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Author Archives: michael
The University of Illinois Press has two positions open in its Marketing Department. Please follow the links below for more information. Catalog and Copywriting Coordinator The University of Illinois seeks a Catalog and Copywriting Coordinator to be responsible for writing … Continue reading
Cary Nelson, former president of the American Association of University Professors, talks to Inside Higher Ed about intellectual property rights on campus. “There’s no need for universities to own the online course you create,” Nelson said. “All the university needs … Continue reading
On June 8-9, University of Illinois Press authors and staff will be in Chicago participating in the Printers Row Lit Fest. We will sell our latest titles and regional classics in Tent location F3 on Dearborn Street, just south of Congress. Speaking … Continue reading
Chicago Skyscrapers in New York
in american history, architecture, author events, BookExpo, Chicago, Illinois / regional
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Summer Reading $2.99 eBook sale
in eBooks
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From now until June 30th we are lowering the eBook list price of four titles in the University of Illinois Press catalog to $2.99. Link to the buy options below. Twentieth Century Drifter: The Life of Marty Robbins by Diane Diekman Recent winner of … Continue reading
Twentieth Century Drifter wins country music book award
in american history, awards, music
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Diane Diekman’s book, Twentieth Century Drifter: The Life of Marty Robbins, will receive the Belmont Country Music Book of the Year Award given by the Mike Curb Entertainment and Music Business Program at Belmont University. The award ceremony will take place during … Continue reading
Macroanalysis featured in Inside Higher Ed
in all things digital, digital humanities, literary studies
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The May 1, 2013, edition of Inside Higher Ed featured an Intellectual Affairs column on Matthew Jockers’s new book Macroanalysis: Digital Methods and Literary History. From IHE: Jockers uses his digital tools to analyze novels by, essentially, crunching them–determining what … Continue reading
Pretty Good for a Girl: Women in Bluegrass book trailer
in american history, author commentary, music, women's history
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In May 2013 we will publish Murphy Henry’s new book Pretty Good for a Girl: Women in Bluegrass, which documents the musical lives of more than seventy women including Sally Ann Forrester, Alison Krauss, Rhonda Vincent, the Dixie Chicks, Bessie Lee … Continue reading
Thomas Leslie’s forthcoming book Chicago Skyscrapers, 1871-1934, highlights architectural progress in the skyscraper’s birthplace from the Great Fire to the Great Depression. During this time, such iconic landmarks as the Chicago Tribune Tower, the Wrigley Building, the Marshall Field and Company Building, the Chicago … Continue reading
Thomas Leslie — Book Trailer of the Day / WGN-TV’s Midday News
Posted by michaelThomas Leslie’s new book Chicago Skyscrapers, 1871-1934 is today’s Shelf Awareness Book Trailer of the Day. And, Dr. Leslie was interviewed on the June 7, 2013, edition of WGN-TV’s Midday News. Chicago Skyscrapers begins in the key period of reconstruction after the Great Fire … Continue reading →