West Virginia University Press was founded in the mid-1960s by Dean of Libraries Dr. Robert Munn. In these early years, WVU Press was successful publishing a small group of important bibliographies and histories of the coal industry.
In 1999, the Press was relocated to within the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences, and Dr. Patrick Conner accepted the challenge of directing the Press. Dr. Conner, along with others, was determined to both reinvigorate the Press and establish it among the foremost university presses in the country. In 2008, Carrie Mullen was hired as the director, where she led the Press according to its mission.
In 2014, Derek Krissoff, previously editor-in-chief at the University of Nebraska Press, began his tenure as director, which ended in 2023. In 2023, current director Than Saffel assumed the role.
We are a small but dedicated professional staff. The West Virginia University Press provides a complete range of publishing services—copyediting, design, production supervision, advertising, publicity, sales, and marketing. We do not publish The Daily Athenaeum and are not involved with production of any WVU magazines, catalogs, or course packets.
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The AUP is an organization made up of select non-profit scholarly publishers that is dedicated to the support of creative and effective scholarly communication. Through professional development opportunities, cooperative programs, and information resources the AUP helps its members fulfill their common commitments to scholarship, the academy, and society. Now, perhaps more than ever before, university presses contribute to the variety and diversity of cultural expression at a time of global mergers and consolidation in the media industry.
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