Mundus Artium Press

The Mundus Artium Press was founded by Professor Rainer Schulte at Ohio Uni-versity in 1967. It is a not-for-profit organization.

The original mission of the journal and the press was to highlight contemporary inter-national writers, who had previously not been publi-shed in English.

The press continues its commitment to present in-ternational voices in trans-lation with an enlarged mission and new inspira-tion under its present Director, Gjeke Marinaj and its new President, Frederick Turner.

Marinaj is a poet of inter-national acclaim, an editor, publisher and critic, and the founder of the critical approach known as Pro-tonism. He has created an international web of cont-acts, collaborators and foll-owers. He is also recognized as a world leader in the field of human liberation and solidarity.

Turner is an internationally known poet, thinker, scho-lar, critic, science fiction author, and translator, who has been a nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature for the last two or three deca-des.

Recognized as an authority on poetic form, the philo-sophy of time, the neuro-science of esthetics, envi-ronmental philosophy, Sha-kespeare, world epic, and translation, he brings to the Press both experience and a wealth of new perspec-tives.

The Press finds itself in a world whose challenges and opportunities are increasing-ly global, and whose scienti-fic, technological, political and economic po-wers have been greatly enlarged by digital technology. These changes have been at some cost to our deepest human ideals. New visions and a recovery of enduring values are called for, and the articulative, unifying, and prophetic powers of literature are more in demand than ever.

The Mundus Artium team is dedicated to a renewal of an ancient literary conver-sation around the world.

The Press's main facilities--the physical press, the Tur-ner library and research cen-ter, and editorial officesare located in Clayton, Oklaho-ma. It also has offi-ces in downtown Dallas and the University of Texas at Dallas.