LGBTQIA+ Stories

Constellating Home

Trans and Queer Asian American Rhetorics

V. Jo Hsu

“A rich and particular narrative of resistance and refusal.” —Gust Yep

Open access for the month of June: read now

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LGBTQIA+ Stories

Engine Running

Cade Mason

“One of the most potent incantations of a particular time and place I can remember reading in a long time.” —Ryan Van Meter

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LGBTQIA+ Stories

Eating Lightbulbs and Other Essays

Steve Fellner

“[Fellner] showcases a profound love for the essay as he displays a Sedaris-like humor while also tracing the history of his darkest moments.” —Jill Talbot

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LGBTQIA+ Stories

Asexual Erotics

Intimate Readings of Compulsory Sexuality

Ela Przybylo

“Delivers an innovative analysis of the erotic energies that are neglected by Western societies’ blind commitment to compulsory sexuality.” —Journal of the History of Sexuality

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LGBTQIA+ Stories

Just an Ordinary Woman Breathing

Julie Marie Wade

“Intelligent and lyrical, the narrative mingles often comic musings on female embodiment with insightful observations about the meaning of love and self-acceptance.” —Kirkus

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LGBTQIA+ Stories

Neobuggarón

Heteroflexibility, Neoliberalism, and Latin/o American Sexual Practice

Ramón E. Soto-Crespo

“This book breaks open the cramped container of our current sexual categories, revealing the expanse of possibilities that circulate outside the limits of identity.” —Jane Ward

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New & Forthcoming Titles:

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

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

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

Department of Linguistics, The Ohio State University

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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Browse the Fall 2023 seasonal catalog

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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!

Browse the Spring 2023 seasonal catalog

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