New & Forthcoming Titles:

The Translator’s Daughter: A Memoir
Grace Loh Prasad

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

Niobes: Antiquity, Modernity, Critical Theory
Mario Telò and Andrew Benjamin, Eds.

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

Zoo World: Essays
Mary Quade

Neobugarrón: Heteroflexibility, Neoliberalism, and Latin/o American Sexual Practice
Ramón E. Soto-Crespo

Muslim Comics and Warscape Witnessing
Esra Mirze Santesso

City Scripts: Narratives of Post-Industrial Futures
Barbara Buchenau, Jens Martin Gurr, and Maria Sulimma, Eds.

Refusals and Reinventions: Engendering New Indigenous and Black Life across the Americas
Daniel Ìgbín’bí Coleman

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

A Nation’s Undesirables: Mixed-Race Children and Whiteness in the Post-Nazi Era
Tracey Owens Patton
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:
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!
