The Penn State University Press, also known as The Pennsylvania State University Press, is a non-profit publisher of scholarly books and journals. Established in 1956, it is the independent publishing branch of the Pennsylvania State University and is a division of the Penn State University Library system.
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Penn State University Press publishes books and journals of interest to scholars and general audiences. As a part of a land-grant university with a mandate to serve the citizens of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, it also specializes in works about Penn State University, Pennsylvania, and the mid-Atlantic region. The areas of scholarship the Press is best known for are art history, medieval studies, Latin American studies, rhetoric and communication, religious studies, and graphic medicine.[2][3]
The press produces about 80 books a year and over 60 journals. The Press employs 25 to 30 people, and has several internship programs for Penn State students interested in a publishing career.
The first book published by Penn State University Press was Penn State Yankee: The Autobiography of Fred Lewis Pattee, the autobiography of a noted Penn State faculty member who was the first professor of American literature in the United States.[4]
In 2016 the Press launched PSU Press Unlocked, an open-access platform featuring over 70 books and journals. The Press acquired academic publisher Eisenbrauns, which specializes in ancient Near East and biblical studies, in November 2017.[5] Eisenbrauns continues to publish as an imprint of the Press. In 2021, the Press launched the Graphic Mundi graphic novel imprint.[6]
- The Hidden Life of Life: A Walk through the Reaches of Time by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
- The Noisy Renaissance: Sound, Architecture, and Florentine Urban Life by Niall Atkinson
- Graphic Medicine Manifesto by MK Czerwiec, Ian Williams, Susan Merrill Squier, Michael J. Green, Kimberly R. Myers, and Scott T. Smith
- Henry James and American Painting by Colm Tóibín, Marc Simpson and Declan Kiely
- Medieval Studies and the Ghost Stories of M. R. James by Patrick Murphy
- Field Guide to Wild Mushrooms of Pennsylvania and the Mid-Atlantic by Bill Russell
- Ernest Hemingway: A New Life by James M. Hutchisson
- The English translation of The Holy Teaching of Vimalakirti by Robert Thurman
- The Novels of the Harlem Renaissance:Twelve Black Writers, 1923–1933 by Amritjit Singh
- ab-Original: Journal of Indigenous Studies and First Nations and First Peoples' Cultures, edited by Australian linguist Jakelin Troy[7][8] The first issue was published in 2017,[9] but as of 2023 appears to be archived.[10]
- AMP: American Music Perspectives
- The Arthur Miller Journal
- Bishop–Lowell Studies
- Bulletin for Biblical Research
- Bustan: The Middle East Book Review
- Calíope: Journal of the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry
- The Chaucer Review: A Journal of Medieval Studies and Literary Criticism
- Comedia Performance: Journal of the Association for Hispanic Classical Theater
- Comparative Literature Studies
- The Cormac McCarthy Journal
- Critical Philosophy of Race
- Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction
- Ecumenica: Performance and Religion
- The Edgar Allan Poe Review
- Edith Wharton Review
- The Eugene O'Neill Review
- The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review
- George Eliot–George Henry Lewes Studies
- Gestalt Review
- The Good Society: A Journal of Civic Studies
- The Harold Pinter Review: Essays on Contemporary Drama
- Hiperboreea
- Hungarian Studies Review
- Interdisciplinary Literary Studies: A Journal of Criticism and Theory
- International Journal of Persian Literature
- Journal for the Study of Paul and His Letters
- Journal of African Development
- Journal of Africana Religions
- Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture
- The Journal of Assessment and Institutional Effectiveness
- Journal of Austrian-American History
- The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies
- Journal of Comparative Philology
- Journal of Development Perspectives
- Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies
- Journal of General Education: A Curricular Commons of the Humanities and Sciences
- Journal of Information Policy
- The Journal of Jewish Ethics
- Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures
- Journal of Minority Achievement, Creativity, and Leadership
- Journal of Modern Periodical Studies
- Journal of Moravian History
- Journal of Natural Resources Policy Research
- The Journal of Nietzsche Studies
- Journal of Posthuman Studies: Philosophy, Technology, Media
- Journal of Speculative Philosophy
- Journal of the Pennsylvania Academy of Science
- Journal of Theological Interpretation
- The Journal of World Christianity
- The Korean Language in America
- The Langston Hughes Review
- Libraries: Culture, History, and Society
- The Mark Twain Annual
- Mediterranean Studies
- Milton Studies
- Nathaniel Hawthorne Review
- Nineteenth Century Studies
- Pacific Coast Philology
- Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies
- Philosophia Africana: Analysis of Philosophy and Issues in Africa and the Black Diaspora
- Philosophy & Rhetoric
- Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural
- Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History
- Resources for American Literary Study
- SHAW: The Journal of Bernard Shaw Studies
- Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal
- Steinbeck Review
- Studies in American Humor
- Studies in American Jewish Literature
- Studies in the American Short Story
- Style
- Theatre and Performance Notes and Counternotes
- Thornton Wilder Journal
- Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy
- Transportation Journal
- Utopian Studies
- Victorians Institute Journal
- Wesley and Methodist Studies
- William Carlos Williams Review
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