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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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U Minnesota Press's Spring 26 catalog, listing our new Critical Infrastructure Studies & Digital Humanities (in Debates in DH series), eds. Alan Liu, Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, @jamessmithies.bsky.social): z.umn.edu/spring26. Table of contents: www.upress.umn.edu/978151791608... @uminnpress.bsky.social
Screenshot of page 52 University of Minnesota Press Spring 2026 catalog, showing the book cover, description, and contributor names of the new book in the Debates in DH series (ed. Alan Liu, Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, and James Smithies) titled _Critical Infrastructrure Studies and Digital Humanities_. The text of the description reads as follows: How digital humanities can shape and be shaped by the infrastructures that sustain our world. _Critical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities_ reimagines the digital humanities (DH) through the expanding field of critical infrastructure studies. Featuring voices from around the globe, this volume explores how DH builds on and extends theories and technologies of infrastructure that affect society, culture, and knowledge in different national and regional contexts. Examining DH’s own infrastructural genealogy, the contributors offer readers critical reflections and bold visions for the future as they address issues of environmentalism, decolonization, Indigenous sovereignty, multilingualism, labor justice, feminism, national development, and beyond from a variety of disciplinary perspectives embedded in concrete digital systems. Including innovative “infrastructure manifests,” the essays in this book illuminate how DH can both study and shape the systems that sustain culture, scholarship, and connection....
December 4, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Keep an eye out for a new book by me early next year!
A monkey reading a book, over the title Natural Lection: Cultures of Evolution by Jonathan Basile
December 4, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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danhf.bsky.social
So thrilled to have my new book FAST AND FURIOUS FRANCHISING included in @uminnpress.bsky.social's Spring 2026 catalogue!! 🙏🏻
uminnpress.bsky.social University of Minnesota Press @uminnpress.bsky.social · 14h
📢 Early 2026 releases await! Fascinating fiction, children's books, scholarly titles, MN writers, translations. Thrilled to feature @danhf.bsky.social @lnakamura.bsky.social @lhertzel.bsky.social @shannongibney.bsky.social @timcresswell.bsky.social @alanyliu.bsky.social & more!

z.umn.edu/ss26
Black-and-white image of several sets of human hands, fingers out, forming a circle on top of paper pages, some with rings, some pinching page edges, with some color detail on some polished finger nails in pink, green, blue. In the middle, all-caps sans-serif white font: Spring & Summer Titles. Above, diagonally cutting across, in all-caps serif font: University of Minnesota Press. Below: 2026. At bottom right, vertical University of Minnesota Press logo.
December 4, 2025 at 7:10 PM
uminnpress.bsky.social
📢 Early 2026 releases await! Fascinating fiction, children's books, scholarly titles, MN writers, translations. Thrilled to feature @danhf.bsky.social @lnakamura.bsky.social @lhertzel.bsky.social @shannongibney.bsky.social @timcresswell.bsky.social @alanyliu.bsky.social & more!

z.umn.edu/ss26
Black-and-white image of several sets of human hands, fingers out, forming a circle on top of paper pages, some with rings, some pinching page edges, with some color detail on some polished finger nails in pink, green, blue. In the middle, all-caps sans-serif white font: Spring & Summer Titles. Above, diagonally cutting across, in all-caps serif font: University of Minnesota Press. Below: 2026. At bottom right, vertical University of Minnesota Press logo.
December 4, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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rubyprosenthal.bsky.social
Was super lovely to chat with @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social and @bethrooney.bsky.social about their absolutely warm and wonderful children's book LEAF TOWN FOREVER (@uminnpress.bsky.social).
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How Kathleen and Beth Rooney Conceived Their New Picture Book, “Leaf Town Forever”
Written in thirty-two haikus, the book is about a band of kids who dream about creating a town that could last forever.
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December 4, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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dissentum.bsky.social
In this collection of essays that I edited recently (it came out June 2025 with @uminnpress.bsky.social), we took a stab at rethinking the politics of aesthetics and the aesthetics of politics from a variety of angles, from Silicon Valley to nuclear waste disposal
Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination
Igniting political power through the lens of art and the imaginationPostpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination investigates the erosion of meaningful politic...
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December 4, 2025 at 12:52 AM
uminnpress.bsky.social
🐝🐝🐝 A new Brigid Reardon Mystery installment forthcoming this spring from Mary Logue: www.youtube.com/watch?v=czHk...
Book preview: A Wasp in the Beehive
YouTube video by UMinnPress
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December 3, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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New this week: Kimberley Kinder's creative work of cultural geography considers forty narratives that explore travel undertaken as a result of displacement; Caspar Baldwin, Nicole Chung, bell hooks, and more.

🔗 www.upress.umn.edu/978151791947...

@um-taubmancollege.bsky.social
Book cover for Invisible Exile: The Travel Writing of Displacement by Kimberley Kinder. Textured drawing depicts a small dark silhouette, still against a white background that is torn away like paper near the top above a dull-orange sun.
December 3, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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🆕🎧 Excited to share our latest podcast episode featuring James Francisco Bonilla, Beverly Daniel Tatum, and Charmaine Wijeyesinghe in conversation about Bonilla's memoir of healing and advocacy.

▶️ share.transistor.fm/s/f9782d31

@bdtauthor.bsky.social
At top, three headshots. At left, main image is the cover of An Eye for an I: Growing Up with Blindness, Bigotry, and Family Mental Illness by James Francisco Bonilla. (Image: Title text fades left to right from white to transparent. At center a drawn eye encloses a circular photo—its iris—of a mother and son at the beach.) At right, quote: “We need only to be open to sensing our world more fully by remembering that when one eye closes, another “I” can open.” —JAMES FRANCISCO BONILLA. At bottom left corner, text: Listen: University of Minnesota Press podcast. headphones graphic in orange. At top, three headshots. At left, main image is the cover of An Eye for an I: Growing Up with Blindness, Bigotry, and Family Mental Illness by James Francisco Bonilla. (Image: Title text fades left to right from white to transparent. At center a drawn eye encloses a circular photo—its iris—of a mother and son at the beach.) At right, quote: “After every period of social justice progress, there’s pushback. That we are feeling pushback now is evidence of a lot of progress.” —BEVERLY DANIEL TATUM. At bottom left corner, text: Listen: University of Minnesota Press podcast. headphones graphic in orange. At top, three headshots. At left, main image is the cover of An Eye for an I: Growing Up with Blindness, Bigotry, and Family Mental Illness by James Francisco Bonilla. (Image: Title text fades left to right from white to transparent. At center a drawn eye encloses a circular photo—its iris—of a mother and son at the beach.) At right, quote: “There’s a difference between knowing history and being constrained by history.” —Charmaine Wijeyesinghe. At bottom left corner, text: Listen: University of Minnesota Press podcast. headphones graphic in orange.
December 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Deleuze's ON PAINTING: For the philosophical pal! via Art in America: www.artnews.com/list/art-in-...
A Holiday Art Book Gift Guide, for Every Artsy Archetype
Brandon Taylor, Nayland Blake, Yoko Ono, Coreen Simpson, Stephen Shore, and Johanna Hedva top this year's list.
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December 2, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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ACCIDENTAL SHEPHERD is a @lithub.com.web.brid.gy 100 Notable Small Press Book of 2025! "A familiar folk tale, freshly told." lithub.com/100-notable-...
100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025
The idea of 100 Notable Small Press Books was born November 2024, after The New York Times’s annual 100 Notable Books list featured eighty-two books from the Big Five publishing houses (Pengu…
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December 1, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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farsouthhistory.bsky.social
Check out Steven Casement's review of Lowell Duckert's "Arcticologies: Early Modern Actions for Our Warmer World," published in 2025 by @uminnpress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #polar #arctic #cryosphere
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December 1, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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A book launch in Pilsen, Chicago, Saturday. @uminnpress.bsky.social
November 30, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Mothra's original story is here! @uminnpress.bsky.social

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Mothra's Original Story is Here
YouTube video by Donny Winter
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November 26, 2025 at 5:02 PM
uminnpress.bsky.social
📚✨Books for them, books for you: Our holiday sale is on!
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November 26, 2025 at 4:56 PM
uminnpress.bsky.social
"If you want to be an ally and understand Indigenous culture, think about the land you're standing on."

A fantastic watch: Sean Sherman on The Daily Show, talking his new cookbook Turtle Island (& not to mention its precursor, The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen!)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2yp...
Sean Sherman - "Turtle Island" & Fighting Native American Erasure With Food | The Daily Show
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November 26, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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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 :
mspmag.com/arts-and-cul...
In Conversation with Mary Lucia
She has a new memoir about her life in radio and how radio put her life in peril.
mspmag.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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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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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
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🎧 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