Education is Translation–Now in Paperback
07/28/2010
Education Is Translation: A Metaphor for Change in Learning and Teaching Alison Cook-Sather 224 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2005 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3889-1 | $59.95 | £39.00 Paper 2010… READ MORE
Category: Academic Life
JAMA reviews The Anatomy Murders
07/15/2010
Q: What recent Penn Press history book has captured the attention of the Journal of the American Medical Association? A: Lisa Rosner's The Anatomy Murders: Being the True and Spectacular… READ MORE
A New Penn Press Podcast–Len Krisak Reads from his translation of Virgil’s Eclogues
07/01/2010
In the July 2010 Penn Press podcast, Len Krisak–winner of the Richard Wilbur Prize, the Robert Penn Warren Prize, and the Robert Frost Prize–talks about his new translation of Virgil's… READ MORE
Three “Essential” Penn Press Books in Choice Magazine
06/30/2010
Three very different Penn Press books were named "essential" in the June 2010 issue of Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries–Marisa Chappell's The War on Welfare: Family, Poverty, and Politics… READ MORE
National Post Op-Ed on Darnton’s Work
06/22/2010
An op-ed piece on Robert Darnton’s research on French libel recently appeared in the National Post. Columnist Robert Fulford writes: When we chronicle the struggle for literary freedom we too… READ MORE
Penn Press at the AAUP Annual Meeting
06/21/2010
The 2010 annual meeting of the Association of American University Presses (AAUP) has come and gone, but it has left the scholarly press community with much to think about. With… READ MORE
Press Director Eric Halpern on eBook Developments
06/02/2010
Ebooks. Talk of them seems to fill the media these days. While prognosticators in the past have made many wild-eyed claims for ebooks that never became reality, ebook sales now constitute a rapidly growing share of books sold. In today’s more promising ebook environment, we are exploring opportunities to reach new readers in the digital realm.
Forthcoming Fall 2010 Books
06/01/2010
The Penn Press catalog of books for fall 2010 is now available in print and online. In the coming season Penn Press will continue to publish scholarly and general interest… READ MORE
European Modernity and the Arab Mediterranean–Now Available
05/24/2010
European Modernity and the Arab Mediterranean: Toward a New Philology and a Counter-Orientalism Karla Mallette 328 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2010 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4241-6 | $65.00 | £42.50… READ MORE
Van Engen Wins 2010 Otto Gründler Book Prize
05/20/2010
Historian John Van Engen has received another prize for Sisters and Brothers of the Common Life: The Devotio Moderna and the World of the Later Middle Ages. Van Engen was… READ MORE
