Penn State University Press

07/23/2025

Virtual book club alert! Librarian Jameson Rohrer's August book club will be discussing A TALE OF TWO SURROGATES. Anyone is welcome to sign up and join! You can register here:

We are reading/discussing A Tale of Two Surrogates: A Graphic Narrative on Assisted Reproduction by Elly Teman and Zsuzsa Brenda with art by Andrea Scebba. All 3 of them will be joining us in some capacity!

07/23/2025

The entirety of Volume 1 of Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture is free to access until the end of October!

Issue 1: https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/jappc/issue/1/1
Issue 2: https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/jappc/issue/1/2

07/21/2025

“Let’s really talk about what’s going on in higher ed and what changes we can make to better serve our students and produce knowledge that’s going to be useful to the community and the nation.”

Read more from this interview with THE BATTLES OF TEXAS coauthor Mark Garrett Longaker:

Mark Longaker on a 1980s curriculum debate and its present-day echoes

07/19/2025

Tomorrow at 9am ET! Join the authors of A TALE OF TWO SURROGATES, Elly Teman and Zsuzsa Berend, for a reading as part of the SAW/Graphic Medicine Summit. Find more info here:

Graphic Medicine Comics Workshops from Sequential Artists Workshop

07/18/2025

Tomorrow at 5pm ET! Join one of the authors of A TALE OF TWO SURROGATES, Elly Teman, for a panel on "The Craft and Aesthetics of Graphic Medicine" as part of the SAW/Graphic Medicine Summit. Find more information here:

Graphic Medicine Comics Workshops from Sequential Artists Workshop

07/18/2025

Tomorrow at 11am ET! Join the authors of A TALE OF TWO SURROGATES, Elly Teman and Zsuzsa Berend, for a panel on "The Significance of Evidence" as part of the SAW/Graphic Medicine Summit. Find more information here:

Graphic Medicine Comics Workshops from Sequential Artists Workshop

07/18/2025

Don't forget about this month's sale! Save 40% on select books on American politics when you use discount code AMP25 at checkout. Sale ends 7/31: https://bit.ly/4nysK1J

07/17/2025

The very first issue of American Gothic Studies has just published, and the article "Carrie at 50" is free to read through the end of the year!

Abstract. Fifty years after its publication as a novel, Carrie still manages to remind us of not only Stephen King’s importance as a novelist but also the value of reading the text and the film it inspired two years later as a commentary on midcentury American culture. Carrie has certainly inspire...

07/16/2025

The entirety of Volumes 1 and 2 of Journal of Development Perspectives are free to access through October 12!

Volume 1: https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/development-perspectives/issue/1/1-2
Volume 2: https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/development-perspectives/issue/2/1-2

07/15/2025

Thursday! Join John Bidwell, author of THE DECLARATION IN SCRIPT AND PRINT, for a lecture at the Library of Congress. More information here:

Author and historian John Bidwell will discuss his research into the print history of the Declaration of Independence, highlighting his use of the Library's collections.

07/12/2025

Catch us today at Bookfest as part of the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts! We’ll be in the Schlow Library parking lot from 10-4.

07/11/2025

Sunday at 1pm! Join Mark Kelley, author of AN UNCOMMON WOMAN, for a book talk at the Rokeby Museum. More info here:

Presentation by Mark Kelley, author of An Uncommon Woman: The Life of Lydia Hamilton Smith. Smith was a mixed-race businesswoman in Lancaster, PA, who, for 25 years, engaged in a committed in*******al relationship with abolitionist congressman Thaddeus Stevens. Together, they worked... Read More