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New York University Press

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

Parent company

1916

Ingram Publisher Services (US)[1]
Combined Academic Publishers (UK)[2]

History[edit]

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

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

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Notable publications[edit]

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.

List of English-language book publishing companies

List of university presses

Official website