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Off the Record with UT Press
Interviews with authors of University of Texas Press books.
March 23, 2026
Borícua Muslims
Ken Chitwood's Borícua Muslims: Everyday Cosmopolitanism among Puerto Rican Converts to Islam (University of Texas Press, 2025), uses rich ethnographi…
March 7, 2026
People of the Wheat
If you’ve ever wondered where your wheat flour is coming from, who is milling it (and how), or how it came to be such an important staple, then this e…
February 20, 2026
Earthmoving
Extractivism—exploiting the earth for resources—has long driven racial capitalism and colonialism. And yet, how does extractivism operate in a world w…
January 30, 2026
Cosmosexuals
In Cosmosexuals: Screen Acting, Stardom, and Male Sex Appeal (U Texas Press, 2025), Dr. Mark Gallagher presents an examination of male screen sex appe…
January 30, 2026
Memoirs of a Palestinian Communist
In the public eye, Najati Sidqi was known as a journalist and writer, a translator of Russian classics, and an outspoken opponent of Nazism. However, …
January 26, 2026
Imagining the Method
Only one performance style has dominated the lexicon of the casual moviegoer: “Method acting.” The first reception-based analysis of film acting, Imag…
January 24, 2026
The City Aroused
The City Aroused: Queer Places and Urban Redevelopment in Postwar San Francisco (University of Texas Press, 2024) by Dr. Damon Scott is a lively histo…
January 7, 2026
Serendipitous Translations
Sri Lanka has long sat astride the monsoon winds between the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea – a small island at the centre of a very big story. For…
December 18, 2025
Lineages of the Global City
War, revolution, genocide, rebellion, slump. The economic and political turmoil of the early twentieth century seemed destined to rip asunder the ties…
December 18, 2025
The Conservative Frontier
American conservatism as we know it today is a West Texas export, argues College of Wooster professor Jeff Roche in The Conservative Frontier: Texas a…
November 19, 2025
Wrangling Pelicans
A richly detailed history of daily life for colonial Spanish soldiers surviving on the eighteenth-century Texas Gulf Coast. In 1775, Spanish King Car…
November 4, 2025
Latin American Comics in the Twenty-First Century
How do comics cross boarders? In Latin American Comics in the Twenty-First Century: Transgressing the Frame James Scorer, a Professor of Latin America…
October 31, 2025
Reading Across Borders
The dynamic and interconnected ways Afghans and Iranians invented their modern selves through literature. Contrary to the presumption that literary n…
September 27, 2025
The Last Gladiator
William Muldoon was an infamous athlete whose prowess, savvy, and chicanery across his six-decade career led him to wealth, cultural importance, and p…
September 6, 2025
I Want Golden Eyes
This interview is with one of the translators, M. Lynx Qualey. A girl must save herself and her family after discovering her society's secrets in thi…
September 3, 2025
Creating the Viewer
Creating the Viewer: Market Research and the Evolving Media Ecosystem (U Texas Press, 2024) is a study of the largely hidden world of primary media ma…
August 28, 2025
Reading, Writing, and Revolution
Debates about Ethnic Studies in K-12 and Higher Education have highlighted the importance of culturally inclusive pedagogy in schools. Despite discuss…
July 18, 2025
Why Alanis Morissette Matters
The first critical biography of iconic musician Alanis Morissette, creator of Jagged Little Pill. The 1990s hardly saw a bigger hit than Jagged Littl…
June 14, 2025
The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman
A memoir-in-essays on transness, dad rock, and the music that saves us. When Wilco's 2007 album Sky Blue Sky was infamously criticized as "dad rock,"…
March 21, 2025
The Taste of Nostalgia
From the late 1940s to the mid 1960s, Peru’s rapid industrialization and anti-communist authoritarianism coincided with the rise of mass-produced cook…