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The University Press of Mississippi (UPM), founded in 1970, is a
the University of Southern Mississippi),[2] making it one of the few university presses in the United States to have more than one affiliate university.[3]
A member of the Association of University Presses since 1976,[4][5] the University Press of Mississippi issues around 85 new books each year,[6] and as of 2022, it has published over 2000 titles.[7] The press is best known for its works pertaining to African American history, children's literature, pop culture media (e.g., film, television, and comic books), and regional studies.[5][8]
Publications
Major book series published by the University Press of Mississippi include:[9]
- "American Made Music"
- "America’s Third Coast"
- "Atlantic Migrations and the African Diaspora"
- "Banner Books"
- "Caribbean Studies"
- "Chancellor Porter L. Fortune Symposium in Southern History"
- "Children’s Literature Association"
- "Civil Rights in Mississippi"
- "Conversations" monograph series
- "Critical Approaches to Comics Artists"
- "Critical Perspectives on Eudora Welty"
- "Cultures of Childhood"
- "Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha"
- "Folklore Studies in a Multicultural World"
- "Great Comic Artists"
- "Heritage of Mississippi"
- "Hollywood Legends"
- "Horror and Monstrosity Studies Series"
- "Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies"
- "Race, Rhetoric, and Media"
- "Reframing Hollywood"
- "University of Mississippi Museum and Historic Houses"
- "Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography"
See also
References
- ^ "Ordering". University Press of Mississippi. Retrieved January 30, 2023.
- ^ "About the Press". University Press of Mississippi. Retrieved January 30, 2023.
- ISBN 0-87049-611-5.
- ^ "Our Members". Association of University Presses. Retrieved January 30, 2023.
- ^ ISBN 9780945103356.
- ^ "University Press of Mississippi". Organization of American Historians. Retrieved February 3, 2023.
- ^ Ownby, Ted (February 16, 2022). "Book Publishing". Mississippi Encyclopedia. Center for the Study of Southern Culture. Retrieved January 29, 2023.
- ^ Smith, Carl (2022). "UPM director: 'We publish to, for and about the people of Mississippi'". Mississippi State University. Retrieved January 29, 2023.
- ISBN 9780945103455.