UP Week 2022 Blog Tour

Each year, we take a tour of the blogs in our larger community, with a series that daily addresses different aspects of the week’s theme. This year’s theme, Next UP, reflects university presses’ constant spirit of learning, adaptation, and evolution. Here’s a daily round-up of this year’s posts.

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Monday: Who’s NextUP?

Highlighting early-career press staff members on the rise.

SUNY Press
Who is #NextUP at SUNY Press?

Johns Hopkins University Press
University Press Week Staff Spotlight: Adriahna Conway

MIT Press
What’s #NextUP for our acquisitions team?

Duke Press
Who’s #NextUP at DUP?

University Press of Colorado
Meet Allegra Martschenko and Robert Ramaswamy

University of Notre Dame Press
Behind the Scenes of Academic Publishing: Jacob Kildoo
New Year, New Internship: Victoria Dominesey
A Balancing Act: Claire Kirner

Princeton University Press
Ideas and Inspiration from Princeton University Press Fellows

Penn State University Press
Introducing 3 newest employees: Emily Lovett, Josie DiNovo, and Mackenzie Brunnhuber

University of Toronto Press
Insights from Grusha Singh, digital marketing coordinator

University of West Indies Press
Who is #NextUP? Video from Mrs. Vanessa Parnell-Burton, accounts payable officer

University of British Columbia Press
Who’s #NextUP? An Interview with Publishing Clerk Shalini Nanayakkara

University of Georgia Press
#NextUP at UGA Press

Purdue University Press
Who is #NextUP at Purdue University Press: A Q&A with Andrea Gapsch

Medieval Institute Publications
Who’s #NextUP? Becky Straple-Sovers

University of Michigan Press
Celebrating University Press Week and What’s #NextUP

Tuesday: What’s #NextUP in journals?

Spotlighting new journals and innovative periodical projects

University of Chicago Press
NextUP: Achieving Accessibility in Academic Journal Publishing

Medieval Institute Publications
Our newest journal, Medieval Ecocriticisms

Johns Hopkins University Press
Welcoming Our New Journal Cusp: Late 19th/Early 20th-Century Cultures

University of Toronto Press
What’s Next UP in Journals?

University of West Indies Press
Caribbean Conjunctures: The Caribbean Studies Association Journal 

University of Pennsylvania Press
#NextUP in Penn Press Journals: Journal of Disaster Studies

Catholic University of America Press
What’s #NextUP with Our Journals!

Duke University Press
What’s #NextUP in Journals?

University of Illinois
What’s #NextUP in Journals?

University of Arkansas Press
#NextUP in Journals: Childhood Art

Wednesday: What author is #NextUP?

Celebrating first-time authors.

Leuven University Press
Writing an Academic Book: Experiences of First-time Authors

Temple University Press
Celebrating First-Time Author Luis Felipe Mantilla

University of Pittsburgh Press
Ramona Reeves is #NextUP

Cornell University Press
Experiences of Caring: Three Questions with Jason Danely

Medieval Institute Publications
What Author is #NextUP? Dr. Christine Schott

Johns Hopkins University Press
A Q&A with Andrew M. Wehrman

University of Toronto Press
What Author Is #NextUP at UTP? Noah Schwartz

University Press of Kentucky
Ones to Watch Out For: On University Presses Championing Black Writers by Yvette Lisa Ndlovu

University of West Indies Press
Video conversation between Dr. Lorna Downs and Dr. Therese Ferguson

University of Washington Press
#NextUP: Author Jordan Biro Walters

SUNY Press
#NextUP at SUNY Press: Author Mindy Clegg

Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Collaborating with Wilfrid Laurier University Press to Publish Music-Making in U.S. Prisons

Texas A&M University Press
Anthony Head on His Experiences as a First-Time (and Second-Time) Author

Fordham University Press
Q&A with Ron Goldberg

University of Illinois Press
Interview with James C. Benton

Thursday: What’s #NextUP in publishing?

Looking forward to new projects, partnerships, platforms, and programs.

Temple University Press
Transformations book series

University Press of Kansas
The Lyda Conley Series on Trailblazing Indigenous Futures

University of Pittsburgh Press
Interview with new acquisitions editor Will Hammell about new areas of speciality

Duke University Press
EDP Mentorship for BIPOC students

University of Nebraska Press
Provocations book series

University of North Carolina Press
Black Women’s History series

Leuven University Press
Conversation with Lesly Deschler Canossi and Zoraida Lopez-Diago, coeditors of Black Matrilineage, Photography, and Representation

University Press of Kentucky
Editors, We Can Change the World!

University of Notre Dame Press
Our first-ever Publishing Boot Camp

Johns Hopkins University Press
The Hopkins Press Internship Program

University Press of Florida
Caribbean Crossroads book series

University of Michigan Press
Greek/Modern Intersections series

University Press of Mississippi
UPM Audiobooks #NextUP

University of Alabama Press
new internship program

Yale University Press
Ancient Lives series

Texas A&M Press
The Bookmark public television show

Penn State University Press
 A Q&A with Acquisitions Editor Archna Patel on the Africana studies list

Purdue University Press
A Series Is Born and a Friend Is Made

University of Washington Press
Abolition: Emancipation from the Carceral series

University of Toronto Press
new series Cuilinaria: Food for Thought, Food for Pleasure, Food for Change

University of Illinois Press
Disability History series

University of Arkansas Press
#NextUP in Publishing: Rural Black Studies

University of Minnesota Press
Manifold: Digital Publishing as a Thing of Beauty

Medieval Institute Press
Middle English Texts Series

Friday: #NextUP bookseller love!

Featuring forward-thinking local booksellers.

University of Pittsburgh Press
White Whales Books is #NextUP!

Athabascan University Press
AU Press Loves Indie Bookstores

University of Alberta Press
Glass Bookshop

Johns Hopkins University Press
Bookseller Spotlight: Greedy Reads

University Press of Florida
#NextUP Bookseller Love: Books & Books and the Miami Book Fair

Harvard University Press
A New Chapter for Harvard Bookstore

University of Missouri Press
Alex George, Midwest Independent Bookseller of the Year

Cornell University Press
Spotlight on Local Independent Booksellers

University of Washington Press
#NextUP: Phinney Books

Purdue University Press
Independent Booksellers Are a Necessary Community Staple

University of Toronto Press
Who’s Next UP in Bookstores?

Columbia University Press
East Bay Booksellers Cultivates an Ecosystem of Thought

University of Arkansas Press
Pearl’s Books, Fayetteville

Northwestern University Press
Seminary Co-op Offsets