Category Archives: backlist classics

November 2, 2010

Zora Neale Hurston for tweens!

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We at the University of Illinois Press are proud of our historic connection to Zora Neale Hurston through Robert Hemenway’s groundbreaking work, Zora Neale Hurston: A Literary Biography, and through our edition of Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, published … Continue reading →

July 1, 2009

Win Illinois stuff over at Oronte Churm

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Inside Higher Ed blogger and local UI personality Oronte Churm has launched perhaps the first ever “Southern Illinois Rocks” online contest in celebration of the publication of his novel, A Democracy of Ghosts. The book is set in southern Illinois, … Continue reading →

June 9, 2009

The Hegel-Heidegger-Heisenberg circuit

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Peter J. Dougherty, director of Princeton University Press, celebrates the original publication and continued printing of the University of Illinois Press’s The Mathematical Theory of Communication in his Chronicle of Higher Education piece on the future of scholarly publishing. … university presses specialize … Continue reading →

May 13, 2009

Lecherous Professor in the news

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Monday’s edition of The Guardian features Billie Wright Dziech and Linda Weiner’s book The Lecherous Professor: Sexual Harassment on Campus as the central player in a current Oxford controversy.

November 20, 2008

Mark Doty wins National Book Award

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Last night Mark Doty won the National Book Award for his Fire to Fire: New and Collected Poems. Doty has a long history with the University of Illinois Press. In 1993 we published his multiple-award-winning *My Alexandria, and in 1995 his … Continue reading →

September 29, 2008

Monday Morning

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Sometimes day-to-day drudgery buries the idealism that likely lead to one’s choice to “work with books” (my only stated goal 10+ years ago) and for a university press. A passing, untitled mention in the New York Times, of a literary … Continue reading →