D. Harlan Wilson is a professor of English at Wright State University–Lake Campus. He is the author of Cultographies: They Live, Technologized Desire: Selfhood and the Body in Postcapitalist Science Fiction, and […]
Category: authors
Q&A with Stephen Hardy and Andrew C. Holman, authors of Hockey: A Global History
Stephen Hardy is a retired professor of kinesiology and affiliate professor of history at the University of New Hampshire. His publications include Sport Marketing, Fourth Edition, and How Boston Played: Sport, Recreation, and Community. Andrew […]
UI Press Books Win 2017 MLA Prizes
We are pleased to announce that Radical Aesthetics and Modern Black Nationalism by GerShun Avilez has won the William Sanders Scarborough Prize from the Modern Language Association (MLA). The […]
5 Things You Need to Know at #NWSA2017
Headed to NWSA this week? So are we! Here are five things you need know: UIP is having a reception to celebrate our new series: Transformations: Womanist, Feminist, and Indigenous […]
Authors on Issues: What do Employers have to do with Individualism and Racism?
In this latest installment in our Authors on Issues series, Rosemary Feurer and Chad Pearson, co-editors of the edited collection Against Labor: How U.S. Employers Organized […]
Q&A with Lex Tate, Co-author of An Illini Place
Lex Tate is an adjunct lecturer in journalism and advertising at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and served as associate director of the University of Illinois Office for University Relations. She […]
Q&A with Denise Von Glahn, author of “Libby Larsen: Composing an American Life”
Denise Von Glahn is the Curtis Mayes Orpheus Professor of Musicology at Florida State University, where she is also the coordinator of the Musicology Area and director of the Center for […]
The Stalker: Excerpt from Curious Encounters with the Natural World
It was my first day on the Falkland Islands, and our group of five headed to Volunteer Point. I felt as though I was not supposed to know the point’s […]
Q&A with Linda Civitello, author of “Baking Powder Wars”
Linda Civitello teaches food history in southern California. She is the author of Cuisine and Culture: A History of Food and People, winner of the Gourmand Award for Best Food History […]
Smithsonian Magazine delves into the history of “Baking Powder Wars”
Smithsonian Magazine recently delved into the fascinating history behind baking powder. Linda Civitello, the author of Baking Powder Wars, was consulted as an expert. Read all about the cutthroat fight that revolutionized […]
Authors on Issues: Valerie Francisco on “My Family’s Slave”
This is the inaugural post of our new series, Authors on Issues, in which UIP authors weigh in on current events. Valerie Francisco, author of The Labor of Care: Filipina Migrants and […]
Book Trailer for “Beyond Respectability”
Film Credit: Bob Greenberg at Brainwaves […]