The University of Texas Press (or UT Press) is the

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of the

University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public university, public research university in Austin, Texas, United States. Founded in 1883, it is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. With 53,082 stud ...

. Established in 1950, the Press publishes scholarly and trade books in several areas, including

Latin American studies Latin American studies (LAS) is an academic and research field associated with the study of Latin America. The interdisciplinary study is a subfield of area studies, and can be composed of numerous disciplines such as economics, sociology, histor ...

, Caribbean studies, U.S. Latinx studies, Texana,

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Black studies Black studies or Africana studies (with nationally specific terms, such as African American studies and Black Canadian studies), is an interdisciplinary academic field that primarily focuses on the study of the history, culture, and politics of ...

Middle Eastern studies Middle Eastern studies, sometimes referred to as Near Eastern studies, West Asian Studies or South Western Asian studies, is a name given to a number of academic programs associated with the study of the history, culture, politics, economies, an ...

Jewish studies Jewish studies (or Judaic studies; ) is an academic discipline centered on the study of Jews and Judaism. Jewish studies is interdisciplinary and combines aspects of history (especially Jewish history), Middle Eastern studies, Asian studies, ...

gender studies Gender studies is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to analysing gender identity and gendered representation. Gender studies originated in the field of women's studies, concerning women, feminism, gender, and politics. The field n ...

film A film, also known as a movie or motion picture, is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, emotions, or atmosphere through the use of moving images that are generally, sinc ...

media studies Media studies is a discipline and field of study that deals with the content, history, and effects of various media; in particular, the mass media. Media studies may draw on traditions from both the social sciences and the humanities, but it mos ...

music Music is the arrangement of sound to create some combination of Musical form, form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or otherwise Musical expression, expressive content. Music is generally agreed to be a cultural universal that is present in all hum ...

art Art is a diverse range of cultural activity centered around ''works'' utilizing creative or imaginative talents, which are expected to evoke a worthwhile experience, generally through an expression of emotional power, conceptual ideas, tec ...

architecture Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and construction, constructi ...

archaeology Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of Artifact (archaeology), artifacts, architecture, biofact (archaeology), biofacts or ecofacts, ...

classics Classics, also classical studies or Ancient Greek and Roman studies, is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, ''classics'' traditionally refers to the study of Ancient Greek literature, Ancient Greek and Roman literature and ...

anthropology Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, society, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including archaic humans. Social anthropology studies patterns of behav ...

food studies Food studies is the critical examination of food and its contexts within science, art, history, society, and other fields. It is distinctive from other food-related areas of study such as nutrition, agriculture, gastronomy, and culinary arts in tha ...

and

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. The Press also publishes journals relating to their major subject areas. The Press produces approximately one hundred new books and thirteen journals each year. In 2025, the University of Texas Press celebrated its seventy-fifth anniversary. During its time in operation, the Press has published more than 4,000 titles. It is a member of the

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History

The University of Texas Press was formally founded in 1950, though the University of Texas had been using the name as an imprint since 1922 in order to distribute and print faculty books. Frank H. Wardlaw was the Press’s first director, serving in the position from 1950 to 1974. The Press established a scholarly journals division in 1976. In 1986, John H. Kyle started an endowed fellowship program to help the university's graduates start careers in

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. Responding to the advent of new digital technologies in the 1990s, the Press released multiple

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s, including ''Thrinaxodon: Digital Atlas of the Skull'' (1993) and ''Wiyuta: Assiniboine Storytelling with Signs'' (1995). From its beginning, the Press developed a strong catalogue of books on Latin American studies and published a number of significant works of literature in translation by authors like

Juan Rulfo Juan Nepomuceno Carlos Pérez Rulfo Vizcaíno, best known as Juan Rulfo (; 16 May 1917 – 7 January 1986), was a Mexican writer, screenwriter, and photographer. He is best known for two literary works, the 1955 novel ''Pedro Páramo'', and the ...

Octavio Paz Octavio Paz Lozano (March 31, 1914 – April 19, 1998) was a Mexican poet and diplomat. For his body of work, he was awarded the 1977 Jerusalem Prize, the 1981 Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the 1982 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, a ...

Jorge Luis Borges Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo ( ; ; 24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator regarded as a key figure in Spanish literature, Spanish-language and international literatur ...

, and

Pablo Neruda Pablo Neruda ( ; ; born Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto; 12 July 190423 September 1973) was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature. Neruda became known as a poet when he was 13 years old an ...

. The Press’s first book was a translation of ''The Florida of the Inca,'' written by Gracilaso de la Vega and translated by John and Jeannette Varner. The book remains in print as of 2025.

Awards

The University of Texas Press has had two books on ''The'' ''New York Times'' Best Seller list: T.H. White's '' The Book of Merlyn'' (1977) and Hanif Abdurraqib's ''Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest'' (2019), which was part of the American Music Series and which was on the long list for the 2019

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. The Press has published winners of the

Pulitzer Prize The Pulitzer Prizes () are 23 annual awards given by Columbia University in New York City for achievements in the United States in "journalism, arts and letters". They were established in 1917 by the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made his fo ...

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, MacArthur “Genius” Grants, the

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, and more. They have also had books as finalists for the

, NBCC (Criticism category),

Kirkus Prize The Kirkus Prize is an American literary award conferred by the book review magazine ''Kirkus Reviews''. Established in 2014, the Kirkus Prize bestows annually. Three authors are awarded each, divided into three categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, ...

, and other awards. Their books have won top honors in their fields of focus, including music, Latin American studies, Latinx studies, Indigenous studies, popular culture, architecture, and archaeology.

Journals

* ''

Asian Music Asian music encompass numerous musical styles, traditions, and forms originating in Asian countries. Asian music traditions include: * ** Music of China ** Music of Hong Kong ** Music of Japan ** Traditional music of Korea *** Music of Nor ...

'' * ''Diálogo'' * '' Information & Culture'' * ''

Journal of the History of Sexuality The ''Journal of the History of Sexuality'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal established in 1990 and published by the University of Texas Press. Indexing The ''Journal of the History of Sexuality'' is indexed and/or abstracted in '' America: ...

'' * '' Journal of Individual Psychology'' * ''

Journal of Latin American Geography The ''Journal of Latin American Geography'' is a triannual peer-reviewed academic journal published by the University of Texas Press on behalf of the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers. The journal is abstracted and indexed by Scopus ...

'' * ''Latin American Music Review'' * ''Studies in Latin American Popular Culture'' * ''

Texas Studies in Literature and Language ''Texas Studies in Literature and Language'', commonly known as TSLL, is a peer-reviewed academic journal devoted to the humanities. It publishes essays reflecting a variety of critical approaches and all periods of literary history, with selected ...

'' * ''The Textile Museum Journal'' * ''US Latina & Latino Oral History Journal'' * ''

The Velvet Light Trap ''The Velvet Light Trap'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering film and media studies. It is edited by graduate students at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of Texas at Austin. Each issue covers critical, theoret ...

Formerly published journals

* ''Archaeoastronomy'' * ''Art Lies'' * ''Genders'' * '' Journal of Cinema and Media Studies'' (formerly known as ''Cinema Journal'') * ''The Joyce Studies Annual'' * '' The Latin American Research Review'' * ''

Social Science Quarterly ''Social Science Quarterly'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Southwestern Social Science Association. The journal covers political science, sociology, economics, history, social work, ge ...

'' * ''

Southwestern Historical Quarterly The Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) is an American nonprofit educational and research organization dedicated to documenting the history of Texas. It was founded in Austin, Texas, United States, on March 2, 1897. In November 2008, the ...

Series

* 21st Century Film Essentials * American Music Series * Border Hispanisms * Chicana Matters * Cities and Communities of the Etruscans * CMES Emerging Voices from the Middle East * CMES Modern Middle East Literatures in Translation * CMES Shirá Series in Contemporary Hebrew Poetry in Translation * Connected Histories of the Middle East and the Global South * Discovering America * Exploring Jewish Arts and Culture * Focus on American History Series * Fordyce W. Mitchel Memorial Lecture Series * Historia USA * Inter-America Series * The Katrina Bookshelf * Lateral Exchanges * Latin American Literature in Translation * Latinx: The Future is Now * Music Matters * The Oratory of Classical Greece * Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas * Southwestern and Mexican Photography Series, The Wittliff Collections at Texas State University * Southwestern Writers Collection Series, Wittliff Collections at Texas State University * Terry and Jan Todd Series on Physical Culture and Sports * The Texas Bookshelf * Texas Film and Media Studies Series * Texas Legal Studies Series * Texas Natural History Guides * Tower Books Imprint * The University of Texas Health Press * World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction Series * Visualidades

Controversies

University of Texas Press joined The

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trade organization in the

Hachette v. Internet Archive ''Hachette Book Group, Inc. v. Internet Archive'', No. 20-cv-4160 (JGK), 664 F.Supp.3d 370 (S.D.N.Y. 2023), WL 2623787 (S.D.N.Y. 2023), was a Legal case, case in which the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York deter ...

lawsuit which resulted in the removal of access to over 500,000 books from global readers.

References

External links

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