Humanities Editor at the University of Minnesota Press. Avid reader. Disabled. She/her/hers.
Leah Pennywark
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Out today: Jonathan Basile's @jonothingeb.bsky.social radical deconstructive approach to evolutionary theory,
Natural Lection: Cultures of Evolution! www.upress.umn.edu/978151791998...
2 publishing jobs with U of Nebraska Press (Foreword Reviews Indie Publisher of the Year):
Assistant Editor, Rights & Permissions
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Journals Systems & Fulfillment Associate
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File under: Books that feel written for me and my weird interests, specifically. Immediate pre-order.
Announcing the release of the online, open-access edition of _Critical Infrastructure Studies & Digital Humanities_ (in Debates in DH series): dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/cri.... Editors: Alan Liu, Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, James Smihties @jamessmithies.bsky.social). Print ed. appeared January 2026
Preorder-able, $10 @uminnpress.bsky.social
A book influenced by Ursula Le Guin's dark insights, eg "...I hope you will remember that darkness is your country, where you live, where no wars are fought and no wars are won, but where the future is. Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country."
Loving the newest @ebbooksellers.bsky.social newsletter and lovely shout-out to @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social 's TECHNO-NEGATIVE: mailchi.mp/ebbookseller...
Thomas Dekeyser's TECHNO-NEGATIVE (www.upress.umn.edu/978151791773...) has only been out a couple months but it's crossed over into the culture in ways few scholarly books do, and rarely so quickly. Reviews & discussion of the book in Vox, New Yorker, New York Times Magazine...
The Horror Theory Reader is indispensable for scholars and will be of interest to anyone curious about our paradoxical enjoyment of appalling and fearsome things.
Browse the MNG Horror Studies virtual exhibit: buff.ly/H1B0bae
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my wife's book on a real and fascinating gender-nonconforming person in the gilded age is up for preorder! with high praise from the great @hughryan.bsky.social and Emily Skidmore. Lots of other good offerings by university of mn press as well.
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791584...
A radical deconstructive approach to evolutionary theoryFor as long as there has been evolutionary science, thinkers in the natural sciences, social sciences...
"The definition of human is implicitly reduced to the narrowing set of behaviors, traits, and capacities that machines do not yet possessβwhich leaves secular humanists defending the shrinking ground that is left." Nice h/t @leifw.bsky.social in @theatlantic.com
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