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.
Mississippi’s Federal Courts
A History
An incomparable resource to understand the historical role of the federal judiciary in a Deep South state
Graphic Satire in the Soviet Union
Krokodil's Political Cartoons
An original study on the little-known but highly influential Russianmagazine Krokodil
Conversations with Jim Harrison, Revised and Updated
Collected interviews the self-titled “quadra schizoid” writer who is best known for his novella Legends of the Fall
The British Superhero
Tracking the surprising rise of the British superhero
Heroes, Rascals, and the Law
Constitutional Encounters in Mississippi History
Tales of a people’s great, disgraceful, and mundane constitutional encounters
Conversations with Maurice Sendak
Over forty years of interviews with one of the most respected, influential authors of the twentieth century, an American original who redefined the picture book and changed children’s literature—and its readers—forever
The Comics of Julie Doucet and Gabrielle Bell
A Place inside Yourself
The first edited volume to juxtapose these female alternative comics artists
Southern Religion, Southern Culture
Essays Honoring Charles Reagan Wilson
From the steeple to the stable to the goal posts and dinner table, a homily on southern religiosity
Lalo Alcaraz
Political Cartooning in the Latino Community
A perceptive study of a bold, prescient voice in Latino comics
Between Distant Modernities
Performing Exceptionality in Francoist Spain and the Jim Crow South
A literary exploration of the surprising similarities between the US South and Franco’s Spain