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Caricature and National Character

The United States at War

Christopher J. Gilbert

$99.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08976-8
Coming in May

256 pages
6" × 9"
35 b&w illustrations
2021

Humor in America

Satire as the Comic Public Sphere

Postmodern “Truthiness” and Civic Engagement

James E. Caron

$109.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08986-7
Coming in May

280 pages
6" × 9"
3 b&w illustrations
2021

Humor in America

Rhetorics of Democracy in the Americas

Edited by Adriana Angel, Michael L. Butterworth, and Nancy R. Gómez

$104.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08932-4

Available as an e-book
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288 pages
6" × 9"
2021

Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation

Responding to the Sacred

An Inquiry into the Limits of Rhetoric

Edited by Michael Bernard-Donals and Kyle Jensen

$109.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08957-7
Coming in April

286 pages
6" × 9"
8 b&w illustrations
2021

How Sherlock Pulled the Trick

Spiritualism and the Pseudoscientific Method

Brian McCuskey

$34.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08987-4
Coming in June

200 pages
6" × 9"
2021

Under the Literary Microscope

Science and Society in the Contemporary Novel

Edited by Sina Farzin, Susan M. Gaines, and Roslynn D. Haynes

$99.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08978-2
Coming in May

270 pages
6" × 9"
2021

AnthropoScene: The SLSA Book Series

DisOrientations

German-Turkish Cultural Contact in Translation, 1811-1946

Kristin Dickinson

$99.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08984-3
Coming in June

248 pages
6" × 9"
2021

Max Kade Research Institute: Germans Beyond Europe

COVID Chronicles

A Comics Anthology

Edited by Kendra Boileau and Rich Johnson

$21.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-09014-6

Available as an e-book
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296 pages
6.75" × 10.25"
158 color/100 b&w illustrations
2021

Twister

Roland Burkart, and translated by Natascha Hoffmeyer

$17.50 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08808-2
Coming in March

120 pages
6.5" × 9.25"
118 b&w illustrations
2021

The Parakeet

Espé, and translated by Hannah Chute

$21.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08805-1
Coming in March

Available as an e-book
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156 pages
8.25" × 11.25"
148 color illustrations
2021

Crude

A Memoir

Pablo Fajardo, Sophie Tardy-Joubert, Illustrated by Damien Roudeau, and translated by Hannah Chute

$19.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08806-8
Coming in April

136 pages
8.5" × 10.75"
2021

Vanni

A Family’s Struggle through the Sri Lankan Conflict

Research and story by Benjamin Dix, Script and illustration by Lindsay Pollock

$19.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08497-8

256 pages
8.75" × 8.75"
259 color illustrations
2019
Co-published with New Internationalist

Graphic Medicine

The Lady Doctor

Ian Williams

$24.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08374-2

264 pages
6.3" × 9"
2019
Co-published with Myriad Editions

Graphic Medicine

Algériennes

The Forgotten Women of the Algerian Revolution

Swann Meralli, Deloupy, and Translated by Ivanka Hahnenberger

$24.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08623-1

120 pages
8.625" × 11.3125"
128 color illustrations
2020

Graphic Medicine

The Third Population

Aurélien Ducoudray and Jeff Pourquié, Translated by Kendra Boileau

$24.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08717-7

120 pages
8.375" × 11.375"
128 color illustrations
2020

Graphic Medicine

Us Two Together

Ephameron, Translated by Michele Hutchison

$29.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08491-6

232 pages
7" × 9.5"
224 color illustrations
2019

Graphic Medicine

PathoGraphics

Narrative, Aesthetics, Contention, Community

Edited by Susan Merrill Squier and Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff

$99.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08617-0

$29.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08618-7

Available as an e-book
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248 pages
7" × 10"
34 color/29 b&w illustrations
2020

Graphic Medicine

A Sensory History Manifesto

Mark M. Smith

$69.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-09017-7
Coming in August

$21.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-09018-4
Coming in August

120 pages
5" × 8"
2021

Perspectives on Sensory History

The Powers of Sound and Song in Early Modern Paris

Nicholas Hammond

$89.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08471-8

$32.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08472-5

Available as an e-book
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216 pages
6" × 9"
10 b&w illustrations
2020

Perspectives on Sensory History

The Objects That Remain

Laura Levitt

$24.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08782-5

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184 pages
6" × 8"
10 b&w illustrations
2020

Dimyonot: Jews and the Cultural Imagination

A Weaver-Poet and the Plague

Labor, Poverty, and the Household in Shakespeare’s London

Scott Oldenburg

$99.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08715-3

284 pages
6" × 9"
2020

Cultural Inquiries in English Literature, 1400–1700

Right Romance

Heroic Subjectivity and Elect Community in Seventeenth-Century England

Emily Griffiths Jones

$99.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08492-3

$34.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08809-9

Available as an e-book
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288 pages
6" × 9"
2020

Cultural Inquiries in English Literature, 1400–1700

Forming Sleep

Representing Consciousness in the English Renaissance

Edited by Nancy L. Simpson-Younger and Margaret Simon

$99.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08611-8

$29.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08612-5
Coming in May

Available as an e-book
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Kindle

246 pages
6" × 9"
1 b&w illustration
2020

Cultural Inquiries in English Literature, 1400–1700

Joan of Arc in the English Imagination, 1429–1829

Gail Orgelfinger

$89.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08218-9

$34.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08219-6

Available as an e-book
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248 pages
6" × 9"
17 b&w illustrations/1 map
2019

Imagined Romes

The Ancient City and Its Stories in Middle English Poetry

C. David Benson

$89.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08320-9

$34.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08321-6

Available as an e-book
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216 pages
6" × 9"
2019

Robert Burton’s Rhetoric

An Anatomy of Early Modern Knowledge

Susan Wells

$84.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08467-1

$32.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08466-4
Coming in June

Available as an e-book
Kobo
Nook
Kindle

224 pages
6" × 9"
5 b&w illustrations
2019

RSA Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric

Religion Around Virginia Woolf

Stephanie Paulsell

$79.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08487-9

$24.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08488-6

Available as an e-book
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248 pages
5.5" × 8.5"
2019

Religion Around

Religion Around Mary Shelley

Jennifer L. Airey

$79.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08207-3

$24.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08382-7

240 pages
5.5" × 8.5"
2019

Religion Around

Religion Around John Donne

Joshua Eckhardt

$49.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08337-7

Available as an e-book
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208 pages
5.5" × 8.5"
2019

Religion Around

Paul Verlaine

A Bilingual Selection of His Verse

Paul Verlaine, Translated by Samuel N. Rosenberg, and Edited by Nicolas Valazza

$34.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08493-0

Available as an e-book
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Kindle

424 pages
5.5" × 8.5"
5 b&w illustrations
2019

Robert de Reims

Songs and Motets

Robert de Reims, Edited, translated, and introduced by Eglal Doss-Quinby, Gaël Saint-Cricq, and Samuel N. Rosenberg

$24.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08718-4

160 pages
7" × 10"
22 b&w illustrations
2020

Hebrew Melodies

Heinrich Heine, Translated by Stephen Mitchell and by Jack Prelutsky, Illustrated by Mark Podwal, and Foreword by Elisheva Carlebach

$20.00 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08480-0

120 pages
9.25" × 10.75"
40 color illustrations
2019

Dimyonot: Jews and the Cultural Imagination

Radicals in Exile

English Catholic Books During the Reign of Philip II

Freddy Cristóbal Domínguez

$99.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08601-9

Available as an e-book
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Kindle

264 pages
6" × 9"
2020

Iberian Encounter and Exchange, 475–1755

Staging Habla de Negros

Radical Performances of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain

Nicholas R. Jones

$89.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08346-9

$34.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08347-6

Available as an e-book
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Kindle

248 pages
6" × 9"
15 b&w illustrations
2019

Iberian Encounter and Exchange, 475–1755

Black Cookstove

Meditations on Literature, Culture, and Cuisine in Colombia

Germán Patiño Ossa, translated by Jonathan Tittler

$27.50 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08698-9

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112 pages
6" × 9"
21 b&w illustrations/2 maps
2020

A Pre-Columbian Bestiary

Fantastic Creatures of Indigenous Latin America

Ilan Stavans with etchings by Eko

$17.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08787-0

Available as an e-book
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116 pages
5.125" × 7.75"
46 b&w illustrations
2020

Borges Beyond the Visible

Max Ubelaker Andrade

$34.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08354-4

Available as an e-book
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208 pages
5.25" × 8.5"
10 b&w illustrations
2019

The Return of Carvajal

A Mystery

Ilan Stavans, Etchings by Eko

$19.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08470-1

Available as an e-book
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112 pages
4" × 6"
14 b&w illustrations
2019

Shattered Objects

Djuna Barnes’s Modernism

Edited by Elizabeth Pender and Cathryn Setz

$84.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08220-2

$34.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08221-9

248 pages
7" × 9.5"
21 b&w illustrations
2019

Refiguring Modernism

Art and Form

From Roger Fry to Global Modernism

Sam Rose

$89.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08238-7

$34.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08239-4

Available as an e-book
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224 pages
7" × 9.5"
27 b&w illustrations
2019

Refiguring Modernism

Canis Modernis

Human/Dog Coevolution in Modernist Literature

Karalyn Kendall-Morwick

$89.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08802-0

Available as an e-book
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216 pages
6" × 9"
2 b&w illustrations
2020

Animalibus: Of Animals and Cultures

Pet Projects

Animal Fiction and Taxidermy in the Nineteenth-Century Archive

Elizabeth Young

$39.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08494-7

Available as an e-book
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Kindle

280 pages
7" × 9"
35 b&w illustrations
2019

Animalibus: Of Animals and Cultures

Fragments from the History of Loss

The Nature Industry and the Postcolony

Louise Green

$99.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08701-6

$29.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08702-3
Coming in June

Available as an e-book
Kobo
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Kindle

204 pages
6" × 9"
7 b&w illustrations
2020

AnthropoScene: The SLSA Book Series

Elemental Narratives

Reading Environmental Entanglements in Modern Italy

Enrico Cesaretti

$99.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08773-3

Available as an e-book
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Kindle

264 pages
6" × 9"
2020

AnthropoScene: The SLSA Book Series

Electromagnetism and the Metonymic Imagination

Kieran M. Murphy

$69.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08605-7

$32.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08606-4
Coming in April

Available as an e-book
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Kindle

192 pages
6" × 9"
11 b&w illustrations
2020

AnthropoScene: The SLSA Book Series

Love in a Time of Slaughters

Human-Animal Stories Against Genocide and Extinction

Susan McHugh

$99.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08461-9

$32.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08370-4

Available as an e-book
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240 pages
6" × 9"
2019

AnthropoScene: The SLSA Book Series

The Politics of the Book

A Study on the Materiality of Ideas

Filipe Carreira da Silva and Monica Brito Vieira

$89.00 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08342-1

$34.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08343-8
Coming in July

Available as an e-book
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272 pages
6" × 9"
2019

Penn State Series in the History of the Book

Metanoia

Rhetoric, Authenticity, and the Transformation of the Self

Adam Ellwanger, Foreword by Pat J. Gehrke

$89.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08592-0

Available as an e-book
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216 pages
6" × 9"
2020

Sewn in Coal Country

An Oral History of the Ladies’ Garment Industry in Northeastern Pennsylvania, 1945–1995

Edited by Robert P. Wolensky

$99.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08490-9

$39.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08498-5

Available as an e-book
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416 pages
7" × 10"
84 b&w illustrations/1 map
2020

Dewey for a New Age of Fascism

Teaching Democratic Habits

Nathan Crick

$99.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08481-7

$34.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08482-4

Available as an e-book
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248 pages
6" × 9"
2019

Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation

Ableist Rhetoric

How We Know, Value, and See Disability

James L. Cherney

$89.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08468-8

$29.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08469-5

Available as an e-book
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200 pages
6" × 9"
2019

RSA Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric

Embodiment, Relation, Community

A Continental Philosophy of Communication

Garnet C. Butchart

$74.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08325-4

Was: $29.95 Now: $14.98 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08326-1

Available as an e-book
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208 pages
6" × 9"
2019

Here in This Island We Arrived

Shakespeare and Belonging in Immigrant New York

Elisabeth H. Kinsley

$39.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08322-3

Available as an e-book
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216 pages
6" × 9"
14 b&w illustrations/1 map
2019

Queering Mennonite Literature

Archives, Activism, and the Search for Community

Daniel Shank Cruz

$84.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08245-5

$24.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08244-8

Available as an e-book
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184 pages
6" × 9"
2019

The Writings of Elizabeth Webb

A Quaker Missionary in America, 1697–1726

Edited by Rachel Cope and Zachary McLeod Hutchins

$99.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08222-6

$24.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08223-3

240 pages
6" × 9"
2019

Jewish Literary Cultures

Volume 2, The Medieval and Early Modern Periods

David Stern

$99.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08483-1

308 pages
6" × 9"
4 color/62 b&w illustrations
2019

Babel of the Atlantic

Edited by Bethany Wiggin

$99.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08323-0

$29.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08324-7
Coming in June

Available as an e-book
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336 pages
6" × 9"
44 b&w illustrations
2019

Max Kade Research Institute: Germans Beyond Europe

The Play World

Toys, Texts, and the Transatlantic German Childhood

Patricia Anne Simpson

$94.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08699-6

Available as an e-book
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312 pages
6" × 9"
41 b&w illustrations
2020

Max Kade Research Institute: Germans Beyond Europe

The Francis Daniel Pastorius Reader

Writings by an Early American Polymath

Patrick Erben, Alfred Brophy, and Margo Lambert

$99.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08328-5

Available as an e-book
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480 pages
7" × 10"
10 b&w illustrations
2019

Max Kade Research Institute: Germans Beyond Europe

Misfit Modernism

Queer Forms of Double Exile in the Twentieth-Century Novel

Octavio R. González

$89.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08713-9

$39.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08714-6
Coming in December

248 pages
6.75" × 9.5"
2020

Refiguring Modernism

Meyer Schapiro’s Critical Debates

Art Through a Modern American Mind

C. Oliver O’Donnell

$99.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08464-0

$29.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08465-7

Available as an e-book
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272 pages
6" × 9"
36 b&w illustrations
2019

Journey to the Maghreb and Andalusia, 1832

The Travel Notebooks and Other Writings

Eugène Delacroix, Translated by Michèle Hannoosh

$34.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08334-6

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216 pages
6" × 9"
8 b&w illustrations/5 maps
2019

Jules Michelet

Writing Art and History in Nineteenth-Century France

Michèle Hannoosh

$94.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08356-8

$39.95 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08357-5

Available as an e-book
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248 pages
6" × 9"
31 b&w illustrations
2019

Against Our Will

Sexual Trauma in American Art Since 1970

Vivien Green Fryd

$49.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08206-6

368 pages
7" × 10"
29 color/65 b&w illustrations
2019

Pier Groups

Art and Sex Along the New York Waterfront

Jonathan Weinberg

$34.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08217-2

232 pages
7" × 9"
34 color/66 b&w illustrations
2019

The Shape of Difficulty

A Fan Letter to Unruly Objects

Bret L. Rothstein

$29.95 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08242-4

228 pages
7" × 9"
38 color illustrations
2019

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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