WHO
WE ARE AND WHAT WE PUBLISH
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Located in Madison, Wisconsin, the University
of Wisconsin Press was founded in 1936. The Press publishes books
and journals. We select the books using a careful process of
review by Press staff, outside experts, and a board of University
of Wisconsin faculty. Each of our journal issues also undergoes
a rigorous peer-review process. (We are not a printing firm;
we do not do work for hire.)
Since its first book appeared in 1937,
the Press has published and distributed more than 3000 titles.
We have more than 1400 titles
currently in print, including books of general interest (biography,
fiction, natural history, poetry, photography, fishing, food,
travel, etc.), scholarly books (American studies, anthropology,
art, classics, environmental studies, ethnic studies, film, gay
& lesbian studies, history, Jewish studies, literary criticism,
Slavic studies, etc.), and regional books about Wisconsin and
the Upper Midwest. We publish and distribute new
books each year in these fields.
Among our book series are the Brittingham
Prize in Poetry, the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry, Wisconsin
Studies in Autobiography, Wisconsin Studies in Classics, Living
Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiography, Studies in Dance History;
George L. Mosse Series in Modern European Cultural and Intellectual
History; The History of American Thought and Culture; and Publications
of the Wisconsin Center for Pushkin Studies. Click here for a more complete
list of series.
Journals. Just a third of the membership
of the Association of American University Presses publish academic
journals, and we're proud to say that this is yet another way
in which Wisconsin contributes to the timely dissemination of
scholarship-our most basic mission. The Press publishes 11 peer-reviewed
academic journals in the humanities, social sciences, and medicine,
several of which have been with the Press since the inception
of the Journals Division in 1965. Today our journals appear not
only as printed words on the page, but a growing number are also
available on-line. Complete archives of most Press journals are
also available electronically from a variety of sources. UWP
journals are: American Orthoptic Journal, Arctic Anthropology,
Contemporary Literature, Journal of Consumer Affairs, Journal
of Human Resources, Land Economics, Landscape Journal, Luso-Brazilian
Review, Monatshefte, Ecological Restoration, and SubStance.
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here to visit the UW Journals Web site.
The Press is a division of the Graduate
School of the University of
Wisconsin–Madison. Residing within the University's
Graduate School, the Press draws on and supports the intellectual
activities of the Graduate School and its faculty and enhances
the University's overall missions of research and instruction.
Although we publish many books and journals produced by faculty
from the University of Wisconsin campuses, we also publish books
and journals from scholars around the United States and the world.
We have authors residing in many different countries, from Australia
to Zimbabwe. The Press is one of more than 120 member presses
in the Association
of American University Presses. We have copublished English-language
books with publishers in England, Ireland, Turkey, Italy, and
Japan. University of Wisconsin Press books have been translated
into dozens of foreign languages.
We also distribute and/or publish books
for other institutions, including Chazen Museum of Art; Center
for Upper Midwest Culture; Dryad Press; Ginkgo Press; International
Brecht Society; Max Kade Institute for German American Studies;
Milwaukee Art Museum; Society of Dance History Scholars; University
of Wisconsin–Madison; University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee;
and the Wisconsin Arts Board.
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