Perspectives on Adoption

I Would Meet You Anywhere

A Memoir

Susan Kiyo Ito

“Susan Kiyo Ito expands the field of adoptee literature with this wise, sensitive memoir.” —San Francisco Chronicle

I Would Meet You Anywhere cover

Perspectives on Adoption

Adoption Fantasies

The Fetishization of Asian Adoptees from Girlhood to Womanhood

Kimberly D. McKee

“McKee pushes us forward with generosity and rigor into important albeit difficult conversations.” —Jenny Heijun Wills

Adoption Fantasies cover

Perspectives on Adoption

A Nation’s Undesirables

Mixed-Race Children and Whiteness in the Post-Nazi Era

Tracey Owens Patton

A Nation’s Undesirables cover

Perspectives on Adoption

Adoption across Race and Nation

US Histories and Legacies

Silke Hackenesch, Ed.

“A necessary and compelling work, it broadens the significance of adoption studies in both the past and present.” —Tiffany N. Florvil

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Perspectives on Adoption

The Guild of the Infant Saviour

An Adopted Child’s Memory Book

Megan Culhane Galbraith

An adoptee’s memoir and cultural history of pre-Roe v. Wade adoption in the US.

The Guild of the Infant Saviour cover

Perspectives on Adoption

Adoption & Culture

Edited by Emily Hipchen

Winner of the 2019 Phoenix Award from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals

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Perspectives on Adoption

The Politics of Reproduction

Adoption, Abortion, and Surrogacy in the Age of Neoliberalism

Modhumita Roy and Mary Thompson, Eds.

“[Shows] us how the notion of ‘choice’ works in the context of the transnational force of neoliberalism and other inequalities … to produce reproduction that is more, not less, stratified.” —Laura Briggs

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New & Forthcoming Titles:

The Translator’s Daughter: A Memoir book cover

The Translator’s Daughter: A Memoir

Grace Loh Prasad

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

Secrets of the Sun: A Memoir book cover

Secrets of the Sun: A Memoir

Mako Yoshikawa

Softly Undercover book cover

Softly Undercover

Hanae Jonas

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

Drawing (in) the Feminine: Bande Dessinée and Women

Edited by Margaret C. Flinn

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.

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.

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.

I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir

Susan Kiyo Ito

Front cover of Adoption Fantasies: The Fetishization of Asian Adoptees from Girlhood to Womanhood by Kimberly D. McKee, featuring an illustration of an Asian woman and young girl, their hair blowing in the wind, an evocative black shape with sparkles nearby.

Adoption Fantasies: The Fetishization of Asian Adoptees from Girlhood to Womanhood

Kimberly D. McKee

The Feeling of Letting Die: Necroeconomics and Victorian Fiction by Jennifer MacLure, featuring a bouquet of dead roses hanging upside down above the book's title.

The Feeling of Letting Die: Necroeconomics and Victorian Fiction

Jennifer MacLure

Front cover of The Vulnerability of Public Higher Education, by Michael Bernard-Donals, featuring an image of a large group of birds flying in a shape that will shift when they change direction.

The Vulnerability of Public Higher Education

Michael Bernard-Donals

Front cover of Night Mother: A Personal and Cultural History of The Exorcist, featuring a photo of a family home's carpeted stairway, lit in a green light.

Night Mother: A Personal and Cultural History of The Exorcist

Marlena Williams

Front cover of Melt with Me: Coming of Age and Other ’80s Perils, by Paul Crenshaw, featuring an illustration that looks like an explosion from a 1980s video game, Missile Command.

Melt with Me: Coming of Age and Other ’80s Perils

Paul Crenshaw

Front cover of Growing Up Graphic: The Comics of Children in Crisis by Alison Halsall, featuring a young girl in a blue coat, facing away from the viewer, standing against a backdrop of pink and blue puffy clouds.

Growing Up Graphic: The Comics of Children in Crisis

Alison Halsall

Front cover of Pregnancy in the Victorian Novel by Livia Arndal Woods, featuring a picture of an anatomical cross-section of a fetus within a pregnant woman's body.

Pregnancy in the Victorian Novel

Livia Arndal Woods

Front cover of The Hunger Book: A Memoir from Communist Poland, featuring a moody illustration of a woman's hand holding in her dirt-stained fingertips a fly agaric mushroom.

The Hunger Book: A Memoir from Communist Poland

Agata Izabela Brewer

Front cover of Zoo World: Essays by Mary Quade, featuring an image of a wheel-shaped styrofoam container with a green snake coiled at its center.

Zoo World: Essays

Mary Quade

Front cover of Neobugarrón: Heteroflexibility, Neoliberalism, and Latin/o American Sexual Practice by Ramón E. Soto-Crespo, featuring a stylized and suggestive shirtless man's torso highlighted in bright red and teal.

Neobugarrón: Heteroflexibility, Neoliberalism, and Latin/o American Sexual Practice

Ramón E. Soto-Crespo

Front cover of Muslim Comics and Warscape Witnessing by Esra Mirze Santesso, featuring a stylized collection of images including two figures standing below falling bombs and a drone, a key with an eye set into it, multiple guns in front of a cityscape, a rowboat on the shore, and a hand reaching up from the water.

Muslim Comics and Warscape Witnessing

Esra Mirze Santesso

Front cover of City Scripts: Narratives of Postindustrial Urban Futures, featuring a tall concrete wall, set with two large industrial fans, one red and one blue.

City Scripts: Narratives of Post-Industrial Futures

Barbara Buchenau, Jens Martin Gurr, and Maria Sulimma, Eds.

Front cover of Mapping the Stars: Celebrity, Metonymy, and the Networked Politics of Identity, by Claire Sisco King, featuring several small circular images of people who look like celebrities, linked by dotted lines.

Mapping the Stars: Celebrity, Metonymy, and the Networked Politics of Identity

Claire Sisco King

Front cover of Asian American Players: Masculinity, Literature, and the Anxieties of War by Audrey Wu Clark, featuring a silhouette of a businessman in suit and tie seated in a chair with a red and yellow fan-shaped pattern.

Asian American Players: Masculinity, Literature, and the Anxieties of War

Audrey Wu Clark

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

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

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

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

Alex Beringer

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

Haphazard Families: Adoption and Romanticism book cover

Haphazard Families: Adoption and Romanticism

Eric C. Walker

Slow Narrative across Media book cover

Slow Narrative across Media

Edited by Marco Caracciolo and Ella Mingazova

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

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

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 2023 seasonal catalog

Fall 2023 catalog cover

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.

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Resurrection book cover

American Magnitude by Christa Olson has won the 2023 RSA Book Award!

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Charles B. Wheeler Poetry Prize coeditor Kathy Fagan is a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow!

Browse the Spring 2023 seasonal catalog

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