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 Sinful Maternal
Motherhood in Possession Films
A timely examination of the often-overlooked agency, trauma, and fluidity of pregnancy and motherhood in horror
Superheroes in the Streets
Muslim Women Activists and Protest in the Digital Age
How Muslim women activists have heroically raised physical and digital protest banners
Same Old Song
The Enduring Past in Popular Music
How pop music remembers and re-plays sounds from the past
Paddleways of Mississippi
Rivers and People of the Magnolia State
A celebration of the Magnolia State’s exceptional waterways
Maverick Feminist
To Be Female and Black in a Country Founded upon Violence and Respectability
A pressing call to an accessible, nonconformist feminism for Black women
Indigenous Comics and Graphic Novels
Studies in Genre
How Indigenous creators impact the landscape of superhero, science fiction, historical, and experimental comics
Conversations with Ben Okri
Over three decades of interviews with the innovative Nigerian author and first Black African winner of the Booker Prize
Alt Kid Lit
What Children's Literature Might Be
A timely group of essays that wrestles with what children’s literature is and who it is made for
The Summer of 2020
George Floyd and the Resurgence of the Black Lives Matter Movement
An in-depth look at a profound flashpoint in social movement history
Superheroes Beyond
A dynamic collection acknowledging a powerful diversity of superheroes outside of expected boundaries
Out of the Blue
Life on the Road with Muddy Waters
A behind-the-scenes account from Muddy Waters’s road manager and right-hand man during the bluesman’s last great years
Jazz in the Hill
Nightlife and Narratives of a Pittsburgh Neighborhood
The lively history of a cherished music scene and its ongoing social significance
BOOM! SPLAT!
Comics and Violence
Enlightening essays on the enduring and compelling functions of violence in comics
Albert Brooks
Interviews
Fourteen profiles of and conversations with the well-known American actor, director, and screenwriter
Jean Peters
Hollywood's Mystery Girl
The first definitive volume in more than fifty years on the extraordinary star of Pickup on South Street, Three Coins in the Fountain, and Niagara
King of the Gunrunners
How a Philadelphia Fruit Importer Inspired a Revolution and Provoked the Spanish-American War
How a boisterous fruit importer aided a revolution that triggered a war
Peep Light
Stories of a Mississippi River Boat Captain
An illuminating record of fifty years as a pilot on the mighty Mississippi River
Outliving the White Lie
A Southerner's Historical, Genealogical, and Personal Journey
An unflinching chronicle of one Mississippian’s reckoning with history
Monsters and Saints
LatIndigenous Landscapes and Spectral Storytelling
Writings and artwork that examine the concept of home through the ghost stories of Latinx and Indigenous cultures
Inventing Benjy
William Faulkner’s Most Splendid Creative Leap
The newly translated analysis of one of the most innovative protagonists ever created in American modernism