It is with great sadness that UC Press marks the death of pioneering literary theorist, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. Epistemology of the Closet (UC Press, 1990, 2007), the second of Sedgwick’s books, helped …
Read More >As part of its National Poetry Month celebration, The Academy of American Poets featured Brian Teare's poem Long after Hopkins as Monday's poem of the day. Brian Teare's poems are described by …
Read More >The School for Advanced Research (SAR) has awarded its 2009 J.I. Staley Prize to Jonathan Marks, for his book What It Means to be 98% Chimpanzee. The annual prize honors authors who …
Read More >Author Fanny Howe has received one of the highest honors in American poetry, the Poetry Foundation‘s 2009 Ruth Lilly Prize. One of literature’s largest awards, the $100,000 annual prize celebrates a living …
Read More >Charles Upchurch is Assistant Professor of History at Florida State University. He is also the author of Before Wilde: Sex between Men in Britain’s Age of Reform (UC Press, March 2009). In …
Read More >Steve Waksman is Associate Professor of Music and American Studies at Smith College. He is the author of Instruments of Desire: The Electric Guitar and the Shaping of Musical Experience. In January …
Read More >The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation awarded 180 Guggenheim Fellowships this year. Among the recipients are several UC Press authors, honored for their outstanding achievements in Poetry, Film, Classics, Folklore/Popular Culture, and …
Read More >April 10, 2009 (Berkeley, CA) — University of California Press (UC Press) is pleased to announce it has received a major grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to fund a strategic …
Read More >Ron Soodalter is a historian, folklorist, and lecturer. He is also the author of Hanging Captain Gordon: The Life and Trial of an American Slave Trader, and has written articles on the …
Read More >John D. Blanco is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at University of California, San Diego. Blanco’s latest endeavor, Frontier Constitutions: Christianity and Colonial Empire in the Nineteenth Century Philippines was published by …
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