Editorial Program - Southern Illinois University Press - Southern Illinois University Press

Editorial Program

Southern Illinois University Press publishes scholarly and trade books in the following subject areas

American history (African American, Civil War, Reconstruction)
American literature (Beat writers)
Aviation
Communication
Film and media studies
Law
Poetry
Philosophy (Dewey)
Regional studies (history, natural history and culture)
Rhetoric and composition
Theater history and stagecraft

Active Book series:

Aquatic and Standing Water Plants of the Central Midwest

Civil War Campaigns in the Heartland, edited by Steven Woodworth.

Detailed, multiauthor campaign studies of the western theater of the Civil War.

Concise Lincoln Library, edited by Richard Etulain, Sara Gabbard, and Sylvia Frank Rodrigue

Brief books on Lincoln—both broad overviews and monographs—for a general audience as well as for Lincoln specialists.

Crab Orchard Series in Poetry, edited by Jon Tribble

Elmer H. Johnson and Carol Holmes Johnson Series in Criminology

Illustrated Flora of Illinois

Landmarks in Rhetoric and Public Address

Critical editions and translations of important primary rhetorical works from ancient times through the nineteenth century.

Legal History of the Civil War Era, edited by Christian Samito

Scholarly works in a variety of formats that explore legal and constitutional change during the Civil War era from a number of possible angles, including presidential leadership, legislative mandates, and judicial interpretation.

The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, edited by John Marszalek

Shawnee Books

New works on the history, natural history and/or culture of the region.

Shawnee Classics

Reprinted paperback editions of classic works on the history, natural history and/or culture of the region.

Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms, edited by Cheryl Glenn and Shirley Wilson Logan

Traditional and cutting-edge scholarly works that extend the significant relationship between rhetoric and feminism within various genres, cultural contexts, historical periods, methodologies, theoretical positions, and methods of delivery.

Studies in Writing and Rhetoric, edited by Joseph Harris

Scholarly studies that vary from the critical to historical to linguistic to ethnographic, and which range from work on individual writers and teachers to work on classrooms and communities and curricula to analyses of the social, political, and material contexts of writing and its teaching.

Theater in the Americas, edited by Robert A. Schanke

Scholarly works focusing on the performance and production of theater and theater artists and practitioners throughout the Americas.