University Press of Mississippi
Regular
- Website
- https://www.upress.state.ms.us
- Address
- Jackson, Mississippi, United States
- Established
- 1970
- Admitted to AUPresses
- 1976
- Title Output 2024
- 114
- Title Output 2025
- 99
- Titles Currently in Print
- 2300
- Editorial Program
- University Press of Mississippi tells stories of scholarly and social importance that impact our state, region, nation, and world. Working at the forefront of publishing and cultural trends, we publish books that enhance and extend the reputation of our state and its universities. Founded in 1970, University Press of Mississippi (UPM) is the largest and only non-profit publisher in the state. Affiliated with and supported by Mississippi’s eight state universities, UPM has more than 2,300 active titles and has distributed more than 3,200,000 books worldwide in print and digital editions. From our offices in Jackson, Mississippi, we acquire, edit, design, and promote more than 90 new books every year. We value and promote equality and justice, publishing books that interpret the South and its culture to the nation and the world, scholarly books of the highest distinction, and books vital to scholarly and general readers in the following disciplines. African American studies; African Diaspora studies; American studies, literature, history, and culture; art and architecture; Caribbean studies; children’s/young adult literature studies; comics studies; ethnic studies; film studies; folklore; media studies; memoir; music and ethnomusicology; natural sciences; photography; popular culture; regional studies; serious nonfiction of general interest; Southern studies; and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies.
Book series: American Made Music Series; America's Third Coast Series; Atlantic Migrations and the African Diaspora; Banner Books; Biographix; Caribbean Studies Series; Chancellor Porter L. Fortune Symposium in Southern History Series; Children's Literature Association Series; Civil Rights in Mississippi Series; Conversations with Comic Artists Series; Conversations with Filmmakers Series; Critical Approaches to Comics Artists Series; Critical Perspectives on Eudora Welty; Cultures of Childhood; Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Series; Heritage of Mississippi Series; Hollywood Legends Series; Horror and Monstrosity Studies Series; Ingrid G. Houck Series in Food and Foodways; Literary Conversations Series; Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies; Race, Rhetoric, and Media Series; Reframing Hollywood; Television Conversations Series; Tom Inge Series on Comics Artists; University of Mississippi Museum and Historic Houses Series; Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography - Blog
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