FUNCTION: To consider and recommend on all proposed publications to bear the imprint of the Press; to advise and assist the director in forming policy for the Press; and to advise the president in the event it becomes necessary to seek and appoint a new director.
COMPOSITION: Eight (8) voting members of the General Faculty for three (3) year staggered terms. In addition, every year the chair of the Faculty Council shall appoint two (2) voting faculty members of the Faculty Council for one-year terms. Each fall, the committee shall elect a chair elect who shall be a voting faculty member of the committee, though, if that proves impossible, it shall elect a vice chair as an interim measure, while continuing to seek a chair elect. Each committee shall make an annual report on its work, in writing, to the General Faculty and Faculty Council. The director of the University of Texas Press shall serve as administrative advisor without vote.
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Member E-mail Address Book (comma delimited)
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Annual Report
2021-2022 Membership
Chair
Martha G. Newman, Associate Professor, History, and Religious Studies
Email: newman@austin.utexas.edu
Chair Elect
Andrew Riggsby
2019-2022
Michael J. Churgin, Professor, Law (effective September 1, 2020, replaced Steven D. Hoelscher)
John M. Gonzalez, Professor, English
Alexandra K. Wettlaufer, Professor, French and Italian
2020-2023
Chad Alvarez, Associate Professor, Mexican American Studies
Julia E Guernsey, Professor, Art and Art History
Shanti Kumar, Associate Professor, Radio-Television-Film
2021-2024
Michael Avila, Assistant Professor of Instruction, Theatre and Dance
Andrew Riggsby, Professor, Classics
2021-2022 Faculty Council Representatives
Jason Cons, Associate Professor, Anthropology
Hannah Wojciehowski, Professor, English
Administrative Adviser without vote
2021-2022
Robert P. Devens, Director, University of Texas Press