Penn State University Press

Founded	1956
Country of origin	United States
Headquarters location	University Park, Pennsylvania
Distribution	Self-distributed (US and most of world) University of Toronto Press (Canada) NBN International (Europe) MHM (Japan) Footprint Books (Australia)[1]
Publication types	Books, Academic journals
Imprints	Eisenbrauns, Graphic Mundi
Official website	www.psupress.org

The Penn State University Press, also known as The Pennsylvania State University Press, is a non-profit publisher of scholarly books and journals. Established in 1956, it is the independent publishing branch of the Pennsylvania State University and is a division of the Penn State University Library system.

Penn State University Press publishes books and journals of interest to scholars and general audiences. As a part of a land-grant university with a mandate to serve the citizens of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, it also specializes in works about Penn State University, Pennsylvania, and the mid-Atlantic region. The areas of scholarship the Press is best known for are art history, medieval studies, Latin American studies, rhetoric and communication, religious studies, and graphic medicine.^[2][3]

The press produces about 80 books a year and over 60 journals. The Press employs 25 to 30 people, and has several internship programs for Penn State students interested in a publishing career.

The first book published by Penn State University Press was Penn State Yankee: The Autobiography of Fred Lewis Pattee, the autobiography of a noted Penn State faculty member who was the first professor of American literature in the United States.^[4]

In 2016 the Press launched PSU Press Unlocked, an open-access platform featuring over 70 books and journals. The Press acquired academic publisher Eisenbrauns, which specializes in ancient Near East and biblical studies, in November 2017.^[5] Eisenbrauns continues to publish as an imprint of the Press. In 2021, the Press launched the Graphic Mundi graphic novel imprint.^[6]

• The Hidden Life of Life: A Walk through the Reaches of Time by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
• The Noisy Renaissance: Sound, Architecture, and Florentine Urban Life by Niall Atkinson
• Graphic Medicine Manifesto by MK Czerwiec, Ian Williams, Susan Merrill Squier, Michael J. Green, Kimberly R. Myers, and Scott T. Smith
• Henry James and American Painting by Colm Tóibín, Marc Simpson and Declan Kiely
• Medieval Studies and the Ghost Stories of M. R. James by Patrick Murphy
• Field Guide to Wild Mushrooms of Pennsylvania and the Mid-Atlantic by Bill Russell
• Ernest Hemingway: A New Life by James M. Hutchisson
• The English translation of The Holy Teaching of Vimalakirti by Robert Thurman
• The Novels of the Harlem Renaissance:Twelve Black Writers, 1923–1933 by Amritjit Singh

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