Poshek Fu, editor of the forthcoming University of Illinois Press book China Forever: The Shaw Brothers and Diasporic Cinema, spent A Minute With the News Bureau discussing the government of […]
Category: author commentary
Marrying Into Office by Lois Duke Whitaker
Voting in free and fair elections is an important part of maintaining our democracy. Voters will make a choice in November 2008 to determine our next president. The current presidential […]
Peter Cole guest column in the Seattle-PI
Peter Cole, author of the recent University of Illinois Press book Wobblies on the Waterfront: Interracial Unionism in Progressive-Era Philadelphia, contributed a guest column to today’s Seattle Post-Intelligencer. “On Thursday, […]
Sacred Harp on the Road by Kiri Miller
I wrote the following message to a national Sacred Harp listserv in December of 2006, during a two-year postdoctoral appointment at the University of Alberta. This research fellowship allowed me to […]
“Lost” on tour
Following Oprah’s reading of David Wagoner’s poem Lost, the poet updated us on the varied apperances of this popular verse. “The poem has had a very strange history in addition to David Whyte‘s […]
Good Medicine by Laurie Clements Lambeth
We had just returned from a doctor’s appointment when I got the call telling me Veil and Burn was a winner of the National Poetry Series. At one moment my […]
Stephane Dunn in The Chronicle of Higher Education
Stephane Dunn, author of the forthcoming University of Illinois Press book “Baad Bitches” and Sassy Supermamas: Black Power Action Films, contributed a commentary about the book’s title to the March […]
Folk is the new folk by Michael Scully
When I first began attending the annual Folk Alliance conference in 1993 I was struck by the palpable sense of closeness among the few hundred attendees. Self-conscious about my […]
Erika Falk Op-Ed in the Baltimore Sun
Today’s Baltimore Sun includes an Erika Falk opinion piece on Hillary Clinton’s status as the “first woman” to run for president. “I am worried that persistently framing women as ‘firsts’ […]
“Why Animation, Alan?” by Alan Cholodenko
People often ask me, “Alan, why did you get involved in animation?” And, I’d add here, “Why did you stay involved?” Well, it wasn’t just my child’s […]
“Of Storms and Suffrage” by Katherine H. Adams
Katherine H. Adams is William and Audrey Hutchinson Distinguished Professor in the department of English at Loyola University, New Orleans, and is coauthor of the new book Alice Paul and […]
“The Archives” by Jill Hills
Jill Hills is a professor of communications policy at the University of Westminster, Harrow, United Kingdom, and author of the new University of Illinois Press book Telecommunications and Empire. Research for […]