Yale University Press
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| Status | Active |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1908 |
| Founder | George Parmly Day |
| Country of origin | USA |
| Headquarters location | New Haven, Connecticut |
| Nonfiction topics | Various |
| Fiction genres | Poetry, Literature in translation |
| Official website | yalepress.yale.edu |
Yale University Press is a university press associated with Yale University. It was founded in 1908 by George Parmly Day,[1] and became an official department of Yale University in 1961, but remains financially and operationally autonomous.
As of 2009[update], Yale University Press published approximately 300 new hardcover and 150 new paperback books annually and has more than 6,000 books in print. Its books have won five National Book Awards, two National Book Critics Circle Awards, and eight Pulitzer Prizes.[2]
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[edit] Series and publishing programs
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[edit] Yale Series of Younger Poets
Since its inception in 1919, the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition has published the first collection of poetry by new poets. The first winner was Howard Buck; the 2011 winner was Katherine Larson.
[edit] Yale Drama Series
Yale University Press and Yale Repertory Theatre jointly sponsor the Yale Drama Series, a playwriting competition. The winner of the annual competition is awarded the David C. Horn Prize of $10,000, publication of his/her manuscript by Yale University Press, and a staged reading at Yale Rep. The Yale Drama Series and David C. Horn Prize are funded by the David Charles Horn Foundation.[3]
[edit] Anchor Yale Bible Series
In 2007, Yale University Press acquired the Anchor Bible Series, a collection of more than 115 volumes of biblical scholarship, from the Doubleday Publishing Group.[citation needed] New and backlist titles are now published under the Anchor Yale Bible Series name.
[edit] Future of American Democracy Series
Yale University Press is publishing the Future of American Democracy Series,[4] which "aims to examine, sustain, and renew the historic vision of American democracy in a series of books by some of America's foremost thinkers", in partnership with the Future of American Democracy Foundation.[5]
[edit] The Lamar Series in Western History
The Lamar Series in Western History (formerly the Yale Western Americana series)[6] was established in 1962 to publish works that enhance the understanding of human affairs in the American West and contribute to a wider understanding of why the West matters in the political, social, and cultural life of America.[7]
[edit] Terry Lectures Series
The Dwight H. Terry Lectureship was established in 1905 to encourage the consideration of religion in the context of modern science, psychology, and philosophy. Many of the lectures, which are hosted by Yale University, have been edited into book form by the Yale University Press.
[edit] Yale Publishing Course
In 2010, following the end of the Stanford Publishing Course for Professionals, former Yale University Press publishing director Tina Weiner convinced Yale to establish the Yale Publishing Course under the aegis of Yale's international-studies program at the Yale School of Management.[8]
[edit] Controversies
[edit] Muhammad cartoon controversy
In August, 2009, officials at the Press ignited a controversy when they decided to expunge reproductions of the cartoons involved in the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy, along with all other images of Muhammad, from a scholarly book entitled The Cartoons that Shook the World, by professor Jytte Klausen.[9]
[edit] Political bias
A 2010 study by John B. Parrott of the Political Science book published by Yale University Press in the categories "American government" and "American political history" in 2009 concluded that "it is more concerned with purveying the progressive, left-wing opinions of its authors, and less with demanding fealty to facts and scholarly standards".[10]
[edit] References
- ^ Bradley, George (1998). "Introduction". The Yale Younger Poets Anthology. New Haven and London. p. 24.
- ^ "Donatich Appointed New Director of Yale University Press". Press release. Yale University. December 11, 2002. http://www.yale.edu/opa/newsr/02-12-11-02.all.html. Retrieved 2011-01-25.
- ^ Yale Drama Series: Prize for Emerging Playwrights from the Yale University Press website
- ^ The Future of American Democracy Series from the Yale University Press official website
- ^ Official website of the Future of American Democracy Foundation
- ^ Basbanes, Nicholas A. A World of Letters: Yale University Press, 1908-2008, New Haven and London, 2008. p. 222, Centennial Highlights
- ^ The Lamar Series in Western History from the Yale University Press official website
- ^ "Yale Publishing Course Will Be International, Business-Oriented". New York. April 10, 2010. http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/04/yale_publishing_course_will_be.html. Retrieved 2011-01-25.
- ^ Patricia Cohen (August 13, 2009). "Yale Press Bans Images of Muhammad in New Book". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/13/books/13book.html.
- ^ Parrott, J. B. (2010). "Yale University Press: Disseminating Lux et Veritas?". Academic Questions 23 (3): 327–338. DOI:10.1007/s12129-010-9176-9.
