The University of Pittsburgh Press is a publisher with distinguished lists in a wide range of scholarly and cultural fields. We publish books for general readers, scholars, and students.
The Pitt Latin American Series
The Pitt Latin American Series began in 1968. Since then the series has grown to include a wide array of distinguished books from a variety of disciplinary, ideological, and methodological perspectives on every aspect of Latin American history, politics, society, economics, and culture. The series continues to thrive as it enters its sixth decade with a renewed sense of purpose.
With a vigorous and wide-ranging list in Latin American studies, the University of Pittsburgh Press looks forward to expanding and deepening its publishing efforts in this vibrant and increasingly important region of the world.
Latinx and Latin American Profiles
The focus of this series is on contemporary Latinx and Latin American literary, visual, and performing artists. The books published in this series outline the shape of US Latinx and Latin American producers of cultural content and their work. It offers scholars the possibility of formulating an interpretive approach to an individual artist, group of artists, movement, or genre. It is multidisciplinary and seeks out works on established and emerging artists.
Illuminations: Cultural Formations of the Americas
Illuminations: Cultural Formations of the Americas was founded in 2004 by John Beverley and Sara Castro-Klarén. Featuring cutting-edge books on Latin American and inter-American societies, histories, and cultures that offer new perspectives from postcolonial, subaltern, feminist, and cultural studies, this series takes its inspiration from the idea of the illumination, which the critic Walter Benjamin defined as “that image of the past which unexpectedly appears to someone singled out by history at a moment of danger.” By emphasizing this recovery of the past in the context of a perilous present, the series concerns itself with the historical sedimentation and genealogies of Latin American cultural practices and institutions. In highlighting cultural formations of the Americas, it aims to represent work that crosses regions and continents, encompassing the spatial relations of Atlantic studies, of precolonial or prenational territoriality, and of U.S. Latino and other diasporic cultures.