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"Moses Jacob Ezekiel: Jewish, Confederate, Expatriate Sculptor" by Samantha Baskind - Read Beat (...and repeat)

Penn State University Press @psupress.bsky.social · 2d

MOSES JACOB EZEKIEL author Samantha Baskind was featured on the Read Beat (...and repeat) podcast! Listen to the full episode here:

Moses Jacob Ezekiel may be a 19th-century sculptor who’s been largely forgotten, but his work hasn’t been.A member of the Jewish faith who fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War, Ezekiel is…

Graphic Ethnography and Surrogacy in Comics

Penn State University Press @psupress.bsky.social · 5d

October is LGBTQ History Month, and we're celebrating with a sale! Take 40% off select titles when you use discount code LQHM25 at checkout. Sale ends 10/31: bit.ly/3KT9jll

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

“Graphic medicine can reach people in ways data tables can’t.”

Read more from A TALE OF TWO SURROGATES coauthor Elly Teman's interview with GraphicMemoirBlog:

An interview with Elly Teman on A Tale of Two Surrogates

Alessandra Russo | Book Talk: A New Antiquity. Art And Humanity as Universal, 1400-1600

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

Tomorrow! Join Alessandra Russo, author of A NEW ANTIQUITY, for a book talk at Princeton University. Find more details here:

We tend to think of sixteenth-century European artistic theory as separate from the artworks displayed in the non-European sections of museums. Alessandra Russo argues otherwise. Instead of…

Alessandra Russo | Book Talk: A New Antiquity. Art And Humanity as Universal, 1400-1600

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

Tomorrow! Join Alessandra Russo, author of A NEW ANTIQUITY, for a book talk at Princeton University. Find more details here:

We tend to think of sixteenth-century European artistic theory as separate from the artworks displayed in the non-European sections of museums. Alessandra Russo argues otherwise. Instead of…

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

The Unlocked Book of the Month is SOUND TACTICS. Read more and access the book here:

💬 0 🔁 0 ❤️ 0 · Unlocked Book of the Month: Sound Tactics · Each month we’re highlighting a book available through PSU Press Unlocked, an open access initiative featuring scholarly digital books a…

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

Last chance to shop our German Studies sale! Save 40% when you use discount code GSA25 at checkout. Sale ends 9/30: bit.ly/3HEycAk

The Motown Story: The First Decade, or A Star Is Born

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Turn The Page! - Syosset Public Library 🎤 @splturnthepage.bsky.social · Sep 5

Here's ep. 366B: Syosset's own Dr. Asa Mittman stops by the show to talk about how his alma mater shaped his career as a medieval art historian and his recent book, CARTOGRAPHIES OF EXCLUSION: ANTI-SEMITIC MAPPING IN MEDIEVAL ENGLAND. @psupress.bsky.social

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Penn State University Press @psupress.bsky.social · 13d

The article "The Motown Story: The First Decade, or A Star Is Born" is free to read for the rest of 2025! Find the article here: buff.ly/9exoNtb

Be sure to take a look at AMP: American Music Perspectives 4.1-2, which is a special issue on Motown!

ABSTRACT. Commissioned and approved by Motown Records founder Berry Gordy, The Motown Story: The First Decade (1971) is a five-disc box set condensing the first ten years of the Detroit soul label’s…

The American Dream Unhinged: Romance and Reality in 'The Great Gatsby' and 'Fight Club'

Penn State University Press @psupress.bsky.social · 14d

Happy birthday, F. Scott Fitzgerald! 🎂

In case you missed any of our #SummerOfGatsby free articles, don't worry! You can still read them through the end of October, and they're all linked below.

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SUZANNE DEL GIZZO; The American Dream Unhinged: Romance and Reality in "The Great Gatsby" and "Fight Club". The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review 1 January 2008; 6 (1): 69–94. doi:…

Penn State University Press @psupress.bsky.social · 14d

Congratulations to José G. Izaguirre III, whose book BECOMING LA RAZA was named the winner of the NCA Latino/a Communication Studies Division and La Raza Caucus Outstanding Book Award!

Cleveland author aims to rescue Jewish Confederate artist from culture wars

Penn State University Press @psupress.bsky.social · 15d

“We live in a very complex country with a very complex history,’’ Baskind said, “and we should know about it.”

Read more from MOSES JACOB EZEKIEL author Samantha Baskind's interview with Ideastream:

In her new book, Cleveland State University art historian Samantha Baskind wants readers to see Moses Jacob Ezekiel in his entirety, not merely “whipsawed,’’ as she put it, between antagonists on…

NCA VLO: Publishing Your Book with a University Press Registration - National Communication Association

Penn State University Press @psupress.bsky.social · 16d

Friday! One of our Acquisitions Editors, Archna Patel, is part of a virtual panel on publishing your book with a university press! The panel is at 2 p.m. EDT. Register here:

Poetics of Humility: Animal Ethics in Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell

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

Congratulations to THE WOUND AND THE STITCH author Loretta Victoria Ramirez, whose book was named a finalist for the 2025 International Latino Book Awards Best Academic Themed Book, College Level! The book also received honorable mentions in several categories.

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

The article "Poetics of Humility: Animal Ethics in Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell" in BISHOP–LOWELL STUDIES is free to read through 12/31:

Abstract. Despite the “literary turn” in moral philosophy, which was precipitated by the confluence of post-structural, postmodern currents in literature and a renewed interest in Aristotle’s virtue…

Abstract. Fifty years after its publication as a novel, Carrie still manages to remind us of not only Stephen King’s importance as a novelist but also the value of reading the text and the film it…

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

The very first issue of American Gothic Studies has published, and the article "Carrie at 50" is free to read through the end of the year!

Carrie at 50

Volume 1 Issue 1-2 | Journal of Development Perspectives | Scholarly Publishing Collective

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

The entirety of Volumes 1 and 2 of Journal of Development Perspectives are free to access through October 12!

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Journal of Development Perspectives | 1 | 1-2 | June 2017

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

This month, we're giving you 40% books in German Studies! Save when you use discount code GSA25 at checkout. Sale ends 9/30: bit.ly/3HEycAk

Two Years After Cormac McCarthy's Death, Rare Access to His Personal Library Reveals the Man Behind the Myth

Penn State University Press @psupress.bsky.social · 22d

Stacy Peebles, editor of THE CORMAC MCCARTHY JOURNAL, is featured in this article about Cormac McCarthy's personal library:

The famously reclusive novelist amassed a collection of thousands of books ranging in topics from philosophical treatises to advanced mathematics to the naked mole-rat

Temperance and Cosmopolitanism: African American Reformers in the Atlantic World By Carole Lynn Stewart

Penn State University Press @psupress.bsky.social · 23d

This week, PSU-ARC is holding a symposium on Frances E. W. Harper. Find the full schedule in the image. You can learn more about Frances E. W. Harper in Carole Lynn Stewart's TEMPERANCE AND COSMOPOLITANISM:

Temperance and Cosmopolitanism explores the nature and meaning of cosmopolitan freedom in the nineteenth century through a study of selected African American authors and reformers: William Wells…

“Questionable Justice”: The Case of the Blue Hood in Pittsburgh’s South Hills

Penn State University Press @psupress.bsky.social · 27d

The article "'Questionable Justice': The Case of the Blue Hood in Pittsburgh’s South Hills" in PENNSYLVANIA HISTORY is free to read for the next three months!

ABSTRACT. In the spring of 1942, Pittsburgh’s South Hills communities were plagued by a series of frightening attacks made by a masked figure wearing a blue fabric hood. After an intense manhunt, the…

Penn State University Press @psupress.bsky.social · 28d

This Friday, join the editors of KEYSTONE POETRY for a celebration at the PSU Libraries!

We've teamed up w/ the PA Center for the Book & the PSU English Dept. for a poetry workshop (1:30-3:00pm) in the Dewey Room, and a reading/Q&A (4:00-5:00pm) and book signing (5:00-5:30pm) in Foster Auditorium!

Penn State University Press @psupress.bsky.social · 29d

“We touch Africa all the time in this city,” Bassi said, “And don’t even notice it.”

The Washington Post joined Shaul Bassi, co-author of AFRICAN VENICE, for a trip through one of the book's proposed itineraries! Read the full article here:

A New Graphic Novel Reimagines Surrogacy

Penn State University Press @psupress.bsky.social · 29d

"A vivid portrait of the inner worlds of surrogates, in the process challenging assumptions and offering a nuanced take on autonomy, kinship and the meaning of motherhood."

Read more from A TALE OF TWO SURROGATES coauthor Elly Teman's interview w/ Hadassah Magazine:

Co-author Elly Teman tells us about developing “A Tale of Two Surrogates" and how assisted reproduction differs—and overlaps—in Israel and America.