Hell of a Hat

The Rise of ‘90s Ska and Swing

Kenneth Partridge

Coming soon!
“Now it can be told: the ska and swing music of the glorious post-Nirvana ‘90s deserves your love and respect. Kenneth Partridge takes you back to the songs that will have your Vans tapping, with stories that will make your pompadour stand on end. Mr. Partridge, skanks for the memories.”—Dave Holmes, editor-at-large of Esquire and former MTV VJ

Sculptors Against the State

Anarchism and the Anglo-European Avant-Garde

Mark Antliff

“Sculptors Against the State is a substantial and significant contribution to the existing literature on the aesthetics of anarchism. Antliff boldly ventures into new conceptual territory, reading form and materiality against political discourse and artistic criticism during the brief period leading up to the outbreak of World War I, precisely when such relationships came to be understood as some of the fundamental signposts of modernism.”—Adam Jolles, author of The Curatorial Avant-Garde: Surrealism and Exhibition Practice in France, 1925–1941

The Art of Identification

Forensics, Surveillance, Identity

Edited by Rex Ferguson, Melissa M. Littlefield, and James Purdon

“While there is now a growing literature on identification, there is no volume, as far as I know, so firmly rooted in literary studies, as compared to historical approaches. The Art of Identification makes a significant, original, and novel contribution to the literature.”—Simon Cole, author of Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification

Fear and Nature

Ecohorror Studies in the Anthropocene

Edited by Christy Tidwell and Carter Soles

“Fear and Nature expansively defines eco-horror as not only a sub-genre of literature but as a cohesive mode operating across genres and media. Whether talking about Algernon Blackwood or Algernon Swinburne, Bong Joon Ho or Junji Ito, this volume explores the rhizomatic connections that make eco-criticism something that transcends genre, and makes a convincing case for its relevance not only today but as a way of reconsidering what has come before.”—Brian Evenson, author of Song for the Unraveling of the World

Hope in Hard Times: Norvelt and the Struggle for Community During the Great Depression by Timothy Kelly, Margaret Power, and Michael Cary has been selected to receive the Arthur St. Clair Historic Preservation Award!

Rabies in the Streets: Interspecies Camaraderie in Urban India by Deborah Nadal has been awarded the IBP 2021 English Language Book Award in the Social Sciences!

PSU Press Journals welcomes our new Production Coordinators! Komal Ganjoo and Leah Noel bring many years of experience in publishing to our team.

Bishop-Lowell Studies is a newly-founded annual journal that welcomes all scholarly writing pertaining to one or both authors. All writings ranging across their respective bodies of poetry, other writings, and literary and cultural significance are welcomed and appreciated.

We are happy to announce that the first issue of Nineteenth Century Studies has been launched by PSU Press! The journal publishes studies of interest to scholars of the nineteenth century in all humanistic fields. There are no geographical limitations on potential contributions.

The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats, a journal of reviews of current critical discussion of the English literature of the late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-centuries, is joining our portfolio! Notes on the history and culture of the period and bibliographical commentary often accompany the Scriblerian’s comprehensive article and book reviews.

Age of Empires

The History and Administration of Judah in the 8th–2nd Centuries BCE in Light of the Storage-Jar Stamp Impressions

Oded Lipschits

This is the first attempt to consider the phenomenon stamped storage jars a whole and to develop a unified theory that would explain the function of these stamp impressions and shed new light on the history of Judah during six centuries of subjugation to the empires that ruled the region—as a vassal kingdom in the age of the Assyrian, Egyptian, and Babylonian empires and as a province under successive Babylonian, Persian, Ptolemaic, and Seleucid rule.

The Road Taken

An Archaeologist’s Journey to the Land of the Bible

Seymour (Sy) Gitin

“Sy Gitin reinvented American archaeology in the Middle East. A uniquely talented raconteur, scholar, and Mensch, he transformed the sleepy American archaeological school in Jerusalem into an engine propelling meaningful collaboration across daunting divides. Here’s the account—filled with remarkable scientific, political, diplomatic, and above all human surprises, and not a few great stories—of a pioneer in scholarship without borders. The result is a manual for thinking about any historical field from the actual ground up.”—Baruch Halpern, author of The First Historians: The Hebrew Bible and History

Dirty Biology

The X-Rated Story of the Science of Sex

Léo Grasset, Illustrated by Colas Grasset

“The mix of giggle-inducing factoids and incisive scientific insights make this investigation of copulation well worth digging into”—Publishers Weekly

The Body Factory

From the First Prosthetics to the Augmented Human

Héloïse Chochois

“This surprisingly delightful and empathetic examination offers an exemplar in the graphic medicine genre”—Publishers Weekly