Featured catalogs collection for Books Division page
- UMP to publish ebooks for all titles
- ebooks, digital publishing, Google Editions, Amazon Kindle
- Highly regarded author and professor José Esteban Muñoz dies
- Indie Groundbreaking Publisher: UMP feature in Independent Publisher
- The University of Minnesota Press is Independent Publisher’s first university groundbreaking publisher. What makes Minnesota so different? They seriously rebel against the stereotype of a stuffy academic press (which we are seeing more and more university publishers doing every day). “We try to publish work that is at the leading-edge or even on the fringes – work a little more ‘out there’ than you see at your usual university press,” Director Doug Armato explains. “We think our specific role is to take cultural and intellectual chances, and this organizational DNA can be seen in everything from the general interest and regional books we publish to the most scholarly books on the list.”
- Jailhouse Stories author Neil Haugerud dies
- Neil Haugerud, author of Jailhouse Stories, died June 6th, 2012, at the age of 81.
- Joanna Frueh, trailblazing writer, performance artist, scholar, and art historian dies at 72
- Jochen Schulte-Sasse, renowned intellectual, dies at 72
- Jochen Schulte-Sasse worked with the University of Minnesota Press on multiple projects, including the Theory and History of Literature Series and the journal Cultural Critique.
- Jonathan P. Eburne will receive MLA's James Russell Lowell Prize
- Leah Pennywark joins University of Minnesota Press as new humanities editor
- Leah Pennywark is the new University of Minnesota Press humanities editor. She starts August 26.
- Manifold Moves Toward Sustainability, Promotes Learning and Equity with Two Major Grants
- Manifold Scholarship will enter a new phase of its development, supported by two major grants, one from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and one from the National Endowment for the Humanities, allowing Manifold to solidify its structure for future sustainability and to expand its work as a leading provider of digital Open Educational Resources (OERs).
- The University of Minnesota Press partners with CUNY's GC Digital Scholarship Lab to launch MANIFOLD SCHOLARSHIP—a platform for iterative, networked monographs—with grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- The University of Minnesota Press in partnership with the GC Digital Scholarship Lab at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York has been awarded a $732,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to launch Manifold Scholarship. This grant marks the continuation of an ambitious collaboration between a university press and a leading digital humanities center to advance scholarly authorship and publishing in a digital environment.