New York University Press Explained

Parent:	New York University
Founded:	1916
Founder:	Elmer Ellsworth Brown
Country:	United States
Headquarters:	New York, New York
Distribution:	Ingram Publisher Services (US)^[1] Combined Academic Publishers (UK)^[2]
Publications:	Books

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Customer Service. NYU Press. 2017-11-02.
2. Web site: Marston Book Services. 2017-12-04.
3. Web site: NYU Press » History. nyupress.org. 5 October 2016. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20130512153026/http://nyupress.org/about/history.aspx. 12 May 2013.
4. Web site: History. 2016-10-05.