Talmage A. Stanley is the director of the Appalachian Center for Community Service and an associate professor and chair of the Department of Public Policy and Community Service at Emory & […]
Category: author commentary
Q&A with John Sayles author David Shumway
On March 26, 2012 the University of Illinois Press published John Sayles, a new book in the Contemporary Film Directors series. Author David Shumway comments on the filmmaker’s independence and reveals his favorite […]
Q&A with Henry Mancini author John Caps
For four years John Caps was a producer, writer, and host of the National Public Radio syndicated series The Cinema Soundtrack. Here he discusses his new book Henry Mancini: Reinventing Film Music. Q: […]
Q&A with authors of The Ecology of the Spoken Word: Amazonian Storytelling and Shamanism among the Napo Runa
On March 12, 2012, the University of Illinois Press published The Ecology of the Spoken Word: Amazonian Storytelling and Shamanism among the Napo Runa by Michael A. Uzendoski and Edith […]
Simine Short on WGN-TV
The March 6, 2012, edition of WGN-TV’s Midday News program featured an interview with Simine Short, author of the recent book Locomotive to Aeromotive: Octave Chanute and the Transportation Revolution. […]
The Catholic Church vs. Birth Control: The Sanger Papers Feature Early Rounds in this Epic Battle by Peter C. Engelman
The current debate over the mandate for employers to cover contraception in health insurance plans harks back to earlier confrontations between the Catholic Church and family planning advocates. From the early […]
Q&A with Jacques Rivette author Mary Wiles
Mary Wiles, a lecturer in cinema studies at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, is the author of Jacques Rivette, the latest volume in our Contemporary Film Directors series. […]
Pete Daniel in PBS program Slavery by Another Name
Pete Daniel, author of the University of Illinois Press book The Shadow of Slavery: Peonage in the South, 1901-1969, explains in the documentary Slavery by Another Name why the 13th […]
Q&A with Caribbean and Atlantic Diaspora Dance author Yvonne Daniel
In December 2011 the University of Illinois Press published Caribbean and Atlantic Diaspora Dance: Igniting Citizenship by Yvonne Daniel, professor emerita of dance and Afro-American studies at Smith College. Here Professor […]
Q&A with Scripting Hitchcock authors Walter Raubicheck and Walter Srebnick
Following Scripting Hitchcock‘s nomination for an Edgar Award, authors Walter Raubicheck and Walter Srebnick discuss their interest in Psycho, The Birds, and Marnie, and reveal their favorite Hitchcock films. Q: Scripting Hitchcock focuses on […]
Q&A with Illinois in the War of 1812 author Gillum Ferguson
On February 27, 2012, we will publish Gillum Ferguson’s book Illinois in the War of 1812. Throughout this bicentennial year Ferguson will travel to museums, libraries, bookstores, and historical societies across the […]
Q&A with Eugene Kinckle Jones author Felix Armfield
Eugene Kinckle Jones (1885–1954) is an underknown figure in American history, but he was instrumental in professionalizing black social work in America. Author Felix L. Armfield discusses his discovery of […]