About
Welcome to Bloomsbury Academic
Bloomsbury Academic is an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. The fastest growing part of our company, it now incorporates Continuum International. We are a leading international academic publisher, unconstrained by the conflicting interests of conglomerate ownership or a single academic institution. We are based in London, Berlin, New York, and Sydney.
Within Bloomsbury Academic, we publish under a number of prestigious and historic imprint names, as well as Bloomsbury Academic. These include Methuen Drama, T&T Clark, Arden, Berg, and Bristol Classical Press. All new Continuum titles, a list we purchased in July 2011, are now published under the Bloomsbury Academic name.
We enjoy the business of publishing, and thrive on working with authors and publishing partners to devise a successful approach for each title we publish. Our expertise and experience allow us to make quick decisions, and, when needed, to bring important ideas rapidly to a global readership. New technology provides many new paths to market, and Bloomsbury is actively engaged in digital distribution, in a way which maximises dissemination and protects rights holders.
Publishing in Print and Digital
Bloomsbury Academic now publishes around 1,100 titles each year, with a particularly big presence in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our backlist comprises some 20,000 titles. An increasingly important part of our programme comes from digital services.
Our output includes journals, digital services, textbooks, supplementary course books, research monographs, reference works and professional books. Academic proposals are peer-reviewed before we commit to publication, to help ensure quality and to support the career progression of our authors.
Our Authors
We publish many world-leading writers, Nobel laureates and researchers in their fields, and actively seek out the emerging generation. These include Karl Barth, Joseph Ratzinger, Rowan Williams, George Bernard Shaw, Jonathan Sacks, Slavoj Žižek, Theodor Adorno, Martin Heidegger, Alain Badiou, Bertolt Brecht, Arthur Miller, Michael Frayn, Paulo Freire, M A K Halliday, Noel Coward, Willy Russell, Winston Churchill, Jean Anouilh, Edward Bond, Dario Fo, Tennessee Williams and Wole Soyinka.