Congratulations to Sławomir Studniarz, whose article "Multimodality in 'The Bells': New Explorations in Poe's Symphonic Poem" from The Edgar Allen Poe Review 26.1 (2025) won the 2025 James W. Gargano Award for best article on Poe, given by the Poe Studies Association! https://ow.ly/2KYZ50YLlsh

Congratulations to Edward E. Curtis IV, editor of our forthcoming Arab Americana journal, for being named a 2026 fellow for both the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation AND the American Council of Learned Studies for his project "The Riddle of the Evil Eye: Religion in Arab American History”!

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We spoke with PSU Librarian Tara Murray Grove about Vivian Davidson Hewitt—the first Black librarian in Pittsburgh and the first Black president of the Special Library Association (SLA). Read the Q&A and Grove’s article from LIBRARIES 7:2, free to read through 4/25. https://ow.ly/aLc550Yyigc

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It's National Poetry Month! This week’s Q&A is with Andrew Lyndon Knighton about his article "Mel Weisburd as a 'Smog Inspector by Day, Poet by Night’" from Resources for American Literary Study 45:1 (2023). Check out the Q&A and read the article for free through 4/22. https://ow.ly/SvPO50YK1xS

This month, we're offering 40% off on books in Jewish Studies! Save on select titles with promo code JSS26 through 4/27. https://bit.ly/47CjzY1

Post by @pennstateuniversitypress · 1 image 💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · National Poetry Month: Patricia Smith’s Blood Dazzler · “I’m indebted to [Patricia] Smith, who showed me how to remember and mourn the victims of the storm while simultaneously fig…

It's National Poetry Month! In our second Q&A, Dr. Sarah Giragosian discusses her article "Slow Violence and the Anti-elegy in Patricia Smith’s Blood Dazzler” from Interdisciplinary Literary Studies 24:4. Check out the Q&A, and read the article for free through 4/15. https://ow.ly/URKw50YFJQ2

In "Fellow Travelers: Wilson, Orwell, Trilling, Dickens," Annette Federico offers "a personal meditation on the value of reading a classic writer such as Dickens during times of social and political instability." Read in DICKENS STUDIES ANNUAL 57:1 for free through 7/3. https://ow.ly/qGVV50YEEAw

This month, we're offering 40% off on books in Jewish Studies! Save on select titles with promo code JSS26 through 4/27. https://bit.ly/47CjzY1

Post by @pennstateuniversitypress · 1 image 💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · National Poetry Month: “Collegiate Black Women and YouTube Poems” · “For many of [my students], encountering poetry through video performances created a more immediate and emotiona…

We’re celebrating National Poetry Month with a Q&A series featuring journal authors! In our first Q&A, Dr. Howard Rambsy II discusses his article “Collegiate Black Women and YouTube Poems” from The Langston Hughes Review 29:1. Read the journal article for free through 4/8. https://ow.ly/FmUa50YBKvy

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Post by @pennstateuniversitypress · 1 image 💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Women’s History Month Q&A: Vivian Davidson Hewitt, Pittsburgh’s First Black Librarian · In a past issue of Libraries: Culture, History, and Society, Tara Murray Grove writes about…

Tara Murray Grove reflects on Vivan Davidson Hewitt’s legacy as the first Black librarian in Pittsburgh, the field of special librarianship, and more. Read our Q&A w/ Grove and "Vivian Davidson Hewitt: A Special Librarian’s Advocacy” in LIBRARIES 7:2 for free through 4/25. https://ow.ly/qZhK50YyhZ6

What Happened, and What Did Not, at the President’s House on Independence Mall ABSTRACT. Briefly summarizing the history of George and Martha Washington holding enslaved people in the capital of the “new nation, conceived in liberty,” the article explores the long public and scholarly struggle to bring this story to the public on the original site of the President’s House in Philadelphia. Examining the coalition of activists involved, the author narrates official resistance to interpreting slavery at the site and offers published sources for probing the ten-year effort in detail. The article looks at the meanings and impacts of bringing Washington as an enslaver into...

"What Happened, and What Did Not, at the President’s House on Independence Mall" summarizes the history of enslaved people held by the Washingtons in Philadelphia and explores the long struggle to bring this story to the public. Read in PENNSYLVANIA HISTORY through 6/10. https://ow.ly/Wpmp50YwvjS

Our Spring 2026 newsletter has arrived! Read on for new books, awards, journals news, and more. www.psupress.org/emailassets/psupressnews...

World Christianity Free-to-Read Collection

In honor of the 2026 World Christianity Conference in Brazil, we've made articles from THE JOURNAL OF WORLD CHRISTIANITY and JOURNAL OF AFRICANA RELIGIONS available to read for FREE through 3/21. Learn about African "prayer merch," Black Orthodox "visual piety," and more. https://ow.ly/VKk850YwvfJ

Architecture’s Archive: Paperwork in Early Modern Practice, 1400-1800 - Society of Architectural Historians Friday, March 20, 2026 11:00 a.m. CDT Description From drawings and invoices to maps, inventories, and account books, early modern architectural practice abounded with paperwork. These documents emerged from a historical moment beginning around 1400 that witnessed the rise of new technologies and regimes for the management of information. While essential to historical scholarship, documents […]

Friday! Join ISFAHAN author Farshid Emami and THE BROTHEL AND BEYOND author Saundra Weddle will be part of a talk on Architecture’s Archive: Paperwork in Early Modern Practice, 1400-1800 with the Society of Architectural Historians! Registration is open now. https://ow.ly/i6xC50Ys4t6

Book Review: Moses Jacob Ezekiel: Jewish, Confederate, Expatriate Sculptor - Emerging Civil War Moses Jacob Ezekiel: Jewish, Confederate, Expatriate Sculptor. By Samantha Baskind. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2025. Hardcover, 294 pp. $49.99. Reviewed by Sarah Kay Bierle Civil War buffs and historians probably think of the battle of New Market or recent monument controversies when they hear the name Moses Jacob Ezekiel. The first Jewish […]

Emerging Civil War called Samantha Baskind's MOSES JACOB EZEKIEL "an excellent addition to the shelf (or coffee table) for anyone who loves to wander art museums and probe the deeper meanings that artists bring to their creations." https://ow.ly/VOk950Yt8Hm

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Discover groundbreaking new research and essential scholarship in African American and Africana studies through our Black History Month sale! Enter code BHM26 at checkout to save 30–60%. Sale ends 3/1. Offer available on US orders only. https://bit.ly/4bBcmKw

Congratulations to Hillel Cohen, whose book ENEMIES, A LOVE STORY has been named a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in the History category!

In NURSING HISTORY REVIEW, William A. Cessato and Edilma L. Yearwood focus on Georgetown University School of Nursing to interrogate how racism existed within and around registered-nursing education. Free to read through 2/28. https://bit.ly/3ZPOsUk

Fanbase Press Interviews Lisa Diedrich and Briana Martino on the Release of ‘Keywords/Keyimages in Graphic Medicine’ Through PSU Press’ Graphic Medicine Series - Fanbasepress The following is an interview with Lisa Diedrich and Briana Martino regarding the recent release of Keywords/Keyimages in Graphic Medicine as part of the

Lisa Diedrich and Briana Martino, the editors of KEYWORDS/KEYIMAGES IN GRAPHIC MEDICINE, were interviewed by Fanbase Press! https://ow.ly/AUC050YipFq

We've made some reading material free to read for the Renaissance Society of America’s annual meeting! All articles are free to read through 2/28. https://bit.ly/3OmcyUo

“Joining Black and White Hands in the Cause of Justice in America” from THE ARTHUR MILLER JOURNAL examines moments in 20th century US history when appeals for justice were made in letters between Eugene O’Neill, Arthur Miller, and Langston Hughes. Free to read through 2/28. https://bit.ly/3ZPOsUk

We're at RenSA this week! If you're attending in person, find us at booths 35 and 36. If not, you can get the conference discount through our virtual exhibit! Use promo code RNSA26 at checkout to save 40% on our books. Offer available on US orders only. Sale ends 3/31. https://bit.ly/4aHqeAC

We're at CAA this week! If you're attending in person, come find us at booth 401. If not, you can get the conference discount through our virtual exhibit! Use promo code CAA26 at checkout to save 40% on our books. Offer available on US orders only. Sale ends 3/31. https://bit.ly/4qL7Kp6

Video Panel: Adventures In Graphic Medicine Brendan hosts medical professionals, writers, and editors involved in the rapidly growing “graphic medicine” genre in comics and graphic novels. Joining him are Barbra Dillon, Jordan Hart, Lisa Die…

Several of our authors (MK Czerwiec, Ian Williams, Lisa Diedrich, and Briana Martino) were featured on a panel on Adventures In Graphic Medicine! comicon.com/2026/02/13/adventures-in...

Congratulations to Asa Simon Mittman, whose book CARTOGRAPHIES OF EXCLUSION was awarded the 2026 HBA Book Award for Exemplary Scholarship on the Period before 1600!

In NINETEENTH CENTURY STUDIES, THE LEOPARD’S SPOTS is used to examine tactics like voter suppression that white supremacists used to establish one-party oligarchy in the South, and discuss how many of those tactics are being echoed today. Free through 2/28. https://bit.ly/3ZPOsUk

Discover groundbreaking new research and essential scholarship in African American and Africana studies through our Black History Month sale! Enter code BHM26 at checkout to save 30–60%. Sale ends 3/1. Offer available on US orders only. https://bit.ly/4bBcmKw