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 Orhan Pamuk
Thirty interviews with the Nobel Prize-winning Turkish novelist best known for My Name Is Red, Snow, and The Museum of Innocence
Comics and Modernism
History, Form, and Culture
The first collection to engage with the fascinating overlap between comics and modernism
A Trumpet around the Corner
The Story of New Orleans Jazz
From the first raucous chorus to the aftermath of Katrina, the saga of the Big Easy’s signature music
Poor Gal
The Cultural History of Little Liza Jane
The telling journey of a centuries-old tune and what it says about race, class, and American folk music
Learning Jazz
Jazz Education, History, and Public Pedagogy
A call for collaboration and understanding in how we learn jazz in diverse settings
Intersecting Aesthetics
Literary Adaptations and Cinematic Representations of Blackness
How twentieth-century Black writers and filmmakers struggled to create authentic adaptations that reflected Black experiences
From Biblical Book to Musical Megahit
William B. Bradbury's Esther, the Beautiful Queen
The compelling history of an acclaimed and enduring musical piece
Conversations with Karl Ove Knausgaard
Twenty-two interviews with the Norwegian author and winner of the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature who is best known for his two autobiographical series My Struggle and the Seasons quartet
Civic Buildings after the Spanish-American War
How Beaux-Arts edifices reveal the United States’ imperialistic vision in the Caribbean
Body Genre
Anatomy of the Horror Film
A first-of-its-kind study of the relationship between human anatomy and horror
What a Difference a Day Makes
Women Who Conquered 1950s Music
A fun-filled survey of the women who topped the charts in jazz, blues, R&B, and rock ’n’ roll
Rowdy Boundaries
True Mississippi Tales from Natchez to Noxubee
Narratives of the good, the bad, and the outlandish in legal tangles along Mississippi’s borders
Roots Punk
A Visual and Oral History
An entertaining and thorough introduction to the power of punk’s hybrid evolution
Ben Katchor
The first book dedicated to exploring the comics of Ben Katchor
Backseat Quarterback
A wife’s insider story of her marriage to a famous New York Giant during the golden days of professional football
All I Want Is Loving You
Popular Female Singers of the 1950s
A delightful visit with the talented, yet often overlooked, white female vocalists of the 1950s
Afrocentricity in AfroFuturism
Toward Afrocentric Futurism
A vanguard challenge to unite two formerly independent fields in Black studies
American Landscapes
Meditations on Art and Literature in a Changing World
A lushly illustrated consideration of the significance of landscapes in art and literature during times of unprecedented change
Ferocious Ambition
Joan Crawford’s March to Stardom
An astute, lavishly illustrated evaluation of one of Hollywood’s biggest stars