The University of Wisconsin Press is a not-for-profit publisher of books and journals.

Since our founding in 1936, the press has published and distributed more than 3,000 titles. We publish books of general interest (biography, memoir, fiction, natural history, poetry, photography, fishing, food, travel), scholarly books (African studies, American studies, anthropology, art, classics, environmental studies, ethnic studies, film, gay & lesbian studies, history, Jewish studies, literary criticism, Slavic studies), and regional books about Wisconsin and the Upper Midwest.

Our book series include Critical Human Rights; New Perspectives in Southeast Asian Studies; Wisconsin Studies in Classics; Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiography; Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture; The George L. Mosse Series in Modern European Culture, Sexuality, and Ideas; Publications of the Wisconsin Center for Pushkin Studies; Women in Africa and the Diaspora; and the Wisconsin Poetry Series.

We publish works from scholars around the United States and the world. We have co-published English-language books with publishers in England, Ireland, Turkey, Italy, and Japan. UW Press books have been translated into dozens of foreign languages.