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UMass Press Podcast
Interviews with authors of University of Massachusetts Press books.
January 19, 2026
Race in the Crucible of War
When African American servicemen went to fight in the Vietnam War, discrimination and prejudice followed them. Even in a faraway country, their milita…
December 7, 2025
Inequalities of Platform Publishing
The average reader need not go far in a bookstore before, knowingly or not, they encounter authors who started their careers by self-publishing prior …
December 6, 2025
Racializing Objectivity
“When the civil rights movement began to challenge Jim Crow laws, the white southern press reframed the coverage of racism and segregation as a debate…
November 10, 2025
Prisoners After War
In Prisoners after War: Veterans in the Age of Mass Incarceration (University of Mass. Press, 2024), Dr. Jason Higgins examines the connections betwee…
October 31, 2025
The Insider
When Willard M. Kiplinger launched the groundbreaking Kiplinger Washington Letter in 1923, he left the sidelines of traditional journalism to strike o…
October 26, 2025
Malcolm Before X
Drawing upon interviews, correspondence, and nearly 2000 pages of never-before-used prison records, Malcolm Before X is the definitive examination of …
October 25, 2025
Strange Hymn
"I'll tell you everything I know. Though there might not be much to tell," confesses the speaker in Strange Hymn: Poems (U Mass Press, 2025) by Carlen…
July 30, 2025
Our Science, Ourselves
When Christa Kuljian arrived on the Harvard College campus as a first-year student in the fall of 1980 with copies of Our Bodies, Ourselves and Ms. ma…
July 24, 2025
The Innermost House
The Innermost House: A Memoir (Bright Leaf, 2024) is a stunning account of year-round life on the windswept shores of Cape Cod, threaded with meditati…
July 11, 2025
Out Doing Science
Over the past 50 years, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer professionals have organized to achieve greater inclusion into the fields of sc…
June 10, 2025
American War Stories
Even with the availability of new forms of storytelling, the memoir remains as one of the favored ways for combat veterans to tell their stories about…
May 31, 2025
The New Praetorians
Contemporary veterans belong to an exclusive American group. Celebrated by most of the country, they are nevertheless often poorly understood by the s…
March 18, 2025
Unfracked
In this episode, I had the pleasure of speaking with Richard Buttny, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies at S…
May 29, 2024
Everyday Reading
Everyday Reading: Middlebrow Magazines and Book Publishing in Post-Independence India (U Massachusetts Press, 2024) is a timely book on the history o…
May 23, 2024
Food Margins
An anthropologist walks into a grocery store—no that’s not the start of a joke, that’s the true story of how Cathy Stanton came to be involved with Qu…
May 7, 2024
Teaching the History of the Book
Edited by Matteo Pangallo and Emily Todd, Teaching the History of the Book (University of Massachusetts Press 2023) is the first collection of its kin…
April 22, 2024
Forever Struggle
Chinatown has a long history in Boston. Though little documented, it represents the city's most sustained neighborhood effort to survive during eras o…
December 10, 2023
American Relics and the Politics of Public Memory
The gold epaulettes that George Washington wore into battle. A Union soldier's bloody shirt in the wake of the Civil War. A crushed wristwatch after t…
December 4, 2023
How the News Feels
In How the News Feels: The Empathic Power of Literary Journalists (University of Massachusetts Press, 2023), Jonathan D. Fitzgerald examines a mode of…
November 23, 2023
When Will the Joy Come?
How do Black women in higher education create, experience, and understand joy? What sustains them? While scholars have long documented sexism, racism,…