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.
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
American Vaudeville
A dreamlike, evocative reckoning with a lost epoch in popular culture—and with old, weird America.
- 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
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
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
Remaking Appalachia
Ecosocialism, Ecofeminism, and Law
A critical legal scholar uses feminist and environmental theory to sketch alternate futures for Appalachia.
- 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
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
Feminist Geography Unbound
Discomfort, Bodies, and Prefigured Futures
A field-defining collection of new voices on gender, feminism, and geography.
- 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
Red Harvests
Agrarian Capitalism and Genocide in Democratic Kampuchea
Reassessing the Cambodian genocide through the lens of global capitalist development.
- Copyright year: 2021
The Road to Blair Mountain
Saving a Mine Wars Battlefield from King Coal
- Copyright year: 2021
Ungrading
Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead)
- Copyright year: 2020
The Opioid Epidemic and US Culture
Expression, Art, and Politics in an Age of Addiction
- Copyright year: 2020
The Political Ecology of Education
Brazil's Landless Workers' Movement and the Politics of Knowledge
- Copyright year: 2020
Bluegrass Ambassadors
The McLain Family Band in Appalachia and the World
- Copyright year: 2020
Transportation and the Culture of Climate Change
Accelerating Ride to Global Crisis
- Copyright year: 2020
Appalachian Englishes in the Twenty-First Century
- Copyright year: 2020
A Place Remote
Stories
- Copyright year: 2020
Learning to Leave
The Irony of Schooling in a Coastal Community
- Copyright year: 2020
Storytelling in Queer Appalachia
Imagining and Writing the Unspeakable Other
- Copyright year: 2020
Wheeling's Polonia
Reconstructing Polish Community in a West Virginia Steel Town
- Copyright year: 2020
Heeding the Call
A Study of Denise Giardina's Novels
- Copyright year: 2020
Famine in the Remaking
Food System Change and Mass Starvation in Hawaii, Madagascar, and Cambodia
- Copyright year: 2020
I'm Afraid of That Water
A Collaborative Ethnography of a West Virginia Water Crisis
- Copyright year: 2020
Beyond Populism
Angry Politics and the Twilight of Neoliberalism
- Copyright year: 2020
Mountaineers Are Always Free
Heritage, Dissent, and a West Virginia Icon
- Copyright year: 2020
Beyond Populism
Angry Politics and the Twilight of Neoliberalism
- Copyright year: 2020
Teaching about Race and Racism in the College Classroom
Notes from a White Professor
- Copyright year: 2019
Walter F. White: The NAACP's Ambassador for Racial Justice
- Copyright year: 2018
Intentional Tech
Principles to Guide the Use of Educational Technology in College Teaching
- Copyright year: 2019
Geography's Quantitative Revolutions
Edward A. Ackerman and the Cold War Origins of Big Data
- Copyright year: 2019
Energy Culture
Art and Theory on Oil and Beyond
- Copyright year: 2019
American Grief in Four Stages
Stories
- Copyright year: 2019
The Black Butterfly
Brazilian Slavery and the Literary Imagination
- Copyright year: 2019
Mountains Piled upon Mountains
Appalachian Nature Writing in the Anthropocene
- Copyright year: 2019
Geeky Pedagogy
A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers
- Copyright year: 2019
Governing the Wind Energy Commons
Renewable Energy and Community Development
- Copyright year: 2019
Modern Moonshine
The Revival of White Whiskey in the Twenty-First Century
- Copyright year: 2019