Exciting news out of our Journals Department! The Journal of Appalachian Studies will be published by the University of Illinois Press beginning in 2014. Currently in its nineteenth volume, the […]
Q&A with Chicago River Bridges author Patrick McBriarty
Patrick T. McBriarty is a writer and creative producer based in Chicago and the co-producer, with Stephen Hatch, of the documentary film Chicago Drawbridges. He recently answered some questions about […]
Happy Thanksgiving from UIP
One staff member volunteered to work on the holiday… […]
Adopt the Bechdel Rating System by Linda Layne
My co-author, Frances Bronet, Dean of the School of Architecture and Allied Arts at University of Oregon, recently emailed me to tell me that some movie theaters in Sweden had […]
Q&A with Karma Chavez, author of Queer Migration Politics
Karma R. Chávez is an assistant professor of Communication Arts and Chican@ and Latin@ Studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the cofounder of the Queer Migration Research Network and […]
University Press Week: Innovation in Scholarly Publishing
University Press Week continues with another event that highlights the unique ways scholarly publishers are meeting the challenges of the 21st century. You can check out a special online panel […]
University Press Week: Ideas Unbound
How do blind people understand race? What does quantitative data reveal about the real “game change” in the 2012 presidential election? Is digital data crunching proving that Jane Austin thumps Herman […]
Meet the Press: Laurie Matheson
During University Press Week, the UIP is joining other members of the university press community for a blog tour. Individual presses will blog on a different theme each day, including […]
It’s University Press Week
In the spirit of partnership that pervades the university press community, 37 presses have united for the AAUP’s second annual blog tour during University Press Week, November 10-16. This tour will […]
Happy birthday to ‘The March King’ John Philip Sousa
Happy 159th birthday to John Philip Sousa. Sousa began his musical education learning the violin at age 6, and when he was 13, his father enlisted him in the United […]
$2.99 eBooks sale for Society for Ethnomusicology meeting
To coincide with the Society for Ethnomusicology annual meeting November 14-17, 2013, in Indianapolis, we are offering eBook versions of three University of Illinois Press titles on sale for $2.99. The […]
$2.99 eBook sale for NWSA meeting
To coincide with the National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) annual meeting November 7-10, 2013, in Cincinnati, Ohio, we are offering eBook versions of three University of Illinois Press titles on sale for […]