Winter Meeting Wonderlands
12/23/2011
The Penn Campus is relatively quiet now that classes are over, but winter break doesn't mean that things cool down at Penn Press. Some of the biggest humanities and social… READ MORE
Category: Academic Life
Shakespeare’s Schoolroom–Now Available
12/21/2011
Shakespeare's Schoolroom: Rhetoric, Discipline, Emotion Lynn Enterline 208 pages | 6 x 9 | 3 Illus. Cloth 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4378-9 | $45.00 | £29.50 "Lynn Enterline locates in the… READ MORE
This Month’s Podcast: Anthropologists Explore Sustainable Lifeways
11/01/2011
For the November podcast, we dip into the archives for a second listen to Naomi F. Miller, Katherine M. Moore, and Kathleen Ryan from University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology… READ MORE
Anonymous Is Terrible, But We’re to Blame, says Shakespearean Scholar James Marino
11/01/2011
When we condone myths about Shakespeare, or actually promote them, we create the fertile ground where conspiracy theories grow.
Who’s Afraid of Beowulf?
10/31/2011
My textbook’s translation from Old English seemed entirely cryptic, despite my painstaking efforts to parse out the intended meaning of the thousand-year-old work. As a result, I admit that I have since held a grudge against all things Beowulf.
The September Newsletter
09/02/2011
Newsletter lovers, the September Penn Press newsletter is online now. The newsletter includes upcoming book events, a summary of our editors' and authors' activities in the world, and a link… READ MORE
The Disaster Experts: Mastering Risk in Modern America–Now Available
08/18/2011
The Disaster Experts: Mastering Risk in Modern America Scott Gabriel Knowles 280 pages | 6 x 9 | 22 illus. Cloth Sep 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4350-5 | $45.00 | £29.50… READ MORE
Witchcraft and Magic in the Nordic Middle Ages Author Named Cabot Fellow
08/16/2011
Stephen A. Mitchell, author of Witchcraft and Magic in the Nordic Middle Ages, was named a Walter Channing Cabot Fellow for 2011. The Cabot award honors faculty at Harvard University… READ MORE
Penn Press Staff Members Dispel Darkness from a “Tower of Song”
08/12/2011
Penn Press staff practice many ways of dispelling darkness besides publishing books and journals. Some of us are accomplished musicians. If you want proof and you're looking for something to… READ MORE
A Penn Press Podcast Interview with The Disaster Experts Author Scott Gabriel Knowles
08/08/2011
The tenth anniversary of the September 11th attacks is fast approaching. In the August podcast, historian Scott Gabriel Knowles, author of The Disaster Experts: Mastering Risk in Modern America, reflects… READ MORE
