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.
Us According to Them
Stateside Portrayals of Puerto Ricans and Their Culture, 1898-2010
A thoughtful look at how mainland US observers perceive and portray Puerto Rico
Prophetic Peril
The Rhetoric of Nineteenth-Century African American Prophetic-Call Narratives
A study of the call narrative storytelling tradition centered on four influential Black leaders
Lloyd Kaufman
Interviews
An extensive deep-dive omnibus from one of cinema’s most indefatigably ardent auteurs
Deep Roots, Broken Branches
A History and Memoir
A powerful, intimate portrait that weaves history across five generations of an American family
Conversations with Ted Kooser
Almost fifty years of interviews chronicling the Nebraska writer’s rise from a regional poet of the Great Plains to a Pulitzer Prize–winning artistic luminary
Black Saturation
Selected Works of Stephen E. Henderson
The first full-length volume to showcase the critical corpus of an eminent scholar of Black literature
Atravesados
Essays on Queer Latinx Young Adult Literature
A scholarly revelation of the Latinidades characters and works that have crossed multiple borders
Animating the Victorians
Disney's Literary History
A thorough study of the many links between the Golden Age of children’s literature and a global storytelling powerhouse
Voices and Visions
Essays on New Orleans's Literary History
An insightful survey tracing the influence of New Orleans writers, past and present, on the literary canon
Unpalatable
Stories of Pain and Pleasure in Southern Cookbooks
An examination of how narratives of suffering balance the conventions of joy and success in the southern cookbook tradition