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WVU Press radio spot - December 21, 2024
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Shauna Johnson: At West Virginia University, Mountaineers go first. WVU Press is celebrating its silver anniversary, marking 25 years of publishing with purpose.
Ben Saffel: I really cannot imagine a job that would be more fulfilling to me overall than working with West Virginia University Press and being in this role.
Shauna Johnson: Ben Saffel, now the press's director, has filled multiple roles during more than 20 of its years.
Ben Saffel: We've gone on a relatively smooth trajectory from being a perhaps marginal university press, publishing West Virginia and university-centric work, to publishing a wide range of scholarship and fiction and creative non-fiction that's really widely regarded in the outside world.
Speaker 1: The most recent years have been marked by significant growth globally.Ben Saffel: Particularly, we had tremendous success with Deesha Philyaw's the Secret Lives of Church Ladies, which is absolutely a banner success for us and has provided a lot of support for that fiction publishing program. We also have the Teaching and Learning in Higher Education series, which provided a lot of credibility for us in that sphere.
Shauna Johnson: Housed in the office of the provost, WVU Press publishes between 16 and 20 books annually along with three journals.
Ben Saffel: We really, at this point, are enjoying what you might call an embarrassment of riches in terms of work that's coming to us. But we are also working hard to engage with the wider culture and do more conferences and do more events.
Shauna Johnson: Areas of focus include Appalachian studies, history, higher education, the social sciences, and interdisciplinary books about energy, environment and resources. See a full listing at wvupressonline.com.
Ben Saffel: We have this tremendous freedom, but we're also supported and we're also well-regarded within the university, but also outside the university. And it's tremendously challenging to try to keep that reputation up, but it's also tremendously exciting every day.
Shauna Johnson: So let's go. Follow our stories at wvutoday.wvu.edu.
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