Perspectives on Adoption for National Adoption Month

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

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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

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A Nation’s Undesirables

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

Tracey Owens Patton

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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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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.

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Adoption & Culture

Edited by Emily Hipchen

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

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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:

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Softly Undercover

Hanae Jonas

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 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 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.

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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:

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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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!