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 Natasha Trethewey
Collected interviews with the United States Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize winner, and author of Domestic Work, Beyond Katrina, and Thrall
Africa in the American Imagination
Popular Culture, Racialized Identities, and African Visual Culture
A study of pop culture’s representation of a continent’s visual traditions
Knowing Jazz
Community, Pedagogy, and Canon in the Information Age
How the claim to jazz knowledge forges community and forms an understanding of canon
Creolization as Cultural Creativity
What happens when cultures meet and new creative expressions emerge
New Orleans con Sabor Latino
The History and Passion of Latino Cooking
A feature dish of the cuisine that has been too long overlooked in New Orleans cooking
Comics and the U.S. South
A wide-ranging survey of how comics have portrayed southern ways of life
Zachary Scott
Hollywood's Sophisticated Cad
A biography of the stage and screen star who could never escape the role of dashing villain
New Orleans Memories
One Writer's City
A passionate native’s salute to the past and present glories of the Crescent City
Dangerous Curves
Action Heroines, Gender, Fetishism, and Popular Culture
A consideration of the many manifestations of the action heroine in film, television, contemporary popular literature, comic books, cartoons, and video games
Plotting Apocalypse
Reading, Agency, and Identity in the Left Behind Series
An examination of the entire Left Behind sequence with a combined sensitivity to Evangelical belief and close textual reading
Faulkner and Whiteness
An exploration of the Nobel Lauerate’s work and its interrogations of whiteness
Curt Flood in the Media
Baseball, Race, and the Demise of the Activist-Athlete
How the interplay of media, race, and one player’s defiance created free agency and changed baseball forever
Black Rock
A Zuni Cultural Landscape and the Meaning of Place
A thoughtful examination of how a shared sense of place evolves over time
William F. Winter and the New Mississippi
A Biography
The life story of the Mississippi governor known for his fight for education and racial reconciliation
Patrick Chamoiseau
A Critical Introduction
An opening into the life, novels, fictions, and manifestos of a noted Caribbean author
Art for the Middle Classes
America's Illustrated Magazines of the 1840s
A history of the periodicals that brought art and sophistication to a rising bourgeoisie in the heartland
Contemporary Southern Identity
Community through Controversy
A study of four public debates about the meaning of being southern
Alan Ball
Conversations
Collected interviews with the screenwriter of the Academy Award-winning film American Beauty and creator of the Emmy Award-winning television series Six Feet Under and True Blood
Gloria Swanson
Ready for Her Close-Up
A biography of the Queen of Hollywood and her decades of successes and comebacks in film, art, fashion, and journalism
Baba Yaga
The Wild Witch of the East in Russian Fairy Tales
A beautiful illustrated collection of fairy tales about the most iconic and active of Russian magical characters
The Dragon's Blood
Feminist Intertextuality in Eudora Welty's 'The Golden Apples'
A new intertextual reading that shows Welty confronting one of western literature’s major forces—the indomitable hero
Mobilizing for the Common Good
The Lived Theology of John M. Perkins
Essays on the famed activist and preacher, among the first to call for relocation, reconciliation, and redistribution in a post-civil rights America
Mississippi Hill Country Blues 1967
The photographic record of unprecedented musical discovery and the geniuses of Mississippi’s Hill Country blues
Fame to Infamy
Race, Sport, and the Fall from Grace
Essays that reveal the public slide into disrepute of once-cherished male sports icons
The Superhero Reader
A full exploration of the history, politics, and aesthetics of the superhero genre
Anthony Minghella
Interviews
Interviews with the director of The English Patient, The Talented Mr. Ripley, and Cold Mountain
Scotty and Elvis
Aboard the Mystery Train
The true life story of Elvis’s original guitarist, the masterful Scotty Moore
Une Belle Maison
The Lombard Plantation House in New Orleans's Bywater
An extraordinary look at the life, decay, and restoration of a plantation home
Folklore Recycled
Old Traditions in New Contexts
How the study of folklore has moved beyond oral traditions into creative realms where it is repurposed and transformed