Leah Pennywark
@lpennywark.bsky.social
Humanities Editor at the University of Minnesota Press. Avid reader. Disabled. She/her/hers.
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I'm obsessed with this stat: "with more than 4,000 degree-granting institutions and fewer than 130 university presses in the United States and Canada, this vital [publishing] infrastructure is directly supported by less than 3 percent of the institutions it benefits"
November 6, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I'm obsessed with this stat: "with more than 4,000 degree-granting institutions and fewer than 130 university presses in the United States and Canada, this vital [publishing] infrastructure is directly supported by less than 3 percent of the institutions it benefits"
I'm back from Texas and so excited that KJ Cerankowski's Nothing Wanting is out! Moving beyond identity and representation, Nothing Wanting is playful, fascinating, and provocative as it conceives asexuality as additive and expansive rather than lacking. www.upress.umn.edu/978151791643...
Nothing Wanting
Advancing asexuality studies in new, queer directions—beyond identity and beyond the human We’ve all seen the page that states “this page intentionally...
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November 10, 2025 at 5:21 PM
I'm back from Texas and so excited that KJ Cerankowski's Nothing Wanting is out! Moving beyond identity and representation, Nothing Wanting is playful, fascinating, and provocative as it conceives asexuality as additive and expansive rather than lacking. www.upress.umn.edu/978151791643...
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New book, Divest, coming out in spring 2026 with @uminnpress.bsky.social 🍉 www.upress.umn.edu/978151792148...
Divest
A manifesto for liberating desire from the grip of capital and colonial violence in PalestineCould a psychoanalytic theory of masochism help us to understand...
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November 4, 2025 at 2:15 PM
New book, Divest, coming out in spring 2026 with @uminnpress.bsky.social 🍉 www.upress.umn.edu/978151792148...
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Re-upping @jgbridgergilmore.bsky.social's review of Brooks E. Hefner's BLACK PULP (@uminnpress.bsky.social); hoping THE MARTIAN TRILOGY leads to more of these genre stories from "Illustrated Feature Section" & other Black serials getting rediscovered!
Black Genre Fiction Reimagined: Review of Black Pulp by Brooks E. Hefner
Black Genre Fiction Reimagined: Review of Black Pulp by Brooks E. Hefner Garrett Bridger Gilmore Under Review:Black Pulp. Brooks E. Hefner. University of Minnesota Press, December 2021. In hi…
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November 5, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Re-upping @jgbridgergilmore.bsky.social's review of Brooks E. Hefner's BLACK PULP (@uminnpress.bsky.social); hoping THE MARTIAN TRILOGY leads to more of these genre stories from "Illustrated Feature Section" & other Black serials getting rediscovered!
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A link to my new book cover and table of contents. www.upress.umn.edu/978081669906...
The Inattention Economy
Revealing the unheralded contributions of women of color to the foundation and development of the digital economyThe Inattention Economy challenges the wides...
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November 7, 2025 at 1:22 AM
A link to my new book cover and table of contents. www.upress.umn.edu/978081669906...
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👻🎃📚 Final stretch! 30% off books in our Ghosts and Monsters collection with code MN93980. www.upress.umn.edu/ghosts-and-m...
October 31, 2025 at 3:25 PM
👻🎃📚 Final stretch! 30% off books in our Ghosts and Monsters collection with code MN93980. www.upress.umn.edu/ghosts-and-m...
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FYI1: The superb webinar "Turning your Dissertation into a Book" is up!
FYI2: It's the 1st for "Publishing with University Presses Webinar Series" co-sponsored by @aupresses.bsky.social (HT, Faculty Outreach Committee) and hosted by Rutgers CMSI. #ReadUP #PublishUP
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FYI2: It's the 1st for "Publishing with University Presses Webinar Series" co-sponsored by @aupresses.bsky.social (HT, Faculty Outreach Committee) and hosted by Rutgers CMSI. #ReadUP #PublishUP
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SST...
Turning Your Dissertation into a Book
YouTube video by The Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute (The Proctor Institute)
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October 30, 2025 at 3:41 PM
FYI1: The superb webinar "Turning your Dissertation into a Book" is up!
FYI2: It's the 1st for "Publishing with University Presses Webinar Series" co-sponsored by @aupresses.bsky.social (HT, Faculty Outreach Committee) and hosted by Rutgers CMSI. #ReadUP #PublishUP
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SST...
FYI2: It's the 1st for "Publishing with University Presses Webinar Series" co-sponsored by @aupresses.bsky.social (HT, Faculty Outreach Committee) and hosted by Rutgers CMSI. #ReadUP #PublishUP
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SST...
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Our fearless leader, retiring after 27 years at the helm of the University of Minnesota Press. Doug Armato's editorial adventurousness was based on a forward-thinking approach to the business of books. He's shaped the press, and university press publishing, in profound ways.
Doug Armato, who has helmed the 100-year-old press for 27 years, is retiring at the end of December. His tenure saw the expansion of the press’s list and the development of strong Indigenous studies, trade, and regional publishing programs.
University of Minnesota Press Director Retires
Doug Armato, who has helmed the 100-year-old press for 27 years, is retiring at the end of December. His tenure saw the expansion of the press’s list and the development of strong Indigenous studies,…
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October 29, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Our fearless leader, retiring after 27 years at the helm of the University of Minnesota Press. Doug Armato's editorial adventurousness was based on a forward-thinking approach to the business of books. He's shaped the press, and university press publishing, in profound ways.
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if you are wondering why the Trump administration is creating racist memes with images from Halo and Lord of the Rings
Speculative Whiteness
Reveals the alt-right’s project to claim science fiction and—by extension—the future Fascists such as Richard Spencer interpret science fiction films a...
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October 30, 2025 at 1:55 PM
if you are wondering why the Trump administration is creating racist memes with images from Halo and Lord of the Rings
For the first time in years, I woke up in my home state of Texas and had breakfast tacos
October 30, 2025 at 4:50 PM
For the first time in years, I woke up in my home state of Texas and had breakfast tacos
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*very* excited about @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social’s new book, out next year w/ @uminnpress.bsky.social 🤖 🚫
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791773...
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791773...
Techno-Negative
A radical history of technology told through acts of resistance, not progressThe history of technology is often told as a history of progress, moving optimis...
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October 28, 2025 at 10:42 AM
*very* excited about @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social’s new book, out next year w/ @uminnpress.bsky.social 🤖 🚫
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791773...
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791773...
KJ Cerankowski's book is almost here! "Beautifully written, politically imaginative, and intellectually nuanced, Nothing Wanting uncovers an entirely new horizon for asexual scholarship and trans studies."—Nathan Snaza
October 27, 2025 at 5:21 PM
KJ Cerankowski's book is almost here! "Beautifully written, politically imaginative, and intellectually nuanced, Nothing Wanting uncovers an entirely new horizon for asexual scholarship and trans studies."—Nathan Snaza
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If you like talking up books, @oupress.bsky.social has a job opening for a publicity manager!
We have an extraordinary backlist plus superb forthcoming titles in the pipeline.
Maybe YOU could help sell the sizzle of these steaks?
Job details and how to apply here:
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We have an extraordinary backlist plus superb forthcoming titles in the pipeline.
Maybe YOU could help sell the sizzle of these steaks?
Job details and how to apply here:
ou.taleo.net/careersectio...
Publicity Manager
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
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October 23, 2025 at 1:38 PM
If you like talking up books, @oupress.bsky.social has a job opening for a publicity manager!
We have an extraordinary backlist plus superb forthcoming titles in the pipeline.
Maybe YOU could help sell the sizzle of these steaks?
Job details and how to apply here:
ou.taleo.net/careersectio...
We have an extraordinary backlist plus superb forthcoming titles in the pipeline.
Maybe YOU could help sell the sizzle of these steaks?
Job details and how to apply here:
ou.taleo.net/careersectio...
I'm so excited to have my copy of Umayyah Cable's @umayyah.bsky.social Mainstreaming Palestine! So grateful I got to be a part of making this book!
October 21, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I'm so excited to have my copy of Umayyah Cable's @umayyah.bsky.social Mainstreaming Palestine! So grateful I got to be a part of making this book!
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Diacritics author and board member Grant Farred writes about nostalgia for late industrial capitalism in his most recent publication "The Prettiest Woman," forthcoming with @uminnpress.bsky.social
For more information, see here: www.upress.umn.edu/978151791832...
For more information, see here: www.upress.umn.edu/978151791832...
The Prettiest Woman
Uncovering Hollywood’s perpetual longing for a lost industrial America “We don’t make things in America anymore”: like clockwork, this refrain resurf...
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October 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Diacritics author and board member Grant Farred writes about nostalgia for late industrial capitalism in his most recent publication "The Prettiest Woman," forthcoming with @uminnpress.bsky.social
For more information, see here: www.upress.umn.edu/978151791832...
For more information, see here: www.upress.umn.edu/978151791832...
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Another @moderniststudies.bsky.social author has stopped by our display. Michael Rubenstein is pictured below with his @uminnpress.bsky.social book, Pipeline Noir. #msa2025 #modernism
October 10, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Another @moderniststudies.bsky.social author has stopped by our display. Michael Rubenstein is pictured below with his @uminnpress.bsky.social book, Pipeline Noir. #msa2025 #modernism
"A major theorist of fascism, nationalism, and collective fantasizing, her thinking has arguably become more urgently relevant than ever." --Marta Figlerowicz on Maria Janion at LitHub
"Patriotism, Maria Janion argues, is necessarily irrational as a non-logical preference for one country over others. How, she asks, can one prevent this irrationality from sliding into a reality break?" lithub.com/finding-grim...
Finding Grim Lessons of the 20th Century (and a Little Hope) in the Writing of Maria Janion
I came across Maria Janion’s Uncanny Slavdom on the verge of the 2020 lockdown. The title caught my eye. Sigmund Freud defines the uncanny as the nagging presence of the familiar within the strange…
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October 10, 2025 at 3:38 PM
"A major theorist of fascism, nationalism, and collective fantasizing, her thinking has arguably become more urgently relevant than ever." --Marta Figlerowicz on Maria Janion at LitHub
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Announcing my book, Techno-Negative!
It will be out in Spring 2026, published with @uminnpress.bsky.social.
It will be out in Spring 2026, published with @uminnpress.bsky.social.
August 7, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Announcing my book, Techno-Negative!
It will be out in Spring 2026, published with @uminnpress.bsky.social.
It will be out in Spring 2026, published with @uminnpress.bsky.social.
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Got some pictures from my local coffee shop book talk from one of the attendees. I enjoyed reading from "Abolition Time" and talking with folks about art & social justice. And it was really well attended for a small town in the northern New Mexico mountains!
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October 6, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Got some pictures from my local coffee shop book talk from one of the attendees. I enjoyed reading from "Abolition Time" and talking with folks about art & social justice. And it was really well attended for a small town in the northern New Mexico mountains!
@uminnpress.bsky.social
@uminnpress.bsky.social
Out today: Michael Rubenstein's Pipeline Noir! Chinatown through the lens of petromodernity
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791926...
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791926...
Pipeline Noir
Watching Chinatown fifty years after its release reveals hidden connections to today’s energy and climate crises Pipeline Noir offers a fascinating inte...
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October 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Out today: Michael Rubenstein's Pipeline Noir! Chinatown through the lens of petromodernity
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791926...
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791926...
Officially out tomorrow, but I'm so excited to be holding a copy today! Our newest Forerunner: Pipeline Noir: Seeing Oil through Chinatown by Michael Rubenstein
October 6, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Officially out tomorrow, but I'm so excited to be holding a copy today! Our newest Forerunner: Pipeline Noir: Seeing Oil through Chinatown by Michael Rubenstein
Listen up!
🎧 New on our podcast: Chris Washington, Christopher Breu, Marquis Bey, and Alison Sperling on reading Jane Austen as an early gender abolitionist and establishing a politics of plurality and possibility.
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Nonbinary Jane Austen | University of Minnesota Press | Episode 119
Chris Washington reads Jane Austen differently from how she is classically understood; rather than the doyen of the cisheteronormative marriage plot, Washington argues that Austen leverages the generi...
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October 3, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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October has dawned—and so has our spooky sale. Ghosts and monsters, Mothra and Godzilla, horror theory and horror film, the supernatural and the speculative: 30% off our collection with code MN93980.
www.upress.umn.edu/ghosts-and-m...
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October 1, 2025 at 7:04 PM
October has dawned—and so has our spooky sale. Ghosts and monsters, Mothra and Godzilla, horror theory and horror film, the supernatural and the speculative: 30% off our collection with code MN93980.
www.upress.umn.edu/ghosts-and-m...
www.upress.umn.edu/ghosts-and-m...
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"especially illuminating on early 20th-century American labour politics, and ..the clear parallels with the political climate today."
Michael Jongen reviews Owen Clayton and Iain McIntyre (eds) The Popular Wobbly:
newtownreviewofbooks.com.au/owen-clayton...
@uminnpress.bsky.social
#BookSky 💙 📚
Michael Jongen reviews Owen Clayton and Iain McIntyre (eds) The Popular Wobbly:
newtownreviewofbooks.com.au/owen-clayton...
@uminnpress.bsky.social
#BookSky 💙 📚
October 2, 2025 at 1:14 AM
"especially illuminating on early 20th-century American labour politics, and ..the clear parallels with the political climate today."
Michael Jongen reviews Owen Clayton and Iain McIntyre (eds) The Popular Wobbly:
newtownreviewofbooks.com.au/owen-clayton...
@uminnpress.bsky.social
#BookSky 💙 📚
Michael Jongen reviews Owen Clayton and Iain McIntyre (eds) The Popular Wobbly:
newtownreviewofbooks.com.au/owen-clayton...
@uminnpress.bsky.social
#BookSky 💙 📚