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Penn State University Press @psupress.bsky.social · 4h

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: bit.ly/3KT9jll

Penn State University Press @psupress.bsky.social · 1d

“We need to remind the younger generations. That knowledge continues to get lost as we lose the availability for people to speak about it firsthand."

Read more from THE PINK SCAR author Thomas Dunn's interview with the Bay Area Reporter:

Political Notebook: Book examines intersection of the Holocaust and US LGBTQ movement

From the start of the Nazi persecution of homosexuals in 1933, the atrocities Adolph Hitler and his regime waged against LGBTQ Germans and others has impacted the LGBTQ community in America.

Penn State University Press @psupress.bsky.social · 1d

Over the weekend, SNL celebrated the 50th anniversary of its premiere! To celebrate, we've made the article "Incongruent Bodies: The Gender Politics of SNL’s Hillary Clintons" free to read for three months. Read the article here:

Incongruent Bodies: The Gender Politics of SNL’s Hillary Clintons

ABSTRACT. This article explores the political humor behind Saturday Night Live’s presidential impressions and how the stakes of such humor are higher when the candidate is a woman. Drawing on…

Penn State University Press @psupress.bsky.social · 2d

"This book would be excellent for anyone who is interested in reading historical documents, learning about Tudor England, or reconsidering previously established ideas regarding magic."

Read SEL's full review of THE MAGIC OF ROGUES here:

A Rethinking of Magic and Law in Tudor England, a Review by Austin Moser – SEL's Marginalia

Klaassen, Frank, and Sharon Hubbs Wright. The Magic of Rogues: Necromancers in Early Tudor England. Magic in History Sourcebooks. Penn State Univ. Press, 2021. ISBN 978-0271-08929-4.

Penn State University Press @psupress.bsky.social · 5d

We're at #PHA2025 this weekend! Stop by our booth to browse our books. You can also shop through our Virtual Exhibit and get 40% off: bit.ly/47iRLrF

Penn State University Press @psupress.bsky.social · 8d

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

Graphic Medicine Manifesto 10th Anniversary Edition Launch

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

Penn State University Press @psupress.bsky.social · 8d

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

"Moses Jacob Ezekiel: Jewish, Confederate, Expatriate Sculptor" by Samantha Baskind - Read Beat (...and repeat)

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…

Penn State University Press @psupress.bsky.social · 12d

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: bit.ly/3KT9jll

Penn State University Press @psupress.bsky.social · 15d

“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:

Graphic Ethnography and Surrogacy in Comics

An interview with Elly Teman on A Tale of Two Surrogates

Penn State University Press @psupress.bsky.social · 15d

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

Alessandra Russo | Book Talk: A New Antiquity. Art And Humanity as Universal, 1400-1600

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…

Penn State University Press @psupress.bsky.social · 15d

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

Alessandra Russo | Book Talk: A New Antiquity. Art And Humanity as Universal, 1400-1600

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…

Penn State University Press @psupress.bsky.social · 15d

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

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💬 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…

Penn State University Press @psupress.bsky.social · 16d

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

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Turn The Page! - Syosset Public Library 🎤 @splturnthepage.bsky.social · Sep 5

Here's ep. 366B: Syosset's own Dr. Asa Mittman stops by the show to talk about how his alma mater shaped his career as a medieval art historian and his recent book, CARTOGRAPHIES OF EXCLUSION: ANTI-SEMITIC MAPPING IN MEDIEVAL ENGLAND. @psupress.bsky.social

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Penn State University Press @psupress.bsky.social · 20d

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: buff.ly/9exoNtb

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

The Motown Story: The First Decade, or A Star Is Born

ABSTRACT. Commissioned and approved by Motown Records founder Berry Gordy, The Motown Story: The First Decade (1971) is a five-disc box set condensing the first ten years of the Detroit soul label’s…

Penn State University Press @psupress.bsky.social · 20d

Happy birthday, F. Scott Fitzgerald! 🎂

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

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The American Dream Unhinged: Romance and Reality in 'The Great Gatsby' and 'Fight Club'

SUZANNE DEL GIZZO; The American Dream Unhinged: Romance and Reality in "The Great Gatsby" and "Fight Club". The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review 1 January 2008; 6 (1): 69–94. doi:…

Penn State University Press @psupress.bsky.social · 21d

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!

Penn State University Press @psupress.bsky.social · 22d

“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:

Cleveland author aims to rescue Jewish Confederate artist from culture wars

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…

Penn State University Press @psupress.bsky.social · 23d

Friday! One of our Acquisitions Editors, Archna Patel, is part of a virtual panel on publishing your book with a university press! The panel is at 2 p.m. EDT. Register here:

NCA VLO: Publishing Your Book with a University Press Registration - National Communication Association

Penn State University Press @psupress.bsky.social · 25d

Congratulations to THE WOUND AND THE STITCH author Loretta Victoria Ramirez, whose book was named a finalist for the 2025 International Latino Book Awards Best Academic Themed Book, College Level! The book also received honorable mentions in several categories.

Penn State University Press @psupress.bsky.social · 26d

The article "Poetics of Humility: Animal Ethics in Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell" in BISHOP–LOWELL STUDIES is free to read through 12/31:

Poetics of Humility: Animal Ethics in Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell

Abstract. Despite the “literary turn” in moral philosophy, which was precipitated by the confluence of post-structural, postmodern currents in literature and a renewed interest in Aristotle’s virtue…

Penn State University Press @psupress.bsky.social · 27d

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…

Penn State University Press @psupress.bsky.social · 27d

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

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Volume 2: buff.ly/QSJveXm

Volume 1 Issue 1-2 | Journal of Development Perspectives | Scholarly Publishing Collective

Journal of Development Perspectives | 1 | 1-2 | June 2017

Penn State University Press @psupress.bsky.social · 28d

This month, we're giving you 40% books in German Studies! Save when you use discount code GSA25 at checkout. Sale ends 9/30: bit.ly/3HEycAk

Penn State University Press @psupress.bsky.social · 29d

Stacy Peebles, editor of THE CORMAC MCCARTHY JOURNAL, is featured in this article about Cormac McCarthy's personal library:

Two Years After Cormac McCarthy's Death, Rare Access to His Personal Library Reveals the Man Behind the Myth

The famously reclusive novelist amassed a collection of thousands of books ranging in topics from philosophical treatises to advanced mathematics to the naked mole-rat