New & Forthcoming Titles:
When the World Explodes: Essays
Amy Lee Scott
At the Park on the Edge of the Country: Poems
Austin Araujo
Women Surrounded by Water: A Memoir
Patricia Coral
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
No One Knows Their Blood Type
Maya Abu Al-Hayyat, translated by Hazem Jamjoum
A Cleveland State University Poetry Center distributed title
Reading in the Postgenomic Age: Race, Discipline, and Bionarrativity in Contemporary North American Literature
Lesley Larkin
Other Lovings: An AfroAsian American Theory of Life
Seulghee Lee
Get Yo' Life: Black Queer Placemaking
R. J. Millhouse
On Black Bandes Dessinées and Transcolonial Power
Michelle Bumatay
China Pop!: Pop Culture, Propaganda, Pacific Pop-Ups
Sheng-mei Ma
Trespassing Natures: Species Migration and the Right to Space
Donnie Johnson Sackey
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
Ashley Lawson
Pitfalls of Prestige: Black Women and Literary Recognition
Laura Elizabeth Vrana
Black Speculative Feminisms: Memory and Liberated Futures in Black Women’s Fiction
Cassandra L. Jones
The Erotic as Rhetorical Power: Archives of Romantic Friendship between Women Teachers
Pamela VanHaitsma
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
Deformative Fictions: Cruelty and Narrative Ethics in Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature
Ashley Hope Pérez
Through Fences
Frederick Luis Aldama and Oscar Garza
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.
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Latest News:
We are now accepting applications for the Intersectional Rhetorics writing retreat! This fully funded retreat, taking place immediately after the 2025 RSA Summer Institute, offers one-on-one manuscript feedback and a book contract with the Intersectional Rhetorics series. Apply by December 1, 2024.
Congratulations to Lesley Bannatyne for winning the 2024 AWP Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction! Her winning manuscript, Lake Song, is forthcoming from Mad Creek Books.
Congratulations to Mag Gabbert for winning the 2023 Writers’ League of Texas Book Award for Poetry for her book, SEX DEPRESSION ANIMALS!
Las aventuras de Chupacabra Charlie, written by Frederick Luis Aldama and illustrated by Chris Escobar, received an Honorable Mention for the Alma Flor Ada Best Latino Focused Children’s Picture Book Award from the International Latino Book Awards!
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!
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!
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!