Penn State University Press has unveiled its fall/winter 2024 catalog, featuring new general interest and scholarly books in the fields of art history, religious studies, rhetoric and communication, sensory studies, medieval and early modern studies, and more.
Notable forthcoming titles include "Fighter's Heaven: Inside the Camp Where Muhammad Ali Remade His Legacy" by Todd M. Mealy; "The Body in the Hebrew Bible" by Anne Katrine de Hemmer Gudme and Søren Lorenzen; and Nathan A. Gray's "The Human Remains: Drawing Out Compassion in Medicine" from Graphic Mundi, the press' graphic novel imprint.
Scholarly highlights include "Rooted in Excellence: An Institutional History of The Arboretum at Penn State" by Kim C. Steiner, which tells the story of one of the University's most cherished spaces; "Unlearning the Gaze: Reprisal and Refusal in the Arts of Black France" by Abigail Celis, which examines how African and afrodescendant Francophone creators confront, reinterpret and unsettle representations of Blackness in contemporary France; "Picturing the Poor: Photography and the Politics of Poverty in the 1960s" by Katharina Fackler, which uses social documentary photographs to show that debates over poverty were also debates over the right ways of seeing, feeling and knowing; and "The Subversive Pulpit: Gender and Religious Authority in the Ministry of Ida Bell Robinson" by Dara Coleby Delgado, which reframes Ida Bell Robinson's legacy as a model of holiness, spiritual empowerment and prophetic social consciousness. The catalog also includes new and forthcoming titles from Eisenbrauns, the press' imprint for biblical and ancient Near Eastern studies, including "An Exotic Apocalypse: Revelation and the Appropriation of Judaism in the Roman Empire" by Daniel Charles Smith.
As a vital component of the University community, Penn State University Press reflects many of the University's academic strengths in the liberal arts. Overall, the press publishes about 90 books and 80 journal titles - approximately 175 issues - annually. Titles published under the Penn State University Press imprint include academic publications by researchers around the world in a number of fields and disciplines for a global readership. Those under the Eisenbrauns imprint include academic books about the languages, archaeology and history of the ancient Near East. The Graphic Mundi imprint includes graphic novels for popular audiences that speak to social, environmental and contemporary cultural issues.
The press also recognizes its special responsibility to develop publications about Pennsylvania, both scholarly and popular, that enhance interest in the region and spread awareness of the commonwealth's history, culture and environment.
