In anticipation of the 2025 Annual Meeting of the American Folklore Society (AFS), we invite you to explore a curated selection of articles from the Journal of American Folklore (JAF: […]
Journal of American Folklore Pre-Conference Reading

In anticipation of the 2025 Annual Meeting of the American Folklore Society (AFS), we invite you to explore a curated selection of articles from the Journal of American Folklore (JAF: […]
Benjamin Gatling, editor of Migration Stories: Connecting Activism, Policy, and Scholarship, answers questions about his new book. Q: Why did you decide to write this book? I detail some of […]
Leandra H. Hernández, Stevie M. Munz, and Jessica Pauly, co-editors of Queer, Women of Color, and Critical Approaches to Feminist Mentorship and Pedagogy, answer questions about their new book. Q: […]
How do editors approach peer review? Peer review is on my mind right now, because it is a particularly difficult time to secure reviewers. While this has been true since […]
September’s free e-book is here! Check out Puerto Rican Chicago: Schooling the City, 1940-1977 by Mirelsie Velázquez before the month is over! The postwar migration of Puerto Rican men and […]
The University of Illinois Press is pleased to announce the launch of the second 100-book collection from Big Ten Open Books! The Indigenous North Americans collection explores history, culture, and […]
August’s free e-book is here! Check out Roots of the Black Chicago Renaissance: New Negro Writers, Artists, and Intellectuals, 1893-1930 edited by Richard A. Courage and Christopher Robert Reed before […]
Every year, the University of Illinois Press hires a graduate student from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Department of English to spend the spring semester working at the Press and […]
The Fall/Winter 2025 catalog is here! We have a wonderful array of new titles to share with you. Check out the preview below! We have an exciting group of new […]
A proposal is usually the first document authors generate to communicate their ideas about their proposed project. However, is a book proposal necessary for everyone? That depends. From my point […]
Going into the 2025 volume year with 50 years of history, the Journal of Education Finance is expanding to become the Journal of Education Finance and Law through the Education […]
Raymond J. McKoski, author of David Davis, Abraham Lincoln’s Favorite Judge, answers questions about his new book. Q: Why did you decide to write this book? Returning to our home […]