Making Room for a Lost Voice
August 1, 2024
By Jo Scott-Coe For the 58th anniversary of the 1966 UT Tower Shooting August 1 will mark fifty-eight years since a mass shooting at UT Austin left fourteen people dead… READ MORE
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Announcing a New Series—Arts in Context: Critical Performance Infrastructures!
July 3, 2024
Edited by Charlotte Canning, Paul Bonin-Rodriguez, Michael Sy Uy, & Sarah Wilbur Acquiring Editor Sarah McGavick Arts in Context: Critical Performance Infrastructures seeks to make visible and to expand scholarship on… READ MORE
Q&A with James Scorer on Latin American Comics in the Twenty-First Century
June 10, 2024
Given comics’ ability to cross borders, Latin American creators have used the form to transgress the political, social, spatial, and cultural borders that shape the region. New in our World… READ MORE
Excerpt from Unruly Domestication by Kristin Skrabut
May 20, 2024
Unruly Domestication investigates how Peru’s ongoing, internationally endorsed “war on poverty” shapes politics, intimate identities, and urban space in Lima. Drawing on a decade of embedded, ethnographic research in Lima’s largest… READ MORE
Excerpt from William Hanson and the Texas-Mexico Border
April 29, 2024
At the Texas-Mexico border in the 1910s and 1920s, William Hanson was a witness to, and an active agent of, history. As a Texas Ranger captain and then a top… READ MORE
Excerpt from Rick Perry: A Political Life
April 22, 2024
Rick Perry, the charming rancher, pilot, and politician from West Texas who was governor from 2000 to 2015, is one of the most important but polarizing figures in the state’s… READ MORE
The Memoir You Cannot Miss
April 9, 2024
Announcing Loose of Earth: A Memoir Book Tour Dates | Praise | Audio Excerpts For anyone who has experienced the death of a parent, telling the story of that loss… READ MORE
Excerpt from A War of Colors by Nadine Sinno
April 2, 2024
Over the last two decades in Beirut, graffiti makers have engaged in a fierce “war of colors,” seeking to disrupt and transform the city’s physical and social spaces. In the… READ MORE
UT Press Authors at the 2024 San Antonio Book Festival
March 26, 2024
On Saturday, April 13, the University of Texas Press and our authors will be in and around the Central Library and Southwest School of Art in San Antonio for the… READ MORE
Q&A with A Body of One’s Own author Patricio Simonetto
March 19, 2024
Next week is International Transgender Day of Visibility, an opportunity to raise awareness about trans identities, and to celebrate the lives and contributions of trans people while also drawing attention… READ MORE
