Make your own academic sentence. Look what I came up with in just a few clicks: The reification of post-capitalist hegemony may be parsed as the historicization of the gendered […]
Utah State University Press’s Open Access
Inside Higher Ed reports today that Utah State University Press will pursue a new publishing model: This week comes news that the press will survive — in part by embracing a […]
Maggie Hinchey on the Cover by Lara Vapnek
Searching for illustrations for my book, Breadwinners, recapped the challenges—and rewards—of writing about working women in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Documentation of women who worked as servants, […]
That’s right, Hedgehog Mushroom Salad
Joe McFarland, co-author of Edible Wild Mushrooms of Illinois and Surrounding States, shot Chef Lasse Sorensen in the kitchen of Tom’s Place in DeSoto, Illinois, during the recent mushroom dinner, holding the Oyster […]
Crews through Copyright
Last Thursday, Kathleen Kornell (UIP copyright czar) and I attended a copyright primer given by Columbia University’s Kenneth Crews and hosted by the University of Illinois Graduate College and University […]
“Finding Cholita” to receive award from the Society for Humanistic Anthropology
Billie Jean Isbell’s book, Finding Cholita, will receive the honorable mention award for this year’s Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing from the Society for Humanistic Anthropology. The committee was very […]
Barrelhouse Word: black cat bone
black cat bone I believe my good gal have found my black cat bone I can leave Sunday mornin’ Monday mornin’ I’m tippin’ ’round home. —Blind Lemon Jefferson, “Broke And […]
Restricted words
Memo to anyone contributing comments to our blog posts To assure passage through our powerful filters, please do not use the following words (incomplete list): acai, tramadol, soma, ephedrine, Xanax, ambien, […]
The University of Illinois Press signs agreement with JSTOR
October 27, 2009 — Champaign, IL and New York, NY —The University of Illinois Press, the not-for-profit publishing division of the University of Illinois, and JSTOR, the preservation archive and […]
MPublishing Cometh
The University of Michigan Library announces MPublishing, the new uber-publishing initiative that includes the University of Michigan Press alongside other campus units devoted to scholarly communication. The focus of MPublishing will be […]
Gary Cialdella on WGN-TV
Gary Cialdella discusses his new book The Calumet Region: An American Place on WGN-TV’s Midday News. […]
On the Banks of the Queen City by Jon Hartley Fox
As a first-time author, the whole meeting-the-readers idea is still pretty new to me. I’ve spent virtually all of my writing life working in a vacuum, very rarely having any […]