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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:

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

Softly Undercover book cover

Softly Undercover

Hanae Jonas

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Human Rights on the Move

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

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.

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 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.

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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:

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!

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.