Brandeis University Press Expands with UPNE Backlist By Alex Green | Apr 20, 2021
When the University Press of New England shuttered at the end of 2018, the region lost a unique publishing consortium with a diverse backlist that drew its collective strength from the specialization of its member presses. But UPNE’s backlist is not gone. Instead, it has been acquired by Brandeis University Press, which plans to use the titles to support its own expansion into some genres that have been underserved since UPNE’s closure.
The acquisition was finalized earlier this year, and includes sole ownership of UPNE’s titles and copyrights, which more than doubles BUP’s list to 700 books in-print. Dartmouth College, where UPNE was located, had co-managed the list with BUP for the previous two years and will retain sole ownership of UPNE titles published under the Dartmouth College Press.
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Marc Dollinger’s book, “Black Power, Jewish Politics,” sold more than expected in this year of racial reckoning, and by September, there were only 150 copies left.
Since the police killing of George Floyd in May, Dollinger and his book have been in high demand in liberal Jewish communities grappling with structural racism. Dollinger, a historian in the Jewish Studies department at San Francisco State University, has given dozens of Zoom lectures in the last seven months, and his publisher, Brandeis University Press, rushed to put out a fourth printing of the 2018 book with a new preface reflecting the current discourse.
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