The Penn State University Press, also known as The Pennsylvania State University Press, is a non-profit publisher of scholarly books and journals. Established in 1956, it is the independent publishing branch of the Pennsylvania State University and is a division of the Penn State University Library system.
Penn State University Press publishes books and journals of interest to scholars and general audiences. As a part of a land-grant university with a mandate to serve the citizens of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, it also specializes in works about Penn State University, Pennsylvania, and the mid-Atlantic region. The areas of scholarship the Press is best known for are art history, medieval studies, Latin American studies, rhetoric and communication, religious studies, and graphic medicine.[2][3]
The press produces about 80 books a year and over 60 journals. The Press employs 25 to 30 people, and has several internship programs for Penn State students interested in a publishing career.
History
The first book published by Penn State University Press was Penn State Yankee: The Autobiography of Fred Lewis Pattee, the autobiography of a noted Penn State faculty member who was the first professor of American literature in the United States.[4]
In 2016 the Press launched PSU Press Unlocked, an open-access platform featuring over 70 books and journals. The Press acquired academic publisher Eisenbrauns, which specializes in ancient Near East and biblical studies, in November 2017.[5]Eisenbrauns continues to publish as an imprint of the Press. In 2021, the Press launched the Graphic Mundi graphic novel imprint.[6]
The Noisy Renaissance: Sound, Architecture, and Florentine Urban Life by Niall Atkinson
Graphic Medicine Manifesto by MK Czerwiec, Ian Williams, Susan Merrill Squier, Michael J. Green, Kimberly R. Myers, and Scott T. Smith
Henry James and American Painting by Colm Tóibín, Marc Simpson and Declan Kiely
Medieval Studies and the Ghost Stories of M. R. James by Patrick Murphy
Field Guide to Wild Mushrooms of Pennsylvania and the Mid-Atlantic by Bill Russell
Ernest Hemingway: A New Life by James M. Hutchisson
The English translation of The Holy Teaching of Vimalakirti by Robert Thurman
The Novels of the Harlem Renaissance:Twelve Black Writers, 1923–1933 by Amritjit Singh
Journals
ab-Original: Journal of Indigenous Studies and First Nations and First Peoples' Cultures, edited by Australian linguist Jakelin Troy[7][8] The first issue was published in 2017,[9] but as of 2023 appears to be archived.[10]
AMP: American Music Perspectives
The Arthur Miller Journal
Bishop–Lowell Studies
Bulletin for Biblical Research
Bustan: The Middle East Book Review
Calíope: Journal of the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry
The Chaucer Review: A Journal of Medieval Studies and Literary Criticism
Comedia Performance: Journal of the Association for Hispanic Classical Theater
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