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 Beth Henley
Nearly forty years of interviews with the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and screenwriter
Bloodstained Narratives
The Giallo Film in Italy and Abroad
Critical essays on the transnational thriller genre that influenced myriad horror films
African American Adolescent Female Heroes
The Twenty-First-Century Young Adult Neo-Slave Narrative
A scholarly examination of contemporary neo-slave narratives and their African American heroines
A Slow, Calculated Lynching
The Story of Clyde Kennard
The harrowing, yet pivotal, story of a brilliant integration advocate
Visions of Invasion
Alien Affects, Cinema, and Citizenship in Settler Colonies
An exploration of the ways migrants are coded as alien in popular film and public discourse
The Struggle of Struggles
A new edition of an autobiography that chronicles the everyday conflicts, losses, and triumphs of the civil rights struggle
The Speeches of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner
The Press, the Platform, and the Pulpit
An essential reader of the powerful orations of an African American religious leader
Howard Cruse
A career-spanning biography of a central and significant figure in queer comics
Blockheads, Beagles, and Sweet Babboos
New Perspectives on Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts
A critical reexamination of the Peanuts gang we all know and love
Artful Breakdowns
The Comics of Art Spiegelman
The definitive critical appraisal of the great comics artist’s six-decade career as a pioneer, curator, and theorist