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JOB DESCRIPTION AND POSITION REQUIREMENTS:

The Pennsylvania State University Press, established in 1956 as the publishing arm of the Pennsylvania State University and located in beautiful central Pennsylvania, seeks an Executive Director to lead its award-winning university press.

The Press publishes rigorously reviewed, high-quality scholarly books and journals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences in both print and digital formats. Its publications advance scholarship by presenting new information, interpretations, and analysis that influence the shape of these fields. The Press also publishes books for general readers aligning with the strengths of its scholarly list areas. Its best-selling and award-winning publications include Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice, Field Guide to Wild Mushrooms of Pennsylvania and the Mid-Atlantic, The Kabbalistic Tree, Menopause: A Comic Treatment, and Strange Beauty: Issues in the Making and Meaning of Reliquaries, 400–circa 1204, as well as the journals: Comparative Literature Studies, The Chaucer Review, and Philosophy & Rhetoric.

As a vital component of the University community, the Press reflects many of the University’s academic strengths in the liberal arts. Overall, the Press publishes 90 books and 80 journal titles (approximately 175 issues) annually. Under the PSU Press imprint, these include academic publications by researchers around the world in a number of fields and disciplines for a global readership. Under the Eisenbrauns imprint, these include academic books about the languages, archaeology, and history of the ancient Near East. The Graphic Mundi imprint includes graphic novels for popular audiences that speak to social, environmen