Special series include the Pitt Poetry Series, Pitt Latin American Series, Illuminations, Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies, Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy, and Culture, Pittsburgh/Konstanz Series in Philosophy and History of Science, Milton Studies, the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, and the Drue Heinz Literature Prize. The Press also distributes and copublishes selected titles of the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, the Carnegie Library, the Helen Clay Frick Foundation, and the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania.

The University of Pittsburgh Press publishes titles in political science, history, composition and literacy studies, Latin American studies, Russian and East European studies, dance, poetry, regional studies, cultural anthropology, nature and natural history, environmental studies, and the philosophy of science.

The Press does not normally publish in the hard sciences or festschriften, symposia, unrevised doctoral dissertations, memoirs, or fiction (except for the Drue Heinz Literature Prize). While our editors will consider edited collections, they should have a coherent theme and be substantially new material. Collections of summaries of or excerpts from previously published materials are rarely considered.