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I acquire scholarly and trade books in the humanities, particularly literature, criticism, and biography. I am also currently sponsoring the larger part of the Press's music list. I look for ambitious manuscripts marked by writerly assurance and unorthodox thinking. Recent and forthcoming general-interest books include Alice Kaplan's Seeing Baya: Portrait of an Algerian Artist in Paris, Amitav Ghosh's Wild Fictions: Essays on Literature, Empire, and the Environment, and Sarah Mesle's Reasons and Feelings: Writing for the Humanities Now.
Some notable recent books on my list are Allison Carruth's, Novel Ecologies: Nature Remade and the Illusions of Tech and John Guillory's On Close Reading. I am also proud to sponsor the Thinking Literature series, launched in 2018 and co-edited by Nan Z. Da and Andrea Gadberry. In the area of literary translation, I have published works by Thomas Bernhard, Christophe Boltanski, Yves Bonnefoy, Friedrich Durrenmatt, Roger Grenier, Robert Musil, Christa Wolf, and others. I also publish occasional books of photography and photography criticism, such as W. Eugene Smith's Dream Street and The Jazz Loft Project, Ashley Gilbertson's Bedrooms of the Fallen, and Walter Benn Michaels's The Beauty of a Social Problem. My own publications include writings for the Los Angeles Review of Books, Places Journal, and Design Observer, as well as the photobook 55x5. You can also find me on X, Instagram, Bluesky, and my personal website.
I am fortunate to work with assistant editor Randy Petilos, who acquires complementary books in medieval studies and poetry in translation.
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- Telling Stories of the past With Genomic Science
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- the Capital Order / How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism
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- Assistant Editorial Director, Executive Editor
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- Entropy Economics / the Living Basis of Value and Production
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- Executive Director
- General Manager
Joseph D'Onofrio • Executive Director and General Manager • (773) 702-7020 • jdonofrio@uchicago.edu
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- Director, Journals Acquisitions and Publisher
Kari Roane handles all acquisitions for the Journals Division. She manages the proposal, contracting, and initial transition phases for new titles. Kari worked in journals marketing at Taylor & Francis in Philadelphia and in the Conferences and Expositions department of TESOL in Alexandria, Virginia. She has more than twenty years' experience with journals acquisitions and publication management, first at Taylor & Francis and then at the University of Chicago Press, which she joined 2002.
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- How the Computer Became Personal
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- Executive Editor
- Architect of Our Chicago Guides to Writing
E-mail: mlaur@uchicago.edu
Subjects: Writing guides; regional reference; general reference; cartography
Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing; Chicago Guides to Academic Life; History of Cartography; The Kenneth Nebenzahl Jr. Lectures in the History of Cartography
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- Computing Taste / Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendation
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- Director, Client Services and Business Operations
Saleem Dhamee • Director, Client Services and Business Operations • (773) 702-7014 • sdhamee@uchicago.edu
Sophia Holloway • Customer Service Manager • (773) 702-7109 • sholloway@uchicago.edu
Stephanie Short • Client Services Manager • (773) 702-7372 • smbastion@uchicago.edu
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- Accounts Receivable
- Manager