Penn State University Press announces new books for fall/winter 2019

By: Cate Fricke

Penn State University Press fall/winter 2019 catalog

Penn State University Press has unveiled its fall/winter 2019 catalog featuring new general interest and scholarly books in the fields of art history, literature, religion, rhetoric, Graphic
Medicine, Jewish studies, occult studies, medieval and early modern studies, and more.

Notable forthcoming titles include the graphic novel Vanni: A Family’s Struggle Through the Sri Lankan Conflict by Benjamin Dix and Lindsay Pollock; Hebrew Melodies, a new edition of Heinrich Heine’s cycle of poems translated by Stephen Mitchell and U.S. Children’s Poet Laureate Jack Prelutsky, with vivid illustrations by Mark Podwal; and Us Two Together by Ephameron, a graphic novel that lyrically chronicles the author’s experience watching her father’s slow descent into early-onset dementia, part of the Press’s critically acclaimed Graphic Medicine series.

Scholarly highlights include After Gun Violence: Deliberation and Memory in an Age of Political Gridlock, a timely examination of the ways advocacy groups, community leaders, politicians, and everyday citizens talk about gun violence by Iowa State professor Craig Rood; Uncanny Bodies: Superhero Comics and Disability, a collection of essays edited by Scott T. Smith and José Alaniz; Religion Around Mary Shelley by Jennifer L. Airey, who positions Shelley as an important religious thinker of the Romantic period; and Bells for America: The Cold War, Modernism, and the Netherlands Carillon in Arlington by Diederik Oostdijk, an exploration of how the Netherlands and the United States reconstructed their national identities and fostered a
international relationship in the post–Cold War era through public art.

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. See all of Penn State University Press’s forthcoming fall/winter 2019 titles, here.