This summer, the University of Illinois Press is publishing an extraordinary volume chronicling the work of women in the digital arts in the Midwest. Through profiles and oral histories of nearly […]
University of Illinois Press Authors at Printer’s Row Lit Festival
June 9-10, the streets of Dearborn and Polk will be flooded with booksellers, publishers, and book lovers for the annual Printer’s Row Lit Festival in Chicago! The University of Illinois […]
Birthday Sale! Use Promo Code 1918 to Get 40% Off UIP Books!
June 1, 1918 marks the day the University of Illinois Board of Trustees established the University of Illinois Press! And to celebrate, we’re giving you 40% off all UIP books! […]
Authors on Issues: Courtney Baker on Childish Gambino’s “This is America”
The following is a guest post from Courtney R. Baker, the author of Humane Insight: Looking at Images of African-American Suffering and Death. ? When I first published my book […]
Q&A with Himanee Gupta-Carlson, author of “Muncie, India(na): Middletown and Asian America”
Himanee Gupta-Carlson is an associate professor at SUNY Empire State College. She recently answered some questions about her new book, Muncie, India(na): Middletown and Asian America. Q. Muncie, Indiana is […]
“Chicana/o and Latina/o Fiction” By Ylce Irizarry Winner of NACCS Book Award
We are pleased to announce that Chicana/o and Latina/o Fiction: The New Memory of Latinidad by Ylce Irizarry has won the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Book Award, […]
University of Illinois Press at Book Expo 2018
We’re thrilled to be attending #BookExpo 2018 this year in New York City! Stop by booth #2766 May 31-June 1 and say hello! We’ve got some great new and forthcoming […]
Celebrating 100 Years of Publishing Excellence Reception
Join us for a reception celebrating 100 years of publishing excellence with Illini Union Document Services, and Campus Mail at the Illini Union Art Gallery on Friday June, 1st from 1:30-3:30pm. […]
Q&A with Naomi André, author of “Black Opera: History, Power, and Engagement”
Naomi André is an associate professor in the departments of African and Afroamerican Studies and Women’s Studies and the associate director in the Residential College at the University of Michigan. She […]
2nd 100th Anniversary iPad Giveaway!
We are celebrating our 100th Anniversary at the University of Illinois Press this year. In honor of reaching this historic milestone, we decided to celebrate our readers by giving away […]
“Making an Antislavery Nation” Winner of Russell P. Strange Memorial Book Award
We are pleased to announce that Making an Antislavery Nation: Lincoln, Douglas, and the Battle over Freedom by Graham A. Peck has won the Russell P. Strange Memorial Book Award […]
“Race News” by Fred Carroll Winner of the 2018 AEJMC History Division Book Award
The 2018 AEJMC History Division Book Award, honoring the best journalism and mass communication history book published in 2017, has been won by Fred Carroll for Race News: Black Journalists […]