Penn Press Log

Announcing Penn Press’s Fall 2020 catalog!

Exciting new titles this season include: • In Defense of Populism by Donald T. Critchlow, which argues, contrary to contemporary warnings about the dangers of populism, that grassroots activism is essential… READ MORE

Digging My Book Cover

Today, we have a guest post from Frances E. Dolan, Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Davis and author of Digging the Past: How and Why to… READ MORE

The Bookmark

Today, we have a guest post from Jesús R. Velasco, Professor of Spanish at Yale University and author of Dead Voice: Law, Philosophy, and Fiction in the Iberian Middle Ages…. READ MORE

Hot Off Penn Press: New for July

Don’t miss our latest batch of new titles, including a fascinating history of paper money in the U.S., an exploration of indigenous rights in the Americas, a study of seventeenth-century… READ MORE

Reading List: Race, policing, and protest

In the past two weeks, tragic police killings of African Americans have once again sent shockwaves through the nation and have prompted a widespread and ongoing surge of activism. These… READ MORE

Hot Off Penn Press: New for May

Our latest titles span from an analysis of the cultural politics of cookbooks to an exploration of Jewish-Christian relations in nineteenth-century Europe, with much more in between. Browse through them… READ MORE