Established in 1950, the University of Texas Press produces approximately one hundred new books each year and has over 3000 books in print. Their areas of scholarly concentration include American studies, anthropology, archaeology, architecture, art, classics, film and media studies, food studies and cookbooks, history, Jewish studies, Latin American and pre-Columbian studies, Latinx studies, Middle Eastern studies, music, nature and environment, photography, and Texas and the Southwest. In addition, UT Press publishes books of general interest for a wider audience on a variety of subjects, including history, current affairs, the visual arts, music, and food, among others, as well as books on the history, culture, arts, and natural history of Texas.
Portable Postsocialisms
New Cuban Mediascapes after the End of History
A study of Cuban culture and media in the twenty-first century as both a global phenomenon and a local reality, at a time when the declared death of socialism coexists in tension with emerging anticapitalist movements worldwide.
Borrowed Time
Survivors of Nazi Terezín Remember
Documentation, through photographs and interviews, of those who survived the unique Nazi ghetto/camp located at Terezín, Czech Republic.
Llamas beyond the Andes
Untold Histories of Camelids in the Modern World
An exploration of the unexpected role that llamas and other Andean camelids played in transoceanic relationships and knowledge exchange.
- Copyright year: 2023
Breaking the Gender Code
Women and Urban Public Space in the Twentieth-Century United States
A history of the activism that made public spaces in American cities more accessible to women.
- Copyright year: 2023
Pink Gold
Women, Shrimp, and Work in Mexico
- Copyright year: 2023
Black Feminist Constellations
Dialogue and Translation across the Americas
- Copyright year: 2023
I'm Not There
- Copyright year: 2023
Quantum Justice
Global Girls Cultivating Disruption through Spoken Word Poetry
How girls of color from eight global communities strategize on questions of identity, social issues, and political policy through spoken word poetry.
- Copyright year: 2023
Friedrichsburg
A Novel
- Copyright year: 2012
The Claremont Run
Subverting Gender in the X-Men
- Copyright year: 2023
Unheard Witness
The Life and Death of Kathy Leissner Whitman
Unheard Witness foregrounds a young woman’s experience of domestic abuse, resistance, and survival before the mass shooting at the University of Texas at Austin in 1966.
- Copyright year: 2023
Reckoning with Harm
The Toxic Relations of Oil in Amazonia
An ethnography of the Ecuadorian Amazon that demonstrates the need for a relational, place-based, contingent understanding of harm and toxicity.
- Copyright year: 2023