Algériennes

The Forgotten Women of the Algerian Revolution

Swann Meralli and Deloupy; translated by Ivanka Hahnenberger

Coming September 15th!

“This complicated examination of colonialism is well worth unpacking.”—Publishers Weekly

“Meralli and Deloupy capture the complex legacy of the war through a tapestry of intersecting stories and convincingly argue that denying the trauma is to prolong its impact.”—Library Journal

Gothic Architecture and Sexuality in the Circle of Horace Walpole

Matthew M. Reeve

“In this imaginative, erudite, and lavishly illustrated book, Reeve delineates the connections between style, subjectivity, and sexuality in Horace Walpole’s vision of the Gothic—and as a general matter for the study of visual and material culture—with force, clarity, and nuance. Deeply researched and elegantly written, the book will interest historians of the Middle Ages and of the eighteenth century, art and architectural historians, queer theorists, students of medievalism, and many other readers. It is a stunning achievement of historical imagination and moral eloquence.”—Whitney Davis, author of Queer Beauty: Sexuality and Aesthetics from Winckelmann to Freud and Beyond

Simon Hantaï and the Reserves of Painting

Molly Warnock

“A signature contribution to the study of Hantaï’s body of work and to the wider history of modernism.”—Michael Schreyach, author of Pollock’s Modernism

Field Language

The Painting and Poetry of Warren and Jane Rohrer

Edited by Julia Spicher Kasdorf, Christopher Reed, and Joyce Henri Robinson

Field Language presents the work of an extraordinary couple who together left the rural lifeways of their Mennonite upbringing to go “into the world” to create forms of modern art that reflected on the places and culture they came from. Published on the occasion of a retrospective exhibition devoted to the working relationship between abstract painter Warren Rohrer and his wife, poet Jane Turner Rohrer, this sumptuously illustrated book explores the Rohrers’ painting and poetry in relation to their biographies and to the nature of modernism and modernity.

Shelf Awareness gives Menopause: A Comic Treatment a starred review: “This collection, edited by M.K. Czerwiec, joins the Graphic Medicine Series in treating a complex topic with candor and creativity. Twenty-five comics represent diverse women and their experiences, in drawing styles as distinctive as the artists.”

Reading Religion on Kenyan, Christian, Queer: “In a fascinating dynamic that speaks to the passion and intimacy of the book, the author weaves his story with the stories of those whose lives he narrates.”
(Now available in paperback!)

Philadelphia Gay News features Out in Central Pennsylvania in an article by Ray Simon.

Read an excerpt from A Pre-Columbian Bestiary by Ilan Stavans at .

New Journal!
Hungarian Studies Review is joining PSU Press in 2021. It is devoted to the study of Hungary, Hungarian society, culture, and history.

An article from Pennsylvania History, A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies was featured in “MUSE in Focus: Commemorating the 19th Amendment,” with open access content from Aug. 26–Sept. 26.

New Directions in the Study of Ancient Geography

Edited by Duane W. Roller

This volume brings together five essays that represent the latest directions in the study of geography in classical antiquity. Arranged chronologically, these contributions cover several centuries and cultures, ranging from ancient Mesopotamia to the Roman Empire and deal with topics such as ancient cosmology, literary interpretations of geography, ancient navigation, and geography in the. . . (more)

Middle Babylonian Texts in the Cornell Collections, Part 2

The Earlier Kings

Elena Devecchi

This volume completes the publication of Middle Babylonian texts from the Rosen Collection that date to the Kassite period, a project that was initiated by Wilfred H. van Soldt with CUSAS 30 in 2015. In this book, Elena Devecchi provides full transliterations, translations, and extended commentaries of 338 previously unpublished cuneiform tablets from Kassite Babylonia (ca. 1475–1155 BCE). Most of the texts are. . . (more)