The June 29, 2012, edition of NPR’s All Things Considered will include a segment on the threatened closing of the University of Missouri Press. After it airs, I will update this […]
The TLS reviews Squeeze This!
The June 29, 2012, issue of The Times Literary Supplement includes an enthusiastic review of Marion Jacobson’s new book Squeeze This! A Cultural History of the Accordion in America. “Marion […]
Janine MacLachlan on Wisconsin Public Radio
Listen to Janine MacLachlan discuss her new book Farmers’ Markets of the Heartland on the June 22, 2012, edition of Wisconsin Public Radio’s Joy Cardin program. The book celebrates the […]
Q&A with Lucia Ruprecht, co-editor of New German Dance Studies
New German Dance Studies contains sixteen essays which range in subject from eighteenth-century theater dance to popular contemporary dances in global circulation. Co-editor Lucia Ruprecht answered our questions about this […]
The Chronicle Review profiles The Deepest Sense
The June 22, 2012, edition of the The Chronicle of Higher Education‘s Chronicle Review magazine includes a Nota Bene feature on the Press’ Studies in Sensory History series and Constance Classen’s […]
The University of Illinois Press seeks a Marketing Manager
The University of Illinois Press seeks an experienced, highly motivated, organized, and creative professional to direct the Marketing Department of the Press’s Book Division. The Marketing Manager will provide leadership […]
Q&A with Julie A. Gallagher, author of Black Women & Politics in New York City
On June 18, 2012, we will publish Black Women & Politics in New York City by Julie A. Gallagher, assistant professor of history at Pennsylvania State University, Brandywine. Professor Gallagher […]
Hiring: Publications Production Expediter
The University of Illinois Press seeks a production specialist (civil service title: Publications Production Expediter) for book composition and coordination of schedules and materials within the Press and with various […]
UIP Authors Speaking at Printers Row Lit Fest
Visit our booth (UPDATE: we have been moved to TENT B on Dearborn) at Printers Row Lit Fest this weekend, and enjoy presentations by these University of Illinois Press authors: […]
Goodbye, Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury, author, Illinois native, and subject of Becoming Ray Bradbury, has died. Jonathan Eller, his biographer, had this to say about him in an article last year in New […]
Diane Diekman interviewed by Cowboys & Indians
The Telegraph blog of Cowboys & Indians magazine recently interviewed one of our authors. From the post: “In Twentieth Century Drifter: The Life of Marty Robbins, Diane Diekman offers a […]
PBS in Chicago explores Farmers’ Markets of the Heartland
On May 30, 2012, WTTW’s Chicago Tonight program interviewed Janine MacLachlan, author of the new book Farmers’ Markets of the Heartland. […]