Penn State University Press

Penn State University Press
Founded1956
Country of originUnited States
Headquarters locationUniversity Park, Pennsylvania
DistributionSelf-distributed (US and most of world)
University of Toronto Press (Canada)
NBN International (Europe)
MHM (Japan)
Footprint Books (Australia)
Publication typesBooks, Academic journals
ImprintsEisenbrauns, Graphic Mundi
Official websitepsupress.org

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.

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.

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.

History

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.

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. Eisenbrauns continues to publish as an imprint of the Press. In 2021, the Press launched the Graphic Mundi graphic novel imprint.

Notable titles

Journals

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Ordering from PSU Press". Retrieved 2017-11-12.
  2. ↑ Penn State University Libraries, "Libraries and Departments", psu.edu, retrieved 2026-09-30
  3. ↑ Eckstein, Joe (Mar 22, 2021). "How Penn State University Press tackled the coronavirus pandemic through comics". Daily Collegian.
  4. ↑ Alverson, Brigid (Oct 7, 2020). "PSU Press Launches Graphic Mundi Imprint". Publishers Weekly. The new imprint will build on the press's Graphic Medicine series...
  5. ↑ "Pattee, Fred Lewis". Penn State Libraries. Pennsylvania State University. Archived from the original on 26 July 2014. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
  6. ↑ Jaschik, Scott (October 17, 2017). "Penn State Press Acquires Eisenbrauns". Inside Higher Ed.
  7. ↑ "Penn State University Press announces Graphic Mundi imprint | Penn State University".
  8. ↑ "Jakelin Troy". UNSW Press. Retrieved 6 August 2024.
  9. ↑ "ab-Original". Scholarly Publishing Collective. Retrieved 6 August 2024.
  10. ↑ "ab-Original: Journal of Indigenous Studies and First Nations and First Peoples´Cultures". Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals and Series (in Norwegian Bokmål). Retrieved 7 August 2024.
  11. ↑ "2023 Journals" (PDF). Penn State University. 2022. p. 42.