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Duke University Press is an academic publisher and university press affiliated with Duke University. It was founded in 1921 by William T. Laprade as The Trinity College Press. (Duke University was initially called Trinity College). In 1926 Duke University Press was formally established. Ernest Seeman became the first director of DUP, followed by Henry Dwyer (1929–1944), W.T. LaPrade (1944–1951), Ashbel Brice (1951–1981), Richard Rowson (1981–1990), Larry Malley (1990–1993), Stanley Fish and Steve Cohn (1994–1998), Steve Cohn (1998–2019). Writer Dean Smith is the current director of the press.

It publishes approximately 150 books annually and more than 55 academic journals, as well as five electronic collections. The company publishes primarily in the humanities and social sciences but is also particularly well known for its mathematics journals. The book publishing program includes lists in African studies, African American studies, American studies, anthropology, art and art history, Asian studies, Asian American studies, Chicano/Latino and Latin American studies, cultural studies, film and TV studies, indigenous and Native American studies, music, political and social theory, queer theory/LGBT studies, religion, science studies, and women's and gender studies.

Notable authors published by Duke University Press include Achille Mbembe, Donna Haraway, Lauren Berlant, Arturo Escobar, Walter Mignolo, Jack Halberstam, Sara Ahmed, Jane Bennett, Patricia Hill Collins, Jennifer Christine Nash, Christina Sharpe, Dionne Brand, Fredric Jameson, Gloria Anzaldua, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Stuart Hall, C.L.R. James, and James Baldwin.

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Editions

NameAuthor CreditsFormatISBNRelease Date
Female Masculinity (1st edition)Jack HalberstamPaperback08223224391998
Female Masculinity (1st edition)Jack HalberstamHardcover97808223222691998-10-26
Margaret Mead Made Me Gay: Personal Essays, Public IdeasEsther NewtonPaperback978-0-8223-2612-02000-11-22
Margaret Mead Made Me Gay: Personal Essays, Public IdeasEsther NewtonHardcover97808223260452000-11-22
Theology and the Political: The New DebateCreston Davis, John Milbank & Slavoj Žižek (editors)Paperback978-0-8223-3472-92005
Thiefing Sugar: Eroticism between Women in Caribbean LiteratureOmise'eke Natasha TinsleyHardcover97808223475692010
Margaret Mead Made Me Gay: Personal Essays, Public IdeasEsther NewtoneBook97808223813412010-07-01
Thiefing Sugar: Eroticism between Women in Caribbean LiteratureOmise'eke Natasha TinsleyPaperback97808223477742010-08-18
Thiefing Sugar: Eroticism between Women in Caribbean LiteratureOmise'eke Natasha TinsleyeBook97808223930612010-08-18
Thiefing Sugar: Eroticism between Women in Caribbean LiteratureOmise'eke Natasha TinsleyeBook12830656732011-04-20
Female Masculinity (1st edition)Jack HalberstameBook97808223781122014-05-10
Female Masculinity (1st edition)Jack HalberstameBook13067094582014-05-10
Female Masculinity (20th anniversary edition with a new preface; Kindle Edition)Jack HalberstameBook14780027002019-01-05
Female Masculinity (20th anniversary edition with a new preface)Jack HalberstamPaperback97814780016212019-01-09
Female Masculinity (20th anniversary edition with a new preface)Jack HalberstamHardcover97814780012702019-01-09
Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire (Kindle Edition)Jack HalberstameBook?2020-10-02
Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire (1st edition)Jack HalberstameBook97814780126272020-10-02
Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire (1st edition)Jack HalberstamPaperback978-1-4780-1108-82020-10-29
Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire (1st edition)Jack HalberstamHardcover97814780100362020-10-29
Japanoise: Music at the Edge of Circulation?Paperback978-0-8223-5379-9?
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