Category Archives: authors

March 29, 2013

Q&A with Rob White, author of Contemporary Film Directors book Todd Haynes

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The Contemporary Film Directors series presents engagingly written commentaries on the work of living directors from around the world. Todd Haynes author Rob White was Commissioning Editor of Books at the British Film Institute, 1995–2005, and Editor of Film Quarterly, … Continue reading →

March 22, 2013

Read an excerpt from One Woman in a Hundred

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SymphonyNOW has posted an excerpt from Mary Sue Welsh’s book about trailblazing harpist Edna Phillips, One Woman in a Hundred. Phillips was the first woman to hold a principal chair in any major American orchestra when she was chosen by … Continue reading →

March 11, 2013

Nikkei Baseball on Only a Game

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Bill Littlefield, the host of NPR’s Only a Game interviewed Samuel Regalado, the author of Nikkei Baseball: Japanese American Players from Immigration and Internment to the Major Leagues. The interview ran on the March 9, 2013, broadcast of Only a … Continue reading →

February 25, 2013

The South Asian invasion of the Oscars

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Life of Pi was a big winner at last night’s Oscars, as the film was awarded in four categories including Best Director. Shilpa Davé, author of the forthcoming University of Illinois Press book Indian Accents: Brown Voice and Racial Performance … Continue reading →

December 12, 2012

Congratulations, Bruno Nettl

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The University of Illinois News Bureau reports that UI Press author and U of I Professor Emeritus of Music and Anthropology, Bruno Nettl, has been awarded the 2014 Charles Homer Haskins Prize, presented annually to a distinguished humanist by the … Continue reading →

June 6, 2012

Goodbye, Ray Bradbury

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Ray Bradbury, author, Illinois native, and subject of Becoming Ray Bradbury, has died. Jonathan Eller, his biographer, had this to say about him in an article last year in New Scientist: “RAY BRADBURY, the science fiction and fantasy author behind … Continue reading →

May 14, 2012

John Miles Foley

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The University of Illinois Press mourns the passing of John Miles Foley, who died on May 3 at the age of 65.  Our Press had the privilege of publishing his How to Read an Oral Poem, a CHOICE Outstanding Academic … Continue reading →

December 23, 2011

ongoing effects of war

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I work on a number of journals here, journals covering diverse topics, and the variety is really interesting.  Some articles stick with me for a long time. Yesterday I had an e-mail from Linda Pershing, and though her article on … Continue reading →

August 12, 2010

Double Rainbow* Connections

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Working at a press that publishes both books and journals is great because it’s a world populated with many different subjects, authors, blog posts, etc. But in the journals department, one can often seem a bit isolated from the books … Continue reading →

June 30, 2010

A Knight in Istanbul

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In book publishing we’re busy talking about the need to expand our social networking efforts, to create online communities around books and authors, to consider content from the customer’s perspective and build it from there. With absolute respect to the … Continue reading →