March’s free e-book is here! Check out Ain’t I an Anthropologist: Zora Neale Hurston Beyond the Literary Icon by Jennifer L. Freeman Marshall before the month is over! Iconic as […]
Free E-book Giveaway: AIN’T I AN ANTHROPOLOGIST
Category: literary studies
Free E-book Giveaway: FROM SLAVE CABINS TO THE WHITE HOUSE
November’s free e-book is here! Check out From Slave Cabins to the White House: Homemade Citizenship in African American Culture by Koritha Mitchell before the month is over! Koritha Mitchell […]
Q&A with the author of THUNDER ON THE STAGE
Bruce Allen Dick, the author of Thunder on the Stage: The Dramatic Vision of Richard Wright, answers questions on his new book. Q: Why did you decide to write this […]
Q&A with Michael Austin, author of THE TESTIMONY OF TWO NATIONS
Michael Austin, author of The Testimony of Two Nations: How the Book of Mormon Reads, and Rereads, the Bible, answers questions on his new book. Q: Why did you decide […]
The Winnifred Eaton Conference 2023
Welcome to the University of Illinois Press reading list for the 2023 Winnifred Eaton Conference! Use the promo code WEATON23 for 50% off the below books when ordering from our website, July 27-29, 2023. Chinatown […]
Special Issue on “Realisms in the Age of Reconstruction” in American Literary Realism
“All the essays in the special issue contribute to this new mapping of realist practices in the era of Reconstruction.” American Literary Realism is proud to announce a new special […]
Q&A with Emek Ergun, author of VIRGIN CROSSING BORDERS
Emek Ergun, author of Virgin Crossing Borders: Feminist Resistance and Solidarity in Translation, answers questions on her new book. Q: Why did you decide to write this book? This book, […]
National Reading Month Reading List
This year for National Reading Month, we are highlighting our latest and greatest publications in the field of literary studies. (Psst see if you can spot the nod to Dr. […]
Free E-book Giveaway: AFRO-NOSTALGIA
February’s free e-book is here! Check out Afro-Nostalgia: Feeling Good in Contemporary Black Culture by Badia Aha-Legardy before the month is over! As early as the eighteenth century, white Americans […]
Q&A with the authors of MARIANNE MEETS THE MORMONS
Heather Belnap, Corry Cropper, and Daryl Lee, authors of Marianne Meets the Mormons: Representations of Mormonism in Nineteenth-Century France, answers questions on their scholarly influences, discoveries, and reader takeaways from […]
Free E-book Giveaway: LAUGHING TO KEEP FROM DYING
September’s free ebook is here! Check out Laughing to Keep from Dying: African American Satire in the Twenty-First Century by Danielle Fuentes Morgan before the month is over! By subverting […]
Q&A with Kelli D. Zaytoun, author of SHAPESHIFTING SUBJECTS
Kelli D. Zaytoun, author of Shapeshifting Subjects: Gloria Anzaldúa’s Naguala and Border Arte, answers questions on why she decided to write this book and what media she consumes for fun. […]