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Remembering Godard

By Daniel Morgan, author of Late Godard and the Possibilities of Cinema There was a time in my early twenties when I had gone a while, probably a year or more, without …

Recommended Weed Reads on the Politics and Policies Around Marijuana

Announcing the 2021 Atelier Series Finalists

Edited by Kevin Lewis O’Neill, Atelier is a book series in anthropology that takes a ground-up approach to the acquisition and publication of new ethnographic works. Curating a cohort of scholars committed to the idea …

How Queer Readings of Premodern Japanese Texts Help Us Redefine Desire

By Reginald Jackson, author of A Proximate Remove: Queering Intimacy and Loss in The Tale of Genji When I first began working on A Proximate Remove, my goal was to write the …

#SCMS21 Award Spotlight: Q&A with Brian Jacobson

We’re proud to announce that Brian Jacobson, editor of In the Studio: Visual Creation and Its Material Environments has won the 2021 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Best Edited Collection Award! …

University Press Week 2020: Raising Up Local Voices with A People’s Guides to Boston and San Francisco

Happy University Press Week 2020! This year, the Association of University Presses‘s theme, “Raise UP” / #RaiseUP highlights the role that the university press community plays in elevating authors, subjects, and whole disciplines, …

#MESA2020: Meet with UC Press Editor Eric Schmidt—Virtually

Our Editors are taking brief Zoom appointments over the next couple of weeks.

#MESA020: Meet with UC Press Editor Niels Hooper—Virtually

Our Editors are taking brief Zoom appointments over the next couple of weeks.

Virtual Event: Author Deborah Wong on Pain, Joy, and the Body Politic in Asian American Taiko

Join Ethnomusicologist Deborah Wong for a live conversation about her book, Louder and Faster: Pain, Joy, and the Body Politic in Asian American Taiko, hosted by UC Riverside. In conversation with Sean Miura, …

What Fascist Lies Teach Us About Current Politics: A Virtual Conversation with Federico Finchelstein

Why are the lies fascists tell so significant to their political power? Federico Finchelstein, a world-renowned historian and Professor of History at the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College, …