Alex Wright

Senior Executive Publisher & Head of Humanities @Cambridge University Press & Assessment

Cambridge, GB

Responsible for strategic oversight and management of the Humanities Books Group, comprising seven acquisitions editors and five editorial assistants. Also occasional commissioning of new titles chiefly in the fields of religion, classical studies, the history of ideas, folklore and magic, with a particular focus on the Academic Impact (AIM) programme. Steering Group member (holding the Elements portfolio) of the Global Humanities Initiative of Cambridge University\'s School of Arts and Humanities.Some recent acquisitions:Dante the Theologian (Denys Turner)Naming God (Janet Soskice)Christianity at the Crossroads (David Hempton)Amazons (David Braund)City of Intellect (Nicholas B Dirks)Learning from Other Religions (David Brown)Aspects of Truth (Catherine Pickstock)Catholicism: End or Beginning?(Mary Daly, rediscovered manuscript published posthumously)Some New World (Peter Harrison)After Science and Religion (Peter Harrison & John Milbank)The Witches of St Osyth (Marion Gibson, featured on BBC Radio 4\'s Start the Week)The Buddha (Philip C Almond)The Antichrist (Philip C Almond)Noah and the Flood in Western Thought (Philip C Almond)Silence of the Gods (Francis Young)Twilight of the Godlings (Francis Young)Magic in Merlin\'s Realm (Francis Young)Reconstructing Early Buddhism (Roderick S Bucknell)Journeys of Transformation (John D Barbour)The Philosophy of the Bhagavad-Gita (Ithamar Theodor)Exalting Man, Demoting Christ (Paul C H Lim)New Cambridge Studies in Religion and Critical ThoughtElements in Christian DoctrineElements in AI Ethics and SocietyElements in Islam and the SciencesElements in FolkloreElements in MagicElements in Global Humanities