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 Angela Davis
Collected interviews with an influential educator, scholar, and activist, who is one of the most recognizable and iconic figures of the twentieth century
Alain Resnais
Interviews
A collection of twenty-one interviews with the French filmmaker of award-winning documentaries like Van Gogh and Night and Fog and groundbreaking dramas like Hiroshima mon amour, Last Year at Marienbad, and Muriel
Toni Morrison and the Natural World
An Ecology of Color
The first ecocritical treatment of the entire range of the Nobel Laureate’s mighty works
Race and Racism in Nineteenth-Century Art
The Ascendency of Robert Duncanson, Edward Bannister, and Edmonia Lewis
The extraordinary struggle, achievement, loss and reclamation of three brilliant African American artists of the 1800s
Positioning Pooh
Edward Bear after One Hundred Years
A delightful journey into the heart of the many meanings behind that silly old bear
Politics in the Gutters
American Politicians and Elections in Comic Book Media
A thorough exploration of the political critiques found in a multigenre, historical cross-section of comic books and their transmedia adaptations
My Melancholy Baby
The First Ballads of the Great American Songbook, 1902-1913
A thorough exploration of early pop ballads in the American Songbook and how they still resonate
Conversations with Steve Erickson
A collection of twenty-four interviews with a singular writer whose work is a dream-fueled blend of European modernism, American pulp, and paranoid late-century postmodernism
At Arm’s Length
A Rhetoric of Character in Children’s and Young Adult Literature
A theory of how authors position readers in relation to literary character through empathy, awe, and indifference
The Mississippi Gulf Coast Seafood Industry
A People's History
The first complete history of Mississippi’s seafood industry and those who harvested and processed this coastal bounty