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.
The Superhero Blockbuster
Adaptation, Style, and Meaning
A detailed exploration of the adaptive practices, meanings, and industrial significance of popular superhero blockbusters
The P-38 Lightning and the Men Who Flew It
Stories of the engineers who designed and the brave pilots who flew the fastest, deadliest fighter of World War II
The Musicals of Cole Porter
Broadway, Hollywood, Television
A pivotal examination of one of America’s greatest songwriters, his lyrics, and his lifelong attempt to define the nature of love
Sax Expat
Don Byas
The riveting biography of one of the world’s greatest yet lesser-known jazz musicians
Regenerating the Feminine
Psyche, Culture, and Nature
An exciting study that aims to trace the resurgence of the feminine archetype in literature and film
King Noir
The Crime Fiction of Stephen King
The first critical study to trace the hardboiled detective inheritance of America’s Storyteller
Global Indigenous Horror
The first critical collection to unsettle the horror genre through a contemporary Indigenous gaze
Faulkner On and Off the Page
Essays in Biographical Criticism
Fresh perspectives on one of literature’s most willfully enigmatic figures
William Faulkner in Holly Springs
An intriguing argument and exploration that expands the postage stamp of the Nobel Laureate’s fiction
Russ Meyer
Interviews
Thirty years of interviews with the provocative and often controversial creator of films including Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!; Beyond the Valley of the Dolls;and Vixen!
Refusing to Be Made Whole
Disability in Black Women's Writing
A cross-disciplinary analysis on how Black women writers theorize disability and Black womanhood
Neoliberalism and Young Adult Fiction
Exceptionalism, Exploitation, and Erasure
One of the first critical volumes to examine how young adult literature reproduces but also resists neoliberalism
Evanira Mendes
A Voice from the Brazilian Folklore Movement
The long-overdue recognition of a scholar and the vibrant Brazilian folklore she documented
Crossing the Pass of Clouds
An Army Photographer's Vietnam Journal
An extraordinarily up-close and personal photography collection and journal of the last years of the Vietnam War
A Tone Parallel to Duke Ellington
The Man in the Music
Ellington’s music with fresh thematic explorations to delight music lovers