University of Michigan Press

08/01/2025

The award winning book "Media Reform and the Climate Emergency" by David J. Park is now available in paperback! https://press.umich.edu/Books/I/Isolation-and-Engagement

07/31/2025

Betsy Small will be speaking about her book "Before Before" at an event at BigTown Gallery in Rochester, Vermont this weekend! https://events.bc.edu/event/a-conversation-on-resilience-recovery-and-healing-after-conflict-featuring-dr-theresa-s-betancourt-and-betsy-small

07/31/2025

"A Beautiful Fight" by Esther Viola Kurtz, a critical ethnography of participation in Afro-Brazilian music and dance, is now available! Start reading here: https://press.umich.edu/Books/A/A-Beautiful-Fight3

07/30/2025

"Isolation and Engagement" is now available in paperback! Congress & The Presidency wrote that the book "is an impressive work that will be of benefit to presidential scholars for years to come." Find more information at https://press.umich.edu/Books/I/Isolation-and-Engagement

07/30/2025

It's been 50 years since Jimmy Hoffa disappeared . . . read a new book "Teamsters Metropolis" about the ways Hoffa and the union delivered better pay and worker conditions while also using coercive tactics, embezzling money, and colluding with the Mafia. https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.12398418

07/29/2025

We're excited to publish a book described as "a shaken, not stirred, history of labor, queerness, suburbia, gender, federal policy, consumerism and organized crime."

Teamsters Metropolis by Ryan Patrick Murphy is now available! Use UMWEB30 for 30% off at https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.12398418

07/28/2025

Submissions for the 2025 Tobin Siebers Prize are open! The award committee invites submissions on a wide range of topics, from literary and cultural studies, to trans-historical research, to contributions to disability theory. Deadline is 09/01, read more

Publishes award-winning books that advance humanities and social science fields, as well as English language teaching and regional resources.

07/28/2025

We're excited to participate in this year's virtual ATHE conference! Check out our latest titles in Theater and Performance Studies, and use discount code UMATHE25 for 40% off (offer ends 8/01). Browse here: https://press.umich.edu/Browse-by-Subject/Theater-and-Performance

07/25/2025

Another review of "The Bastard Instrument!" Find the book at https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.11314397

"Personal interviews, insightful illustrations, exhaustive research, and thoughtful analysis make this book an exceptional contribution to a young and burgeoning field." —Popular Music

07/25/2025

Our Series Editors are looking for more submissions to the Practice, Pedagogy, and Programming for Graduate Communication Series! Please take a look at the series page to see if your book would be a good fit. https://press.umich.edu/Series/P/Practice-Pedagogy-and-Programming-for-Graduate-Communication

07/24/2025

Check out Maria Boletsi's newest essay about her 2024 book "Specters of Cavafy" in Greek Studies Now! Read here:

A year has passed since Specters of Cavafy by Maria Boletsi was published, and it still feels weird to have this book out, because it is as though I had been writing it my whole life, even when I didn’t know yet I had been writing it. The long process of its writing unfolded in conversation with m...

07/24/2025

We are proud to announce Tarryn Li-Min Chun's "Revolutionary Stagecraft" won ATHE's Outstanding Book in Innovative Achievement, and "Bodies on the Front Lines" by Brenda Werth & Katherine Zein received an honorable mention for the Edited Works Award!

ATHE's awards honor excellence in and exceptional contributions to teaching, scholarship, playwriting, and artistic practice in educational and professional theatre. All ATHE members are encouraged to submit their outstanding work or nominate individuals, projects, and endeavors that have advanced t...