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Penn State University Press

Founded	1956
Country of origin	United States
Headquarters location	University Park, Pennsylvania
Distribution	Self-distributed (US and most of world) University of Toronto Press (Canada) NBN International (Europe) MHM (Japan) Footprint Books (Australia)^[1]
Publication types	Books, Academic journals
Imprints	Eisenbrauns, Graphic Mundi
Official website	www.psupress.org

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]

Notable titles

The Hidden Life of Life: A Walk through the Reaches of Time by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
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
Comparative Literature Studies
The Cormac McCarthy Journal
Critical Philosophy of Race
Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction
Ecumenica: Performance and Religion
The Edgar Allan Poe Review
Edith Wharton Review
The Eugene O'Neill Review
The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review
George Eliot–George Henry Lewes Studies
Gestalt Review
The Good Society: A Journal of Civic Studies
The Harold Pinter Review: Essays on Contemporary Drama
Hiperboreea
Hungarian Studies Review
Interdisciplinary Literary Studies: A Journal of Criticism and Theory
International Journal of Persian Literature
Journal for the Study of Paul and His Letters
Journal of African Development
Journal of Africana Religions
Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture
The Journal of Assessment and Institutional Effectiveness
Journal of Austrian-American History
The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies
Journal of Comparative Philology
Journal of Development Perspectives
Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies
Journal of General Education: A Curricular Commons of the Humanities and Sciences
Journal of Information Policy
The Journal of Jewish Ethics
Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures
Journal of Minority Achievement, Creativity, and Leadership
Journal of Modern Periodical Studies
Journal of Moravian History
Journal of Natural Resources Policy Research
The Journal of Nietzsche Studies
Journal of Posthuman Studies: Philosophy, Technology, Media
Journal of Speculative Philosophy
Journal of the Pennsylvania Academy of Science
Journal of Theological Interpretation
The Journal of World Christianity
The Korean Language in America
The Langston Hughes Review
Libraries: Culture, History, and Society
The Mark Twain Annual
Mediterranean Studies
Milton Studies
Nathaniel Hawthorne Review
Nineteenth Century Studies
Pacific Coast Philology
Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies
Philosophia Africana: Analysis of Philosophy and Issues in Africa and the Black Diaspora
Philosophy & Rhetoric
Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural
Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History
Resources for American Literary Study
SHAW: The Journal of Bernard Shaw Studies
Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal
Steinbeck Review
Studies in American Humor
Studies in American Jewish Literature
Studies in the American Short Story
Style
Theatre and Performance Notes and Counternotes
Thornton Wilder Journal
Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy
Transportation Journal
Utopian Studies
Victorians Institute Journal
Wesley and Methodist Studies
William Carlos Williams Review

References

^ "Ordering from PSU Press". Retrieved 2017-11-12.
^ Eckstein, Joe (Mar 22, 2021). "How Penn State University Press tackled the coronavirus pandemic through comics". Daily Collegian.
^ Alverson, Brigid (Oct 7, 2020). "PSU Press Launches Graphic Mundi Imprint". Publishers Weekly. The new imprint will build on the press's Graphic Medicine series...
^ "Pattee, Fred Lewis". Penn State Libraries. Pennsylvania State University. Archived from the original on 26 July 2014. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
^ Jaschik, Scott (October 17, 2017). "Penn State Press Acquires Eisenbrauns". Inside Higher Ed.
^ "Penn State University Press announces Graphic Mundi imprint | Penn State University".
^ "Jakelin Troy". UNSW Press. Retrieved 6 August 2024.
^ "ab-Original". Scholarly Publishing Collective. Retrieved 6 August 2024.
^ "ab-Original: Journal of Indigenous Studies and First Nations and First Peoples´Cultures". Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals and Series (in Norwegian Bokmål). Retrieved 7 August 2024.
^ "2023 Journals" (PDF). Penn State University. 2022. p. 42.

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