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.
The Fifth Border State
Slavery, Emancipation, and the Formation of West Virginia, 1829–1872
One of the first new interpretations of West Virginia’s origins in over a century—and one that corrects previous histories’ tendency to minimize support for slavery in the state’s founding.
- Copyright year: 2023
Seeds of Occupation, Seeds of Possibility
The Agrochemical-GMO Industry in Hawai‘i
How Hawaiʻi became the epicenter of the biotech seed industry, and how a resistance movement arose to confront the industry’s power.
- Copyright year: 2022
Picture a Professor
Interrupting Biases about Faculty and Increasing Student Learning
A collection of evidence-based insights and intersectional teaching strategies to inspire transformative student learning and interrupt stereotypes about what a professor looks like.
- Copyright year: 2022
Bratwurst Haven
Stories
Linked stories trace the vocational and emotional bargains made by workers at a Colorado sausage factory.
- Copyright year: 2022
Imperium in Imperio
A new critical edition of Sutton Griggs’s turn-of-the-twentieth-century novel, which continues to shed light on understandings of Black politics.
- Copyright year: 2022
Curing Season
Artifacts
“A lovely and rapturous excavation and examination of the past, a lesson in writing oneself into history when it doesn’t offer you a space.” —Jenny Boully, author of Betwixt-and-Between: Essays on the Writing Life
- Copyright year: 2022
Almanac for the Anthropocene
A Compendium of Solarpunk Futures
Original voices from across the solarpunk movement, which positions ingenuity, generativity, and community as ways to resist hopelessness in response to the climate crisis.
- Copyright year: 2022
Inclusive Teaching
Strategies for Promoting Equity in the College Classroom
Award-winning teachers offer practical tips for addressing inequities in the college classroom and for making all students feel welcome and included.
- Copyright year: 2022
Foote
A Mystery Novel
“Part mystery, part fable but all original, Jim Foote is sure to be one of your favorite literary detectives—cryptid or otherwise.” —Jordan Farmer, author of The Poison Flood and The Pallbearer
- Copyright year: 2022
Teaching Matters
A Guide for Graduate Students
A practical and evidence-based teaching guide for graduate students across all fields.
- Copyright year: 2022
A Year without Months
“A beautiful, powerful book. Read it and be changed.”—Jim Minick
- Copyright year: 2022
Remembering and Forgetting in the Age of Technology
Teaching, Learning, and the Science of Memory in a Wired World
What does memory mean for learning in an age of smartphones and search engines?
- Copyright year: 2022
Lioness
A Novel
“Darkly compelling.” —Tom Perrotta
- Copyright year: 2022
Hungry Town
A Novel
“A literary page-turner. . . . Part Cormac McCarthy, part Tom Drury and Raymond Chandler, Kapcala has created a voice all his own.” —Brian Castleberry
- Copyright year: 2022
Another Appalachia
Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place
- Copyright year: 2022
Rogues in the Postcolony
Narrating Extraction and Itinerancy in India
An environmental humanist’s study of extractive capitalism and colonial occupation in Indian fiction.
- Copyright year: 2022
African American Workers and the Appalachian Coal Industry
Essays by the foremost labor historian of the Black experience in the Appalachian coalfields.
- Copyright year: 2022
Slow Fuse of the Possible
A Memoir of Poetry and Psychoanalysis
An engrossing and beautifully crafted memoir of imagination, obsession, and disaster from the couch of old-fashioned four-times-a-week psychoanalysis.
- Copyright year: 2022
Memoirs of the Life, Religious Experience, Ministerial Travels, and Labours of Mrs. Elaw
The remarkable autobiography of a Black woman evangelist.
- Copyright year: 2021
Engaging the Atom
The History of Nuclear Energy and Society in Europe from the 1950s to the Present
Transnational perspectives on the relationship between nuclear energy and society.
- Copyright year: 2021