Since its first book appeared in 1937, the press has published and distributed more than 3,000 titles. The press has more than 1,400 titles currently in print, including: • scholarly books: American studies and modern American history, African studies, anthropology, Classical studies, dance history, environmental studies, film/cinema history, gay & lesbian studies, modern European and Irish history, Jewish studies, Slavic and Eastern European studies, Southeast Asian Studies, and other subjects • regional books: Wisconsin, the Upper Midwest, and the Great Lakes region • books of general interest: natural history, poetry, biography, fiction, food, travel. In 2003, the press acquired the publishing company
Popular Press, which specialized in works on
popular culture.
Notable authors and awards Notable authors published by the University of Wisconsin Press include
Rigoberto González,
Edmund White,
Lucy Jane Bledsoe,
Olena Kalytiak Davis,
Alden Jones,
Lesléa Newman,
Trebor Healey,
Floyd Skloot,
Kelly Cherry,
Jorie Graham, and
Michael Carroll. The press has also published new editions and translations of work by
Isaac Bashevis Singer,
Leo Tolstoy, and
Djuna Barnes. Books and authors published by the press have won The American Book Award from the
Before Columbus Foundation, the
Lambda Literary Award, the
Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction,
Independent Publisher Book Awards, NEA Literature Fellowships, the
Guggenheim Fellowship,
Publishing Triangle Awards, and other honors. ==Journals division==