Global Textualities series along with many exciting editions in the Revels Plays series, including Dick of Devonshire edited by Kate Ellis and the Golden Age edited by Charlotte Coffin.
Keep an eye out for the paperback edition of Antony and Cleopatra from the Shakespeare Performed series. Also this year, on our Theatre and Performance list, Do It Yourself: Making Political Theatre, written by Jenny Hughes and Evie Manning and Rhiannon White (Co-Artistic Directors of Commonwealth), shares the creative methodology of the Commonwealth Theatre Company and is by and for artists working in a range of activist, community and professional contexts.
Our book series across literature, theatre and film and television continue to grow and evolve, publishing critical work at a time when the humanities is as important as ever.
Our Early Modern list continues to thrive, publishing some of the best and critical scholarship. This includes:
Shakespeare Performed: From the Globe to Global
The Revels Plays Companion Library monograph series
Global contemporary literature and postcolonial studies continues to be a major focus with award-winning book series like:
Contemporary American and Canadian Writers
Global Textualities: Multicultural and Transcultural Narratives
Twenty First Century Perspectives
Contemporary British Novelists
MUP remains the home of Gothic scholarship with landmark series such as:
Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century continues its important work of remapping the literary-cultural landscape of the 19th century.
Theatre: Theory – Practice – Performance continues its important work in Theatre Studies, pushing boundaries and publishing urgent scholarship.
MUP’s Film, Television and Media list is in an exciting phase of growth with new series launching, while continuing some of the long established and cutting-edge series.
To highlight a few,
Multiplexities: Popular Screen Cultures
Foundations of Horror Studies
French and Francophone Filmmakers, the next generation of French Film Directors
Spanish and Latin American Filmmakers
If you’re looking for succinct, student-led Introductions to many topics across the Humanities, don’t forget to check out our Beginnings series, adopted by thousands around the world. We’re busy adding new titles with many brand-new titles and updated favourites coming soon!
I’m very excited for the busy conference season ahead and hope to cross paths with many of you! If you have an idea about a series or book, or just want to chat, do get in touch! My areas of focus continue to be Early Modern Literature and Theatre, Postcolonial and Global literatures, American studies, 18th and 19th Century literature, Irish literature, Latin American Studies, Poetry, Global Film & television studies, Horror studies and Theatre & Performance.