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.
Joyce, Aristotle, and Aquinas
In this book, Fran O’Rourke examines the influence of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas on James Joyce, arguing that both thinkers fundamentally shaped the philosophical outlook which pervades the author’s oeuvre.
- Copyright year: 2022
Your Florida Guide to Butterfly Gardening
A Guide for the Deep South
Writing for the Public Good
Essays from David R. Colburn and Senator Bob Graham
This book presents over 100 important opinion pieces from David R. Colburn and Senator Bob Graham, two of the most influential public figures in recent Florida history, illustrating the power of civic engagement in tackling issues facing the nation.
The Quotable Eleanor Roosevelt
The Archaeology of Race and Class at Timbuctoo
A Black Community in New Jersey
- Copyright year: 2022
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
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.