University Press Week to Be Held November 10-14
The Association of University Presses (AUPresses), a global organization of 168 mission-driven publishers, is proud to announce a collection of 69 books and journals plus 13 initiatives that embody the #TeamUP theme of this year’s University Press Week, happening Nov. 10 to 14.
The featured publications, curated by AUPresses members in 10 countries, present thought-provoking concepts, inspiring ideas, and cutting-edge scholarship — all of which would not have been published without the dedicated teams of authors, publishers, and the universities or other host institutions of which they are part. The TeamUP reading list ranges widely in subject matter, from politics and current events, to the environment, education, Black studies, history, memoirs, Indigenous studies, poetry and fiction, and more.
“University presses everywhere are united in the goal of publishing authors who offer unique insights and fresh voices,” says AUPresses executive director Peter Berkery. “University Press Week 2025 affords us the opportunity to celebrate all of the ways that university presses, scholars, booksellers, librarians, and so many others work together towards this goal, and continue to produce and promote books that spark thought, inform debate, and ultimately advance knowledge.”
The #TeamUP theme also spotlights the dedicated staff at each university press, who work hard to ensure that works they publish are of the highest caliber.
“As someone who has had the privilege of spending decades working in university press publishing, I can attest to the creative and collaborative energy of this global community of publishers, dedicated to working together with authors and each other to contribute meaningfully to the slow building of knowledge,” says AUPresses president Dennis Lloyd, director of the University of Wisconsin Press. “When you pick up a book published by a university press, you know that the manuscript has been carefully selected and evaluated by peer review as well as edited, designed, and marketed by a team of professionals to the highest standards. That teamwork is at the heart of university press publishing, informing and offering value to scholars and general readers alike.”
This year’s TeamUP reading list includes a number of books about the health care system, the intersection of the courts and democracy, and other issues of contemporary concern. For example some of the titles in this year’s list include:
- The Field Guide to Falling Ill (Yale University Press)
- Self-Made: The Stories That Forged an American Myth (Cambridge University Press)
- Law and the Protection of Democracy (University of Rochester Press)
- Mobilizing Hope, Fighting for Change: Food Sovereignty Movements and Alliance Making in the United States (University of Nebraska Press)
- I Can Imagine It for Us: A Palestinian Daughter’s Memoir (American University in Cairo Press)
In addition, several university presses are promoting initiatives that they are working on in collaboration with another university press, their university, or an outside organization to help advance scholarship and learning. See the complete list of projects here.
For example, four presses in the southeastern United States teamed up this year to launch the first Piedmont Publishing Symposium, held in May 2025. This collaborative regional event — organized by AUPresses members Clemson University Press, University of South Carolina Press, and University of North Georgia Press as well as independent publisher Hub City Press — is a rotating annual symposium where authors, academics, publishing professionals, students, and emerging writers can get practical insights into publishing through a curated series of panel discussions and networking opportunities.
Other presses—including Athabasca University Press, Duke University Press (with MIT Press), and Liverpool University Press—have recently launched new open access initiatives, making scholarship more widely available for free, whether to students on campus or readers around the world.
And several university presses have also created initiatives designed to benefit their local communities, such as University of Alberta Press’s CLC Kriesel Lecture Series featuring prominent Canadian authors; Fordham University Press’s On the Ground in NYC partnerships; and the South Dakota Historical Society Press’s donation of books for younger readers to the Siouxland Libraries Summer Reading Program.
An annual event, now in its 14th year, University Press Week celebrates and raises awareness of the work that university presses do every day. Full information about this year’s event here. Throughout the week of Nov. 10 to 14, the Association and participating presses will present an online gallery, contribute to a blog tour, and sponsor in-person and virtual author events, in addition to promoting the reading list featured here.