Hot Off Penn Press: Post-Halloween highlights
11/02/2017
Need some reading material this November? Be sure to peruse the latest batch of Penn Press titles, which cover topics spanning from law and legal studies to religious studies to… READ MORE
Category: Literature & Cultural Studies
The Legacy of “Projects”
10/31/2017
Today we have a guest post from David Alff, who teaches English at the University of Buffalo and whose exciting book The Wreckage of Intentions: Projects in British Culture, 1660-1730 was recently published… READ MORE
Family & Fantasy: How Early Christians Imagined Jesus, Mary, and Joseph at Home
09/28/2017
Today, we have a blog post from Christopher A. Frilingos, Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Michigan State University and author of the Jesus, Mary, and Joseph: Family Trouble in… 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
Japanese Garden in the West Goes Pink
09/21/2017
Today we have a guest post from Christian Tagsold, Associate Professor at the Institute for Modern Japanese Studies at the University of Düsseldorf and author of the new book Spaces in… READ MORE
Afternoon Coffee Break: Taming Lust by Doron S. Ben-Atar and Richard D. Brown
09/19/2017
This blog post comes from Penn Press's Direct Mail and Advertising Manager, Tracy Kellmer, continuing the Afternoon Coffee Break series, in which Tracy shares her reflections and observations about a different Penn… READ MORE
Hot Off Penn Press: Back to school already?
08/17/2017
The first day of fall classes is rapidly approaching at colleges and universities all over, so what better time to check out Penn Press's latest slate of new titles? Indeed,… READ MORE
Aping the Human: On Planet of the Apes and the Posthumanities
07/28/2017
Today we have a guest post from Mira Beth Wasserman, who teaches rabbinic literature at Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and is the author of Jews, Gentiles, and Other Animals: The Talmud After… READ MORE
Hot Off Penn Press: From gardens to stadiums
07/13/2017
In the mid-July heat, relax somewhere cool with one of our new titles, which include an illustrated and comprehensive look at Japanese gardens, an incisive ethnographic study of children caught… READ MORE
Afternoon Coffee Break: The Essential Dürer edited by Larry Silver and Jeffrey Chipps Smith
06/20/2017
This blog post comes from Penn Press's Direct Mail and Advertising Manager, Tracy Kellmer, continuing the Afternoon Coffee Break series, in which Tracy shares her reflections and observations about a different Penn… READ MORE
