Homepage - University of Pennsylvania Press

Celebrating Our Penn Authors

Penn Press is proud to have published hundreds of books from authors based at our home institution, the University of Pennsylvania. Browse our collection of recent books published by Penn-affiliated authors and explore the range of expertise and knowledge to be found right here in our backyard!

Wicked Flesh—Paperback Coming Soon

Jessica Marie Johnson’s award-winning and groundbreaking book Wicked Flesh is coming in paperback from Penn Press this fall! Unearthing personal stories from the archive, Wicked Flesh shows how black women used intimacy and kinship to redefine freedom in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world.

The Difference Is Spreading—Out Now!

Since its inception in 2012, the hugely successful online introduction to modern poetry known as ModPo has engaged some 415,000 readers, listeners, teachers, and poets. In The Difference Is Spreading, ModPo’s Al Filreis and Anna Strong Safford have invited fifty poets to select and comment upon a poem by another writer.

RaceB4Race: Critical Race Studies of the Premodern

An exciting new Penn Press series, RaceB4Race explores the ways race has been constructed and operates in the literature, history, and culture of the global West and beyond from antiquity to the eighteenth century.

Latest Titles

From Our Blog

An Excerpt From The Kingdom and the Republic in Honor of Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month May is Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month, and in commemoration, we're sharing an excerpt from the Introduction to The Kingdom and… Read More
Congratulations to This Year's Penn Press-Affiliated Guggenheim Fellows! The 2022 Guggenheim Fellows have been announced, and several Penn Press authors or affiliates have received this honor! Please join us in… Read More
Women Healers: Always Essential Medical Workers In honor of Women's History Month, Penn Press is excited to share a new blog post from Susan Brandt, author of Women… Read More

Forthcoming Events

Aaron Sullivan at the Athenaeum of Philadelphia Thursday. June 2, 2022 | 6:00 pm Virtual event Read More
Whitney Martinko at the Preservation League of New York State Thursday. June 9, 2022 | 4:00 pm Virtual event Read More
Phasellus at mi Monday. November 21, 2022 | 12:00 am Phasellus at mi olor nec consectetur dictum Read More

Featured Authors

Catherine J. Ross

Alaina E. Roberts

Erika M. Kitzmiller