Reading Women — Now Available in Paperback
10/20/2009
Reading Women: Literacy, Authorship, and Culture in the Atlantic World, 1500-1800 Edited by Heidi Brayman Hackel and Catherine E. Kelly 280 pages | 6 x 9 | 11 illus. Paper… READ MORE
Category: Academic Life
Do Museums Still Need Objects?–Now Available
10/14/2009
Do Museums Still Need Objects? Steven Conn 272 pages | 6 x 9 | 34 illus. Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4190-7 | $39.95 | £26.00 A volume in the Arts… READ MORE
The Anatomy Murders—Now Available
10/08/2009
The Anatomy Murders: Being the True and Spectacular History of Edinburgh's Notorious Burke and Hare and of the Man of Science Who Abetted Them in the Commission of Their Most… READ MORE
A New Penn Press Podcast–The Anatomy Murders: The Myths and Realities of the Burke and Hare Case
10/01/2009
We're kicking off the second season of Penn Press podcasts with Lisa Rosner, author of The Anatomy Murders: Being the True and Spectacular History of Edinburgh's Notorious Burke and Hare… READ MORE
China’s Higher Education Press Visits Penn Press
09/25/2009
A thoroughly unscientific sampling of University of Pennsylvania Press editors and staff revealed that although the Press boasts competent speakers in many languages, its collective fluency in Mandarin is somewhat… READ MORE
Faculty Towers: The Academic Novel and Its Discontents–Now in Paperback
09/11/2009
Faculty Towers: The Academic Novel and Its Discontents Elaine Showalter 152 pages | 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 Cloth 2005 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3850-1 | $26.50 | £17.50 Paper 2009 |… READ MORE
Back to School, Back to Back Campus Events with Jon Calame and Deirdre Martinez
09/08/2009
The fall term here at Penn is finally underway. (Bring on the new work study students!) To start the semester, two Penn Press authors will be on campus to discuss… READ MORE
A New Penn Press Podcast–Do Museums Still Need Objects?
09/02/2009
In the September podcast historian Steven Conn, author of Do Museums Still Need Objects? talks about how American museums have changed over the twentieth century and what roles these popular… READ MORE
A Penn Press Intern’s Connection to Whyte’s City: Rediscovering the Center
07/29/2009
One of our interns, Lauren Springer, has a personal research connection to the forthcoming re-release of City: Rediscovering the Center by William H. Whyte. In this post, Springer describes her… READ MORE
Penn Press Authors on Religion and American History Blog
06/29/2009
Penn Press authors are back in action at the Religion and American History blog. Steven P. Miller and Katherine Carte Engel are the latest of our authors to contribute to… READ MORE
