Black & Gold

Transmutations of Metal and Modernity

W. Ian Bourland

“With Black & Gold, Bourland has delivered a most fascinating and provocative work of scholarship. This is a probing, deeply nuanced, and reassuringly thoughtful reflection that deepens our understandings of the practices of several artists of the African Diaspora. The practices of these artists are read against the violent and brutal histories of exploitation and extraction, particularly those relating to gold, a precious metal that continues to fascinate and dominate the world, both culturally and economically. With this book, Bourland underlines his credentials as a leading scholar whose work is engaged and engaging”—Eddie Chambers, author of World Is Africa: Writings on Diaspora Art

Portraits of Empiricism

Art Histories from an Intellectual Tradition

C. Oliver O’Donnell

“Portraits of Empiricism is a fascinating, relentlessly provocative investigation of the poly vocal conversations between empiricist philosophy and naturalist art. O’Donnell shows how paintings and drawings illustrate, crosshatch, and refocus claims about the basis of knowledge, revealing colonial shadows and logical aporias within seemingly self-evident theories of sensory knowledge and individualism. Packed with bright complication, Portraits unfolds the thinking done by pictures and the images pressing on thought.”—John Tresch, author of The Reason for the Darkness of the Night: Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science

Keywords/
Keyimages in Graphic Medicine

Edited by Lisa Diedrich and Briana Martino

“This is not your typical keywords book. Diedrich and Martino have curated an exceptional and timely volume that engages readers in the possibilities and understandings of graphic medicine. Through a visual and textual diversity of approaches that explore experiences with health and medicine, Keywords/Keyimages celebrates our differences and our shared humanity, providing new perspectives through which we can reflect on and, ultimately, reshape the structures that define health and healing.”—Pamela VanHaitsma, author of Queering Romantic Engagement in the Postal Age: A Rhetorical Education

Sensory Rhetorics

Sensation, Persuasion, and the Politics of Feeling

Edited by Steph Ceraso and Jonathan W. Stone

“Compelling and timely, Sensory Rhetorics provides bold new pathways for engaging the possibilities of sensation and sensing. These rich essays provoke us to reconsider, or re-sense, what it means to exist in a body among others, alongside material and technological infrastructures, and in the unfolding of still fraught histories. A must-read for scholars invested in theories of affect, embodiment, and materialism.”—Jennifer LeMesurier, author of Inscrutable Eating: Asian Appetites and the Rhetorics of Racial Consumption

Congratulations to Asa Simon Mittman, whose book Cartographies of Exclusion: Anti-Semitic Mapping in Medieval England was awarded the 2026 HBA Book Award for Exemplary Scholarship on the Period before 1600!

Congratulations to Brigitte Buettner, whose book The Mineral and the Visual: Precious Stones in Medieval Secular Culture has been named the winner of the 2026 Karen Gould Prize in Art History!

Congratulations to Loretta Victoria Ramirez, whose book The Wound and the Stitch: A Genealogy of the Female Body from Medieval Iberia to SoCal Chicanx Art won the 2026 Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) Outstanding Book Award in the monograph category and the 2026 American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education (AAHHE) Book of the Year Award in the early career category!

The Good Society recently published its first issue with new editors at the helm! In their introduction to issue 33:2, editors Kara Dillard, Chad Hoggan, and Tetyana Hoggan-Kloubert write, “As contemporary challenges test the resolve of democracies, the responsibility falls on scholars, practitioners, and citizens alike to respond not with resignation but with thoughtful and actionable civic ideas. We hope this journal serves as a space where those ideas can find voice.” Read about actionable civic ideas in the new issue.

The 2026 Journals catalog is now available! Read the catalog for the latest information about the PSU Press journals program, including archived titles, open access journals, and how to subscribe.

Lahav VIII: The EB III and LB II to Iron II Strata in the Western City at Tell Halif

Excavations in Field III, 1977–1987

Oded Borowski and Joe D. Seger

“While broad archaeological conclusions are important in a final report, they also become dated quickly. To present a detailed and argued stratigraphic matrix along with descriptions of what was found in most of the archaeological contexts, is the key to a successful final archaeological report that will withstand years of scholarship. What was found, where was it found, what was found with it, and in what context are the data that future researchers will seek. Borowski and Seger have provided just that.”—Jeffrey Blakely, coeditor of Hesi after 50 Years and 130 Years: Beginning a New Generation of Hesi Research

Ashkelon 10

The Philistine Cemetery

Daniel M. Master, Adam J. Aja, and Rachel Kalisher

From 2013 to 2016, the Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon excavated an Iron Age cemetery located immediately outside the rampart of the ancient city. This cemetery dates from the period when Ashkelon was a Philistine city, and it is the first one excavated at any of the core Philistines cities. The Philistines are known today mainly as they are portrayed in sources written by others, such as the Hebrew Bible, in stories told by their enemies. In Ashkelon 10, the Philistine story is retold using archaeological evidence. As such, the Philistine cemetery is not only an important reference for the history of the Philistines but a critical piece for understanding the broader puzzle of death and burial in the southern Levant in the first millennium b.c.

Sleepless Planet

A Graphic Guide to Healing from Insomnia

Maureen Burdock

“Restless readers would benefit from putting this on their nightstand.”
—Publishers Weekly

Heartcore

Štěpánka Jislová

One of New York Public Library’s Best New Comics for Adults of 2025