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University of Minnesota Press @uminnpress.bsky.social · Jul 16
100 Years Appreciation Post.
The University of Minnesota Press was made official at a Board of Regents meeting on July 16, 1925.
We have marked this milestone with an exhibit at the U's Andersen Library and content that can be viewed at z.umn.edu/ump100.
Thank you for following us. 💯
A black background with, at top, a photo of a few dozen University of Minnesota Press staff in the office building's glass-walled atrium; in middle, a special 100th Press logo; at bottom, two black and white images side by side: (1 at left) The sales department in 1947. L to R: Evelyn Munro; Renee Groth Smith; Mrs. DeVries; Mrs. Irma Koefod; Mrs. Zita M. Greb; Mrs. Charlotte Jones; Minnie Matsuura. (2, at right) Press book exhibit, late 1930s, a poster with header The University of Minnesota Press Reflects the Life of City State World.
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donnywinter.bsky.social
Got my copy of THE LUMINOUS FAIRIES & MOTHRA, the translated novella by Dr. Jeffrey Angles & @uminnpress.bsky.social! Writing a blurb (alongside @mattzilla85.bsky.social) & having my little nerd-show immortalized on the back cover of a book featuring my fave character is such a full-circle moment. ❤️
November 25, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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"I couldn’t just write a book about how afraid I was—because who would read that?” Mary Lucia's memoir drops today; here's a fantastic interview @mspmag.bsky.social :
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In Conversation with Mary Lucia
She has a new memoir about her life in radio and how radio put her life in peril.
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November 25, 2025 at 3:05 PM
uminnpress.bsky.social
Three recent journal issues:
[email protected] 129, feat.
@breu.bsky.social @hennefem.bsky.social
-Buildings & Landscapes 32.2
-Environment, Space, Place 16.2 via @iasesp.bsky.social feat. @trepping.bsky.social @seandlawrence.bsky.social

All on @projectmuse.bsky.social
(1/3)
Cultural Critique 129 cover featuring the journal title running off the edges of the cover. The C's are written in red. The special issue title "Mourning Without End" and issue information appear below on a red background. Cover for Buildings & Landscapes 32.2 with the journal's title arranged vertically and horizontally in a plus shape. Qilou shophouses in Chikan, Guangdong Province, China are shown underneath. Cover for Environment, Space, Place 16.2. The journal's title is written on a blue background. A diagonal line cuts between the words "Environment" and "Space."
November 24, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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New on H-Sci-Med-Tech:

Check out Patrick Gamez (@notredame.bsky.social)’s review of Aden Evens (Dartmouth College)’s book _The Digital and Its Discontents_, pub 2024 @uminnpress.bsky.social

Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social
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November 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM
uminnpress.bsky.social
Drooling over the @ebbooksellers.bsky.social holiday catalog! So many goodies here (including several of ours!)
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Holiday Catalog 2025
Holiday Catalog 2025
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November 21, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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lpennywark.bsky.social
Good morning, ASA! Stop by the Minnesota Press @uminnpress.bsky.social booth today to check out new American Studies books and sign up for our newsletter to get a free book! #2025ASA #ASA2025
University of Minnesota Press booth at the book exhibit at the American Studies Association conference
November 20, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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It’s day 2 in the book exhibit at ASA! Stop by and see us @uminnpress.bsky.social or check out our online exhibit at z.umn.edu/amst25 for 30% off! #2025ASA #ASA2025
Book sale: American Studies Association 2025 - University of Minnesota Press
Books on sale during the 2025 Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Books featured in this collection are 30% off when you order using... READ MORE
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November 21, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Ram's Rambles on Speculative Whiteness
Tiny Book BIG impact #scifibooks #nonfiction #bookreview #speculativefiction #hugoawards
TikTok video by Ram's Rambles 📚
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November 21, 2025 at 2:36 PM
uminnpress.bsky.social
🎧 Fantastic new podcast episode: Rebecca Monteleone and @ashleyshoo.bsky.social in conversation about medical technologies, bodily authority, and how users navigate complicated constraints.
share.transistor.fm/s/a581e7be
Two human headshots up top; below, book cover of The Double Bind of Disability: How Medical Technology Shapes Bodily Authority by Rebecca Monteleone. (X-ray of hand from which a piece is torn to reveal syringe, ampoule, IV drip, EKG, and BP meter where finger bones should be. Title in white.) At right, text: Exposing the ableism underlying medical innovation. Listen: University of Minnesota Press podcast. At bottom, text: A conversation between Becca Monteleone and Ashley Shew.
November 19, 2025 at 9:24 PM
uminnpress.bsky.social
"Humankind will always make ghosts faster than we can make peace with them." Joshua Comaroff's SPECTROPOLIS reviewed in @harpers.bsky.social
harpers.org/archive/2025...
New Books, by Dan Piepenbring
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November 19, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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jimmyskuya.bsky.social
Today is publication day for my book, Mixed-Blood Histories: Race, Law, and Dakota Indians in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest, through the University of Minnesota Press!
www.upress.umn.edu/978151792034...
Mixed-Blood Histories
An unprecedented study that puts mixed-ancestry Native Americans back into the heart of Indigenous history Historical accounts tend to neglect mixed-ancestry...
www.upress.umn.edu
November 18, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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"A perfect example of the spirit of childhood when it's set free to explore the vast, open spaces of the imaginable." Constant Wonder interviews LEAF TOWN FOREVER authors @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social and @bethrooney.bsky.social

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Finding Unique Beauty In A Town Made Of Leaves
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November 19, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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ashleyshoo.bsky.social
Congrats to Rebecca Monteleone whose book, The Double Bind of Disability, came out today!
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791768...

I got to ask her questions about it for this podcast (which also came out today): share.transistor.fm/s/a581e7be
(UMinn Press does some really cool things.)
The Double Bind of Disability
Exposing the ableism underlying medical innovation   As medical advancements continue to shape the detection, diagnosis, and treatment of disability and il...
www.upress.umn.edu
November 18, 2025 at 10:17 PM
uminnpress.bsky.social
More beautiful releases today! (2/2)

-Mixed-Blood Histories: Race, Law, and Dakota Indians in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest / Jameson R. Sweet
-The Prettiest Woman: Nostalgia for Late Industrial Capitalism / Grant Farred
-Now in PB: Mysterious Tales of Old St. Paul / Larry Millett
Book cover of Mixed-Blood Histories: Race, Law, and Dakota Indians in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest by Jameson R. Sweet. Background of stained brown textured paper. Title in brown at top, subtitle in white in middle, author name in maroon below. Book cover of The Prettiest Woman: Nostalgia for Late Industrial Capitalism by Grant Farred. Brown background with title, subtitle, author in fore and Forerunners series elements in detail throughout, in white. Book cover of Mysterious Tales of Old St. Paul: Three Cases Featuring Shadwell Rafferty by Larry Millett. Rear view of man in top hat and frock coat against painterly image of city street in yellow, brown, and green. Title in black, author in red.
November 18, 2025 at 3:11 PM
uminnpress.bsky.social
Many new releases today! (1/2)

-The Double Bind of Disability / @beccamonteleone.bsky.social
-Place-Keepers / Jessica Lopez Lyman, on Latina/x women artists in the Twin Cities
-States of Defeat / @fritamoreno.bsky.social
-The Eurabia Myth / Mehammed Amadeus Mack
​Book cover of The Double Bind of Disability: How Medical Technology Shapes Bodily Authority by Rebecca Monteleone. X-ray of hand from which a piece is torn to reveal syringe, ampoule, IV drip, EKG, and BP meter where finger bones should be. Title in white. Book cover of Place-Keepers: Latina/x Art, Performance, and Organizing in the Twin Cities, by Jessica Lopez Lyman. Color graphic blending musical bars behind two people smiling and gesturing toward the Taco Taxi restaurant’s marquee over a spray-painted facade. Book cover of States of Defeat: US Imaginaries of Revolutionary Central America by Eric A. Vázquex. Title in capital letters in white and yellow arranged as a stacked set of descending stairs against a green background. Book cover of The Eurabia Myth: Countercolonization and Masculine Fragility in France by Mehammed Amadeus Mack. Green Islamic geometric pattern in background with the shape of France cut out from it at center. Title appears in black and green within the cutout.
November 18, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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jessagoldberg.bsky.social
If you're attending the American Studies Association conference this week, come join us for a roundtable on my @uminnpress.bsky.social book! I'm excited to be in conversation with these brilliant scholars & everyone who attends!

Thurs Nov 20th
9:45 to 11:15 AM
Convention Center Ballroom A
Salon A
A flyer with information for an "Author Meets Critics" panel at the 2025 American Studies Association conference. The book in focus is "Abolition Time: Grammars of Law, Poetics of Justice" by Jess A. Goldberg. The flyer has headshots of the six participants: Brigitte Fielder, Marquis Bey, Christopher Paul Harris, Almas Khan, Sasha Ann Panaram, Jess A. Goldberg The session will take place on Thursday Dec 20th from 9:45 to 11:15 AM in Salon A of Ballroom A in the Puerto Rico Convention Center.
November 17, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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shannongibney.bsky.social
My new children’s PB, about a young girl moving through her mother’s stillbirth and illustrated by Huy Voun Lee, is now available for preorder at @uminnpress.bsky.social

Pubs on May 19, 2026
Where Is My Sister?
A poignant resource for helping children and families through the loss of a siblingSalome was going to be a big sister. Her brother, Gerald, told her so. The...
www.upress.umn.edu
November 16, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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queeringedu.bsky.social
Interview at @thesocietypages.bsky.social
on newly released volume with @uminnpress.bsky.social addressing bullying. We need to change how queer bullying is understood in order to create more effective interventions and policy.
November 17, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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mattseybold.bsky.social
Among several reasons to recommend this episode is the lengthy good faith discussion of what fascism is, both during my convo with @aprilanson.bsky.social & Alex Menrisky, & during the Q&A that followed.

Inspired in part by Alex’s great book, published this year by @uminnpress.bsky.social
Everyday Ecofascism (Vandal Live at 2025 Quarry Farm Symposium)
with April Anson, Alexander Menrisky, & Jeffrey Insko
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November 17, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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kathleenmrooney.bsky.social
Big thanks to the @bookcougars.bsky.social for including LEAF TOWN FOREVER from @uminnpress.bsky.social in their October 3rd episode!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8XS...
Friday Reads 3 October 2025 #VICTOBER
YouTube video by Book Cougars
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November 14, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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dissentum.bsky.social
These banger essays (and mine, banger or not you be the judge—the others definitely are) were made possible by a University Press @uminnpress.bsky.social

Happy University Press week!
dissentum.bsky.social Juan Meneses | Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination @dissentum.bsky.social · Jun 24
Table of contents for Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination!
Title page for book titled Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination, edited by Juan Meneses, published by the University of Minnesota Press Table of contents (essays 1-5) of Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination: Acknowledgments / Introduction: Sensing the Postpolitical, Juan Meneses / 1. The Infrastructural Aesthetic: Materialist Politics in Karen Tei Yamashita’s I Hotel, Christopher Breu / 2. Irrational Exuberance: The Politics of Start-up Futurism, Sherryl Vint / 3. Un violador en tu camino: Reimagining the Political through Mediated Feminist Street Performance, Jacquelyn Arcy and Allison Page / 4. Thinking Jacques Rancière with Ursula K. Le Guin: Aesthetics and Politics in a Postpolitical Age, Robert P. Marzec / 5. Wayward Possibilities: Errant Black Women and the Intimacies of Freedom, Matthew Scully Table of contents (essays 6-8 + Afterword) of Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination: 6. False Specters of the Political: Revisitation, Digital Documentary Vernacular, and the Postpolitical after January 6, Stephen Charbonneau / 7. Dissensus, Refusal, Participatory Music: Negation and Rupture in Crowd in C, Eric Lemmon / 8. A Haunted Present: Postpolitics, Nuclear Waste, and the Colonization of the Future, Juan Meneses / Afterword: Between Two Endings, or Prolegomena for Another End, Erik Swyngedouw / Contributors / Index
November 14, 2025 at 3:01 PM
uminnpress.bsky.social
🎧 Fantastic new conversation on our podcast! Featuring Danny Snelson, Vicki Bennett (People Like Us) / @vickiwfmu.bsky.social , Craig Dworkin, and Luca Messarra on the digitized afterlives of cultural objects. share.transistor.fm/s/d0afdbc0
​In fore at left, book cover for The Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats by Daniel Scott Snelson (Colliding clumps of digital static in shades of pink and green form the background. Title in black at top, subtitle repeated vertically on the left). Up top, headshots of four humans: Daniel Scott Snelson, Vicki Bennett, Craig Dworkin, and Luca Messarra. At bottom, headphones graphic with sans-serif all-caps: Listen: University of Minnesota Press podcast. At right, quote: "I'm really interested in this double-edged sword of access to digital materials . . . which feels different in 2025." —Danny Snelson ​In fore at left, book cover for The Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats by Daniel Scott Snelson (Colliding clumps of digital static in shades of pink and green form the background. Title in black at top, subtitle repeated vertically on the left). Up top, headshots of four humans: Daniel Scott Snelson, Vicki Bennett, Craig Dworkin, and Luca Messarra. At bottom, headphones graphic with sans-serif all-caps: Listen: University of Minnesota Press podcast. At right, quote: "A lot of the friction that can happen in chains of information . . . it's not really about the tools being used, it's about our agency." —Vicki Bennett ​In fore at left, book cover for The Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats by Daniel Scott Snelson (Colliding clumps of digital static in shades of pink and green form the background. Title in black at top, subtitle repeated vertically on the left). Up top, headshots of four humans: Daniel Scott Snelson, Vicki Bennett, Craig Dworkin, and Luca Messarra. At bottom, headphones graphic with sans-serif all-caps: Listen: University of Minnesota Press podcast. At right, quote: "I never would have dreamed of 'language not equal.' So the absence of metadata is one of the things I'm most proud of on (Eclipse)." —Craig Dworkin ​In fore at left, book cover for The Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats by Daniel Scott Snelson (Colliding clumps of digital static in shades of pink and green form the background. Title in black at top, subtitle repeated vertically on the left). Up top, headshots of four humans: Daniel Scott Snelson, Vicki Bennett, Craig Dworkin, and Luca Messarra. At bottom, headphones graphic with sans-serif all-caps: Listen: University of Minnesota Press podcast. At right, quote: "(This book) excavates that tradition of sharing that later generations weren't necessarily exposed to." —Luca Messarra
November 13, 2025 at 8:56 PM
uminnpress.bsky.social
Kick your personalized holiday shopping up a notch, or fill your own shelves with Minnesota treasures: This week's e-newsletter spotlights our Read Minnesota book sale!
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Headline: Holiday list picks. Three rows of four book covers each under the headers "for the foodie," "for the film, music, pop-culture buff," "for the history buff." Fading pink gradient background and diamond elements at top right. Headline: Holiday list picks. Three rows of four book covers each under the headers "for the mystery and adventure reader," "for the memoir fan," "for the picture-book reader." Fading pink gradient background and diamond elements at top right.
November 13, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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"I turn to literature for guidance and models of how to navigate this strange world . . . black writers, especially black women writers, have always served as models for me." lithub.com/celebration-... via @lithub.com.web.brid.gy
Celebration and Struggle: On the Life and Work of Alice Childress
I was born into a country where people with uteruses had the right to choose if, when, and how they would carry a fetus to full term. I don’t live in that country anymore. I grew up in a world wher…
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November 13, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Read my sister's book www.upress.umn.edu/978145295943...
November 11, 2025 at 7:27 PM