Dennis Lloyd, deputy director of the University Press of Florida, has been named the new director of the University of Wisconsin Press, located in Madison.
Lloyd will take over from UWP interim director Lea Jacobs in May; Jacobs has served in that position since the press’ director for nine years, Sheila Leary, assumed the position of communications director.
For the past 20 years, Lloyd has been at the University of Florida Press in Gainesville, performing sales, marketing, acquisitions, and management duties. Since 2012 Lloyd has been deputy director for sales, marketing, and acquisitions at UFP. Previously Lloyd worked in the marketing departments for the presses at the Universities of Illinois, Alabama, Kentucky, and Pittsburgh.
“The ingenuity, enthusiasm, and dedication of the entire staff is impressive, and I am confident that together we will overcome the challenges that face all university presses today,” Lloyd said in a release. “I’m looking forward to rolling up my sleeves and assuming leadership of this outstanding organization later this spring."
The University of Wisconsin Press, which is a division of the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education, was founded in 1937 and currently has 20 full-time and part-time employees. It publishes up to 50 titles each year and there are approximately 1,400 UWP titles in print. UWP also publishes 11 scholarly journals.
