tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89825951436518400982026-02-12T11:07:47.516-06:00University of Texas PressUniversity of Texas Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09731131459857067962noreply@blogger.comBlogger449125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8982595143651840098.post-81642262406170740082022-08-04T07:50:00.000-05:002022-08-04T07:50:52.565-05:00Reading Joseph Conrad Today: an Interview with John G. PetersBy Alexandra SteeleJohn G. Peters, “Silence, Space, and Absence in Joseph Conrad’s African Fiction,” TSLL: Texas Studies in Literature and Language 63.4 (2021).The Joseph Conrad, Mystic Seaport (2011); photo by olekinderhook, Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 UnportedJoseph Conrad is more often mentioned than read. What things help to explain this?This is true to a certain degree. Heart of Baileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17859451820872397962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8982595143651840098.post-74162332246614217192022-07-11T07:41:00.001-05:002022-07-11T07:41:00.169-05:00Consumerism & Identity in Margaret Atwood’s The Edible Woman: A Conversation with Cailin RolesBy Clara Mundy“‘The Surface on Which You Work’: Self-Alienation and the Culture of Narcissism in The Edible Woman,” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 63.3 (2021): 276-98.Aerial view of downtown Toronto (from helicopter), with view of Toronto Islands and Lake Ontario in the backgroundMany people are first exposed to Margaret Atwood (1939- ) through the classroom, either in high Baileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17859451820872397962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8982595143651840098.post-81092624799426939352022-06-20T09:49:00.000-05:002022-06-20T09:49:49.462-05:00Jean Toomer and What it Means to be American: An Interview With Justin ParksBy Megan MarshallJustin Parks, “Race and National Identity in Modernist Anthropology and Toomer’s The Blue Meridian,” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 62.3 (2020): 344-67.Passport issued to writer Jean Toomer by the United States Government, 1926What initially drew you to the long poem, “The Blue Meridian,” by Jean Toomer (1894-1967)?I had been wanting to spend some time with it for Baileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17859451820872397962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8982595143651840098.post-60344287378254896062022-05-30T05:00:00.002-05:002022-05-30T05:00:00.150-05:00On Betrayal and Male Friendship in Graham Greene: an Interview with Gregory Alan PhippsBy Mikayla MondragonGregory Alan Phipps, “Male Friendships and Betrayal in the Fiction of Graham Greene,” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 62.4 (2020): 415-36.Graham Greene's home with a plaque designating that this was his homeFor readers who may not be familiar with Graham Greene (1904-91), could you give us a brief introduction?Graham Greene is, in many respects, the consummate Baileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17859451820872397962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8982595143651840098.post-9754814353332947672022-05-10T07:00:00.001-05:002022-05-10T07:00:00.165-05:00Race, Slavery, and “Temporal Transcendency” in Suzan-Lori Parks: An Interview with Helena WoodardBy Alexandra Thomas and Luisana CortezWoodard, “New Histories, Lost Causes, and ‘Alternative Facts’: Suzan-Lori Parks’s The America Play in the Age of Trump,” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 62.4 (2020): 463-82Alonzo Chappel, The Last Hours of Abraham Lincoln (1868)Your essay sees Suzan-Lori Parks’s The America Play as revealing a “temporal transcendency” between centuries. Could you Baileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17859451820872397962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8982595143651840098.post-74081729116749406462022-03-07T07:00:00.003-06:002022-07-14T09:34:15.889-05:00Announcing a New Series—MF! Momentary Futures in Black StudiesEdited by L.H. StallingsAcquiring Editor Dawn DuranteCommitted to the enjoyment of disjointedness and the asynchrony of Black thought experiences, MF! is a series about funky temporalities, adaptation, and mobility. The series encourages the submission of manuscripts whose methods and aesthetics allow us to experience Black pleasure, joy, and futurity. Books in the series are transgressive and Baileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17859451820872397962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8982595143651840098.post-85240093151388327432022-02-18T07:25:00.008-06:002022-03-08T11:44:00.159-06:00Claudia Rankine and the Difficulties of Communion: An Interview with Annie Bolotin by Hakim LewisAnnie Bolotin, “Miserable Communions: Sentimentality in Claudia Rankine’s Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric,” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 63.3 (2021): 299-319.Black Lives Matter mural being painted on a street of Charlotte, North CarolinaThroughout the essay, you speak at length about the miserable communion present throughout Don’t Let Me Be Lonely. Do you think this Baileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17859451820872397962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8982595143651840098.post-4380163691502804342022-02-11T07:48:00.001-06:002022-02-11T07:48:00.178-06:00Behind the Resilience of Harriet Jacobs: An Interview with Alyssa Bellows by Megan Marshall and Laura Franco The Anti-Slavery Society Convention of 1840, painted by Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1841.Alyssa Bellows, “Evangelicalism, Adultery, and The Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl,” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 62.3 (2020): 253-74. For readers not familiar with the life and achievement of Harriet Jacobs (1813/15-1897), could you give us a brief biography?Harriet Jacobs was born Baileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17859451820872397962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8982595143651840098.post-30962955611864810842021-11-15T08:00:00.001-06:002021-11-15T08:02:14.491-06:00María Amparo Ruiz de Burton and the Conquered Californios: An Interview With Meagan MeylorMeagan Meylor, “California Nerves: Health, Disability, and Whiteness in The Squatter and the Don,” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 62.3 (2020): 297-317. Interview conducted by Megan Marshall and Laura FrancoThe Sierra de San Francisco mountain range in Baja California, Mexico, 2013María Amparo Ruiz de Burton (1832-1895) has been deemed the first Mexican-American author. How might Baileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17859451820872397962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8982595143651840098.post-87387515575508309582021-07-19T15:12:00.001-05:002021-07-19T15:12:29.564-05:00Q&A with Debbie Felton on Serial Killers in Classical Myth and HistoryJack the Ripper. Jeffrey Dahmer. John Wayne Gacy. Locusta of Gaul. If that last name doesn’t seem to fit with the others, it’s likely because our modern society largely believes that serial killers are a recent phenomenon. Not so, argues Debbie Felton—in fact, there’s ample evidence to show that serial killers stalked the ancient world just as they do the modern one.More infoFelton brings this Baileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17859451820872397962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8982595143651840098.post-70946008658582576212021-07-09T11:55:00.002-05:002021-07-09T11:58:35.733-05:00Nicholas F. Centino's Author-Curated Razabilly PlaylistA hybrid of country music and rhythm and blues, 1950s rockabilly is loud, raucous, and rebellious. Rockabilly music, recognized as one of the earliest iterations of what we now know as rock and roll, is responsible for launching the careers of musicians including Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash. Now, decades after the genre’s midcentury heyday, a vibrant scene for rockabilly musicians and fansBaileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17859451820872397962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8982595143651840098.post-57023642366070784432021-04-14T13:47:00.001-05:002021-04-14T13:49:10.663-05:00Interview with Ji Eun Lee about Kazuo IshiguroInterview with Ji Eun Lee, author of “Norfolk and the Sense of Loss: The Bildungsroman and Colonial Subjectivity in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go,” TSLL: Texas Studies in Literature and Language 61.3 (2019): 270-90. Interview conducted by Corey Brooks.Kazuo Ishiguro, December 2017Could you describe your first encounter with Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go? What doLearn more you remember of Baileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17859451820872397962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8982595143651840098.post-24863885986404836802021-03-31T08:34:00.000-05:002021-03-31T08:34:03.536-05:00Celebrating the Women on Our StaffInspired by Women’s History Month, the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion group at UT Press honors the labor and expertise of the women on our staff. In particular, we highlight here the work and knowledge of a number of departments that are not as public facing as others yet are critical to our shared success. Here are a few snapshots of our colleagues whose indispensable expertise enhances everyBaileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17859451820872397962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8982595143651840098.post-90386680652624294762021-03-24T11:44:00.002-05:002021-03-24T11:46:22.971-05:00Interview with Janine Barchas and Devoney Looser about Jane Austen Palladian bridge at Prior Park, Bath, EnglandInterview with Janine Barchas and Devoney Looser, guest editors of “What’s Next for Jane Austen?”, a special issue of TSLL: Texas Studies in Literature and Language 61.4 (2019). Interview conducted by Frida Trevino.Jane Austen has slowly become one of the great English literary figures, and her popularity seems only to grow. To what does she owe Baileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17859451820872397962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8982595143651840098.post-385036024324642702021-03-23T15:27:00.002-05:002021-03-23T15:53:24.882-05:00In Memory of Dr. Teresa Lozano LongWe at UT Press, and our extended family of authors, are deeply saddened by the recent passing of Dr. Teresa Lozano Long. Teresa lived an amazing, long life, and, in partnership with her husband Joe, provided essential support to so many institutions of culture and learning at the University of Texas and beyond. At UT Press, we have been lucky to have Teresa on our Advisory Board for many Baileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17859451820872397962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8982595143651840098.post-26828105383903385302021-03-19T09:59:00.001-05:002021-03-19T12:49:56.530-05:00Q&A with Dr. Anna Peppard on Sexuality, Fantasy, and the SuperheroFrom Superman, created in 1938, to the transmedia DC and Marvel universes of today, superheroes have always been sexy. And their sexiness has always been controversial, inspiring censorship and moral panic. Yet though it has inspired jokes and innuendos, accusations of moral depravity, and sporadic academic discourse, the topic of superhero sexuality is like superhero sexuality itself—seemingly Baileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17859451820872397962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8982595143651840098.post-53080404218510937942021-03-17T11:25:00.005-05:002021-03-17T12:04:23.250-05:00Two Years Since ChristchurchIn memory of the victims of the 2019 Christchurch mosque shooting, and recent gun violence victims in Atlanta, Georgia, read an excerpt from From a Taller Tower: The Rise of the American Mass Shooter by Seamus McGraw, out April 2021.Chapter 4“'Tis Not Alone My Inky Cloak”He had nothing to fear. And he acted as if he knew it. As if he was sure that no one was likely to Baileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17859451820872397962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8982595143651840098.post-4003196630488682832021-03-02T15:35:00.001-06:002021-03-02T15:35:37.460-06:00Interview with Alexander Pettit about Eugene O’Neill Interview with Alexander Pettit, “The Texts of Eugene O’Neill’s The Fountain: Indigeneity, Stereotype, Survivance” TSLL: Texas Studies in Literature and Language 61.2 (2019): 193-223. Interview conducted by Michelle Duran.KEYWORDS: Eugene O’Neill, The Fountain, Indigeneity, Gerald Vizenor, Maxwell Anderson, Susan GlaspellABSTRACT: Eugene O’Neill’s anti-colonialist agenda in The Fountain (Baileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17859451820872397962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8982595143651840098.post-40978308947230902562021-02-09T10:19:00.002-06:002021-02-09T10:19:27.767-06:00Fellowship Program 2021–2022Application Deadline: Wednesday, March 31, 2021
Download the application here. (Word version) Applicants, please submit your applications by email.The University of Texas Press is offering a Publishing Fellowship for the 2021–2022 year, beginning September 1, 2021, and ending August 31, 2022.
The Fellowship program is designed to give one year of experience in book publishing to the mostBaileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17859451820872397962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8982595143651840098.post-77267942838625382212020-12-14T10:05:00.002-06:002020-12-14T10:05:39.973-06:00Eight Years Since Sandy HookIn memory of the victims of the Sandy Hook massacre, read a brief excerpt from From a Taller Tower: The Rise of the American Mass Shooter by Seamus McGraw, out April 2021.From Chapter 3To Kill the Last KillerThere was nothing in his demeanor to suggest that he was being anything less than forthright. He had answered every question precisely the way cops are trained to: be Baileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17859451820872397962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8982595143651840098.post-74383779909717835532020-11-02T12:15:00.000-06:002020-11-02T12:15:52.505-06:00Q&A with Elaine A. Peña on Celebrating Washington’s Birthday at the US-Mexico BorderSince 1898, residents of Laredo, Texas, and Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, have reached across the US-Mexico border to celebrate this country's first president George Washington's birthday. The celebration can last a whole month, with parade goers reveling in American and Mexican symbols; George Washington saluting; and “Pocahontas” riding on horseback. An international bridge ceremony, the heart and Baileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17859451820872397962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8982595143651840098.post-31799611238923041412020-10-14T10:15:00.002-05:002020-10-14T10:15:27.113-05:00Q&A with Slavery and Utopia author Fernando Santos-GraneroIn the first half of the twentieth century, a charismatic Peruvian Amazonian Indigenous chief played a key role in leading his people, the Ashaninka, through the chaos generated by the collapse of the rubber economy in 1910 and the subsequent pressures of colonists, missionaries, and government officials to assimilate them into the national society. In Slavery and Utopia, Fernando Baileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17859451820872397962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8982595143651840098.post-21061942143080019022020-10-12T11:49:00.007-05:002020-11-05T10:57:20.192-06:00UT Press at the 2020 Texas Book FestivalStarting Friday, November 6, the University of Texas Press and many of our authors will go virtual to celebrate the 25th annual Texas Book Festival. We are so sad to not be experiencing this vital literary event in person, but now more than ever, we must support our authors, booksellers, and book-loving organizations by showing up and buying books!We have gathered our authors into the schedule Baileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17859451820872397962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8982595143651840098.post-25391548927907102242020-09-21T13:46:00.005-05:002020-09-22T09:43:56.997-05:00Q&A with Peruvian Novelist Alonso CuetoAs the latest work in our Latin American Literature in Translation series, The Wind Traveler showcases the mesmerizing storytelling of Alonso Cueto at the top of his career. At the heart of his latest work is a seemingly ordinary man named Ángel, who sells kitchenware at a store in Lima. In the early 1990s, he had served as an army soldier, engaging in brutal acts whose aftermath still Baileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17859451820872397962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8982595143651840098.post-62741402416734855652020-07-07T09:42:00.000-05:002020-07-07T12:44:28.547-05:00Dawn Durante Named Editor in Chief of the University of Texas PressAustin, Texas—The University of Texas Press is thrilled to announce that following a nationwide search, Dawn Durante will become the next Editor in Chief of the Press on August 10. As Editor in Chief, Durante will lead the editorial direction of the Books program at UT Press, enriching and expanding a list of approximately one hundred new titles each year
across a broad range of subjects Baileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17859451820872397962noreply@blogger.com0