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- Assistant Director, Editor-in-Chief Kendra Boileau
- Executive Editor Eleanor H. Goodman
- Acquisitions Editor Kathryn Yahner
- Acquisitions Editor Ryan Peterson
Caricature and National Character
The United States at War
Christopher J. Gilbert
Misfit Modernism
Queer Forms of Double Exile in the Twentieth-Century Novel
Octavio R. González
Out in Central Pennsylvania
The History of an LGBTQ Community
William Burton with Barry Loveland
Pennhurst and the Struggle for Disability Rights
Edited by Dennis B. Downey, James W. Conroy, Foreword by Dick Thornburgh, and Ginny Thornburgh
A Weaver-Poet and the Plague
Labor, Poverty, and the Household in Shakespeare’s London
Scott Oldenburg
Radicals in Exile
English Catholic Books During the Reign of Philip II
Freddy Cristóbal Domínguez
Black Cookstove
Meditations on Literature, Culture, and Cuisine in Colombia
Germán Patiño Ossa, translated by Jonathan Tittler
A Pre-Columbian Bestiary
Fantastic Creatures of Indigenous Latin America
Ilan Stavans with etchings by Eko
Deportable and Disposable
Public Rhetoric and the Making of the “Illegal” Immigrant
Lisa A. Flores
The First Inauguration
George Washington and the Invention of the Republic
Stephen Howard Browne
Beyond Civility
The Competing Obligations of Citizenship
William Keith and Robert Danisch
Rhetoric, Inc.
Ford’s Filmmaking and the Rise of Corporatism
Timothy Johnson
Stripped
Reading the Erotic Body
Maggie M. Werner
Metanoia
Rhetoric, Authenticity, and the Transformation of the Self
Adam Ellwanger, Foreword by Pat J. Gehrke
Rhetorics of Democracy in the Americas
Edited by Adriana Angel, Michael L. Butterworth, and Nancy R. Gómez
Responding to the Sacred
An Inquiry into the Limits of Rhetoric
Edited by Michael Bernard-Donals and Kyle Jensen
Arguing with Numbers
The Intersections of Rhetoric and Mathematics
Edited by James Wynn and G. Mitchell Reyes
Objects of Vision
Making Sense of What We See
A. Joan Saab
The Shape of Difficulty
A Fan Letter to Unruly Objects
Bret L. Rothstein
The Objects That Remain
Laura Levitt
The Retrospective Imagination of A. B. Yehoshua
Yael Halevi-Wise
The Play World
Toys, Texts, and the Transatlantic German Childhood
Patricia Anne Simpson
Electromagnetism and the Metonymic Imagination
Kieran M. Murphy
Elemental Narratives
Reading Environmental Entanglements in Modern Italy
Enrico Cesaretti
Fragments from the History of Loss
The Nature Industry and the Postcolony
Louise Green
Becoming Audible
Sounding Animality in Performance
Austin McQuinn
Canis Modernis
Human/Dog Coevolution in Modernist Literature
Karalyn Kendall-Morwick
On Transhumanism
Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, and translated by Spencer Hawkins
Robert de Reims
Songs and Motets
Robert de Reims, Edited, translated, and introduced by Eglal Doss-Quinby, Gaël Saint-Cricq, and Samuel N. Rosenberg
The Powers of Sound and Song in Early Modern Paris
Nicholas Hammond
Menopause
A Comic Treatment
Edited by MK Czerwiec
PathoGraphics
Narrative, Aesthetics, Contention, Community
Edited by Susan Merrill Squier and Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff
Algériennes
The Forgotten Women of the Algerian Revolution
Swann Meralli, Deloupy, and Translated by Ivanka Hahnenberger
The Third Population
Aurélien Ducoudray and Jeff Pourquié, Translated by Kendra Boileau
Uncanny Bodies
Superhero Comics and Disability
Edited by Scott T. Smith and José Alaniz
Dirty Biology
The X-Rated Story of the Science of Sex
Léo Grasset, Illustrated by Colas Grasset, and translated by Kendra Boileau
The Body Factory
From the First Prosthetics to the Augmented Human
Héloïse Chochois, and translated by Kendra Boileau
Twister
Roland Burkart, and translated by Natascha Hoffmeyer
Fat
Regina Hofer, and translated by Natascha Hoffmeyer
The Parakeet
Espé, and translated by Hannah Chute
Crude
A Memoir
Pablo Fajardo, Sophie Tardy-Joubert, Illustrated by Damien Roudeau, and translated by Hannah Chute
COVID Chronicles
A Comics Anthology
Edited by Kendra Boileau and Rich Johnson
Vanni
A Family’s Struggle through the Sri Lankan Conflict
Research and story by Benjamin Dix, Script and illustration by Lindsay Pollock
Escaping Wars and Waves
Encounters with Syrian Refugees
Olivier Kugler
The Lady Doctor
Ian Williams
Pier Groups
Art and Sex Along the New York Waterfront
Jonathan Weinberg
Pet Projects
Animal Fiction and Taxidermy in the Nineteenth-Century Archive
Elizabeth Young
Love in a Time of Slaughters
Human-Animal Stories Against Genocide and Extinction
Susan McHugh
The Hidden Life of Life
A Walk through the Reaches of Time
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Paul Verlaine
A Bilingual Selection of His Verse
Paul Verlaine, Translated by Samuel N. Rosenberg, and Edited by Nicolas Valazza
George Sand
Martine Reid, Translated with a foreword by Gretchen van Slyke
Hebrew Melodies
Heinrich Heine, Translated by Stephen Mitchell and by Jack Prelutsky, Illustrated by Mark Podwal, and Foreword by Elisheva Carlebach
Religion Around Virginia Woolf
Stephanie Paulsell
Religion Around Mary Shelley
Jennifer L. Airey
Religion Around Billie Holiday
Tracy Fessenden
A Material World
Culture, Society, and the Life of Things in Early Anglo-America
Edited by George W. Boudreau and Margaretta M. Lovell
Heroine of the Harlem Renaissance and Beyond
Gwendolyn Bennett’s Selected Writings
Edited by Belinda Wheeler and Louis J. Parascandola
The Warsaw Ghetto in American Art and Culture
Samantha Baskind
Kenyan, Christian, Queer
Religion, LGBT Activism, and Arts of Resistance in Africa
Adriaan van Klinken
The Letters of Mary Penry
A Single Moravian Woman in Early America
Edited by Scott Paul Gordon
Designing a New Tradition
Loïs Mailou Jones and the Aesthetics of Blackness
Rebecca VanDiver
Meyer Schapiro’s Critical Debates
Art Through a Modern American Mind
C. Oliver O’Donnell
Middle English Marvels
Magic, Spectacle, and Morality in the Fourteenth Century
Tara Williams
Us Two Together
Ephameron, Translated by Michele Hutchison
From Alienation to Forms of Life
The Critical Theory of Rahel Jaeggi
Edited by Amy Allen and Eduardo Mendieta
The Prado
Spanish Culture and Leisure, 1819–1939
Eugenia Afinoguénova
Passing to América
Antonio (Née María) Yta’s Transgressive, Transatlantic Life in the Twilight of the Spanish Empire
Thomas A. Abercrombie
Journey to the Maghreb and Andalusia, 1832
The Travel Notebooks and Other Writings
Eugène Delacroix, Translated by Michèle Hannoosh
Surveying the Avant-Garde
Questions on Modernism, Art, and the Americas in Transatlantic Magazines
Lori Cole
Democracy as Fetish
Ralph Cintron
Art and Form
From Roger Fry to Global Modernism
Sam Rose
Shattered Objects
Djuna Barnes’s Modernism
Edited by Elizabeth Pender and Cathryn Setz
Milton and the Parables of Jesus
Self-Representation and the Bible in John Milton’s Writings
David V. Urban
Jules Michelet
Writing Art and History in Nineteenth-Century France
Michèle Hannoosh
Religion Around John Donne
Joshua Eckhardt
Green Worlds of Renaissance Venice
Jodi Cranston
Embodiment, Relation, Community
A Continental Philosophy of Communication
Garnet C. Butchart
Staging Habla de Negros
Radical Performances of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain
Nicholas R. Jones
Borges Beyond the Visible
Max Ubelaker Andrade
The Return of Carvajal
A Mystery
Ilan Stavans, Etchings by Eko
Here in This Island We Arrived
Shakespeare and Belonging in Immigrant New York
Elisabeth H. Kinsley
Imagined Romes
The Ancient City and Its Stories in Middle English Poetry
C. David Benson
Dewey for a New Age of Fascism
Teaching Democratic Habits
Nathan Crick
Textual Spaces
French Renaissance Writings on the Italian Voyage
Richard E. Keatley
Joan of Arc in the English Imagination, 1429–1829
Gail Orgelfinger
The Book of Sarah
Sarah Lightman
Life Support
Invitation to Prayer
Judith Cohen Margolis
Ableist Rhetoric
How We Know, Value, and See Disability
James L. Cherney
Robert Burton’s Rhetoric
An Anatomy of Early Modern Knowledge
Susan Wells
Justification and Emancipation
The Critical Theory of Rainer Forst
Edited by Amy Allen and Eduardo Mendieta
Right Romance
Heroic Subjectivity and Elect Community in Seventeenth-Century England
Emily Griffiths Jones
Literary Obscenities
U.S. Case Law and Naturalism after Modernism
Erik M. Bachman
Posthumous America
Literary Reinventions of America at the End of the Eighteenth Century
Benjamin Hoffmann, and Translated by Alan J. Singerman
Jewish Literary Cultures
Volume 2, The Medieval and Early Modern Periods
David Stern
Queering Mennonite Literature
Archives, Activism, and the Search for Community
Daniel Shank Cruz
The Francis Daniel Pastorius Reader
Writings by an Early American Polymath
Patrick Erben, Alfred Brophy, and Margo Lambert
Babel of the Atlantic
Edited by Bethany Wiggin
A Feeling of Wrongness
Pessimistic Rhetoric on the Fringes of Popular Culture
Joseph Packer and Ethan Stoneman
Gluttony and Gratitude
Milton’s Philosophy of Eating
Emily E. Stelzer
Thinking Together
Lecturing, Learning, and Difference in the Long Nineteenth Century
Edited by Angela G. Ray and Paul Stob
Preaching the Gospel of Black Revolt
Appropriating Milton in Early African American Literature
Reginald A. Wilburn
The Plague in Print
Essential Elizabethan Sources, 1558–1603
Rebecca Totaro
Editorial Staff to contact
Assistant Director, Editor-in-Chief acquires in the areas of animal studies and graphic studies. Her book series include Animalibus: Of Animals and Culture, AnthropoScene: The SLSA Book Series, and Graphic Medicine. She is also publisher of Graphic Mundi, an imprint of Penn State University Press.
Executive Editor acquires in the areas of art and architectural history, visual culture, history of photography, medieval and early modern studies, occultism and esoterism, Iberian and Latin American studies. Her book series include Buildings, Landscapes, and Societies; Iberian Encounter and Exchange, 475–1755; Latin American Originals; Magic in History; Magic in History Sourcebooks; and Refiguring Modernism
Acquisitions Editor acquires in the areas of Pennsylvania and mid-Atlantic history, regional studies and regional trade, religious studies, interdisciplinary literary studies, and sensory studies. Her series include Inventing Christianity; Religion Around; The Max Kade Research Institute Series: Germans beyond Europe; Keystone Books; Pietist, Moravian, and Anabaptist Studies; Cultural Inquiries in English Literature, 1400–1700; World Christianity; and Perspectives on Sensory History.
Acquisitions Editor acquires in the areas of American studies, and rhetoric and communication studies. His book series include American Music History Book Series, Humor in America, Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation, and RSA Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric.
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