By: Cate Fricke

Penn State University Press has unveiled its Spring/Summer 2019 catalog featuring new general interest and scholarly books in the fields of art history, literature, Early American studies,  European history, occult studies, medieval and early modern studies, and more.

Notable forthcoming titles include Pier Groups: Art and Sex Along the New York Waterfront, a vividly illustrated exploration of art-making and LGBTQ culture on the Hudson River piers in 1970s NYC by Jonathan Weinberg; The Lady Doctor, a hilarious graphic novel by Graphic Medicine pioneer Ian Williams; and Bret L. Rothstein’s The Shape of Difficulty: A Fan Letter to Unruly Objects, a fascinating meditation on puzzles and those who love to solve them.

Scholarly highlights include Against Our Will: Sexual Trauma in American Art Since 1970 by Vivien Green Fryd, an important look at feminist art through the lens of trauma theory; Troublesome
Women: Gender, Crime, and Punishment in Antebellum Pennsylvania by Erica Rhodes Hayden; Borges Beyond the Visible, a radical new interpretation by Max Ubelaker Andrade of some of Borges’s most beloved stories; and Picatrix: A Medieval Treatise on Astral Magic, a new English translation of one of the most revered medieval magical guides in Western esotericism. The catalog also includes new titles in ancient Near East and biblical studies from Eisenbrauns, which the Press acquired as an imprint in November 2017, and new titles in art and art history from National Gallery Singapore, now distributed by the Press.

To see all of Penn State University Press’s forthcoming Spring/Summer 2019 titles, visit:
https://www.psupress.org/catalogs/PDFs/SS19_web_links.pdf