Broadview Press

Broadview Press is an independent academic publisher that focuses on the humanities. Founded in 1985 by Don LePan, the company now employs over 25 people, has over 500 titles in print, and publishes approximately 50 titles each year. Broadview’s offices are located across Canada in Calgary, Peterborough, Nanaimo, Guelph and Wolfville.

In its early years, Broadview operated out of LePan’s home in Peterborough, Ontario, publishing a small number of titles for both trade and academic markets. With the publication of books such as The Broadview Anthology of Poetry, The Broadview Reader, and the first few titles in the Broadview Editions series in the early 1990s, Broadview began to focus exclusively on the academic market.

In May 2008 Broadview’s social science and history lists were sold to the University of Toronto Press. Michael Harrison (Broadview Vice-President 1992-2004, and President 2005-2008) and several staff members went on to form the Higher Education division at that Press. Broadview refocused on the core disciplines of English Studies and Philosophy, and Don LePan returned to the role of President and CEO.

Broadview publishes anthologies, scholarly editions of literature and philosophy, works of criticism, and other academic books.

The publisher is perhaps best known for its publications in English Literature (see below), but it has also published notable titles in a number of other areas. A particular area of strength is undergraduate philosophy course texts; notable titles include Andrew Bailey’s First Philosophy: Fundamental Problems and Readings in Philosophy, William Hughes, Jonathan Lavery & Katheryn Doran’s Critical Thinking, and The Broadview Anthology of Social and Political Thought. The Broadview philosophy list also includes many titles intended both for an academic and for a general readership; notable examples include Robert Martin’s There Are Two Errors in the the Title of This Book, Bernard Suits’ The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia, Brian Orend’s The Morality of War, and Wendy Lynne Lee’s Contemporary Feminist Theory and Activism.

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