On May 21, 2012, we published Then Sings My Soul: The Culture of Southern Gospel Music. Author Douglas Harrison, an associate professor of English at Florida Gulf Coast University, answered our […]
Indian Accents
Shilpa Davé, author of the forthcoming University of Illinois Press book Indian Accents: Brown Voice and Racial Performance in American Television and Film (February 2013), was interviewed for a recent Salon.com […]
More than milk and spinach
The Classical sports website has posted an excerpt from the recent University of Illinois Press book A People’s History of Baseball plus a Q&A with author Mitchell Nathanson. The Classical: In […]
Framing Insanity
We have a selection of new titles that examine the different ways the U.S. legal system has defined insanity, especially in relation to gender. All of these books look at […]
Welcome, “New” Michael and Stephanie
We would like to welcome Michael Roux as new Marketing Manager, and Stephanie Turza as soon-to-be new Journals Production Editor. Michael officially began his position yesterday after nearly seven years […]
The Chicago Tribune profiles The Black Chicago Renaissance
The August 27, 2012, issue of the Chicago Tribune includes a profile of the new University of Illinois Press collection The Black Chicago Renaissance. Edited by Darlene Clark Hine and John McCluskey Jr., […]
Prof. Pradeep Dhillon discusses philosophies and practices of Sikhism
Professor Pradeep Dhillon, editor of our Journal of Aesthetic Education, sat down with the Illini News Bureau to discuss cultural aspects of Sikhism. In light of the August 5 tragedy […]
Subject of UIP book refutes claim that Richard Aoki was FBI informant
This week reports have emerged that Japanese-American civil rights activist Richard Aoki was actually an F.B.I. informant in the 1960s. Aoki’s confidant, saxophonist Fred Ho, refutes these claims. Ho, subject […]
NBC News on digital methods and literary history
In a new Future of Tech column at NBC News.com, Devin Coldewey previews University of Illinois Press author Matthew Jockers’s forthcoming book Macroanalysis: Digital Methods and Literary History (June 2013). Jockers … has devised […]
Publishers Weekly reviews The Beautiful Music All Around Us
On September 10, 2012, we will officially publish Stephen Wade’s book The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings and the American Experience, which reveals the backstories of thirteen iconic […]
SF Bay Guardian posts Marion Jacobson’s accordion picks
Marion Jacobson, author of Squeeze This! A Cultural History of the Accordion in America, recommends her favorite accordion acts in a San Francisco Bay Guardian event preview. Alex Meixner makes […]
New Journal: Women, Gender, and Families of Color
This month, UIP launches a new journal in cooperation with the University of Kansas. Women, Gender, and Families of Color expands the mission of Black Women, Gender, and Families, which […]