NYU Press Manuscript Editing Services

NYU Press publishes books that engage the city, the law, and the social forces that shape both. Its lists in gender and sexuality studies, criminal justice, urban studies, and American culture reflect a press with a strong commitment to scholarship that addresses power, inequality, and the structures that organize social life. Its acquisitions editors are reading for manuscripts that take their subject matter seriously enough to argue about it clearly.

Off the Grid Editing prepares manuscripts for NYU Press submissions with attention to the critical clarity and argumentative precision that NYU’s editorial culture demands. Our editors are experienced in the social sciences, legal scholarship, and critical theory that form the core of NYU Press’s list, and bring the same attention to consistency of argument and precision of citation the press’s peer review requires.

NYU Press manuscripts often operate across disciplinary boundaries — bringing legal analysis to social questions, or sociological method to cultural objects. Our editors attend to the consistency of argument across disciplinary registers, ensure the manuscript’s methodological commitments are made explicit where needed, and flag passages where the interdisciplinary argument needs reinforcement. If you have questions about which service is right for your manuscript, contact us directly. We respond to every inquiry the same day during business hours.