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Birding While Indian

A Mixed-Blood Memoir

Thomas C. Gannon

“A much-needed and much-appreciated addition to Native literature. Birding While Indian is all that and a bag of tobacco.” —Tiffany Midge, author of Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese’s

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Everything I Never Wanted to Know

Christine Hume

“Provocative and intelligent … A thoughtfully disturbing, sharp sociological study.” —Kirkus

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Safe in a Midwife’s Hands

Birthing Traditions from Africa to the American South

Linda Janet Holmes

“Weaves together the histories of African and African American midwives to share an undertold story of birthing traditions and justice.” —Linda Villarosa, author of Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation

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Mistaken for an Empire

A Memoir in Tongues

Christine Imperial

“Drop everything and read this searing debut.” —Gabrielle Civil, author of the déjà vu: black dreams & black time

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Twenty Square Feet of Skin

Megan Baxter

“These essays wrestle with what it means to be radically alive.” —Joni Tevis, author of The World Is on Fire

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SEX DEPRESSION ANIMALS

Poems

Mag Gabbert

“Mag Gabbert announces herself as a new force in American poetry.” —Matthew Zapruder

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The Fertile Earth and the Ordered Cosmos

Reflections on the Newark Earthworks and World Heritage

M. Elizabeth Weiser, Timothy R. W. Jordan, and Richard D. Shiels, Eds.

“Whether the Newark Earthworks are in your backyard or a globe away, these essays will illuminate their extraordinary human story, made of earth, one basket at a time.” —Megan Wood, executive director and CEO, Ohio History Connection

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New & Forthcoming Titles:

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 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 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 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

Front cover of Selected Writings of Selma Fraiberg, Edited by Louis Fraiberg, featuring a black and white photograph of the author sitting next to potted plants.

Selected Writings of Selma Fraiberg

Louis Fraiberg, Ed., with a Foreword by Robert N. Emde, M.D.

The Necromantics: Reanimation, the Historical Imagination, and Victorian British and Irish Literature cover

The Necromantics: Reanimation, the Historical Imagination, and Victorian British and Irish Literature

Renée Fox

Front cover of Birding While India: A Mixed-Blood Memoir, by Thomas C. Gannon, featuring illustrations of two ravens with wings outstretched.

Birding While Indian: A Mixed-Blood Memoir

Thomas C. Gannon

Front cover of Post-Postmodernist Fiction and the Rise of Digital Epitexts by Virginia Pignagnoli, featuring overlapping pale blue circles on a bright pink background.

Post-Postmodernist Fiction and the Rise of Digital Epitexts

Virginia Pignagnoli

Front cover of The Fertile Earth and the Ordered Cosmos: Reflections on the Newark Earthworks and World Heritage, Edited by M. Elizabeth Weiser, Timothy R. W. Jordan, and Richard D. Shiels, featuring a photo of grass-covered earth mounds, trees in the background, and the full moon in the early twilight sky.

The Fertile Earth and the Ordered Cosmos: Reflections on the Newark Earthworks and World Heritage

M. Elizabeth Weiser, Timothy R. W. Jordan, and Richard D. Shiels, Editors

Front cover of Twenty Square Feet of Skin by Megan Baxter, featuring a close-up of a person's skin beaded with sweat.

Twenty Square Feet of Skin

Megan Baxter

Front cover of Caribbean American Narratives of Belonging by Vivian Nun Halloran, featuring the book’s title set on a yellow background over interconnected, multicolored circles of knotted rope.

Caribbean American Narratives of Belonging

Vivian Nun Halloran

Front cover of Safe in a Midwife’s Hands: Birthing Traditions from Africa to the American South, by Linda Janet Holmes, featuring a photo of a Black infant being cradled by two sets of Black hands.

Safe in a Midwife’s Hands: Birthing Traditions from Africa to the American South

Linda Janet Holmes

Inscrutable Eating: Asian Appetites and the Rhetorics of Racial Consumption cover

Inscrutable Eating: Asian Appetites and the Rhetorics of Racial Consumption

Jennifer Lin LeMesurier

Front cover of Becoming Pynchon: Genetic Narratology and V., by Luc Herman and John M. Krafft, featuring an image of the right side of a typewriter with the enter key replaced with a red bomb symbol.

Becoming Pynchon: Genetic Narratology and V.

Luc Herman and John M. Krafft

Front cover of The Story of Fictional Truth: Realism from the Death to the Rise of the Novel by Paul Dawson, featuring a lone figure standing on a hillside against a faded blue sky.

The Story of Fictional Truth: Realism from the Death to the Rise of the Novel

Paul Dawson

Front cover of Mistaken for an Empire: A Memoir in Tongues, by Christine Imperial, featuring a snapshot of the author as a young child, seated on a mother-figure's lap, who is pointing happily toward something off-camera, while the young child looks doubtful.

Mistaken for an Empire: A Memoir in Tongues

Christine Imperial

Front cover of Everything I Never Wanted to Know by Christine Hume, in bright yellow letters on a bright orange background.

Everything I Never Wanted to Know

Christine Hume

Front cover of Sex Depression Animals: Poems, by Mag Gabbert, with the text in black shapes on a yellow background with red edges.

SEX DEPRESSION ANIMALS

Mag Gabbert

Front cover of Hawking Women: Falconry, Gender, and Control in Medieval Literary Culture by Sara Petrosillo, featuring a medieval portrait of a man kneeling in front of two women, one of whom is holding a hawk on her wrist.

Hawking Women: Falconry, Gender, and Control in Medieval Literary Culture

Sara Petrosillo

Language Files 13 book cover

Language Files: Materials for an Introduction to Language and Linguistics, 13th Edition

Department of Linguistics, The Ohio State University

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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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