West Virginia University Press is the only university press, and the largest publisher of any kind, in the state of West Virginia. A part of West Virginia University, they publish books and scholarly journals by authors around the world, with a particular emphasis on Appalachian studies, history, higher education, the social sciences, and interdisciplinary books about energy, environment, and resources. They also publish works of fiction and creative nonfiction, and collaborate on innovative digital publications, notably West Virginia History: An Open Access Reader.
Rock Climbing in Kentucky's Red River Gorge
An Oral History of Community, Resources, and Tourism
Tells the fascinating story of the Red’s climbing community through interviews with the people who lived that history and considers how sustainable ecotourism might contribute to the region economically.
- Copyright year: 2021
Past Titan Rock
Journeys into an Appalachian Valley
A classic book about Appalachian life and music, now updated with new material.
- Copyright year: 2021
On Dark and Bloody Ground
An Oral History of the West Virginia Mine Wars
An oral history of the West Virginia Mine Wars published to coincide with the centennial of the Battle of Blair Mountain.
- Copyright year: 2021
Cannel Coal Oil Days
A Novel
A newly discovered nineteenth-century novel about West Virginia breaking away from Virginia, set amid the cannel coal boom and featuring an interracial abolitionist movement.
- Copyright year: 2021
American Vaudeville
A dreamlike, evocative reckoning with a lost epoch in popular culture—and with old, weird America.
- Copyright year: 2021
Skim, Dive, Surface
Teaching Digital Reading
Students are reading on screens more than ever—how can we teach them to be better digital readers?
- Copyright year: 2021
Fierce and Delicate
Essays on Dance and Illness
Memoir about ballet and illness from a creative writing teacher whose career as a ballerina was stopped by rheumatoid arthritis.
- Copyright year: 2021
Minding Bodies
How Physical Space, Sensation, and Movement Affect Learning
What happens to teaching when you consider the whole body (and not just “brains on sticks”)?
- Copyright year: 2021
Remaking Appalachia
Ecosocialism, Ecofeminism, and Law
A critical legal scholar uses feminist and environmental theory to sketch alternate futures for Appalachia.
- Copyright year: 2021
Ghosts of New York
Literary novel with a New York setting and a dash of speculative fiction, for fans of Colum McCann, Colm Toibin, and Dana Spiotta.
- Copyright year: 2021