Penn State Romance Studies, a peer-reviewed monograph series, represents a bold experiment in scholarly publishing. Romance Studies offers the best and latest scholarly research in the languages, literatures, and cultures of the Romance languages simultaneously in print and online in Open Access mode. The series covers a wide range of topics across a lengthy period of time. It also spans a broad spectrum of genres, including monographs, reference resources, translations, and editions of critical works.

A cooperative effort between Penn State University Press and the Penn State University Libraries, Romance Studies appears under the auspices of the new Office of Digital Scholarly Publishing. The editorial board, drawn from the Penn State Department of French and Francophone Studies and the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, welcomes new proposals according to the submission guidelines.