Penn State University Press

10/07/2025

Tomorrow at 3pm EDT! Join the authors and editors of the tenth-anniversary edition of GRAPHIC MEDICINE MANIFESTO for a virtual launch. Register here:

Join us for a discussion with the authors, editors, and publisher of the 10th Anniversary Edition of the Graphic Medicine Manifesto!

10/06/2025

MOSES JACOB EZEKIEL author Samantha Baskind was featured on the Read Beat (...and repeat) podcast! Listen to the full episode here:

Moses Jacob Ezekiel may be a 19th-century sculptor who’s been largely forgotten, but his work hasn’t been.A member of the Jewish faith who fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War, Ezekiel is described as a complex figure. Samantha Baskind, an ...

10/03/2025

October is LGBTQ History Month, and we're celebrating with a sale! Take 40% off select titles when you use discount code LQHM25 at checkout. Sale ends 10/31: https://bit.ly/3W7ZEKp

09/30/2025

“Graphic medicine can reach people in ways data tables can’t.”

Read more from A TALE OF TWO SURROGATES coauthor Elly Teman's interview with GraphicMemoirBlog:

An interview with Elly Teman on A Tale of Two Surrogates

09/29/2025

The Unlocked Book of the Month is SOUND TACTICS. Read more and access the book here:

💬 0 🔁 0 ❤️ 0 · Unlocked Book of the Month: Sound Tactics · Each month we’re highlighting a book available through PSU Press Unlocked, an open access initiative featuring scholarly digital books a…

09/29/2025

Last chance to shop our German Studies sale! Save 40% when you use discount code GSA25 at checkout. Sale ends 9/30: https://bit.ly/3HJ5ePL

09/28/2025

Tomorrow! Join Alessandra Russo, author of A NEW ANTIQUITY, for a book talk at Princeton University. Find more details here:

Registration is required for this event. We tend to think of sixteenth-century European artistic theory as separate from the artworks displayed in the non-European sections of museums. Alessandra Russo argues otherwise. Instead of considering the European experience of “New World” artifacts and ...

09/25/2025

The article "The Motown Story: The First Decade, or A Star Is Born" is free to read for the rest of 2025! Find the article here: https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/amp/article/4/1-2/20/402776/The-Motown-Story-The-First-Decade-or-A-Star-Is

Be sure to take a look at AMP: American Music Perspectives 4.1-2, which is a special issue on Motown!

09/24/2025

Happy birthday, F. Scott Fitzgerald! 🎂

In case you missed any of our free articles, don't worry! You can still read them through the end of October, and they're all linked below.

https://doi.org/10.2307/41583129
https://doi.org/10.5325/fscotfitzrevi.19.1.0189
https://doi.org/10.5325/fscotfitzrevi.20.0001
https://doi.org/10.5325/fscotfitzrevi.14.1.0110

09/24/2025

Congratulations to José G. Izaguirre III, whose book BECOMING LA RAZA was named the winner of the NCA Latino/a Communication Studies Division and La Raza Caucus Outstanding Book Award!

09/23/2025

“We live in a very complex country with a very complex history,’’ Baskind said, “and we should know about it.”

Read more from MOSES JACOB EZEKIEL author Samantha Baskind's interview with Ideastream:

In her new book, Cleveland State University art historian Samantha Baskind wants readers to see Moses Jacob Ezekiel in his entirety, not merely “whipsawed,’’ as she put it, between antagonists on both sides of the political spectrum.

09/22/2025

Friday! One of our Acquisitions Editors, Archna Patel, is part of a virtual panel on publishing your book with a university press! Participants will understand the basics of preparing a proposal for a press, how to compile research into book manuscript form, how to respond to and work with reviews, and the value of titles and key words. The panel is at 2 p.m. EDT. Register here:

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