About Us

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Mission

The mission of the University of Montana Press is to publish a small number of high quality books each year that represent important scholarly and creative work. We concentrate primarily, but not exclusively, on areas of strong academic programs or special emphasis at the University and its faculty; or areas that address the geography, interests, and concerns of Montana, the sovereign tribes, and the region. Additionally, under the “Mount Sentinel Books of the UM Press” imprint, we occasionally publish special books and other materials of interest to the University and the greater Montana and regional community of readers.

The University of Montana Press endeavors to promote the intellectual labor, research productivity, and creativity of the faculty and students of the University of Montana, as well as the issues, concerns, and interests of the citizens of the state and the sovereign tribes.

Meet the Director

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Ashby Kinch is a professor of English literature specializing in the literature of the medieval period, particularly late medieval literature. He also studies the history of lyric poetry and work in the field of translation studies, specifically Middle English translations of Latin and French writing in the fifteenth century. His book Imago Mortis: Mediating Images of Death in Late Medieval Culture (Brill, 2013) studies the art and literature of death and dying in the early 15th century.  He has also published articles on neuroscience and literature, as well as word-image relations in both medieval literature and in the work of a contemporary American poet, Cole Swensen. Past work includes several articles and an edited collection on the French writer and diplomat Alain Chartier, the most influential European author of the 15th century. He is developing a project comparing the aesthetic structure and social dialectics of the Luttrell Psalter and Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. He is a co-PI on a Keck Foundation grant to develop an integrated curriculum in neuroscience across multiple disciplines. He serves on the Institute of Health and Humanities, and the Humanities Institute at the University of Montana. He has extended his research and thinking on death into public humanities projects, including funding from the Institute of Health and Humanities to develop writing workshops on death, and to produce a modern adaptation of a 15th century multi-media art form known as the "Dance of Death."

Meet our Editorial Fellow

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Gabriella Graceffo is pursuing a PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies between English and Psychology at UM. She completed her MFA in Poetry and MA in Literature at UM, specializing in lyric essays, the representation of trauma, and intermediality. She is an essayist, poet, and photographer with work published or forthcoming at Pleiades, Poets & Writers, MAYDAY, Autofocus, Cordite, and others. She is the recipient of a Ridge Scholarship, the Robinson-Goedicke Scholarship, the George Bond Poetry Prize, and the Russel T. Davies Memorial Poetry Award.