The Real Housewives of Medieval France
02/18/2020
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
Category: Popular Culture
Announcing Penn Press’s Spring 2020 catalog!
02/14/2020
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
The Secret History of Lesbian Desire in Postwar American Marriage
01/14/2020
Today we have a guest post from Lauren Jae Gutterman, who teaches American studies at the University of Texas at Austin and is author of Her Neighbor's Wife: A History… READ MORE
Getting Naked Outside to Feel Good Inside: Nude Summer Travel
08/06/2019
Today's guest post comes to us from Sarah Schrank, Professor of History at California State University, Long Beach and author of Free and Natural: Nudity and the American Cult of… READ MORE
Hot Off Penn Press: Get 50% off!
06/21/2019
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: We’re back!
09/27/2018
Hello all! After a delay due to a transition to a new book distributor, we're back with a fresh slate of newly released titles. Take a look at the latest… READ MORE
Eighteenth-Century Rap Battles
12/05/2017
Today, we have a guest post from Colin Wells, Professor of English at St. Olaf College and author of Poetry Wars: Verse and Politics in the American Revolution and Early… READ MORE
Frankenstein and the Rights of the Child
11/07/2017
Today we have an exciting guest post from Eileen Hunt Botting, Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame and author of Mary Shelley and the Rights of… READ MORE
Queer/Muslim Politics in the Trump Era
10/05/2017
Today, we have an exciting and timely blog post from Timothy Stewart-Winter, Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University-Newark and author of Queer Clout: Chicago and the Rise of Gay… READ MORE
Hot Off Penn Press: Welcome to fall
09/27/2017
In our location of Philadelphia, it sure doesn't feel like fall quite yet with temperatures in the high '80s, but the calendar doesn't lie: last Friday marked the official start… READ MORE
