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Penn State University Press @psupress.bsky.social · Jul 9

Penn State University Press is pleased to welcome Paul Harrington as our Sales Manager! buff.ly/V8AdUTH

Paul Harrington, former sales and marketing director at Well-Trained Mind Press, has been named sales manager at Penn State University Press, effective June 23.

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The Oxford Publicity Partnership Ltd (OPP) @oxfordpublicity.bsky.social · Jul 8

We are with @psupress.bsky.social at #Leeds International #Medieval Congress. Pop by our stand in the Book Fair to find out more about new and bestselling books in #Medieval Studies, or to chat to a commissioning editor about publishing!

Eleanor H. Goodman @egoodman.bsky.social · Jul 7

@psupress.bsky.social *is* at the #IMC2025 Bookfair. Come by and say hello! @imc-leeds.bsky.social

International Medieval Congress Leeds @imc-leeds.bsky.social · Jun 18

@psupress.bsky.social will be at the #IMC2025 Bookfair! 🎉 🎉

If any delegates have an interest in the humanities and social sciences, then make sure to pay their stall and learn more about their books, journals, and digital publications.😊
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#MedievalSky #SkyStorians

The Parkinson Building Court hosting the Bookfair: Delegates are walking and chatting to booksellers/exhibitors who have their tables of bookstands.

NYPL Researcher Spotlight: Paul Kaplan | The New York Public Library

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · Jul 1

‘A timely, magisterial and perceptive study of the most contested aspect of an enigmatic medieval philosopher.’ My review of David J. Collins’s ‘Disenchanting Albert the Great’ is published in Irish Theological Quarterly @psupress.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Penn State University Press @psupress.bsky.social · Jun 25

The summer issue of our newsletter, PSU Press News, is here! Find awards and reviews, upcoming events, journals news, and more: buff.ly/sf48Qf6

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Eleanor H. Goodman @egoodman.bsky.social · Jun 3

Paul would be a fabulous colleague to have

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Eleanor H. Goodman @egoodman.bsky.social · Jun 3

in which the NYPL had a nice chat with @psupress.bsky.social author Paul Kaplan
www.nypl.org/blog/2025/05...

Kaplan's research focus is on Venetian painting and European and American images of people of Black African descent.

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Penn State University Press @psupress.bsky.social · May 19

Our Fall/Winter 2025 catalog has arrived! Browse the catalog to see what we’re publishing next season: buff.ly/UfJ9bF3

「ヤマザキマリ✕歴史ミステリー｣ご好評につき全国放送決定！ | NHK長崎

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Penn State University Press @psupress.bsky.social · May 12

If you're in University Park this Saturday, join Acquisitions Editor Archna Patel at the 2025 CAS Summer Symposium! Find more information in the below flyer and register here: buff.ly/Xw8fYnd

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jericho jennifer nelson @henkaipantomime.bsky.social · May 12

new Selva out: _The Ends of Criticism_, guest-edited by Chloë Julius and C. Oliver O'Donnell, with a stunning line-up of authors and topics in US art + art history in the 60s.

(appended is my review of an Israhel van Meckenem show curated by James Wehn at the Chazen....)

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6 Archives - Selva

The Ends of Criticism

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Penn State University Press @psupress.bsky.social · May 8

This Saturday! Catch Mayu Fujikawa, author of the upcoming book ENVISIONING DIPLOMACY, will be featured on NHK (BS) from 14:57 to 15:56 Japan time. More info here:

【NHK】2/14に放送し全国から大反響があった「ヤマザキマリ✕歴史ミステリー世界を見た若者たちｰ天正遣欧使節をたどるヨーロッパの旅ｰ」。ご好評につき全国放送決定！

2025 IJIA Book Award and Honourable Mention Recipients | H-Net

Eleanor H. Goodman @egoodman.bsky.social · May 2

BOOK SALE ALERT

Penn State University Press @psupress.bsky.social · May 1

It's back! This month, save up to 65% with our annual Medieval and Early Modern Backlist Sale when you use discount code MED25 at checkout. Sale ends 5/31: bit.ly/4iHM09m #Medieval

Eleanor H. Goodman @egoodman.bsky.social · May 1

breaking good news:
Farshid Emani's ISFAHAN, published by @psupress.bsky.social has won the IJIA 2025 Book Award

H-Material Culture @h-materialculture.bsky.social · May 1

International Journal of Islamic Architecture: 2025 Book Award is Isfahan: Architecture and Urban Experience in Early Modern Iran by Farshid Emami. For honorable mentions see link below: #MaterialCulture

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International Journal of Islamic Architecture2025 Book Award and Honourable Mention Recipients Dear Colleagues;

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LOVE AND DEGRADATION | Kirkus Reviews

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Penn State University Press @psupress.bsky.social · Apr 18

Now published! AFRICAN VENICE is a guidebook to the extensive historical and contemporary African presence in the City of the Lagoons. Take 30% off w/ discount code NR25: buff.ly/7qkVQNV

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Penn State University Press @psupress.bsky.social · Apr 10

"A thought-provoking analysis that uses art to challenge readers to dig deeper."

Read the full review of William J. Simmons's LOVE AND DEGRADATION from Kirkus Reviews:

Simmons presents a series of critical essays analyzing love and all its forms through a carefully curated selection of art, literature, and pop culture.

Burlington Contemporary - Articles

Eleanor H. Goodman @egoodman.bsky.social · Apr 7

because commitment to generalized cruelty is the entire point?

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Penn State University Press @psupress.bsky.social · Apr 7

"We speak so often of art being some kind of transcendent, collective experience or a way of communing across lines of difference, when, in truth, art can be an equally solitary venture as it is a relational one."

Read more from LOVE AND DEGRADATION in this excerpt:

This is an edited excerpt from ‘Love and Degradation: Excessive Desires in Queer-Feminist Art’ by William J. Simmons, published in December 2024 by Penn State University Press. i. In a 1994 essay,…

Brimming with Pathos | Los Angeles Review of Books

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Penn State University Press @psupress.bsky.social · Mar 21

"I want to believe that we can all have multiple loves, multiple obsessions, and multiple ways of writing."

Read @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social's full interview with William J. Simmons, author of LOVE AND DEGRADATION, here:

Emily Wells interviews William J. Simmons about “Love and Degradation: Excessive Desires in Queer-Feminist Art.”

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Penn State University Press @psupress.bsky.social · Mar 20

We're at #RenSA25 this week! Stop by our booth to browse and purchase books, or shop through our virtual exhibit: buff.ly/jfFBBo4

Eleanor H. Goodman @egoodman.bsky.social · Mar 17

::considers printing up a rage-channeling suggestion leaflet on basement mimeograph machine::

Eleanor H. Goodman @egoodman.bsky.social · Mar 17

keyword: leaning.
they've also all taken down their earnest yard signs. ask me how i know.