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.
Poetic Song Verse
Blues-Based Popular Music and Poetry
A thorough explication and revelation of the literary power in blues-fueled songwriting
Maria W. Stewart and the Roots of Black Political Thought
A biography of a trailblazer for abolition, gender equality, and social justice
Gorey Secrets
Artistic and Literary Inspirations behind Divers Books by Edward Gorey
A brilliant tour of the bookshelf and galleries that inspired one of the most literate, sophisticated, and wildly funny graphic masters of our time
Critical Essays on the Writings of Lillian Smith
The first collection of critical essays to explore the Georgia writer’s vast work and activism
Black Panther
Interrogating a Cultural Phenomenon
The first in-depth study of one of Marvel’s most successful and culturally impactful films
A Sportsman's Journey
Expressive reminders of the power and spiritual pull of the natural world
Where Misfits Fit
Counterculture and Influence in the Ozarks
How the hardscrabble borderland frontier of the Ozarks nurtured zones of creativity, community, and cults
Transforming Girls
The Work of Nineteenth-Century Adolescence
A study of nineteenth-century young adult literature that refocuses the history of girls’ books and female adolescence in the United States and Germany
The Artistic Activism of Elombe Brath
Collected for the first time, an exploration of the artwork and commentary of a forgotten activist during the civil rights movement
Persistence through Peril
Episodes of College Life and Academic Endurance in the Civil War South
How eleven institutions remained open and maintained the mission of higher education during a national cataclysm