Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal (PUM) was founded in 1962.
It pursues four objectives: to disseminate the results of academic research through books, scholarly journals and electronic publishing; to transfer scientific knowledge to a wide audience; to participate in the life of Montréal by proposing reflections on current issues; to contribute to the national and international influence of the University of Montréal.
Award-Winning Highlights
Faire œuvre à deux
Working Together
Winner of the Victor-Barbeau Prize of the Académie des lettres du Québec
This book aims to fill a research gap by focusing on a corpus wrongly neglected by literary and artistic criticism. Ten emblematic cases are analyzed in terms of the modalities of collaborative approach ("feminine," "mixed," or "in creative duality") in order to answer the following question: what about an avant-garde feminine aesthetic, a community of authors and artists that has been formed in spite of itself, a space for meeting and a melting pot for sharing?
Rumeur, potin et parole oiseuse dans le théâtre contemporain d'expression française
Rumour, gossip and idle speech in contemporary French-language theatre
Finalist - APFUCC Best Book Award (2025)
If gossip – and its close relative, rumour – is a complex notion, which we tend to trivialize, it is above all because of its fundamentally performative nature. The author reveals here the astonishing versatility and rich polyphony in a very varied dramatic repertoire. Through this lens of theatre, she explores the social fabric by focusing on the mechanisms of gossip and rumour – the "furtive" discourse present in everyday reality as well as in dramaturgy – which, like animal grooming, are intrinsic to the creation of bonds and the very functioning of a community.
Penser la «pervertibilité»
Thinking about "Pervertibility"
Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences Canadian Prize
The author undertakes an investigation as close as possible to the philosopher's texts and thought, supported by a multidisciplinary approach that makes it possible to identify their evolution in the second half of the twentieth century, while respecting the requirement of complexity and inventiveness of what is called "deconstruction". By putting forward a renewed conception of the literary text, this book does not seek to advocate the supposedly subversive properties of literature, but it contributes to a better understanding of the "perverse" devices of philosophical thought and concrete gestures of writing.
Notable Collections
Political Action:
Welcomes interdisciplinary works on the relationship to politics outside parliamentary institutions (social movements and protest politics), as well as on the actors who defend alternative imaginaries, whether progressive or conservative.
Landscape Architecture:
Singular points of reflection on the question of the development of the periphery of cities and metropolises, mainly in the Mediterranean region.
On The Run:
The collection offers titles that defend the idea that fiction - first and foremost literary - is a form of knowledge of the world.
Cinema and technology:
Focuses on the new field of knowledge that focuses on the broader history of film technologies and the influence of different cinematographic techniques on the way we understand and perceive the world.
Literary space:
Essays and literary studies which, by looking at a corpus of works as vast as literature itself, rigorously question creative behaviour.
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