University Press Week: What’s Next UP in Journals?
A University Press Week interview with Antonia Pop, Vice President, UTP Journals.
November 15, 2022
Tag: Publishing
How Has University Press Publishing Changed?
In this University Press Week blog post, Jennifer DiDomenico and Jodi Lewchuk discuss how university press publishing has changed in the past decade.
November 8, 2021
Bella Coola and After
In this blog post, UTP authors Eva-Marie Kröller and John Barker delve into the history of The Bella Coola Indians by T.F. McIlwraith, originally published in 1948.
September 21, 2021
“Mosaic Fictions: Writing Identity in the Spanish Civil War” and Picturing Canadians
We invited Emily Robins Sharpe, author of Mosaic Fictions to discuss her book which examines Canadian Spanish Civil War literature and reveals texts composed between the war’s outbreak and the present.
March 31, 2021
Why We All Need to Be Thinking about Technoscience and Society
University of Toronto Press is delighted to announce a brand new book series called Technoscience and Society, with the first books due to publish next year. Series editor Kean Birch discusses what we can expect from the new series.
March 12, 2021
Raise UP: Rae André
Today, the University Press Week blog tour highlights active voices within the community and who better to Raise UP than Rae André, climate change educator and bestselling author.
November 13, 2020
Science Writing in a Time of Crisis
Mireille F. Ghoussoub holds a PhD in materials chemistry from the University of Toronto and is the co-author of The Story of CO2. In this post, Mireille highlights why the need for honest and effective science communication has never been greater in the fight against climate change.
November 12, 2020
Accidental Wilderness: Toronto’s Tommy Thompson Park
Local artist and photographer Robert Burley tells us more about Toronto’s Tommy Thompson Park, and explains why this fortuitous urban miracle offers a hopeful narrative about how nature can flourish in a modern-day city.
November 10, 2020
Local Voices: Another Story Bookshop
Today, University Press Week celebrates the “local voices” within the community. We reached out to Another Story Bookshop in downtown Toronto, and asked them questions about the history and philosophy of the bookshop, as well as their relationship with university presses.
Creating Light in Dark Times
As part of University Press Week, Charlotte Corden, illustrator of the stunning new ethnoGRAPHIC book, Light in Dark Times, discusses the project and explains what it’s like to create illustrations around some of the most complex topics we deal with in today’s world.