University Press of Mississippi

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University Press of Mississippi
UBC Press (Canada)[1]
Publication typesBooks
Official websitewww.upress.state.ms.us

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

  1. ^ "Ordering". University Press of Mississippi. Retrieved January 30, 2023.
  2. ^ "About the Press". University Press of Mississippi. Retrieved January 30, 2023.
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  4. ^ "Our Members". Association of University Presses. Retrieved January 30, 2023.
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  6. ^ "University Press of Mississippi". Organization of American Historians. Retrieved February 3, 2023.
  7. ^ Ownby, Ted (February 16, 2022). "Book Publishing". Mississippi Encyclopedia. Center for the Study of Southern Culture. Retrieved January 29, 2023.
  8. ^ Smith, Carl (2022). "UPM director: 'We publish to, for and about the people of Mississippi'". Mississippi State University. Retrieved January 29, 2023.
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