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| Founded | 2011 |
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| Founder | Eileen A. Joy, Nicola Masciandaro |
| Country of origin | United States of America |
| Headquarters location | Santa Barbara, California |
| Publication types | Books |
| Owner(s) | Eileen A. Joy, Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei |
| No. of employees | 5 |
| Official website | punctumbooks |
Punctum Books, stylized as punctum books, is an open-access and print-on-demand independent, scholar-led publisher based in Santa Barbara, California, United States.
The imprint was co-founded in 2011 by Eileen A. Joy (a medievalist and advocate of open access [1] ) and Nicola Masciandaro (Brooklyn College, CUNY), who left the project in 2012. The imprint was conceived partly as an offshoot of the BABEL Working Group, [2] a "non-hierarchical scholarly collective" [3] with an emphasis on medieval studies. Punctum Books was joined in 2016 by co-director Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei. Since its inception, Punctum Books has sought to bring scholarly works, often with a transdisciplinary or unconventional nature, to a broader public. It publishes print editions through Kindle Direct Publishing, but buyers can get a PDF version of the book for free through the publisher's website. [4]
In the past, Punctum Books published issues of the journals Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies, [5] Badiou Studies, [6] Contention: The Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Protest, [7] Helvete: A Journal of Black Metal Theory, [8] Itineration: Cross-Disciplinary Studies in Rhetoric, Media and Culture, [9] Networks and Neighbours, [10] O-Zone: A Journal of Object Oriented Studies, [11] Radical Criminology, [12] and Speculations: A Journal of Speculative Realism. [13]
Punctum Books was a partner on the Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM) project which ran from 2019-2023, [14] and is now a partner on the Open Book Futures project funded by the Arcadia Fund and Research England. [15]
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Eileen A. Joy is a specialist in Old English literary studies and cultural studies and is the publisher and founding director of Punctum Books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion. She holds a B.A. in English from Virginia Commonwealth University (1984), an M.F.A. in Fiction from Virginia Commonwealth University (1992) and a Ph.D. in Medieval Literature and Intellectual History from University of Tennessee (2001) with a dissertation Beowulf and the Floating Wreck of History. She is the founder of the BABEL Working Group and is co-editor of postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies.
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