University Press Week 2014: Day 5, “Follow Friday”
11/14/2014
Today is the final day of the University Press Week blog tour, and the theme for this cold (at least here in Philly) Friday is "Follow Friday." Six presses tell… READ MORE
Penn Press Log
University Press Week 2014: Day 4, “Throwback Thursday”
11/13/2014
Today's University Press Week blog tour theme is "Throwback Thursday," with six presses looking back into their histories. Temple University Press has a post describing the development of their influential… READ MORE
University presses: Where knowledge finds a voice
11/12/2014
This post is a part of the 2014 AAUP University Press Week blog tour. Other presses posting today include Princeton University Press, University Press of Kentucky, Georgetown University Press, University… READ MORE
University Press Week 2014: Day 2, “In pictures”
11/11/2014
Today on the University Press Week blog tour, five presses are taking us backstage through pictures, both historical and contemporary. The five presses are: Fordham University Press, "We’ve Come A… READ MORE
Mellon Distinguished Lecture Series
The Mellon Distinguished Lecture Series is sponsored by the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Pennsylvania Press, the Penn Law School, the Department… READ MORE
University Press Week 2014 begins: Day 1, “Collaboration”
11/10/2014
Today marks the kick-off of the 2014 American Association of University Presses University Press Week blog tour. Over the course of the next five days, more than thirty university presses… READ MORE
Hot Off Penn Press: October’s New Books
11/04/2014
Yes, it's technically November, but that's just because there were so many new releases last month we couldn't fit in time to post about it! If you'd like to receive… READ MORE
Author Q&A: Francesca Sawaya, The Difficult Art of Giving
10/28/2014
Francesca Sawaya is author of The Difficult Art of Giving: Patronage, Philanthropy, and the American Literary Market, which rethinks standard economic histories of the literary marketplace. Traditionally, American literary histories maintain that… READ MORE
Author Q&A: Elisheva Baumgarten, Practicing Piety in Medieval Ashkenaz
10/23/2014
Elisheva Baumgarten is the author of Practicing Piety in Medieval Ashkenaz: Men, Women, and Everyday Religious Observance, which provides a social history of religious practice in context, particularly with regard… READ MORE
Author Q&A: Danielle A. Layne and Harold Tarrant, The Neoplatonic Socrates
10/21/2014
Today's author Q&A is with the editors of The Neoplatonic Socrates, Danielle A. Layne and Harold Tarrant. Today the name Socrates invokes a powerful idealization of wisdom and nobility that… READ MORE
