Skip to content
Illinois Press Blog

Author: heather

Profile picture of heather
Website
http://

Posts by heather

ongoing effects of war

Posted on December 23, 2011 by heather
in authors, folklore, journals

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 […]

Read More

Regime Change

Posted on January 10, 2011 by heather
in journals

Editor turnover is a constant, healthy thing in the journals world, and editors ending their terms are usually excited about having more time to dedicate to their own writing, research, […]

Read More

Zora Neale Hurston for tweens!

Posted on November 2, 2010 (November 2, 2010) by heather
in backlist classics

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 […]

Read More

“Media Matters” and Copyright Issues

Posted on July 29, 2010 (July 29, 2010) by heather
in all things digital, author events, copyright, media studies, publishing

Yesterday’s Inside Higher Ed update contained links to several posts that mentioned the Librarian of Congress’s release of 3-year exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act on Monday.  As a […]

Read More

Publishing secrets revealed!

Posted on June 29, 2010 by heather
in author commentary, journals, publishing

What does it take to get an article published in a scholarly journal?  Sound, original scholarship, you say?  That’s important, but what about presentation?  How do you go about interesting […]

Read More

UIP First Annual Cookie Swap

Posted on December 15, 2009 (December 15, 2009) by heather
in press events

I attended my first cookie exchange at a friend’s house just a few years ago.  It was a modest affair–half a dozen of us getting together for snacks and drinks, […]

Read More

Proudly powered by WordPress | Theme: UI Press Custom by understrap.com.(Version: 1.0.0)