Founded in 1945, the University Press of Florida is the official publisher of the State University System of Florida. UPF has published over 2,500 books since its inception and currently releases approximately 80 new titles each year. Its publishing strengths include archaeology, history, literature, Latin American studies, African American studies, space studies, sustainability, and Florida history and culture. UPF engages educators, students, and discerning readers by producing works of global significance, regional importance, and lasting value.
University Press of Florida also includes the imprint, University of Florida Press.
The Dissidence of Reinaldo Arenas
Queering Literature, Politics, and the Activist Curriculum
Joyce Writing Disability
In this book, the first to explore the role of disability in the writings of James Joyce, contributors examine the varying ways in which Joyce’s texts represent disability and the environmental conditions of his time that stigmatized, isolated, and othered individuals with disabilities.
- Copyright year: 2022
Dissensuous Modernism
Women Writers, the Senses, and Technology
Placing women writers at the center of the sensory and technological experimentation that characterized the modernist movement, this book shows how women of the era challenged gendered narratives that limited their power and agency and waged dissent through their radical sensuous writing.
Exotic Amphibians and Reptiles of the United States
The first complete field guide to the exotic amphibians and reptiles established in the continental United States and Hawaiʻi, this book provides practical identification skills and an awareness of the environmental impacts of these species.
- Copyright year: 2022
Archaeologies of Indigenous Presence
- Copyright year: 2022
The Lost Cinema of Mexico
From Lucha Libre to Cine Familiar and Other Churros
Neo-Authoritarian Masculinity in Brazilian Crime Film
An incisive analysis of contemporary crime film in Brazil, this book focuses on how movies in this genre represent masculinity and how their messages connect to twenty-first-century sociopolitical issues.
African American Studies
50 Years at the University of Florida
Rooted Jazz Dance
Africanist Aesthetics and Equity in the Twenty-First Century
Decolonizing contemporary jazz dance practice, this book examines the state of jazz dance theory, pedagogy, and choreography in the twenty-first century, recovering and affirming the lifeblood of jazz in Africanist aesthetics and Black American culture.
A Historical Archaeology of Early Spanish Colonial Urbanism in Central America
Ancient Andean Houses
Making, Inhabiting, Studying
In an extensive survey of vernacular architecture from across the entire length of the Andes, this book explores the diverse ways ancient peoples made houses, the ways houses re-create culture, and new perspectives and methods for studying houses.
- Copyright year: 2021
Unearthing the Missions of Spanish Florida
This volume presents new data and interpretations from research at Florida’s Spanish missions, drawing on the past thirty years of work at sites from St. Augustine to the panhandle.