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.
Pastures of the Empty Page
Fellow Writers on the Life and Legacy of Larry McMurtry
A collection of essays that offers an intimate view of Larry McMurtry, America’s preeminent western novelist, through the eyes of a pantheon of writers he helped shape through his work over the course of his unparalleled literary life
- Copyright year: 2023
Ghostlight
- Copyright year: 2022
Electrifying Mexico
Technology and the Transformation of a Modern City
- Copyright year: 2021
Duchess of Palms
A Memoir
- Copyright year: 2009
The Empire of Effects
Industrial Light and Magic and the Rendering of Realism
- Copyright year: 2022
Danger Pay
Memoir of a Photojournalist in the Middle East, 1984-1994
- Copyright year: 2008
Shifting Sands
Landscape, Memory, and Commodities in China's Contemporary Borderlands
How China’s borderlands transformed politically and culturally throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
- Copyright year: 2023
The Value Gap
Female-Driven Films from Pitch to Premiere
How female directors, producers, and writers navigate the challenges and barriers facing female-driven projects at each stage of filmmaking in contemporary Hollywood.
- Copyright year: 2023
Saeculum
Defining Historical Eras in Ancient Roman Thought
How the notion of unique eras influenced the Roman view of time and the narration of history from various perspectives.
- Copyright year: 2023
Super Bodies
Comic Book Illustration, Artistic Styles, and Narrative Impact
An examination of the art in superhero comics and how style influences comic narratives.
- Copyright year: 2023
Selling Science Fiction Cinema
Making and Marketing a Genre
How science fiction films in the 1950s were marketed and helped create the broader genre itself.
- Copyright year: 2023
Astros and Asterisks
Houston's Sign-Stealing Scandal Explained
An in-depth and multiperspectival look at the Astros’ sign-stealing scandal and its roots in the culture of baseball fandom.
- Copyright year: 2023