Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Open Access Publishing (But Were Afraid to Ask)

Join Co-Director of punctum books, Eileen A. Fradenburg Joy, and PSU Director of Interdisciplinary Studies (and punctum author) Matthew Cheney for a conversation about Open Access publishing: the what, the how, the why.

Founded in 2011, punctum is an independent queer- and scholar-led, community-formed, and peer-reviewed fully open-access (OA) publisher devoted to academic and para-academic authors working in any field in the humanities, social sciences, fine arts, and architecture & design. From its start, punctum has remained committed to an OA book publishing model that never charges fees to authors and that privileges cooperative expertise and knowledge sharing between librarians, knowledge managers, publishers, and scholar-researchers.

Join us to learn about the opportunities that open access publishing creates for scholars, teachers, librarians, and students to work together and enhance the knowledge commons.

Eileen A. Fradenburg Joy is a specialist in Old English literary studies and cultural studies, with a wide variety of publications in poetry and poetics, intellectual history, queer studies, ethical philosophy, affect and embodiment, state violence and sovereignty, object studies, post/humanisms, and scholarly communications. She is the Founding Director of punctum books, Founding Ingenitor of the BABEL Working Group, and Founding Editor of postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies.

Matthew Cheney is Associate Professor and Director of Interdisciplinary Studies at Plymouth State University and the author of About That Life: Barry Lopez and the Art of Community (punctum books, 2023), Modernist Crisis and the Pedagogy of Form (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020), and other works.