Category: Literature & Cultural Studies

The Real Housewives of Medieval France

Today, we have a guest post from Noah D. Guynn, Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Davis and author of Pure Filth: Ethics, Politics, and… READ MORE

Announcing Penn Press’s Spring 2020 catalog!

Exciting new titles this season include:  Bank Notes and Shinplasters by Joshua R. Greenberg, which shows how Americans accumulated and wielded monetary information in order to navigate the early republic's… READ MORE

Is literary theory secular?

Today's guest post comes from Yael Almog, who teaches at the department of theology at the Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany, and is author of Secularism and Hermeneutics, new from Penn… READ MORE

Hot Off Penn Press: Get 50% off!

Today marks the first day of summer, and to celebrate, we're giving our customers a bigtime discount. With Penn Press's SUMMER READING SALE, U.S. customers receive 50% off all titles… READ MORE

Hot Off Penn Press: New for May

With the academic year winding down and summer break beginning, it’s a great time to dive into a new book! Our new releases this month include a century-spanning international history… READ MORE

To Laugh or Not to Laugh?

Today's guest post marks an exciting return for Jody Enders, Distinguished Professor of French at the University of California, Santa Barbara and editor and translator of two of Penn Press's… READ MORE

Hot Off Penn Press: New for April

Our new releases this month include a sweeping cultural history of the politics of privacy in 20th-century America, a fascinating biography of a Reformation-era woman alchemist, an edited volume focusing… READ MORE

Hot Off Penn Press: March releases

Don't miss our latest slate of titles, ranging from a compelling, novel history of black abolitionist violence in the lead-up to the Civil War to a cultural history of fruit… READ MORE