Status | Defunct (2018)[1] |
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Founded | 1970 |
Country of origin | United States |
Headquarters location | Lebanon, New Hampshire |
Key people | self-distributed (US) University of Toronto Press (Canada) Oxbow Books (EMEA) East-West Export Books (Asia Pacific)[2] |
Publication types | Books |
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Official website | www |
TheUniversity Press of New England (UPNE), located inLebanon, New Hampshire and founded in 1970, was auniversity press consortium includingBrandeis University,Dartmouth College (its host member),Tufts University, theUniversity of New Hampshire, andNortheastern University. It shut down in 2018[3] and in January 2021, Brandeis University became the sole owner of all titles and copyrights of UPNE, excluding Dartmouth College Press titles.[4][5]
Notable fiction authors published by UPNE includeHoward Frank Mosher,Roxana Robinson,Ernest Hebert,Cathie Pelletier,Chris Bohjalian,Percival Everett, Laurie Alberts andWalter D. Wetherell. Notable poets distributed by the press includeRae Armantrout,Claudia Rankine,James Tate,Mary Ruefle,Donald Revell,Ellen Bryant Voigt,James Wright,Jean Valentine,Stanley Kunitz,Heather McHugh, andYusef Komunyakaa. Notable nature and environment authors published include William Sargent,Cynthia Huntington,David Gessner, John Hay,Tom Wessels andEric Zencey. Notable scholarly authors published by UPNE and its members include Kathleen J. Ferraro,Jehuda Reinharz, Joyce Antler,Peter Gizzi, Mary Caroline Richards,Leslie Cannold, Colin Calloway,David Fishman,Diana Muir,Wolfgang Mieder, andGina Barreca. UPNE and its authors and titles have received many honors and awards including theNational Book Award,[6]Pulitzer Prize,[7] Guggenheim Fellowships, NEA Literature Fellowships,[8] and the Barnes & Noble Discovery Award.[9]
The press published books for scholars, educators, students, and the general public, concentrating on American studies, literature, history, and cultural studies; art, architecture, and material culture; ethnic studies (African American, Jewish, Native American, Shaker, and international studies); nature and the environment; and New England history and culture. It published around sixty titles annually, and distributed titles for a number of other small and academic presses, museums and non-profit societies.[10]
UPNE and UPNE Book Partners ceased publishing operations at the end of 2018