#UPWeek Blog Tour Day One: Who is #NextUP at your press?
To kick off this year’s #UPWeek Blog Tour, we’re highlighting three of our newest employees! Learn more about #UPWeek here.
Emily Lovett, Production and Editorial Assistant
My name is Emily Lovett, and I am a new Production and Editorial Assistant at PSUP, working primarily with titles from the Eisenbrauns imprint. While pursuing my master’s degree at Western Michigan University, I was lucky enough to be introduced to the world of academic publishing through my work with Medieval Institute Publications (MIP). I learned firsthand both the complexities of academic publishing and the value of university presses, which embody my own belief that academic scholarship is not for the benefit of only a small academic circle but has the potential to affect all people. I am thrilled to continue that work at PSUP!
Josie DiNovo, Editorial Assistant
Hello, people of UP week! I’m Josie DiNovo, and I’m an editorial assistant at Pennsylvania State University Press. At PSUP, I work on projects in a variety of areas, including books in our Jewish studies, rhetoric, and Graphic Medicine series as well as our Graphic Mundi imprint. I have aspired to work for a university press since I was in undergrad because I wanted to work in a publishing environment where the mission was disseminating knowledge. I appreciate that my work at a university press can have an impact on individual scholars and advancing our understanding of the world. I have been at PSUP for one and half years, and it has been magical to see manuscripts that I once read as unformatted word documents become beautiful books for the rest of the world to enjoy.
Mackenzie Brunnhuber, Publicist
Hello! My name is Mackenzie Brunnhuber, and I have been working at the Penn State University Press for three years. I started as the Publicity Assistant and was recently brought on full-time as the Publicist. I learned about the university press world through an editing course that I took my junior year at Penn State, where the professor mentioned PSUP and the function of university presses in the publishing world. PSUP’s mission of disseminating important knowledge in accessible ways immediately drew me in, and I love having a hand in helping our authors get their work out into the world. PSUP has been a wonderful place for me to begin my career in academic publishing, and I look forward to continuing my time here in my new role!