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PSU Press Presents: Comics in Scholarship Ken Koltun-Fromm author of Drawing on Religion: Reading and the Moral Imagination in Comics and Graphic Novels... Scott T. Smith and José Alaniz editors of Uncanny Bodies: Superhero Comics and Disability Susan Merrill Squier and Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff editors of PathoGraphics: Narrative, Aesthetics, Contention, Community Moderated by Kendra Boileau, PSU Press Assistant Director and Editor-in-Chief

*TODAY* Join us @ 4pm ET for a panel with the authors of three recent books in graphic studies!

Mark your calendars! Allison Deutsch, author of CONSUMING PAINTING, will give a talk next Thursday 5/27 hosted on Zoom by the National Gallery https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk//lunchtime-talk-27-05-2

Our next #PSUPressPresents event is Thursday 5/20 @ 4pm EDT! Tune in for a discussion of three new books in #graphicstudies

Join PSU Press for a discussion with the authors of four recent and forthcoming books in the Magic in History and Magic in History Sourcebooks series! This virtual panel will take place on Friday, April 30th at 4pm EST. Panelists will discuss their books and answer your questions. Our guests are: Michael D. Bailey author of Origins of the Witches’ Sabbath... Allegra Iafrate author of The Long Life of Magical Objects: A Study in the Solomonic Tradition Frank Klaassen and Sharon Hubbs Wright coauthors of The Magic of Rogues: Necromancers in Early Tudor England Marla Segol author of Kabbalah and Sex Magic: A Mythical-Ritual Genealogy This event will be moderated by Claire Fanger, author of Rewriting Magic: An Exegesis of the Visionary Autobiography of a Fourteenth-Century French Monk.

This Friday! Michael D. Bailey, Allegra Iafrate, Frank Klaassen, Sharon Hubbs Wright, Marla Segol, and moderator Claire Fanger will discuss all things magic at 4pm EDT

MENOPAUSE has been named a Best Graphic Novel of 2020 by the The New York Times! #graphicmedicine #graphicnovels #menopause

MK Czerwiec talks to Smash Pages about MENOPAUSE, #graphicmedicine, and more: http://smashpages.net/2020/12/02/smash-pages-qa-mk-czerwiec/

Happy holidays! In honor of the 45th anniversary of our imprint Eisenbrauns, we're offering 45% off all books through 12/21 with code EB45! See our favorite gift ideas and start shopping here: https://www.psupress.org/two_week_sale.html

"The striped uniform, the bloody hoody, each allows us to stitch connections between ourselves and these different violent legacies. Abiding affective engagements reside in these tattered objects. Such objects keep the event tangible, suspended, and within our reach." Read an excerpt from THE OBJECTS THAT REMAIN by Laura Levitt in Lilith Magazine https://www.lilith.org/articles/fall-1976-81/

Julian Barnes calls THE LETTERS OF EDGAR DEGAS by Theodore Reff, a publication we are proud to distribute for the The Wildenstein Plattner Institute, "resplendent" in London Review of Books https://lrb.co.uk//v/n22/julian-barnes/summarising-oneself

Every time he threatens to wake up, the ground in Mexico City shakes. Author Ilan Stavans on Tepeyólotl, the Aztec god of earthquakes and echoes. From A PRE-COLUMBIAN BESTIARY, out next week with Penn State University Press.

Laura Levitt's THE OBJECTS THAT REMAIN is the #1 Amazon new release in books on criminal law! And it's currently 30% off as part of our #JewishStudies sale: https://www.psupress.org/two_week_sale.html

Now in the online shoporder your copy of the Frick Library's new publication, "America and the Art of Flanders: Collecting Paintings by Rubens, Van Dyck, and T...heir Circles." This beautifully illustrated book includes twelve essays by noted scholars and curators, who together trace the rise in America's captivation with and collection of Flemish art. Purchase now at thefrick.org/AmericaArtFlanders. Become a member to save 20% during our holiday shopping weeks from November 27 to December 13! America and the Art of Flanders: Collecting Paintings by Rubens, Van Dyck, and Their Circles. Photo: George Koelle

Sharon Jarvis, coauthor of VOTES THAT COUNT AND VOTERS WHO DON'T, talks w/ The Whole Story: https://thewholestory.solutionsjournalism.org/how-to-report #voting #vote2020

If case you missed last night's #PSUPressPresents event, watch it here! "Rhetoric in America: Then & Now" featured thought-provoking discussion with authors Stephen Browne, Lisa Flores, William Keith, and Robert Danisch.

William Keith outlines how to talk with friends and family about politics for CBS 58! Tune in tonight for a discussion w/ the authors of BEYOND CIVILITY and other books on language in American politics: https://psu.zoom.us//59160157394/WN_Nf2NP5pfS_2WV1oNtnkhPA

Alumni news alert! We’re delighted to share that Prof. Scott Oldenburg, from the MA Literature Class of ‘99, just published his new work, A Weaver-Poet and the... Plague: Labor, Poverty, and the Household in Shakespeare’s London. Prof. Oldenburg is Associate Professor of English at Tulane University and author of Alien Albion: Literature and Immigration in Early Modern England. We’re looking forward to reading his new work! http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-08715-3.html Penn State University Press #sfstateenglish #newbook #poetry

"Supporters of OA should agree that those best practices should both accomplish the mission of OA and protect the interests of the author of a scholarly article." Our director Patrick Alexander weighs in on #openaccess policies for INSIGHTS: https://insights.uksg.org/articles/10.1629/uksg.525/ #OAweek #OpenAccessWeek

We'll miss seeing you at #PHA this year! But check out our virtual exhibit and save 30% w/ code PHA20: https://www.psupress.org/PHA20.html And don't forget to visit Pennsylvania Historical Association's virtual Booksellers Hall https://www.flickr.com//721577156031519/with/50387619341/

Tomorrow! Tune in to the Rhetoric Society of America #RSAremote panel "Making Contact: Working with Book Editors, Reviewers, and Readers" w/ PSU Press Acquisitions Editor Ryan Peterson: https://www.rhetoricsociety.org//_PAR/layout_details/false #RSA #rhetoric #publishing

Check out some fantastic #indigenous creatures from Ilan Stavans! #IndigenousPeoplesDay via The American Scholar