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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.

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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]

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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.

References

  1. ↑ Rio Fernandes (22 January 2016). "Prominent Medieval Scholar's Blog on 'Feminist Fog' Sparks an Uproar". Chronicle of Higher Education .
  2. ↑ "In The Para-Academic Playground: An interview with Eileen Joy, co-director of punctum books". Glasgow Review of Books. 7 May 2013. Retrieved 17 November 2014.
  3. ↑ "BABELcredo". BABEL working group. Retrieved 14 December 2016.
  4. ↑ "Vision Statement". punctum books. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
  5. ↑ "About the Journal". Anarchist-developments.org. Retrieved 17 November 2014.
  6. ↑ "Badiou Studies homepage". Badioustudies.org. Retrieved 17 November 2014.
  7. ↑ "Home". Contentionjournal.org. Retrieved 17 November 2014.
  8. ↑ "Helvete" . Retrieved 17 November 2014.
  9. ↑ "Itineration - Cross Disciplinary Studies in Rhetoric, Media, and Culture". Itineration.org. Retrieved 17 November 2014.
  10. ↑ "Networks and Neighbours". Networksandneighbours.org. Retrieved 17 November 2014.
  11. ↑ "O-Zone" . Retrieved 17 November 2014.
  12. ↑ "Radical Criminology". Journal.radicalcriminology.org. Retrieved 17 November 2014.
  13. ↑ "Speculations - Homepage". Speculations-journal.org. Retrieved 17 November 2014.
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