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.
Chester Brown
A concise overview of the renowned comics creator of Yummy Fur, Ed the Happy Clown, I Never Liked You, Louis Riel, and Paying for It
William Faulkner in Holly Springs
An intriguing argument and exploration that expands the postage stamp of the Nobel Laureate’s fiction
Russ Meyer
Interviews
Thirty years of interviews with the provocative and often controversial creator of films including Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!; Beyond the Valley of the Dolls;and Vixen!
Refusing to Be Made Whole
Disability in Black Women's Writing
A cross-disciplinary analysis on how Black women writers theorize disability and Black womanhood
Neoliberalism and Young Adult Fiction
Exceptionalism, Exploitation, and Erasure
One of the first critical volumes to examine how young adult literature reproduces but also resists neoliberalism
George Valentine Dureau
Life and Art in New Orleans
An expansive and beautiful survey of one of New Orleans’s most accomplished and provocative artists
Evanira Mendes
A Voice from the Brazilian Folklore Movement
The long-overdue recognition of a scholar and the vibrant Brazilian folklore she documented
Crossing the Pass of Clouds
An Army Photographer's Vietnam Journal
An extraordinarily up-close and personal photography collection and journal of the last years of the Vietnam War
A Tone Parallel to Duke Ellington
The Man in the Music
Ellington’s music with fresh thematic explorations to delight music lovers
Us According to Them
Stateside Portrayals of Puerto Ricans and Their Culture, 1898-2010
A thoughtful look at how mainland US observers perceive and portray Puerto Rico