Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month Reads

The Translator’s Daughter

A Memoir

Grace Loh Prasad

“A poignant memoir about the joy, sadness, struggle, and complexities of being an immigrant.” —Eileen Gonzalez, Foreword Reviews

The Translator’s Daughter cover

Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month Reads

Asian American Players

Masculinity, Literature, and the Anxieties of War

Audrey Wu Clark

“Contributes to interdisciplinary thinking in postcolonial literature and Asian American studies.” —Pamela J. Rader, Rocky Mountain Review

Asian American Players cover

Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month Reads

Secrets of the Sun

A Memoir

Mako Yoshikawa

“[A] deeply empathetic and human memoir-in-essays told with inquisitive subtlety.” —Kirkus

Secrets of the Sun cover

Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month Reads

Constellating Home

Trans and Queer Asian American Rhetorics

V. Jo Hsu

Winner of the 2023 NCA Diamond Anniversary Book Award and the 2024 Winifred Bryan Horner Outstanding Book Award

“Hsu’s position as a participant-activist-scholar facilitates immersive, in-depth and reflexive narrative accounts.” —Viji Kuppan, Disability & Society

Constellating Home cover

Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month Reads

I Would Meet You Anywhere

A Memoir

Susan Kiyo Ito

Finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography

“The tension and fear of wanting to tell one’s story, to be seen, to know and be known are palpable throughout Ito’s stunning, brave, extraordinary book.” —Amy Cheney, Library Journal (starred review)

I Would Meet You Anywhere cover

Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month Reads

Inscrutable Eating

Asian Appetites and the Rhetorics of Racial Consumption

Jennifer Lin LeMesurier

“LeMesurier brings nuance to the ubiquitous maxim ‘you are what you eat.’” —Nicolyn Woodcock, Society for US Intellectual History

Inscrutable Eating cover

Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month Reads

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A collage of book covers features nine Ohio State Press titles in Asian and Asian American studies, showing the range of the Press's output.

New & Forthcoming Titles:

Women Surrounded by Water: A Memoir book cover

Women Surrounded by Water: A Memoir

Patricia Coral

Zones of Encuentro: Language and Identities in Northern New Mexico book cover

Zones of Encuentro: Language and Identities in Northern New Mexico

Lillian Gorman

The Erotic as Rhetorical Power: Archives of Romantic Friendship between Women Teachers book cover

The Erotic as Rhetorical Power: Archives of Romantic Friendship between Women Teachers

Pamela VanHaitsma

Women at Odds: Indifference, Antagonism, and Progress in Late Victorian Literature book cover

Women at Odds: Indifference, Antagonism, and Progress in Late Victorian Literature

Riya Das

Me llamo Marcela: My Story as a Heritage Speaker book cover

Me llamo Marcela: My Story as a Heritage Speaker

Written by Marcela T. Garcés
Illustrated by Andrés E. Garcés

The Registry of Forgotten Objects: Stories book cover

The Registry of Forgotten Objects: Stories

Miles Harvey

Indigenous Dispossession, Anti-Immigration, and the Public Pedagogy of US Empire book cover

Indigenous Dispossession, Anti-Immigration, and the Public Pedagogy of US Empire

Leah Perry

Trespassing Natures: Species Migration and the Right to Space book cover

Trespassing Natures: Species Migration and the Right to Space

Donnie Johnson Sackey

Petrochemical Fantasies: The Art and Energy of American Comics book cover

Petrochemical Fantasies: The Art and Energy of American Comics

Daniel Worden

Refiguring Race and Risk: Counternarratives of Care in the US Security State book cover

Refiguring Race and Risk: Counternarratives of Care in the US Security State

Roberta Wolfson

Rewriting Islam: Decolonialism, Justice, and Contemporary Muslimah Literature book cover

Rewriting Islam: Decolonialism, Justice, and Contemporary Muslimah Literature

Hasnul Insani Djohar

The Translator’s Daughter: A Memoir book cover

The Translator’s Daughter: A Memoir

Grace Loh Prasad

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

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

Haphazard Families: Adoption and Romanticism book cover

Haphazard Families: Romanticism, Nation, and the Prehistory of Modern Adoption

Eric C. Walker

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

Secrets of the Sun: A Memoir book cover

Secrets of the Sun: A Memoir

Mako Yoshikawa

Softly Undercover book cover

Softly Undercover

Hanae Jonas

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

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

Drawing (in) the Feminine: Bande Dessinée and Women

Edited by Margaret C. Flinn

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

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.

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

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 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

Rhetorical Economies of Whiteness: Exploring the Intersections of Power, Privilege, and Race book cover

Rhetorical Economies of Whiteness: Exploring the Intersections of Power, Privilege, and Race

Edited by Robert Asen and Casey Ryan Kelly

Sanctuary: Exclusion, Violence, and Indigenous Migrants in the East Bay book cover

Sanctuary: Exclusion, Violence, and Indigenous Migrants in the East Bay

Cruz Medina

Against Exclusion: Disrupting Anti-Chinese Violence in the Nineteenth Century book cover

Against Exclusion: Disrupting Anti-Chinese Violence in the Nineteenth Century

Audrey Wu Clark

China Pop!: Pop Culture, Propaganda, Pacific Pop-Ups book cover

China Pop!: Pop Culture, Propaganda, Pacific Pop-Ups

Sheng-mei Ma

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:

We welcome Allison L. Rowland as a new series editor for New Directions in Rhetoric and Materiality, joining existing editors Christa Teston and Shui-yin Sharon Yam. Thank you to outgoing editor Wendy S. Hesford for all her contributions to the series!

Birding While Indian: A Mixed-Blood Memoir by Thomas C. Gannon is the Winner of the 2024 Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize!

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

V. Jo Hsu’s Constellating Home: Trans and Queer Asian American Rhetorics won the 2024 Winifred Bryan Horner Outstanding Book Award from the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition!

Front cover of Constellating Home: Trans and Queer Asian American Rhetorics by V. Jo Hsu.

The Dreamer and the Dream: Afrofuturism and Black Religious Thought by Roger A. Sneed is a Finalist for the American Academy of Religion’s Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion, Constructive-Reflexive Studies!

Front cover of The Dreamer and the Dream: Afrofuturism and Black Religious Thought, by Roger A. Sneed, with the title in very large letters and a photo of bright stars in outer space showing through the letters.

I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir by Susan Kiyo Ito is a Finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography!

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.

Browse the Spring 2024 seasonal catalog

Spring 2024 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.

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

American Magnitude book cover

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