Blum Lecture Available Online
04/09/2008
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
Category: Academic Life
Medieval Academy Prize Goes to Sara Poor
04/08/2008
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
Jackson’s Book Part of new MLK “Scholarly Synthesis”
01/17/2008
As schools and other cultural institutions prepare to celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day with service, ceremony, and perhaps a little sleeping in, "The Prophet Reconsidered," a book review in… READ MORE
Death of Reading Greatly Exaggerated?
01/16/2008
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.
The Journal of Medical Toxicology is now on PubMed
12/12/2007
As of this morning, all articles since the inception of The Journal of Medical Toxicology, from Vol. 1.1 December 2005 to the latest issue, are now indexed on PubMed, the… READ MORE
Academic Blogging Point/Counter Point
11/02/2007
A recent ACRLog post provides handy links to two recent Inside Higher Ed pieces on the pros and cons of academic blogging.
A View from Our ASA Booth
10/18/2007
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
Shamelessly Disorderly Reading
10/18/2007
If your leisure reading habits have been a bit haphazard lately, you are in good company. In a recent essay for Common-place, Matthew P. Brown shamelessly admits to grazing magazines… READ MORE
Hartford Courant Commentary on The University & Urban Revival
10/17/2007
Can urban colleges and universities find revitalization lessons in our neighborhood, West Philly? A professor and administrator at St. Joseph College in West Hartford, CT thinks so. In "Town And… READ MORE
Remembering Historian and Innovator Roy Rosenzweig
10/15/2007
The staff of the University of Pennsylvania Press is saddened by the news of the death of Roy Rosenzweig, historian, head of the Center for History and New Media, and… READ MORE
