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University Press Week 2025: Where does your press TeamUP?

2025 UP Week education University Press Week

Collaborative work is the heart of university presses. Authors and publishing professionals work together to advance knowledge, joining with a vast network of reviewers, booksellers, freelancers, translators, librarians, teachers, and students in the essential project of understanding the world.

University Press Week 2025 gratefully acknowledges the daily contributions of all members of this global community. Let’s celebrate our shared strength and power when we TeamUP!

Make sure to check out blog posts from other university presses in the Association of University Presses’ (AUP) UP Week blog tour and browse the #TeamUP gallery and reading list here.

From the physical to the digital, in our local communities, on campus, at independent bookstores, libraries, and across the publishing ecosystem—where does the University of Illinois TeamUP?

As part of the Association of University Presses’ “University Press Week,” we’d like to showcase one digital place where we TeamUP with our authors, editors, and contributors to spread the word about their new books, journal issues, and articles to the scholarly community and beyond: the University of Illinois Press podcasts, The Contemporary Film Directors Podcast and The UPside for a variety of book and journal content.

Interview with Shonni Enelow, author of Joanna Hogg

Introducing the premier episode of the Contemporary Film Directors Podcast! Series co-editor Justus Nieland, along with outgoing series co-editor Jennifer Fay, and incoming series co-editors Sarah Keller and Joshua Yumibe, interview Shonni Enelow on her new book, Joanna Hogg.

Interview with Joseph Jonhyun Jeon, author of Bong Joon Ho

In this episode, series co-editor Justus Nieland, along with new series co-editors Sarah Keller and Joshua Yumibe, interview Joseph Jonghyun Jeon, author of Bong Joon Ho.

A Century of Process Thought: Commemorating Whitehead’s Legacy at Harvard in a Special Issue of Process Studies

In this interview with editor Daniel A. Dombrowski, we discuss the special section of Volume 54, Number 2; the articles; its place within the academic discourse; and the journal Process Studies more broadly.

15 Years of Journal of Animal Ethics

What is animal ethics and what disciplines interact with it? What are some common themes and how does the academic discourse form around them? Dr. Clair Linzey, co-editor of Journal of Animal Ethics joins us for a conversation covering all of these and more.

Concussion’s Past: A Special Issue of Journal of Sport History

Guest editors Murray G. Phillips, Gary Osmond, Stephen Townsend, and Rebecca Olive join us to discuss Volume 51, Issue 2, which focuses on studying concussions and head injuries in sports from a historical perspective. 

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Folklore Studies & Disability: A Special Issue of Journal of American Folklore

Editor Lisa Gilman interviews special issue guest editor Anand Prahlad to discuss a special issue of the Journal on “Folklore Studies and Disability.” Their discussion touches on how Dr. Prahlad found his way to disability studies, what folklorists can learn from disability studies scholars (and vice versa!), disability art, mentorship, and much more.

Globalizing Irish America: A Special Issue of Journal of American Ethnic History

We are joined by guest editors Cian T. McMahon and Darragh Gannon to discuss the special issue, as well as trends in global history scholarship, the importance of relationship building in academia, internationalism, and more.

Black Appalachia: A Special Issue of Journal of Appalachian Studies

Editor Rebecca Scott and associate editor Meredith McCarroll are joined by guest editor Wilburn Hayden, Jr. to discuss the special issue on Black Appalachia, the importance of peer reviewers, an editorial transition in the Journal’s future, the difficulty of defining Appalachia, and more.

Interview with Andrea Ringer, author of Circus World

Performers and their onstage labor played an integral part in the popularity of the circus. But behind the scenes, other laborers performed the endless menial tasks that kept the show on the road. Circus operators regulated employee behavior both inside and outside the tent even as the employees themselves blurred the line between leisure and labor until, in all parts of the show, the workers could not escape their work.

Talking The Pluralist with Editor Roger Ward and Contributor Scott Stroud

In this episode, the editor of The Pluralist, Roger Ward, interviews three-time contributing author Scott Stroud to discuss his article “John Dewey and India: Expanding the John Dewey-Bhimrao Ambedkar Story” and the journal more broadly.

50 Years of Journal of Mormon History

Editor Christopher Jones and former editors Jessie Embry and Christopher Blythe team up in this podcast discussing the journal’s history, the fiftieth anniversary forum, and much more.

Interview with Barbara Klaw, translator & editor of Diary of a Philosophy Student

The Beauvoir Series provides scholarly editions in English of Simone de Beauvoir’s philosophical texts, including some only recently discovered, and ranging from her early writings as a philosophy student at the Sorbonne through her later essays on existentialist ethics and finally to a preface written in the last year of her life.

Interview with Robert Bruno, author of What Work Is

For nearly thirty years, Robert Bruno has taught labor history and labor studies to union members from a wide range of occupations and demographic groups. In the class, he asked his students to finish the question “Work is—?” in six words or less. The thousands of responses he collected provide some of the rich source material behind What Work Is.

Interview with Hal Higdon, author of Leopold and Loeb

The 1924 murder of fourteen-year-old Bobby Franks by Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb shocked the nation. One hundred years later, the killing and its aftermath still reverberate through popular culture and the history of American crime.

Journal of Olympic Studies Vol. 6, No. 1, on an easel resting on other issues of the journal.

Plus, you can listen to a whole series of podcasts on the Journal of Olympic Studies Listening and Learning List, which pairs temporarily free journal articles with the related podcast. Until the end of November 2025, you can read “Infection is One Thing, Mortality Another: The Olympic Movement In Extremis” by John J. MacAloon for free and listen to the related podcast here. Then check back in December 2025, March 2026, and June 2026 for the next free article in the series.

Thanks for joining us as we TeamUP to invite our listeners to the digital home for the latest interviews with our authors, editors, and contributors. This blog post concludes our University Press Week coverage. See you next year!

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