NYU Press
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| Parent company | New York University |
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| Founded | 1916 |
| Founder | Elmer Ellsworth Brown |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | New York, New York |
| Publication types | Books |
| Official website | nyupress |
New York University Press (or NYU Press) is a university press that is part of New York University.
NYU Press was founded in 1916 by the then chancellor of NYU, Elmer Ellsworth Brown, in order, he said, to "publish contributions to higher learning by eminent scholars."
Arthur Huntington Nason, a professor of English at NYU, served as the Press’s first director from its founding until 1932. No replacement was named following Nason’s retirement, and, due in part to the Great Depression, there was little activity at the Press for several years.
In 1952, Filmore Hyde, the first literary editor at The New Yorker, was named director of NYU Press. Under Hyde’s relatively brief tenure, the Press radically redefined itself several times. In his first year, Hyde helped to restructure the Press so that it ceased to serve as the university’s printing office, and instead focused exclusively on publishing fully realized books.
Freed from having to make commercial viability its primary concern, the Press returned to focusing on scholarly books. It began publishing the Proceedings of the NYU Institute of Philosophy, edited by noted philosopher and NYU professor Sidney Hook, and the Gotham Library Series, edited by NYU Professor Oscar Cargill, which focused on English and American literature. The 1960s also saw the start of the project for which NYU Press was best known for decades to follow, The Collected Writings of Walt Whitman, edited by eminent Whitman scholars Gay Wilson Allen and Sculley Bradley. Beginning with the six-volume Correspondence of Walt Whitman in 1961, this series featured more than twenty books collecting Whitman’s poems, prose writings, notebook entries, and unpublished manuscripts. Out of print for many years and commanding hundreds of dollars per volume in the used book market, the books were reissued using digital print-on-demand technology in 2007.
In addition to its strong lists in literary criticism, philosophy, and economics, throughout the 1960s and 1970s, NYU Press had a robust art history program, publishing work by such noted scholars as Millard Meiss (De Artibus Opuscula XL), Erwin Panofsky (Problems in Titian, Mostly Iconographic), and Richard Krautheimer (Studies in Early Christian, Medieval, and Renaissance Art), as well as a number of titles in the College Art Association Monograph series and co-publications with the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Shifts in editorial focus and the increasing expense of publishing large, heavily illustrated books eventually led the Press to discontinue its art history program.
In the 1980s, the Press began serious efforts to develop its psychology list with a number of important books and series, including the Essential Papers in Psychoanalysis series, many volumes from which remain in print to the present day. The Press began publishing in Jewish studies, another area that has remained a focus, in the late 1980s with such books as Nora Levin’s two-volume The Jews in the Soviet Union Since 1917 and Leo Goldberger’s The Rescue of the Danish Jews.
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