Announcing our Spring | Summer 2024 Digital Catalog
January 17, 2024
The University of Texas Press team is thrilled to share our exciting new digital catalog for our Spring | Summer 2024 books and journals. We love the ritual of holding… READ MORE
Category: Journals
Conference and call for papers: Democracy Schools, Civic Capacity Building, and the HBCU
November 22, 2022
Texas HBCU Conference Call for Papers Huston-Tillotson University has announced the second annual conference of Texas’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (Texas HBCUs)! The dates for the conference are Friday-Saturday,… READ MORE
Shakespeare, Judaism, and Shylock Is My Name: An Interview with Jaecheol Kim
October 27, 2022
by Nicolas Silva Jaecheol Kim, “Howard Jacobson’s Shylock Is My Name and the Badiou-Agamben Debate on Paul the Apostle,” Texas Studies in Literature and Language, 64.3 (2022): 284-308 Readers will… READ MORE
The Weight of a Crown: Exploring Coming of Age and Beyond in The Queen’s Gambit with Paul Schmidt
October 24, 2022
By Leslie Peterson Paul Schmidt, “No Sorcery”: Chess, Artistic Sensibility, and Subjective Development in The Queen’s Gambit. Texas Studies in Literature and Language 64.3 (2022) Your essay dives into The Queen’s… READ MORE
Cross Examining Words: The Similarities of Poetry and Crosswords with David Ben-Merre
September 1, 2022
By Leslie Peterson David Ben-Merre, “The Poetics of the Crossword.” Texas Studies in Literature and Language, 64.2 (2022): 115-143. Your essay connects crossword puzzles and poetry. For those who haven’t… READ MORE
Competing Voices and Cultural Negotiation in Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners: An Interview with Bomi Jeon
August 22, 2022
By Nicolas Silva Bomi Jeon, “Between Transgression and Conviviality: Everyday Urban Space and the Carnivalesque Strategies in The Lonely Londoners,” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 64.2 (2022): 163-183. Readers… READ MORE
Reading Joseph Conrad Today: an Interview with John G. Peters
August 4, 2022
By Alexandra Steele John G. Peters, “Silence, Space, and Absence in Joseph Conrad’s African Fiction,” TSLL: Texas Studies in Literature and Language 63.4 (2021). Joseph Conrad is more often mentioned than read…. READ MORE
Consumerism & Identity in Margaret Atwood’s The Edible Woman: A Conversation with Cailin Roles
July 11, 2022
By 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. Many people are first exposed… READ MORE
Jean Toomer and What It Means to be American: An Interview With Justin Parks
June 20, 2022
By Megan Marshall Justin 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. What initially drew you… READ MORE
On Betrayal and Male Friendship in Graham Greene: an Interview with Gregory Alan Phipps
May 28, 2022
By Mikayla Mondragon Gregory Alan Phipps, “Male Friendships and Betrayal in the Fiction of Graham Greene,” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 62.4 (2020): 415-36. For readers who may not be familiar… READ MORE
