UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Penn State University Press has unveiled its fall/winter 2024 catalog, featuring new general interest and scholarly books in the fields of literature, art history, religious studies, rhetoric and communication, sensory studies, medieval and early modern studies, current events and more.
Notable forthcoming titles include "The Declaration in Script and Print: A Visual History of America's Founding Document" by curator John Bidwell; "Love and Degradation: Excessive Desires in Queer-Feminist Art" by William J. Simmons, which analyzes works by Lana Del Rey, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Charlotte Brontë and more; and four new graphic novels from Graphic Mundi, the press’s graphic novel imprint.
Scholarly highlights include "Struggle for the City: Citizenship and Resistance in the Black Freedom Movement" by Derek G. Handley, which examines how urban renewal policies stemming from the 1954 Housing Act and 1956 Highway Act destroyed the economic centers of many Black neighborhoods in the United States; "Becoming La Raza: Negotiating Race in the Chican@ Movement(s)" by José G. Izaguirre III, which details the formation of La Raza Unida, a political party dedicated to naming and defending Mexican Americans as a racialized community; "Cervantine Blackness" by Nicholas R. Jones, which reconsiders in what sense Black subjects possess an inherent value within Cervantes’s cultural purview and literary corpus; and "Memorializing the Unsung: Slaves of the Church and the Making of Kongo Catholicism" by Elochukwu E. Uzukwu, which explores European dependence on enslaved Kongo Catholics and the unconscionable Capuchin and Spiritan participation in the slave trade at large. The catalog also includes new and forthcoming titles from Eisenbrauns, the press’s imprint for biblical and ancient Near Eastern studies, including "The Language of Trauma in the Psalms" by Danilo Verde and "Boschwitz on Wellhausen: The Life, Work, and Letters of a Jewish Scholar in Nazi Germany" by Paul Michael Kurtz.
Founded in 1956, Penn State University Press publishes high-quality books, journals and graphic novels of interest to scholars and general readers, with a focus on the humanities and social sciences. To see all of Penn State University Press’s forthcoming fall/winter 2024 titles, see the full catalog here.