Black Women’s Art Ecosystems: Sites of Wellness and Self-Care Tanisha M. Jackson It is not an uncommon burden but rather a choice that Black women artists embrace creating art as […]
2026 Women’s History Month Reading List: Women in Art
Q&A with the author of FOR THE LOVE OF LABOR
Cathryn J. Prince, author of For the Love of Labor: The Life of Pauline Newman, answers questions about her new book. Q: Why did you decide to write this book? […]
Visual Arts Research: Two New Editors and Two Open Access Issues
Visual Arts Research Volume 51, Number 2, is the second of a two-issue special open access volume, and with it, we welcome two new editors to the VAR editorial team. […]
The Polish Review Best Article of 2024
Announcing the winner of this year’s Ludwik Krzyzanowski Award for the best article published in The Polish Review: Dr. Colin P. Neufeldt (Concordia University of Edmonton) and Dr. Wojciech Marchlewski (Masovian […]
Free E-book Giveaway: MEAN GIRL FEMINISM
March’s free e-book is here! Check out Mean Girl Feminism: How White Feminists Gaslight, Gatekeep, and Girlboss by Kim Hong Nguyen before the month is over! Mean girl feminism encourages […]
New Journal Alert! Welcoming Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi Society
A new journal has joined University of Illinois Press! Please join us in welcoming the Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi Society. We are pleased to announce that this distinguished […]
Interview on “Fathers and Sons”: A Special Issue of Diasporic Italy
In the latest episode of the University of Press podcast, The UPside, Dr. Ryan Calabretta-Sajder, editor of Diasporic Italy: Journal of the Italian American Studies Association, sat down (virtually) with […]
Winner of the 2025 NWSA/ University of Illinois Press First Book Prize
National Women’s Studies Association and the University of Illinois Press are pleased to announce the winner of the 2025 First Book Prize! Vivian D. Rodríguez-Rocha Project title: Countertopographies of Care: […]
2026 World Day of Social Justice
Downriver Detroit: The Working Class, the Environment, and the Bonds of Place Lisa M. Fine Since the beginning of the twentieth century, communities in the Downriver region of the Detroit […]
2026 Black History Month
African American Studies is a cornerstone of the University of Illinois Press. While we honor Black history all year, this month we’re celebrating with some of our favorite and forthcoming […]
Free E-book Giveaway: CONTEMPORARY PLAYS BY AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN
February’s free e-book is here! Check out Contemporary Plays by African American Women: Ten Complete Works edited by Sandra Adell before the month is over! African American women have increasingly […]
2026 International Day of Education Reading List
Arrows Tipped with Flowers: Threshold Theory for Transformative Learning Julie Geredien How can learning at the threshold change us and our world? Julie Geredien introduces an approach to transformative learning […]