NEW, CURRENT, AND FORTHCOMING TITLES
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NEW, CURRENT, AND FORTHCOMING TITLES |
NEW!
Queer Making: On Artists and Desire in Medieval Europe
by Karl Whittington
Is Byzantine Studies a Colonialist Discipline?Toward a Critical Historiography
Edited by Benjamin Anderson and Mirela Ivanova
Destroyed—Disappeared—Lost—Never Were
Edited by Beate Fricke and Aden Kumler
FORTHCOMING:
December 2026
Inventing Heritage: The Politics of Medievalism
Edited by Milan Vukašinović and Alexandra Vukovich
About this Series
The International Center of Medieval Art and the Pennsylvania State University Press announce a new book series: ICMA Books | Viewpoints. This series aims to engage with and instigate new conversations, debates, and perspectives not only about medieval art and visual-material culture, but also in relation to the critical practices employed by medieval art historians. Books will typically be data-rich, issue-driven, and even polemical. The range of potential subjects is broad and varied, and each title will tackle a significant and timely problem in the field of medieval art and visual-material culture. The Viewpoints series is interdisciplinary and actively involved in providing a forum for current critical developments in art historical methodology, the structure of scholarly writing, and/or the use of evidence. Books in the ICMA Books | Viewpoints series will be short: ca. 45,000– 75,000 words, illustrated by no more than 20–30 black-and-white images and will be written to engage specialists and students alike.
Roland Betancourt, Editor
Roland Betancourt is Chancellor’s Professor at the University of California, Irvine and a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow. During 2024-2026, he was the Andrew W. Mellon Professor at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Betancourt is an expert on the art and culture of the Byzantine Empire, and his work also looks at the uses of the medieval past in the modern world. His five books include Disneyland and the Rise of Automation (Princeton University Press, 2026) and the award-winning Byzantine Intersectionality: Sexuality, Gender, and Race in the Middle Ages (Princeton University Press, 2020).
QUESTIONS OR SUBMISSIONS?
Initial inquiries should take the form of a 3–5 page proposal outlining the intent of the project, its scope, its relation to other work on the topic, and the audience(s) you have in mind. Please include a current CV and 1-2 sample chapters, if available.
Contact Penn State University Press:
Eleanor Goodman, Executive Editor, egoodman@psu.edu