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, the occasional volume of poetry/criticism, and selected titles in music. I am a roving humanist by nature and profession, and my recent acquisitions for the Press reflect these varied interests: New York Trilogy, by Peter Balakian; Dodging, by Charles Bernstein; The Medieval Art of Fear, by Ravinder S. Binning; Before the Global South: Unthinking Medieval Poetry, by Marisa Galvez; Passing the Baton: The Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Music Directors Who Shaped Its Greatness, by Phillip Huscher; The Surprising New Life of Magical Realism: Marvelous Ecologies and Postnatural Disasters in Latin America, by Charlotte Rogers; Foundations of Feeling: Theorizing Emotions in Late Medieval Literature, by Jessica Rosenfeld; Atlas’s Bones: The African Foundations of Europe, by D. Vance Smith; The Fabric of Classical Islamic Culture: A Cognitivist Approach, by Houari Touati; Empire’s Companion: Virgilian Epics from Colonial Iberoamerica, by Erika Valdivieso; and Beyond Individualism: Portraying Collective Selfhood in Latin American Literature and Art, by Lois Parkinson Zamora.
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