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The Pennsylvania State University Press is pleased to announce the appointment of Kendra Boileau as the press’s new editor-in-chief, effective June 4, 2010. Ms. Boileau brings with her a distinguished career in university press publishing, having started at Indiana University Press as an assistant managing editor in the late 1990s, and most recently from the University of Illinois Press, where, as senior acquisitions editor, she acquired in the areas of communication studies, Asian American studies, food studies, religion, and sensory history. Prior to her tenure at Illinois, she was an acquisitions editor at Rutgers University Press and at the University of Pittsburgh Press. Ms. Boileau earned an M.A. and is ABD in French literature from Indiana University. Areas that she is considering continuing or developing at Penn State Press include history, romance studies, communication studies, religious studies, and food and sensory studies.
Penn State Press Director, Patrick Alexander, discussed open-access collaborations at the recent ALA-Midwinter Conference in Boston, January 15-18, 2010. View his presentation with Maria Bonn, Director of the Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Libraries, and Michael Jensen, Director of Strategic Web Communications, National Academies Press (NAP) here.
Penn State Press is pleased to announce the appointment of Patrick Alexander to the position of Director of the Press, effective July 1, 2009. Patrick has served as Associate Director and Editor-in-Chief of the Press for the last two years, as well as Co-Director of the Office of Digital Scholarly Publishing. Before that, he held a number of positions in the commercial publishing industry. Read more here.
Penn State University Press is pleased to announce a new Series Editor and Advisory Board for its Buildings, Landscapes, and Societies Series. The series will move forward under the direction of Jesús Escobar (Northwestern). Distinguished members of the Advisory Board include, Cammy Brothers (University of Virginia), David Friedman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Diane Ghirardo (University of Southern California), and Volker Welter (University of California-Santa Barbara). Successful manuscript proposals for this series will seek to negotiate the relationship between the constructed world and expressions of social, political, and cultural identity.
More information on the series can be found here.
To listen to an interview with Jason Togyer, author of For the Love of Murphy's, on KQV LiveLine with PJ Maloney, click here. The author will be giving a presentation and talk about his book on Wednesday, January 21, 2009 at the Barnes and Noble at The Waterfront in Homestead, PA, co-sponsored by the Mifflin Township Historical Society.
Bill Russell, author of Field Guide to the Wild Mushrooms of Pennsylvania, offers a free mushroom identification every Tuesday, 11:00AM to 1:00PM at Webster’s Bookstore and Cafe, Allen Street, State College, PA.
To read press director, Sandy Thatcher's writings about copyright and general publishing issues, click here.
For a PDF of the press release on our collaboration with the Library and the new Office of Digital Scholarly Publishing, click here.
For
information about the Google Print controversy and the Penn State
Press, click here.