Read with Pride
To celebrate Pride Month, we have curated a selection of titles that showcase the most cutting edge scholarship in Queer Studies.
June 17, 2021
Tag: academia
Semiotics: The Study of Meaning (Part 3)
In the third and final installment of a three-part blog series on semiotics, Marcel Danesi looks at how semiotics is applied today.
March 26, 2021
Semiotics: The Study of Meaning (Part 2)
In the second installment of a three-part blog series on semiotics, Marcel Danesi explores the question, “what is meaning?” A word with many connotations, he investigates how meaning is created and how it is communicated.
March 19, 2021
Why We All Need to Be Thinking about Technoscience and Society
University of Toronto Press is delighted to announce a brand new book series called Technoscience and Society, with the first books due to publish next year. Series editor Kean Birch discusses what we can expect from the new series.
March 12, 2021
Semiotics: The Study of Meaning (Part 1)
In a new three-part blog series, Marcel Danesi explores what semiotics is all about, why it is so important for gaining insights into our elusive and mysterious human nature, and how semiotics is applied today.
March 10, 2021
“I am its antithesis… its darkness.” Colonial Half-steppin’ in and of the Canadian University
rosalind hampton discusses her book, Black Racialization and Resistance at an Elite University, which provides a historical narrative and critical analysis of higher education centered on the experiences of Black students at McGill University.
January 25, 2021
An Excerpt from Work Your Career
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a massive impact on Canada’s job market. Work Your Career authors Loleen Berdahl and Jonathan Malloy share an excerpt from their book that can help students who might be worried about their future job prospects.
November 26, 2020
Raise UP: Rae André
Today, the University Press Week blog tour highlights active voices within the community and who better to Raise UP than Rae André, climate change educator and bestselling author.
November 13, 2020
Science Writing in a Time of Crisis
Mireille F. Ghoussoub holds a PhD in materials chemistry from the University of Toronto and is the co-author of The Story of CO2. In this post, Mireille highlights why the need for honest and effective science communication has never been greater in the fight against climate change.
November 12, 2020
Accidental Wilderness: Toronto’s Tommy Thompson Park
Local artist and photographer Robert Burley tells us more about Toronto’s Tommy Thompson Park, and explains why this fortuitous urban miracle offers a hopeful narrative about how nature can flourish in a modern-day city.
November 10, 2020