Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
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Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (FDU Press) is a publishing house under the operation and oversight of Fairleigh Dickinson University
Fairleigh Dickinson University
Fairleigh Dickinson University is a private university founded as a junior college in 1942. It now has several campuses located in New Jersey, Canada, and the United Kingdom.-Description:...

, the largest private university
Private university
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 in New Jersey
New Jersey
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, USA
United States
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. FDU Press was established in 1967 by the university's founder Peter Sammartino, in cooperation with the publisher Thomas Yoseloff, formerly the director of University of Pennsylvania Press
University of Pennsylvania Press
The University of Pennsylvania Press is a university press affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania....

. Yoseloff had left this position the year before to found Associated University Presses
Associated University Presses
Associated University Presses is a publishing company based in the United States, formed and operated as a consortium of several American university presses. AUP was first established and incorporated in 1966, with the first titles bearing the AUP imprint appearing from 1968...

 (AUP), intended to operate as a consortium of small- to medium-sized university presses and publisher/distributor of humanities
Humanities
The humanities are academic disciplines that study the human condition, using methods that are primarily analytical, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural sciences....

 scholarship; FDU Press became the first participating member of AUP in 1968. When Associated University Presses ceased operating in 2010, a new distribution agreement was struck with Rowman & Littlefield
Rowman & Littlefield
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group is an independent publishing house founded in 1949. Under several imprints, the company offers scholarly books and journals for the academic market, as well as trade books. The company also owns a book distributor, National Book Network...

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FDU Press has issued over 1500 non-fiction and research titles since its inception, the majority in the fields of literature
Literature
Literature is the art of written works, and is not bound to published sources...

, literary criticism
Literary criticism
Literary criticism is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. Modern literary criticism is often informed by literary theory, which is the philosophical discussion of its methods and goals...

, arts, history and other social sciences
Social sciences
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