New & Forthcoming Titles:
Shamewreck: Essays
Peggy Shinner
A Planet in Hospice: Environmental Justice in Existential Ecofiction
Lauren S. Cardon
Fi-Sci: Avatars of Science in Fiction
Rhona Trauvitch
Any Time But This Time
Adam Peterson
Gold Country
Vanesha Pravin
Plants Beyond Borders
Edited by Courtney B. Ryan and Alicia Carroll
Touchdown!: Latinos Breaking Through the NFL's White Lines
Frederick Luis Aldama and Christopher González
Intimate Scholarship: Ways of Knowing Through Black Feminist Forms
Adena Rivera-Dundas
J. K. Rowling and the Anti-Trans Panic
Gina Gwenffrewi
Where the Moon Stands Still
James W. Graham
Unraveling Threads: Essays on Inheritance
brenda Lin
Hard Right: Muscular Rhetoric and the New Nationalism
Casey Ryan Kelly
Archival Entanglements
Edited by Puja Batra-Wells and Harmony Bench
Narrative Co-Construction
Edited by Malcah Effron, Margarida McMurry, and Virginia Pignagnoli
A Conditional Embrace: Black Queer Feminism in Performance
Kristyl D. Tift
“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
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
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
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 PDF of the Association's publication, Best Practices for Peer Review, click here.
Latest News:
Congratulations to Donnie Johnson Sackey for winning the 2026 RSA Book Award for Trespassing Natures: Species Migration and the Right to Space!
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!
