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November 11, 2024 (November 12, 2024)

University Press Week: Who StepsUP at, with, or for your press? (part 2)

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Every day, university presses worldwide step up to educate and enlighten, motivate and inspire, support and act. During University Press Week 2024, we explore the myriad ways our community’s publications […]

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October 1, 2024 (September 19, 2024)

Free E-book Giveaway: MANIFEST TECHNIQUE

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October’s free e-book is here! Check out Manifest Technique: Hip Hop, Empire, and Visionary Filipino American Culture by Mark R. Villegas before the month is over!  Filipino Americans have been […]

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May 26, 2023 (May 16, 2023)

Q&A with Lauren Miller Griffith, author of GRACEFUL RESISTANCE

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Lauren Miller Griffith, author of Graceful Resistance: How Capoeiristas Use Their Art for Activism and Community Engagement, answers questions on her new book.  Q: Why did you decide to write […]

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October 20, 2021 (October 15, 2021)

Q&A With Tomie Hahn, Author of Arousing Sense

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Tomie Hahn, author of Arousing Sense: Recipes For Workshopping Sensory Experience, answers questions on her personal influences, discoveries, and reader takeaways from her book. Q: Why did you decide to […]

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October 10, 2021 (October 8, 2021)

Dance Studies Association 2021 Virtual Exhibit

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Welcome to the University of Illinois Press virtual exhibit for the 2021 Dance Studies Association annual conference! Explore our collection of Dance books, author interviews, and more. Use the promo […]

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October 13, 2020 (October 13, 2020)

American Folklore Society Virtual Exhibit

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Welcome to our 2020 American Folklore Society Virtual Exhibit. Step inside to see our featured titles, journals, music, and more. Browse our newest American Folklore Studies titles, and use Promo […]

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July 15, 2020 (July 10, 2020)

Marian Wilson Kimber Awarded Sight and Sound Subvention Award

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Marian Wilson Kimber’s book The Elocutionists reclaimed a forgotten performance genre. From the mid-1800s to the 1940s, elocutionists recited poetry or drama with music to entertain audiences, in particular women’s […]

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August 19, 2019 (July 22, 2019)

Q&A with Hannah Durkin, author of “Josephine Baker and Katherine Dunham”

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Hannah Durkin is a lecturer in literature and film at Newcastle University. She is a coeditor of Visualising Slavery: Art Across the African Diaspora. She recently answered some questions about her new […]

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August 5, 2019 (August 6, 2019)

New Titles in Dance Studies

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We aren’t able to attend the 2019 Dance Studies Association Conference but you can still get a discount on our new and forthcoming dance books! Use promo code DSA30 to […]

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March 25, 2019 (March 5, 2019)

Q&A with Christopher J. Smith, author of Dancing Revolution

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Christopher J. Smith is a professor, chair of musicology, and founding director of the Vernacular Music Center at the Texas Tech University School of Music. He is the author of the […]

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March 8, 2019

Sonja Thomas on “Tap Dancing and Embodied Feminist Pedagogies”

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Sonja Thomas is an assistant professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Colby College, where she teaches courses on gender and human rights, feminist theory, critical race feminisms, and […]

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January 18, 2018 (January 19, 2018)

Q&A with Laura E. Ruberto and Joseph Sciorra, editors of “New Italian Migrations to the United States”

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Laura E. Ruberto is a professor of Humanities at Berkeley City College in the Department of Arts and Cultural studies, and Joseph Sciorra is the Director for Academic and Cultural Programs at the […]

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