New York University Press

Parent company	New York University
Founded	1916
Founder	Elmer Ellsworth Brown
Country of origin	United States
Headquarters location	New York, New York
Distribution	Ingram Publisher Services (US)[1] Combined Academic Publishers (UK)[2]
Publication types	Books
Official website	nyupress.org

New York University Press (or NYU Press) is a university press that is part of New York University.

History

NYU Press was founded in 1916 by the then chancellor of NYU, Elmer Ellsworth Brown.^[3]

Directors

• Arthur Huntington Nason, 1916–1932
• No director, 1932–1946
• Jean B. Barr (interim director), 1946–1952
• Filmore Hyde, 1952–1957
• Wilbur McKee, acting director, 1957–1958
• William B. Harvey, 1958–1966
• Christopher Kentera, 1966–1974
• Malcolm C. Johnson, 1974–1981
• Colin Jones, 1981–1996
• Niko Pfund, 1996–2000
• Steve Maikowski, 2001–2014
• Ellen Chodosh, 2014–present^[4]

Notable publications

Once best known for publishing The Collected Writings of Walt Whitman, NYU Press has now published numerous award-winning scholarly works, such as Convergence Culture (2007) by Henry Jenkins, The Rabbi's Wife (2006) by Shuly Schwartz, and The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust (2002).^[3] Other well-known names published by the press include Cary Nelson, Jonathon Hafetz, Samuel R. Delany, and Mark Denbeaux.

See also

• List of English-language book publishing companies
• List of university presses

References

External links

• Official website