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.
Learning to Leave
The Irony of Schooling in a Coastal Community
- Copyright year: 2020
A Place Remote
Stories
- Copyright year: 2020
Appalachian Englishes in the Twenty-First Century
- Copyright year: 2020
Transportation and the Culture of Climate Change
Accelerating Ride to Global Crisis
- Copyright year: 2020
Bluegrass Ambassadors
The McLain Family Band in Appalachia and the World
- Copyright year: 2020
The Political Ecology of Education
Brazil's Landless Workers' Movement and the Politics of Knowledge
- Copyright year: 2020
The Opioid Epidemic and US Culture
Expression, Art, and Politics in an Age of Addiction
- Copyright year: 2020
Ungrading
Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead)
- Copyright year: 2020
The Road to Blair Mountain
Saving a Mine Wars Battlefield from King Coal
- Copyright year: 2021
Red Harvests
Agrarian Capitalism and Genocide in Democratic Kampuchea
Reassessing the Cambodian genocide through the lens of global capitalist development.
- Copyright year: 2021
Working It Off in Labor County
Stories
Humorous and wry stories of misfits and ordinary people in an Appalachian community struggling creatively to make sense of an often nonsensical world.
- Copyright year: 2021
Feminist Geography Unbound
Discomfort, Bodies, and Prefigured Futures
A field-defining collection of new voices on gender, feminism, and geography.
- Copyright year: 2021
So Much to Be Angry About
Appalachian Movement Press and Radical DIY Publishing, 1969–1979
A richly produced, craft- and activist-centered celebration of radical DIY publishing, for readers of Appalachian Reckoning.
- 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
Remaking Appalachia
Ecosocialism, Ecofeminism, and Law
A critical legal scholar uses feminist and environmental theory to sketch alternate futures for Appalachia.
- 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
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
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
American Vaudeville
A dreamlike, evocative reckoning with a lost epoch in popular culture—and with old, weird America.
- 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
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
Past Titan Rock
Journeys into an Appalachian Valley
A classic book about Appalachian life and music, now updated with new material.
- Copyright year: 2021
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
The Harlan Renaissance
Stories of Black Life in Appalachian Coal Towns
A personal remembrance from the preeminent chronicler of Black life in Appalachia.
- Copyright year: 2021
A Union for Appalachian Healthcare Workers
The Radical Roots and Hard Fights of Local 1199
History at the intersection of healthcare, labor, and civil rights.
- Copyright year: 2021
Perfect Dirt
And Other Things I've Gotten Wrong
Recounted with humor and honesty, Lester invites us into his life as he struggles with masculinity and searches for a place where he fits.
- 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