New & Forthcoming Titles:
Me llamo Marcela: My Story as a Heritage Speaker
Written by Marcela T. Garcés
Illustrated by Andrés E. Garcés
The Registry of Forgotten Objects: Stories
Miles Harvey
Trespassing Natures: Species Migration and the Right to Space
Donnie Johnson Sackey
Rewriting Islam: Decolonialism, Justice, and Contemporary Muslimah Literature
Hasnul Insani Djohar
The Translator’s Daughter: A Memoir
Grace Loh Prasad
A Nation’s Undesirables: Mixed-Race Children and Whiteness in the Post-Nazi Era
Tracey Owens Patton
Refusals and Reinventions: Engendering New Indigenous and Black Life across the Americas
Daniel Ìgbín’bí Coleman
Anti-Blackness and Human Monstrosity in Black American Horror Fiction
Jerry Rafiki Jenkins
Secrets of the Sun: A Memoir
Mako Yoshikawa
Softly Undercover
Hanae Jonas
Drawing (in) the Feminine: Bande Dessinée and Women
Edited by Margaret C. Flinn
Human Rights on the Move
Edited by Wendy S. Hesford, Momar K. Ndiaye, and Amy Shuman
Niobes: Antiquity, Modernity, Critical Theory
Mario Telò and Andrew Benjamin, Eds.
Deformative Fictions: Cruelty and Narrative Ethics in Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature
Ashley Hope Pérez
Through Fences
Frederick Luis Aldama and Oscar Garza
Just Kids: Youth Activism and Rhetorical Agency
Risa Applegarth
Grassroots Activisms: Public Rhetorics in Localized Contexts
Lisa L. Phillips, Sarah Warren-Riley, and Julie Collins Bates, Eds.
I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir
Susan Kiyo Ito
The Feeling of Letting Die: Necroeconomics and Victorian Fiction
Jennifer MacLure
The Vulnerability of Public Higher Education
Michael Bernard-Donals
Night Mother: A Personal and Cultural History of The Exorcist
Marlena Williams
Melt with Me: Coming of Age and Other ’80s Perils
Paul Crenshaw
Growing Up Graphic: The Comics of Children in Crisis
Alison Halsall
Pregnancy in the Victorian Novel
Livia Arndal Woods
The Hunger Book: A Memoir from Communist Poland
Agata Izabela Brewer
Muslim Comics and Warscape Witnessing
Esra Mirze Santesso
About the Ohio State University Press:
The Ohio State University Press was established in 1957 and currently publishes 50-60 new books a year. We specialize in literary and cultural studies (including comics, narrative theory, Victorian studies, and medieval studies), American studies, rhetoric and communication, gender and sexuality studies, and race and ethnic studies (including Black studies and Latinx studies). We also acquire books in regional studies on our Trillium imprint, creative works on our Mad Creek imprint, and linguistics, and we publish the annual winners of The Journal’s non/fiction and poetry prizes.
In addition to its books, the Press publishes a distinguished group of journals including Inks, the journal of the Comics Studies Society, Adoption & Culture, American Periodicals, Victorians, North American Journal of Celtic Studies, and Narrative.
The Ohio State University Press is a proud member of the Association of University Presses. For a spreadsheet list of the Association's members and the subjects they publish in, click here. For a PDF of the Association's publication, Best Practices for Peer Review, click here.
Latest News:
Birding While Indian: A Mixed-Blood Memoir by Thomas C. Gannon is a Finalist for the 2024 Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize!
The Dreamer and the Dream: Afrofuturism and Black Religious Thought by Roger A. Sneed is a Finalist for the American Academy of Religion’s Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion, Constructive-Reflexive Studies!
I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir by Susan Kiyo Ito is a Finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography!
Congratulations to our 2023 Eisner nominees: Katherine Kelp-Stebbins’s How Comics Travel: Publication, Translation, Radical Literacies is nominated for Best Academic/Scholarly Work, and José Alaniz’s Resurrection: Comics in Post-Soviet Russia is nominated for Best Comics-Related Book.
American Magnitude by Christa Olson has won the 2023 RSA Book Award!
