New & Forthcoming Titles:
Becoming Educated: A Midwest Story
Simone C. Drake
City of Toys: Essays
Lesley Jenike
The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People Saved a Country from Corporate Greed
Robin Broad and John Cavanagh with Graphic Adaptation by Jon Sack
The Afterlife of Sweetness: Poems
Jaia Hamid Bashir
Men I Hate: A Memoir in Essays
Lynette D’Amico
Place Envy: Essays in Search of Orientation
Michael Lowenthal
The Strange Case of Miss Annie Spragg
Louis Bromfield with a new introduction by Stephen Heyman, author of The Planter of Modern Life: Louis Bromfield and the Seeds of a Food Revolution
Lake Song: A Novel in Stories
Lesley Pratt Bannatyne
My Prisoner and Other Stories
Tyler McAndrew
Clutch: An Education at Work
Linda Pawlenty
Reel
Colleen O’Brien
Windower
Michael Loughran
“We Must Document Ourselves Now”: Black Lesbian Cultural Legacies and the Politics of Self-Representation
Stephanie Andrea Allen
Classics Beyond the Pleasure Principle
Edited by Paul Allen Miller and Mario Telò
Transgressing Time: The Device at the Heart of Time Travel
Edward Royston
Silent Medievalisms: Reimagining the Middle Ages During Film’s Foundational Era
Edited by Tison Pugh and Angela Jane Weisl
Black Aliens: Kinship in the Cosmic Diaspora
Joanna Davis-McElligatt
Mortal Forms: Affect and Temporality in Early English Poetry
Evelyn Reynolds
Crip Love Onscreen: Representations of Love, Sex, and Disability
Sarah Rainey-Smithback
Coming of Age(ncy) on the Migrant Trail: Adolescent Journeys in Contemporary Latinx Young Adult Literature
Susana S. Martínez
Sacred Sisterhoods: A Celebration of Black Women's Friendships on Television and in Film
Edited by Imani M. Cheers
Italy and American Female Imagination
Debra Bernardi
Ordinary Queerness in American Modernism
Jess Shollenberger
Truth Be Told: White Nostalgia and Antiracist Queer Resistance in “Post-Truth” America
Laura Elliot Tetreault
Replaying Marc Anthony: Sonic, Political, and Cultural Resonances
Frances R. Aparicio
Afrofuturism and World Order
Reynaldo Anderson
The Art of Memes in Feminist Digital Culture
Shana MacDonald
Olfactory Rhetoric: Sniffing Out Environmental Problems
Lisa L. Phillips
Dispelling Fantasies: Authors of Color Reimagine a Genre
Joy Sanchez-Taylor
Patient Sense: Rhetorical Body Work in the Age of Technology
Lillian Campbell
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:
Two of our books were named CHOICE Outstanding Academic Titles for 2025: Erin J. Rand’s Minor Troubles: Racial Figurations of Youth Sexuality and Childhood’s Queerness and Seulghee Lee’s Other Lovings: An AfroAsian American Theory of Life. Congratulations to both authors!
From Cocinas to Lucha Libre Ringsides: A Latinx Comics Anthology, edited by Frederick Luis Aldama and Angela M. Sánchez, is a Chicago Public Library “Best of the Best” pick!
Congratulations to Lillian Gorman for winning big at the 2025 New Mexico Book Awards. Her book, Zones of Encuentro: Language and Identities in Northern New Mexico, won in the Multicultural Category and was a Finalist in the BIPOC Author or Subject Category and the First Book Category.
We’re delighted to have two of our authors recognized for the 2025 Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award from the National Communication Association’s Public Address Division. Pamela VanHaitsma’s The Erotic as Rhetorical Power: Archives of Romantic Friendship between Women Teachers won the award, and Annie Hill’s Trafficking Rhetoric Race, Migration, and the Making of Modern-Day Slavery received an Honorable Mention.
Cleveland State University Poetry Center’s No One Knows Their Blood Type, by Maya Abu Al-Hayyat and translated by Hazem Jamjoum, is longlisted for the 2025 National Translation Award in Prose and shortlisted for the First Translation Prize from the American Literary Translators Association.
Margaret C. Flinn’s Drawing (in) the Feminine: Bande Dessinée and Women won the 2025 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work!
Grace Loh Prasad’s The Translator’s Daughter: A Memoir was nominated for the 2024 Northern California Book Award in Creative Nonfiction.
Congratulations to our 2025 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award nominees! Margaret C. Flinn’s Drawing (in) the Feminine: Bande Dessinée and Women and Daniel Worden’s Petrochemical Fantasies: The Art and Energy of American Comics are both up for the Best Academic/Scholarly Work Award, while Inks is nominated for Best Comics-Related Periodical/Journalism.
Night Mother: A Personal and Cultural History of The Exorcist, by Marlena Williams, is nominated for the Sarah Winnemucca Award For Creative Nonfiction at the 2025 Oregon Book Awards. Winners will be announced on April 28.
Congratulations to Ashley Lawson! Her book, On Edge: Gender and Genre in the Work of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, and Leigh Brackett, was nominated for a 2025 Edgar Award.
Patricia Coral’s Women Surrounded by Water: A Memoir is longlisted for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography! We are so delighted to have one our authors recognized for this award for the second year in a row.
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!