My break from blogging has not been a break from writing. Unlike blogging, other academic writing takes a lot longer to work through proposal, writing, submission, peer review, and then time in press before publication. Quiet at the publication end this last year is a token of much writing going on 'under the surface', to mix metaphors, as it were.
I'm excited that next year will see the publication with Lexintgton Books of the edited volume Global Bunyan and Visual Art. Editors Angélica Duran and Katie Galloway have been brilliant to work for. I have a chapter on cover art for The Pilgrim's Progress. I'm most excited about getting to read all the other fascinating chapters.
My article on race and the reception of Bunyan's character of the Flatterer in visual illustration may yet see the light of day with Harvard Theological Review - I understand Cambridge University Press were hit hard by malware or hacking which may have slowed that organ down.
At the end of a wonderful two years of collaboration, my co-editor, Margaret Sönser Breen and I have submitted our manuscript of both parts of The Pilgrim's Progress to our editors at Norton for typesetting. This should be out in the Norton Library series later in 2025.
And my own book on reception of The Pilgrim's Progress entitled Into the Pilgrimverse will, I trust, come out with one of Wipf and Stock's imprints. I road-tested chapters with my students this last semester. The manuscript is complete and submitted and under review right now.
More updates when promise turns to fulfilment on these projects...
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