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Stigma Stories

Rhetoric, Lived Experience, and Chronic Illness

Molly Margaret Kessler

“A welcome addition to a lineage of texts that closely examine stories of individuals living with chronic illnesses and conditions.” —Michelle Cowan, H-Sci-Med-Tech

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The Political Economy of Stigma

HIV, Memoir, Medicine, and Crip Positionalities

Ally Day

Winner of the 2022 Alison Piepmeier Prize from the National Women’s Studies Association

“A well-written, theoretically compelling, and highly approachable study that amplifies the experiences of women living with HIV.” —Harry Barbee, Gender & Society

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Constellating Home

Trans and Queer Asian American Rhetorics

V. Jo Hsu

Winner of the 2024 RSA Book Award

“Hsu’s position as a participant-activist-scholar facilitates immersive, in-depth and reflexive narrative accounts that capture the messiness of everyday struggle.” —Viji Kuppan, Disability & Society

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Zoetropes and the Politics of Humanhood

Allison L. Rowland

Winner of the 2021 Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine Book Award

“A marvel for rhetorical theory, necropolitics, and those invested in the hierarchical nature of life.” —Michael J. Benjamin, Rhetoric Review

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Disabled Upon Arrival

Eugenics, Immigration, and the Construction of Race and Disability

Jay Timothy Dolmage

“Beautifully written, sometimes almost poetic, and yet strongly argumentative. This is by far the best work on the subject of eugenics and immigration.” —Susan Schweik

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New & Forthcoming Titles:

Women Surrounded by Water: A Memoir book cover

Women Surrounded by Water: A Memoir

Patricia Coral

Me llamo Marcela: My Story as a Heritage Speaker book cover

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 book cover

The Registry of Forgotten Objects: Stories

Miles Harvey

Sanctuary: Exclusion, Violence, and Indigenous Migrants in the East Bay book cover

Sanctuary: Exclusion, Violence, and Indigenous Migrants in the East Bay

Cruz Medina

China Pop!: Pop Culture, Propaganda, Pacific Pop-Ups book cover

China Pop!: Pop Culture, Propaganda, Pacific Pop-Ups

Sheng-mei Ma

Indigenous Dispossession, Anti-Immigration, and the Public Pedagogy of US Empire book cover

Indigenous Dispossession, Anti-Immigration, and the Public Pedagogy of US Empire

Leah Perry

Trespassing Natures: Species Migration and the Right to Space book cover

Trespassing Natures: Species Migration and the Right to Space

Donnie Johnson Sackey

Against Exclusion: Disrupting Anti-Chinese Violence in the Nineteenth Century book cover

Against Exclusion: Disrupting Anti-Chinese Violence in the Nineteenth Century

Audrey Wu Clark

Rhetorical Economies of Whiteness: Exploring the Intersections of Power, Privilege, and Race book cover

Rhetorical Economies of Whiteness: Exploring the Intersections of Power, Privilege, and Race

Edited by Robert Asen and Casey Ryan Kelly

On Edge: Gender and Genre in the Work of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, and Leigh Brackett book cover

On Edge: Gender and Genre in the Work of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, and Leigh Brackett

Ashley Lawson

Pitfalls of Prestige: Black Women and Literary Recognition book cover

Pitfalls of Prestige: Black Women and Literary Recognition

Laura Elizabeth Vrana

Never on Time, Always in Time: Narrative Form and the Queer Sensorium book cover

Never on Time, Always in Time: Narrative Form and the Queer Sensorium

Kate McCullough

Black Speculative Feminisms: Memory and Liberated Futures in Black Women’s Fiction book cover

Black Speculative Feminisms: Memory and Liberated Futures in Black Women’s Fiction

Cassandra L. Jones

Zones of Encuentro: Language and Identities in Northern New Mexico book cover

Zones of Encuentro: Language and Identities in Northern New Mexico

Lillian Gorman

The Erotic as Rhetorical Power: Archives of Romantic Friendship between Women Teachers book cover

The Erotic as Rhetorical Power: Archives of Romantic Friendship between Women Teachers

Pamela VanHaitsma

Women at Odds: Indifference, Antagonism, and Progress in Late Victorian Literature book cover

Women at Odds: Indifference, Antagonism, and Progress in Late Victorian Literature

Riya Das

Petrochemical Fantasies: The Art and Energy of American Comics book cover

Petrochemical Fantasies: The Art and Energy of American Comics

Daniel Worden

Refiguring Race and Risk: Counternarratives of Care in the US Security State book cover

Refiguring Race and Risk: Counternarratives of Care in the US Security State

Roberta Wolfson

Rewriting Islam: Decolonialism, Justice, and Contemporary Muslimah Literature book cover

Rewriting Islam: Decolonialism, Justice, and Contemporary Muslimah Literature

Hasnul Insani Djohar

The Translator’s Daughter: A Memoir book cover

The Translator’s Daughter: A Memoir

Grace Loh Prasad

A Nation’s Undesirables: Mixed-Race Children and Whiteness in the Post-Nazi Era book cover

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 book cover

Refusals and Reinventions: Engendering New Indigenous and Black Life across the Americas

Daniel Ìgbín’bí Coleman

Haphazard Families: Adoption and Romanticism book cover

Haphazard Families: Romanticism, Nation, and the Prehistory of Modern Adoption

Eric C. Walker

Anti-Blackness and Human Monstrosity in Black American Horror Fiction book cover

Anti-Blackness and Human Monstrosity in Black American Horror Fiction

Jerry Rafiki Jenkins

Secrets of the Sun: A Memoir book cover

Secrets of the Sun: A Memoir

Mako Yoshikawa

Softly Undercover book cover

Softly Undercover

Hanae Jonas

Sex, Celibacy, and Deviance: The Victorians and the Song of Songs book cover

Sex, Celibacy, and Deviance: The Victorians and the Song of Songs

Duc Dau

Drawing (in) the Feminine: Bande Dessinée and Women book cover

Drawing (in) the Feminine: Bande Dessinée and Women

Edited by Margaret C. Flinn

Trafficking Rhetoric: Race, Migration, and the Making of Modern-Day Slavery book cover

Trafficking Rhetoric: Race, Migration, and the Making of Modern-Day Slavery

Annie Hill

Human Rights on the Move book cover

Human Rights on the Move

Edited by Wendy S. Hesford, Momar K. Ndiaye, and Amy Shuman

Lost Literacies: Experiments in the Nineteenth-Century US Comic Strip book cover

Lost Literacies: Experiments in the Nineteenth-Century US Comic Strip

Alex Beringer

Front cover of Niobes: Antiquity, Modernity, Critical Theory, edited by Mario Telò and Andrew Benjamin, featuring a modern bronze sculture of Niobe.

Niobes: Antiquity, Modernity, Critical Theory

Mario Telò and Andrew Benjamin, Eds.

Deformative Fictions: Cruelty and Narrative Ethics in Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature book cover

Deformative Fictions: Cruelty and Narrative Ethics in Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature

Ashley Hope Pérez

Front cover of Through Fences, Written by Frederick Luis Aldama and Illustrated by Oscar Garza, featuring images of several characters from the interior peeking through openings in a chain link fence.

Through Fences

Frederick Luis Aldama and Oscar Garza

Front cover of Just Kids: Youth Activism and Rhetorical Agency, by Risa Applegarth, with the title and subtitle on a large yellow posterboard, over an image of a crowd of protestors.

Just Kids: Youth Activism and Rhetorical Agency

Risa Applegarth

Front cover of Grassroots Activisms: Public Rhetorics in Localized Contexts, edited by Lisa L. Phillips, Sarah Warren-Riley, and Julie Collins Bates, with plant stems and roots emerging from the letters in Grassroots.

Grassroots Activisms: Public Rhetorics in Localized Contexts

Lisa L. Phillips, Sarah Warren-Riley, and Julie Collins Bates, Eds.

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:

Browse the Fall 2024 seasonal catalog

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I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir by Susan Kiyo Ito and The Hunger Book: A Memoir from Communist Poland by Agata Izabela Brewer are both on the shortlist for the 2024 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing! Huge congratulations to both authors!

We welcome Allison L. Rowland as a new series editor for New Directions in Rhetoric and Materiality, joining existing editors Christa Teston and Shui-yin Sharon Yam. Thank you to outgoing editor Wendy S. Hesford for all her contributions to the series!

Birding While Indian: A Mixed-Blood Memoir by Thomas C. Gannon is the Winner of the 2024 Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize!

Front cover of Birding While Indian: A Mixed-Blood Memoir, by Thomas C. Gannon, featuring illustrations of two ravens with wings outstretched.

V. Jo Hsu’s Constellating Home: Trans and Queer Asian American Rhetorics won the 2024 Winifred Bryan Horner Outstanding Book Award from the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition!

Front cover of Constellating Home: Trans and Queer Asian American Rhetorics by V. Jo Hsu.

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!

Front cover of The Dreamer and the Dream: Afrofuturism and Black Religious Thought, by Roger A. Sneed, with the title in very large letters and a photo of bright stars in outer space showing through the letters.

I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir by Susan Kiyo Ito is a Finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography!

Front cover of I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir, by Susan Kiyo Ito, featuring a background of blue fabric with white cranes and an evergreen branch sewn onto it.