Penn State University Press

12/17/2024

Our Spring/Summer 2025 catalog is here! Browse the catalog and see what we're publishing next season:https://www.psupress.org/catalogs/PDFs/SS25_catalog_WEB.pdf

12/17/2024

Read French History's full review of Oliver Wunsch's A DELICATE MATTER: https://academic.oup.com/fh/advance-article/doi/10.1093/fh/crae032/7821507

12/16/2024

Membership to the Society for the Study of the American Gothic is now open! Become a member here: https://americangothicsociety.com/become-a-member/

Access to our journal, American Gothic Studies, is a benefit of membership. Find more information about the journal here: https://www.psupress.org/journals/jnls_AGS.html

Join us by signing up through Wild Apricot: https://ssag.wildapricot.org/ Restricted content will become available after you have become a member.

12/11/2024

Happy holidays! ❄️ We're celebrating by giving you 40% off SITEWIDE! Use discount code HOL24 at checkout through 12/20: https://bit.ly/3ONYpMH

12/03/2024

We're at 78% of our goal, and the day isn't over yet! You can still help us reach our goal and make more of our books available through our open access initiative. Donate here, and your donation will be matched 1:1 by the Libraries Development Board: https://give.psu.edu/schools/PennState/givingtuesday-2024/pages/university-libraries-penn-state-university-press/?a=1

12/03/2024

It's ! Your support will help us make more of our books open access and free for anyone to read. The Libraries Development Board will match your gift 1:1, so your contribution will be doubled! Donate here: https://give.psu.edu/schools/PennState/givingtuesday-2024/pages/university-libraries-penn-state-university-press/?a=1

11/26/2024

Christina Bradstreet, author of SCENTED VISIONS, has curated an exhibition for The Barber Institute of Fine Arts called "Scent & the Art of the Pre-Raphaelites." Stop by to see the exhibition through the end of January 2025, and then you can catch the exhibition on tour through November 2025!

Photo credit: Trevor Price

11/26/2024

The Museum of Modern Art has a new exhibition called "Lillie P. Bliss and the Birth of the Modern" running through March 29, 2025: https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/5737

For related reading, sign up to be notified when Nancy Locke's CEZANNE'S SHADOWS is published next year: https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-09879-1.html

Modernism has often been described as a rejection of the art of the past, but Cézanne’s Shadows makes an eloquent case for precisely the opposite artistic practice.

11/26/2024

"Its innovative methodology and astute analysis make A LAUGHABLE EMPIRE an important
addition to the study of American Humor, Pacięc Studies, and American Cultural
History." Read the full review from American Literary History here:

Teresa Prados-Torreira; Todd Nathan Thompson, A Laughable Empire: The US Imagines the Pacific World, 1840-1890, American Literary History, Volume 36, Issue

11/25/2024

"UNDER THE LITERARY MICROSCOPE encourages a multifaceted dialogue that engages various academic disciplines, fostering a richer comprehension of the cultural dynamics that shape public perceptions of scientific inquiry." Read the full review from The British Society for Literature and Science here:

Sina Farzin, Susan M. Gaines and Roslynn D. Haynes, Under the Literary Microscope: Science and Society in the Contemporary Novel (Pennsylvania: Penn State University Press, 2021) 220 pp. $99.95 Hb. $34.95 Pb. ISBN: 9780271089782

11/25/2024

Volume 33 of Nursing History Review, a forthcoming journal for us, will be published in 2025! Find more information about the journal here:

11/23/2024

We're at this week! Find us at Booth 126 to browse and take advantage of 40% off our books. You can also shop through our Virtual Exhibit and get 40% off and free US shipping: https://bit.ly/3ZkNuQF

11/23/2024

Tomorrow! Our Editor-in-Chief, Kendra Boileau, will be at the State College Barnes & Noble giving a talk about how our graphic novels resonate with the book fair's theme of resilience. Copies of our graphic novels will also be available for sale!

11/22/2024

Congratulations to Mónica Domínguez Torres, whose book PEARLS FOR THE CROWN has been shortlisted for the Charles Rufus Morey Award!

Finalists for the  Charles Rufus Morey Book Award and the Alfred H. Barr Jr. Awards have been announced.

11/22/2024

"We tell stories from the margins, using historical voices to reveal people’s lived experiences."

Hear more from our Executive Director, David Aycock, in this Publishers Weekly article on university presses publishing in religion:

Executives at university presses—all of whom publish titles in the religion category—weigh in about new initiatives, their presses’ unique personalities, and publishing in a time of social, political, and technological upheaval.

11/21/2024

Ahead of our Executive Director, David Aycock, spoke with Publishers Weekly about the current landscape of academic religion publishing. Read more here:

Academic Religion Publishing Faces Changes, Challenges, and Opportunities.

11/19/2024

We’re in the Kern Building lobby selling books this afternoon! All of our books are 40% off, and we also have a selection of $5 books. We’re here until 4!

11/08/2024

Congratulations to Paul Lynch, whose book PERSUASIONS OF GOD is the winner of the 2024 Book Award from the Religious Communication Association!