Scholarly contributions to our understanding of literature originally written in another language
Jennifer Rushworth, Proust's Songbook:
Songs and Their Uses (University of
Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
Thrilled to read in a circular email this afternoon that Jennifer Rushworth, the Reviews Editor of the Barthes Studies journal, is one of the winners of the 2025 Literary Encyclopedia Book Prize for her Proustβs Songbook: Songs and their Uses (@pennpress.bsky.social):
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EAS Miscellany interviews John Ryan Fischer about his #Fall2025 article on Sauk & Meskwaki survival strategies after the Fox Wars. Dive into the conversation here: https://bit.ly/3Y5zetr
@mcneilcenter.bsky.social @pennpress.bsky.social
#EAS #EarlyAmericanMisc
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I'm very grateful to the Paul E. Lovejoy Prize jury and @journalslavery.bsky.social for this recognition!
Congrats to the winner, Magdalena Moorthy Kloss, and other finalists.
brill.com/view/journal...
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The Driverβs Story β Penn Press
The story of the driver is the story of Atlantic slavery. Starting in the seventeenth-century Caribbean, enslavers developed the driving system to solve thei...
Congratulations to @randybrowne.bsky.social, whose book THE DRIVER'S STORY is a finalist for the Paul E. Lovejoy Prize, granted by @journalslavery.bsky.social! bit.ly/3Qs4ZJs
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Homepage - University of Pennsylvania Press
The University of Pennsylvania Press publishes more than 100 new books a year and 22 journals. Find out more about us here.
Just a few more hours in our Cyber Monday sale! Order by midnight in your time zone & use code PENN-CYBERMONDAY25 to save 50% on available books on pennpress.org.
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Don't forget to take advantage of our Cyber Monday sale before it's too late! Today only, save 50% on available titles from pennpress.org when you enter discount code PENN-CYBERMONDAY25 during checkout.
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This Is My Jail and many other fine titles are available at the best price of the year www.pennpress.org/978151282349...
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Today only, THE DRIVER'S STORY and many other great @pennpress.bsky.social books are on sale for 50% off. www.pennpress.org/978151282586...
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EVENT: Author P. C. Saidalavi will discuss his new book SEEKING ALLAH'S HIERARCHY at the University of Calicut this Thursday, December 4, at 4 p.m. IST!
More info: bit.ly/4pExgw0
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Cracked Foundations: The Precarious Wealth of Postwar Long Island
A Book Talk with Michael R. Glass
Want to learn more about how debt and speculation financed the suburban American dream and led to todayβs inequalities? Join author @m-r-glass.bsky.social for a virtual event hosted by @gothamcenter.bsky.social about his new book CRACKED FOUNDATIONS on Monday December 1!
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What AIβs good at β and what itβs not - Harvard Law School
Cass Sunsteinβs new book, βImperfect Oracle,β explores the promising prospects and clear limits of AI.
Author Cass Sunstein recently discussed his new book IMPERFECT ORACLE (out now from @amphilpress.bsky.social!) at Harvard Law School. Read the event recap to learn more about how he views the promise and limits of artificial intelligence bit.ly/4rkOiki
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Greater Philadelphia: A New History for the Twenty-First Century - University of Pennsylvania Press
Now available from Penn Press, a landmark book project celebrates Philadelphiaβs role as the beating heart of the nationβs story, unearthing the hidden histories, points of pride, people, places, and....
From cobblestone streets to the global stage, GREATER PHILADELPHIA brings 250+ years of history to life across three volumes (with nearly 300 images!), examining the cultural, political, and economic forces that forged todayβs living city. #PhillyIsGreater bit.ly/47XNQzT
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#AARSBL25 scholars: Studying ritual, occultism, or esoteric traditions? Explore Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft, a leading journal on the history and theory of magic and ritual practice.
Read more of MRW here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/journ...
@aarweb.bsky.social
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#AARSBL25 attendees: interested in new and emerging religious movements? Check out one of Nova Religioβs most-read articles: βThe Children of Noah: Has Messianic Zionism Created a New Religion?β muse.jhu.edu/article/737561
@aarweb.bsky.social
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Thinking in Public β Penn Press
Long before we began to speak of "public intellectuals," the ideas of "the public" and "the intellectual" raised consternation among many European philosophe...
Ah, @pennpress.bsky.social has just announced their holiday sale! 40% off means that the paperback of my book on philosophy's encounter with "the public intellectual," Thinking in Public, is about $20.
100% of the historical analysis for 60% of the price.
www.pennpress.org/978081222434...
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Maps, Trees, and Labels: Three Kinds of Work for The House of Condulmer | Surprised Eel Maps
Get more from Surprised Eel Maps on Patreon
For this week's post, I've written about the maps, family trees, and diagrams that I made for Alan Stahl's recent book about Renaissance Venice, "The House of Condulmer." (published by @pennpress.bsky.social
Like most of my posts, it's free, so give it a read!
www.patreon.com/posts/maps-t...
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Penn Press is excited to highlight our journals during @aarweb.bsky.social & @sblsite.bsky.social's joint meeting! Religious studies journals include:
Nova Religio
Jewish Quarterly Review
Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft
Journal of Ecumenical Studies
Discover more at pennpress.org/journals #AARSBL25
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We are all set up at this year's @aarweb.bsky.social & @sblsite.bsky.social joint meeting! Stop by our booth in the book exhibit to browse our latest religious studies titles, or visit our #AARSBL25 virtual exhibit store to save 40% on books with code AARSBL25: site.pennpress.org/aarsbl-2025
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Congratulations to author Bruce O'Neill, whose book UNDERGROUNDβwhich details public and private efforts to gentrify and expand Bucharestβs subterranean Metro stationsβhas recently won two awards announced in conjunction with the #AAAAnthro annual meeting! bit.ly/3LZQ4Hn
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Getting closer to this online book event with the Gotham Center on 12/1! Registration here: www.eventbrite.com/e/cracked-fo...
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Penn Press releases three-volume book project on Philadelphia history
The three volumes β titled βThe Greater Philadelphia Region,β βGreater Philadelphia and the Nation,β and βGreater Philadelphia and the World" β cover subjects from the American Revolution andβ¦
So awesome to see coverage of GREATER PHILADELPHIA from The Daily Pennsylvanian! Read their article to learn more about the origins of the project, what kinds of information you'll find in the book, and how you can join us on campus on Dec. 4th for the book launch!
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We are all set up at @americananthro.bsky.social's annual meeting in New Orleans! Stop by our distributor Ingram Academic's booth in the exhibit to browse our latest anthropology titles, or visit our #AAA2025 virtual exhibit store to save 40% with code AAA25 at checkout: site.pennpress.org/aaa-2025/
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Read our #Fall2025 #EAS journal issue on
@projectmuse.bsky.social
Link: muse.jhu.edu/issue/5...
@mcneilcenter.bsky.social
@pennpress.bsky.social
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Promotes the understanding of slavery and post-slavery from comparative, transregional, and/or global perspectives
https://brill.com/view/journals/jgs/jgs-overview.xml
Historian @ Cornell. Author of THE PREDATORY SEA: HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND CAPTIVITY IN THE 17TH-C CARIBBEAN (Penn Press, 2025) https://www.pennpress.org/9781512828146/the-predatory-sea/
Founded in 1901, UTP is Canada's leading scholarly publisher and one of the largest university presses in North America. utppublishing.com
Follow: @utpjournals.bsky.social
The home for Baylor's Department of History news.
Publishes reviews of books on historical topics that covers all geographic areas and time periods, from ancient times to the present.
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/vhis20
The University of Chicago Press publishes more than 90 scholarly journals that cover a wide range of disciplines, from the humanities and the social sciences to the life and physical sciences. journals.uchicago.edu
Online reviews in the humanities & social sciences: https://networks.h-net.org/search-reviews
The official account for Oxford Academic, featuring Oxford University Press's academic news and insights.
OAPEN connects libraries, publishers, researchers, and funders with a global infrastructure for peer-reviewed open access books to advance research and the public good.
Explore our collection of 40,000+ OA books: https://library.oapen.org
The American Society of Church History
churchhistory.org
One of the world's top academic philosophy journals, JPhil is published monthly by the non-profit organization, Journal of Philosophy, Inc.
Poetry Daily presents a poem each day from new books and journals, along with poetry news, announcements, and more. Est. 1997.
Poems.com
Dedicated to advancing historical scholarship on the North American West with an emphasis on the Pacific Northwest and its connections to other places. Located in the Department of History at the University of Washington. https://linktr.ee/CSPNUW
Chief Transformation Officer, Hopkins Press / Project MUSE
@hopkinspress.bsky.social
@projectmuse.bsky.social
Your favorite nonprofit indie publisher of radical nonfiction since 1854.
beacon.org
As part of the South Dakota State Historical Society, SDHS Press preserves, researches, and promotes South Dakota's rich and varied history and culture.
Publisher of acclaimed scholarly and trade books for engaged readers.
The Open Library of Humanities. Building a sustainable, diamond open access future for the humanities. Part of Birkbeck, University of London & makers of Janeway
We are a not-for-profit collective of academics, libraries and university-based publishers changing the way that academic research is supported and disseminated. Launching in Jan. 2026.
Join the movement: https://www.openjournalscollective.org/
Founded in 1902, the American Anthropological Association is the world's largest organization of anthropologists. Join our community at: https://americananthro.org/membership/