For many, summer is a time for road trips; and this issue of The Callout takes us far afield from our offices at 1325 South Oak Street in Champaign. Robert Lemon […]
The Summer 2019 Issue of The Callout is here!
Expanding Our Open Access Publishing
We are pleased to announce that we will make three timely books open access or partial access in the coming months. UIP has embraced open access publishing as part of its […]
Q&A with Hannah Durkin, author of “Josephine Baker and Katherine Dunham”
Hannah Durkin is a lecturer in literature and film at Newcastle University. She is a coeditor of Visualising Slavery: Art Across the African Diaspora. She recently answered some questions about her new […]
Registration now open for the fall University of Illinois Press Publishing Symposium
Registration is now open for the fall University of Illinois Press Publishing Symposium on September 19, 2019! Institute for the Humanities 701 South Morgan, Lower Level / Stevenson Hall University of […]
New Titles in Dance Studies
We aren’t able to attend the 2019 Dance Studies Association Conference but you can still get a discount on our new and forthcoming dance books! Use promo code DSA30 to […]
Keisha Lindsay wins Michael Harrington Book Award for “In a Classroom of Their Own”
We are pleased to announce that In a Classroom of Their Own: The Intersection of Race and Feminist Politics in All-Black Male Schools by Keisha Lindsay has won the 2019 […]
Common Threads: Doing Things Differently So We Can Do Different Things
This post originally appeared on The Scholarly Kitchen on July 10th, 2019. I was asked by Lisa Hinchliffe to submit a guest post to The Scholarly Kitchen about the Common Threads […]
Roxanne Panchasi on “No Hiroshima in Africa”
Roxanne Panchasi is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Simon Fraser University. She is the author of Future Tense: The Culture of Anticipation in France Between the Wars (2009), […]
Q&A with Robert Lemon, author of “The Taco Truck: How Mexican Street Food Is Transforming the American City”
Robert Lemon is an urban and social researcher and documentary filmmaker. His films include Transfusión (2014), a series of vignettes on the cultural implications of taco trucks. He recently answered some questions […]
Come Join Our Team! We’re Hiring an Assistant Acquisitions Editor
The University of Illinois Press is seeking a bright, organized, motivated assistant acquisitions editor to join our team. This person will work closely with the Press’s acquisitions staff in supporting […]
Karen E. Whedbee on “Reverend Billy Goes to Main Street: Free Speech, Trespassing, and Activist Documentary Film”
Karen E. Whedbee is an associate professor in the media studies program in the Department of Communication at Northern Illinois University. She has published widely on topics related to free […]
Q&A with Jake Johnson, author of Mormons, Musical Theater, and Belonging in America
Jake Johnson is an assistant professor of musicology in the Wanda L. Bass School of Music at Oklahoma City University. He recently answered some questions about his new book, Mormons, Musical Theater, […]