The University Press of Mississippi was founded in 1970 and is supported by Mississippi's eight state universities. UPM publishes scholarly books of the highest distinction and books that interpret the South and its culture to the nation and the world. From its offices in Jackson, the University Press of Mississippi acquires, edits, distributes, and promotes more than eighty new books every year. Over the years, the Press has published more than 1000 titles and distributed more than 2,600,000 copies worldwide, each with the Mississippi imprint.
Conversations with Billy Collins
A collection of interviews with one of America’s most popular poets who is widely praised for creating a rare blend of accessible and intelligent verse
Contagious Imagination
The Work and Art of Lynda Barry
The long-awaited book-length analysis of the approaches and applications to teaching found in the great comic artist’s work
Arranging Stories
Framing Social Commentary in Short Story Collections by Southern Women Writers
A riveting history of how southern women writers negotiated authorial control in the late nineteenth- through early twentieth-century periodical market
The Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban Legends
A scarily skilled critical examination of Victorian-era urban legends
Social TV
Multi-Screen Content and Ephemeral Culture
An engaging study that tracks the rise and fall of television’s attempts to capture viewer attention on multiple screens
Narrating History, Home, and Dyaspora
Critical Essays on Edwidge Danticat
The first scholarly volume to treat the entire range of Edwidge Danticat’s powerful works
Improvising the Score
Rethinking Modern Film Music through Jazz
A vivid, behind-the-scenes investigation into the integrative collaborations between contemporary jazz musicians and filmmakers
Harry Potter and the Other
Race, Justice, and Difference in the Wizarding World
A fascinating reconsideration of the depictions and implications of race and diversity in the Harry Potter franchise
Frankenstein Was a Vegetarian
Essays on Food Choice, Identity, and Symbolism
A renowned scholar’s daring work on how foodways transform and reshape our place in the world
Conversations with George Saunders
Collected interviews with the National Book Award finalist and Booker Prize-winning author of Tenth of December and Lincoln in the Bardo
Black Bodies in the River
Searching for Freedom Summer
A rhetorical interrogation of the pervasive claim that unidentified Black bodies were discovered during investigations into one of Freedom Summer’s most widely known events
Making Tracks
A Record Producer’s Southern Roots Music Journey
A firsthand remembrance of the artists, engineers, crews, and settings that make roots music magical
The Transformative Potential of LGBTQ+ Children’s Picture Books
A foundational look at the way children’s books shaped views of the LGBTQ+ world
The South Strikes Back
The seminal history of the formation and tactics of the Citizens’ Council that battled integration and voting rights
The Eye That Is Language
A Transatlantic View of Eudora Welty
An enlightening collection of essays by a renowned European scholar on the transatlantic significance of Eudora Welty
Songs of Slavery and Emancipation
A critical study that highlights a new perspective of the long-buried and forgotten songs of resistance
Open at the Close
Literary Essays on Harry Potter
The first collection of essays focused exclusively on examining the Harry Potter novels as literature
Louis Malle
Interviews
Collected interviews with the internationally acclaimed director, screenwriter, and producer known for the emotional realism and stylistic simplicity of such films as Le Monde du silence and Goodbye, Children
Following the Drums
African American Fife and Drum Music in Tennessee
A recovery and celebration of a once-mighty, now-vanished Tennessee musical legacy
Conversations with Diane di Prima
Collected interviews with the feminist Beat poet and cofounder of the Poets Press, known for her blended use of political and spiritual subject matter
Love, Daddy
Letters from My Father
A poignant collection of letters from Willie Morris accompanied by photographs by his son, David Rae Morris
Confessions of a Southern Beauty Queen
A coming-of-age story of a young woman navigating a turbulent and changing South
Voices of Black Folk
The Sermons of Reverend A. W. Nix
An in-depth study of the influence and conflicting interpretations of Black vocal heritage in the 1920s
The Unexceptional Case of Haiti
Race and Class Privilege in Postcolonial Bourgeois Society
A deeply researched upending of the trope of Haiti as the Black Republic
Laugh Lines
Humor, Genre, and Political Critique in Late Twentieth-Century American Poetry
An innovative redress of the long critical inattention to the power of humor in recent verse
Jeff Lemire
Conversations
Collected interviews with the award-winning Canadian comic writer and artist whose credits include Marvel’s Extraordinary X-Men and DC’s Justice League Dark
Hearing Brazil
Music and Histories in Minas Gerais
A critical exploration of key musical legacies in the Brazilian state
Equipping Space Cadets
Primary Science Fiction for Young Children
A scholarly exploration of how children’s books embrace and wrestle with the science fiction genre
The Golden Age Musicals of Darryl F. Zanuck
The Gentleman Preferred Blondes
The first book to explore the impact the innovative studio executive had on American movie musicals
Asian-Cajun Fusion
Shrimp from the Bay to the Bayou
A lushly illustrated and complete history of Louisiana’s shrimping industry