Wvupress.com
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West Virginia University Press
Description
The West Virginia University Press is now around forty years old and has a list of nearly 50 titles in print, and we’re adding nearly a dozen new titles every year. Even so, until recently, most West Virginians haven’t known we are here, but we’re turning that around, too.
Robert Munn, Dean of WVU Libraries, began publishing books on West Virginia subjects in the mid-1960s, at first under the imprint of the West Virginia University Libraries, and later, during the early 1970s, he established the West Virginia University Press imprint. In 1999, the Press moved to the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences under the shelter of the Department of English. That relationship has worked well and we continue in our commitment to improve and develop the Press by the careful selection of new titles made available to us by authors and scholars and by the sophisticated design of our books, thus making them attractive to book dealers as well as book buyers. At the heart of any university press are the scholarly monographs and scientific studies that constitute our major mission to the academic community. Making new insights, new discoveries, and even new literature available to the larger community of scholars and writers in the U.S. is our first reason for existing. To focus as much of that as is practical on our own region and state is our next justification.
We are particularly proud of our West Virginia titles which now cover not only the coal industry, our founding editor’s major contribution, but our state's art, music, history and literature, as well. Like the Press itself, we think that these West Virginia titles ought to be better known.
