Penn State University Press

12/23/2025

❄️The PSU Press offices will be closed for winter break through January 2nd. We'll see you in 2024!❄️

12/22/2025

Steven Litt said that MOSES JACOB EZEKIEL by Samantha Baskind was one of his best reads of 2025!

We asked Rabkin Prize winners and members of our writing community to share their best reads in 2025.

12/22/2025

Mayu Fujikawa, author of ENVISIONING DIPLOMACY, was featured on the New Books Network podcast! Listen to the full episode here:

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12/19/2025

Journal of Information Policy (JIP) is celebrating its 15th anniversary! JIP Editor Krishna Jayakar speaks with Penn State Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications to reflect on the journal's past, and plan for years ahead.

Penn State’s Journal of Information Policy is celebrating 15 years as a leading source of research for policymakers and scholars, while continuing to adapt to a fast-changing digital landscape.

12/18/2025

Last chance! The very first issue of American Gothic Studies has 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...

12/17/2025

Tomorrow! Join William E. Simmons, author of LOVE AND DEGRADATION, for a book talk at After 8 Books. Find more information here: https://after8books.com/simmons-love-degradation.html

12/16/2025

Ecumenica 18.2 just published! It is a special issue titled "Religion and the Right," and is the first issue from the new editor Hank Willenbrink. It has lots of great articles and interesting interviews (for horror movie fans, there's even a conversation piece examining Sinners and its intersections of Black religion, politics, and music)! https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/ecumenica/issue/18/2

12/15/2025

Need last-minute gifts? Look no further! ❄️ Our holiday book sale has begun, and you can save 40% SITEWIDE. If you're shopping through our website, use code HOL25. EU/UK customers, use code HBS25. Sale ends 12/19: https://bit.ly/3LGJhlR

12/12/2025

Sunday! MOSES JACOB EZEKIEL author Samantha Baskind is the guest speaker at the Norfolk Botanical Garden. Find more details in the flyer.

12/12/2025

We are pleased to announce that the inaugural RSA
Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric book proposal workshop will be taking place at RSA in April 2026! You can find more information and apply here: https://www.psupress.org/rsa-str_book_proposal_workshop.pdf. Applications are due 12/15.

12/11/2025

"This handsomely designed and illustrated volume is an original, concise and brilliant study of the concept and nature of delicacy across four eighteenth-century French case-studies and an epilogue." Read the full review of Oliver Wunsch's A DELICATE MATTER from Journal of the History of Collections here: https://academic.oup.com/jhc/advance-article/doi/10.1093/jhc/fhaf039/8371856

12/10/2025

Congratulations to THE WOUND AND THE STITCH author Loretta Victoria Ramirez for receiving an honorable mention for the 2025 MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies!