San Diego State University Press

San Diego State University Press is the longest established, and often the only, university press in the California State University system.  The Press was founded in 1959, and it currently operates offices on both the San Diego and Imperial Valley campuses.  Harry Polkinhorn has been Director of SDSU Press since 1989.  Sheila Dollente is Associate Director, operating the office in Calexico.  An Editorial Board oversees the publication offerings that focus on two main areas in which the Press specializes:  Southwest and U.S.–Mexico Border History, and Cultural Theory/Postmodernism.   Recent titles in the latter subject area have been published via Hyperbole Books, an imprint of San Diego State University Press. Past inventory and some special projects for the university have been published in areas other than the two specializations.  An example is Dead Sea Scrolls, an exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with the San Diego Natural History Museum.

The Binational Press was founded in 1987 as a cooperative effort between
San Diego State University’s Imperial Valley Campus, and the Autonomous University of Baja California, Mexico.  This press publishes work by new, emerging, and established Mexican and U.S. writers who deal in some way with border experience.  What makes this press unique is that it is simultaneously regional and international and features the mutual sharing of all editorial and production responsibilities by members of these institutions, made possible by their close proximity and participation in a common border culture.  To reflect these interests, each title is translated fully into English and Spanish in one volume. The Binational Press is an imprint of both San Diego State University Press and the Editorial de la Universidad Autónoma de Baja California.

 

Link to our web catalogue:
          http://sdsupress.sdsu.edu/
 

Contact us:
          For orders or information, call 760-768-5536 or e-mail sheila.d@sdsu.edu

 

 

Selected titles:

          Description of Distant Roads:  Original Journals of the First Expedition into
California, 1769-1770,  by Juan Crespí
Edited and translated by Alan K. Brown

          Fluxus:  The History of an Attitude,  by Owen F. Smith

          Modular Approaches to the Study of the Mind,  by Noam Chomsky
                   Series: Distinguished Graduate Research Lecture

          Women on the Road…,   by Rosina Conde
                   Series:  Baja California Literature in Translation

          Border Lives, Editors H. Polkinhorn, G. Trujillo Muñoz, R. Reyes
                   Imprint:  Binational Press/Editorial Binacional