Testimonials

“I think what makes the press special is the dedication and creativity, the profound commitment and intellectual engagement of the people that work there. It’s really the quality of the people who work there and their commitment to a topflight project.” – Priscilla Wald, editor of American Literature

“I’m free to focus on content because I’m so confident that the rest of the process is going to work so well.” – Michael Hardt, editor of SAQ: South Atlantic Quarterly

“Working with the people at Duke, I learned enthusiasm.” —Tetsuji Miwa, former Editor-in-Chief, Kyoto Journal of Mathematics

“It’s been a wonderful, collaborative process to work with Duke University Press and to really feel the support of having a team behind you.” – Jennifer Holberg, editor of Pedagogy

“As the publishing environment got more complex, with the proliferation of online material, it became evident that we needed help in managing our presence in the world. Our editorial staff could make decisions about what to publish, ... and manage our relations with submitters and readers. But as it became clear that other kinds of questions were increasingly important, it also became clear that joining with Duke University Press would address them and address them in a great way.” – Lee Zimmerman, editor of Twentieth-Century Literature

“Given the newness and precariousness of our field, the vulnerabilities often attached to transgender lives, and the potential for transgender studies to stage an intervention in knowledge production that has real-world consequences, we also felt the need for the imprimatur of a prestigious university press.” – Paisley Currah and Susan Stryker, former editors of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly in the introduction to volume 1, issue 1-2 

“I think the initial reasons Theater wanted this relationship with Duke University Press are still very true today. Duke University Press has a very amazing list of journals that are, like us I think, devoted to the public sphere and not just the academic or scholarly one; other journals that are trying to speak to a readership beyond academia on really important intellectual and cultural topics, and that is still true. Working with a press that is devoted to that principle for its journals is very important.” – Tom Sellar, editor of Theater

“If you have a press that is excited about the content—not just wanting to market it, but actually engaged with the content, it changes your attitude to what you’re doing. So you begin to think much more holistically. And I think that happened for us, that we suddenly realized that we had people who were going to push us to become ourselves.” – miriam cooke, former coeditor of Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies