A Social History of the University Presses in Apartheid South Africa ─ Between Complicity and Resistance

In A History of the University Presses in Apartheid South Africa, Elizabeth le Roux examines the origins, publishing lists and philosophies of the university presses, as well as academic freedom and knowledge production, during the apartheid era.

Elizabeth le Roux, Ph.D. (2013), University of Pretoria, is a Senior Lecturer and the coordinator of Publishing Studies in the Department of Information Science at that university. Her research focus is the history of books and publishing in South Africa and Africa more broadly. She is co-editor of the journal Book History, and has published a variety of articles and book chapters. Before becoming a full-time academic, she worked in the scholarly publishing industry in South Africa for more than a decade, most recently as Director of Unisa Press.