Punctum Books, experimental publishing, and unconventional scholarship Join Eileen Joy, co-founder and publisher of Punctum Books, for a talk about innovative publishing models, unconventional scholarship, and open access. Eileen Joy is a specialist in Old English literary studies and cultural studies, as well as a para-academic rogue, and a publisher, with interests in poetry and poetics, intellectual history, ethics, affects, embodiments, queer studies, object/thing studies, the ecological, post/humanisms, and scholarly communications. Joy is the Founding Ingenitor of the BABEL Working Group, Co-Editor of postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies, and Founding Director of punctum books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion. You can read more about the philosophy and mission of punctum books at “Here Be Monsters: A Punctum Publishing Primer.” Following the talk, Eileen Joy will host drop-in office hours to talk with visitors. An Open Access Week event co-sponsored by The UC Merced Library and the Center for the Humanities. Please complete the leadership form within 72 hours of completing the event! Leadership Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeK4t55f0kRPI8UZWBtdiAgv5qdLSY6C6CZCQLb8ifkjfjawA/viewform?usp=sf_link Email leadership.apoahg@gmail.com for questions or submissions of materials!