Randolph Petilos
Assistant Editor
A native of the fiftieth state, which I don’t visit as often as I should, I have been in the Press’s acquisitions department since 1989, after receiving a BA (1984) from Harvard University and an MA (1985) from the University of Chicago. In addition to assisting the editorial director of the Press’s books division in acquiring books in literary studies, I also focus on medieval and early modern studies and the occasional volume of poetry. I am a roving humanist by nature and profession, and my recent acquisitions for the Press reflect these varied interests: The Inner Sea: Maritime Literary Culture in Early Modern Portugal, by Josiah Blackmore; absolute animal, by Rachel DeWoskin; Rhetorical Renaissance: The Mistress Art and Her Masterworks, by Kathy Eden; James Joyce and the Irish Revolution: The Easter Rising as Modern Event, by Luke Gibbons; Dangerous Children: On Seven Novels and a Story, by Kenneth Gross; John Donne’s Physics, by Elizabeth Harvey and Timothy Harrison; Textual Magic: Charms and Written Amulets in Medieval England, by Katherine Storm Hindley; Medieval Marvels and Fictions in the Latin West and the Arabic World, by Michelle Karnes; Knots, or the Violence of Desire in Renaissance Florence, by Emanuele Lugli; The Librarian’s Atlas: The Shape of Knowledge in Early Modern Spain, by Seth Kimmel; Fragments of a World: William of Auvergne and His Medieval Life, by Lesley Smith; Eleanor of Aquitaine, as It Was Said, by Karen Sullivan; Fixers: Agency, Translation, and the Early Global History of Literature, by Zrinka Stahuljak; and Defining Nature’s Limits: The Roman Inquisition and the Boundaries of Science, by Neil Tarrant.
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