Category: Academic Life

Stir It Up–Now Available

Stir It Up: Home Economics in American Culture Megan J. Elias 248 pages | 6 x 9 | 15 illus. Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4079-5 | $45.00 | £29.50 Stir… READ MORE

Richard Helgerson

Staff at the University of Pennsylvania Press were saddened by the news of the death of Richard Helgerson, Professor in the English Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara,… READ MORE

Blum Lecture Available Online

In a post titled "Du Bois in the Lone Star State 2.0", The Bald Blogger has made a recent lecture by Edward J. Blum, author of  W. E. B. Du… READ MORE

Medieval Academy Prize Goes to Sara Poor

Sara S. Poor’s Mechthild of Magdeburg and Her Book: Gender and the Making of Textual Authority has received another award. The Medieval Academy selected this study of a thirteenth-century mystic… READ MORE

Death of Reading Greatly Exaggerated?

Reading, Not So Dead After All, from The Chronicle of Higher Education, gives a snapshot of the blog battles surrounding the NEA’s "To Read or Not to Read" report.

A View from Our ASA Booth

Chris Hu from the acquisitions department describes life around and beyond the Penn Press exhibitor booth. Notes from the ASA Meeting in Philadelphia The 2007 Annual Meeting of the American… READ MORE