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.
Friedrichsburg
A Novel
- Copyright year: 2012
The Claremont Run
Subverting Gender in the X-Men
- Copyright year: 2023
Unheard Witness
The Life and Death of Kathy Leissner Whitman
Unheard Witness foregrounds a young woman’s experience of domestic abuse, resistance, and survival before the mass shooting at the University of Texas at Austin in 1966.
- Copyright year: 2023
Reckoning with Harm
The Toxic Relations of Oil in Amazonia
An ethnography of the Ecuadorian Amazon that demonstrates the need for a relational, place-based, contingent understanding of harm and toxicity.
- Copyright year: 2023
A Curious Mix of People
The Underground Scene of '90s Austin
A twisting path through Austin’s underground music scene in the twentieth century’s last decade, narrated by the people who were there.
- Copyright year: 2023
Narcomedia
Latinidad, Popular Culture, and America's War on Drugs
Exploring representations of Latinx people from Scarface to Narcos, this book examines how pop culture has framed Latin America as the villain in America’s long and ineffectual War on Drugs.
- Copyright year: 2023
Harvesting Haiti
Reflections on Unnatural Disasters
This collection ponders the personal and political implications for Haitians at home and abroad resulting from the devastating 2010 earthquake.
- Copyright year: 2023
The Entablo Manuscript
Water Rituals and Khipu Boards of San Pedro de Casta, Peru
A unique study of an Andean community’s water rituals and the extraordinary document describing how they should be performed.
- Copyright year: 2022
In the Land of the Patriarchs
Design and Contestation in West Bank Settlements
An on-the-ground account of the design and evolution of West Bank settlements, showing how one of the world’s most contested landscapes was produced by unexpected conflicts and collaborations among widely divergent actors.
- Copyright year: 2023
Why Willie Mae Thornton Matters
Why Mariah Carey Matters
The first book to critically examine the legacy of pop superstar Mariah Carey,
The New Public Art
Collectivity and Activism in Mexico since the 1980s
Essays on the rise of community-focused art projects and anti-monuments in Mexico since the 1980s.
- Copyright year: 2023