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February 10, 2015 (February 10, 2015)

RIP William R. Catton, Jr.

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Not long ago we received word that William R. Catton, Jr. passed away in January. Catton, known for his influential ecological book Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change, was eighty-eight […]

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January 7, 2015

Marian Anderson’s groundbreaking moment

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On January 6, 1955 contralto Marian Anderson became the first African American soloist to sing at New York’s Metropolitan Opera. She appeared in the role of Ulrica (a Creole fortuneteller medium) in Verdi’s Un […]

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September 5, 2014 (September 26, 2014)

Pigskin Primer, 2014

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The casual viewer might not ponder a university press and the manly art of football at the same time. Assuming a scholarly publisher covered sports at all, wouldn’t it devote its energy […]

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January 7, 2014

Happy birthday, Zora Neale Hurston

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Harlem Renaissance author Zora Neale Hurston was born on January 7, 1891. Also an American folklorist and anthropologist, Hurston wrote short stories, plays, essays and four novels including Their Eyes Were Watching […]

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November 2, 2010 (November 2, 2010)

Zora Neale Hurston for tweens!

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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 […]

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July 1, 2009 (July 1, 2009)

Win Illinois stuff over at Oronte Churm

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Inside Higher Ed blogger and local UI personality Oronte Churm has launched perhaps the first ever “Southern Illinois Rocks” online contest in celebration of the publication of his novel, A […]

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June 9, 2009 (June 9, 2009)

The Hegel-Heidegger-Heisenberg circuit

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Peter J. Dougherty, director of Princeton University Press, celebrates the original publication and continued printing of the University of Illinois Press’s The Mathematical Theory of Communication in his Chronicle of Higher Education piece […]

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May 13, 2009

Lecherous Professor in the news

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Monday’s edition of The Guardian features Billie Wright Dziech and Linda Weiner’s book The Lecherous Professor: Sexual Harassment on Campus as the central player in a current Oxford controversy. […]

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November 20, 2008 (November 20, 2008)

Mark Doty wins National Book Award

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Last night Mark Doty won the National Book Award for his Fire to Fire: New and Collected Poems. Doty has a long history with the University of Illinois Press. In […]

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September 29, 2008

Monday Morning

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Sometimes day-to-day drudgery buries the idealism that likely lead to one’s choice to “work with books” (my only stated goal 10+ years ago) and for a university press. A passing, […]

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