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We publish great books and journals across literary and cultural studies. Our Mad Creek imprint is home to expansive, fresh, and invigorating literary and graphic works, and Trillium publishes books about Ohio and the Midwest. www.ohiostatepress.org
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The Ohio State University Press @ohiostatepress.bsky.social · Dec 23
Announcing our spring 2025 season! Review copies and course adoption requests: osup_publicity@osu.edu
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The Ohio State University Press: Spring 2025 Catalog
The Spring 2025 catalog of the Ohio State University Press, with new titles in creative nonfiction, critical adoption studies, cultural studies, rhetoric and communication, and more.
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Rochelle Raineri Zuck explores how indigenous editors sought to use the press as a tool to advance indigenous interests. #AmericanPeriodicalHistory #indigenousHistory @projectmuse.bsky.social shorturl.at/nbw5w
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March 3, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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On Our Way Home from the Revolution: Reflections on Ukraine
Following the 2014 Ukrainian revolution, a child of the Ukrainian diaspora challenges her formative ideologies, considers innocence and complicity, and questions the roots of patriotism.
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February 28, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Abigail Boucher tackles M. P. Shiel's #ThePurpleCloud to explore the role luck plays in the origins and future of humanity, and in the class structures that organize society. Available on @projectmuse.bsky.social here: shorturl.at/qJoJu #VictorianStudies #Darwinism
A man in a turban sitting while a mysterious cloud with a skull like face floats behind him. Title illustration for M.P. Shiel's The Purple Cloud by J.J. Cameron
February 28, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Michelle Bumatay's book looks amazing: it's about Black francophone bandes dessinées (comic books)! (ohiostatepress.org/books/titles..., @ohiostatepress.bsky.social)

I need to read this book ASAP!
February 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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"Bumatay reframes bandes dessinées … as a tool for resistance and transformation…[providing] important context on the long history of the work of Black comics in contributing to global discussions of representation and power." @brittlepaper.bsky.social
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Combatting Racial Stereotypes Through Comics: On Black Bandes Dessinées and Transcolonial Power by Michelle Bumatay
On Black Bandes Dessinées and Transcolonial Power by Michelle Bumatay is the first book in English to explore the work of Black francophone artists of bandes desinées and their responses to colonial l...
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February 27, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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It's official! We are proud to partner with @projectmuse.bsky.social on their Subscribe to Open (S2O) program to make our journals more accessible to libraries and scholars worldwide. Check out our first journal of 2025, #Narrative, live and #OpenAccess on Project Muse: shorturl.at/RPvZB
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February 26, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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"I found it challenging to trust the limits set by my obsessions." Thank you @pw.org for featuring @austinaraujo.bsky.social! AT THE PARK OF THE EDGE OF THE COUNTRY is just out. Ten Questions for Austin Araujo+https://www.pw.org/content/ten_questions_for_austin_araujo
February 26, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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BOOK NEWS: How Black women poets' prominence comes at a price
Recent release from @ohiostatepress.bsky.social
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BOOK NEWS: How Black women poets' prominence comes at a price
Pitfalls of Prestige: Black Women and Literary Recognition BY LAURA ELIZABETH VRANA  Ohio State UP, 2024 ISBN: 978-0-8142-1575-3 https://ohi...
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February 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Andrea Hoff & Wanda John-Kehewin of Beyond Collective investigate how #Visions of the Crow utilizes comic storytelling to reflect on Canada’s fraught history with and lasting impact on Indigenous Peoples. Free on @projectmuse.bsky.social: shorturl.at/deuW3 #CreeNation #IndigenousComics
Comic panel of a crow flying over a neighborhood in the evening. "To be continued..." in the bottom right corner. Panel from 'Vision of the Crow' by Wanda John-Kehewin
February 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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"I wanted to fill a gap in the graphic novel … canon by presenting a story about the unique needs of heritage speakers." Marcela Garcés talks to @lupitareads.bsky.social about ME LLAMO MARCELA: MY STORY AS A HERITAGE SPEAKER lupitareads.substack.com/p/nuevaspagi... @professorlatinx.bsky.social
#NuevasPáginas: Marcela T. Garcés
with Marcela T. Garcés author of Me Llamo Marcela: My Story as a Heritage Speaker!
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February 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Coming in July in our series New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative! Looks at the work of @rfkuang.bsky.social, @nkjemisin.bsky.social, @nnedi.bsky.social, @tomiadeyemi.bsky.social, @tashasuri.bsky.social, @aidenschmaiden.bsky.social, @nghivo.bsky.social and others.
jsanchez-taylor.bsky.social Joy Sanchez-Taylor @jsanchez-taylor.bsky.social · Feb 19
Hi All! I am a scholar of BIPOC science fiction and fantasy literature. My new book Dispelling Fantasies: Authors of Color Reimagine a Genre is now available to preoder. I am so excited to see this book, the companion to my first book Diverse Futures, come to life: ohiostatepress.org/books/titles...
Dispelling Fantasies: Authors of Color Reimagine a Genre
Examines how authors of color, in writing against white-dominated, Eurocentric fantasy narratives, counteract Christian and colonial tropes and offer alternate versions of morality, race, gender, and ...
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February 19, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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This essay still resonates. From ON OUR WAY HOME FROM THE REVOLUTION: REFLECTIONS ON UKRAINE, by Sonya Bilocerkowycz, available from our trade imprint, Mad Creek Books. #Ukraine #Putin @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/in-the-age-o...
In the Age of Political Thugs
This one is red, communist red, the color of tomato paste and new cars. South Dakota has been easily carried by the Republicans in every election since 2000, when the color scheme of conservative “…
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February 19, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Nora Kassner explores the significant role the pediatric HIV-AIDS pandemic had on the shift in family policy on gay parenthood and "color-blind" adoption in the 90s. Available on @projectmuse.bsky.social here: shorturl.at/JodbV #CriticalAdoptionStudies #GayAdoptionStudies #InterracialAdoption
February 19, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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ohiostatepress.bsky.social The Ohio State University Press @ohiostatepress.bsky.social · Feb 5
We apologize for the technical difficulties -- Inks 8(3) will now be free to access @projectmuse.bsky.social until the end of the February: muse.jhu.edu/issue/53356
Cover image of Inks 8(3) showing image of boat with people rowing on an ocean, Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society, special issue: Seeing Stories with Indigenous Comics
February 17, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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It’s wild and wonderful to hear Major Jackson read from @austinaraujo.bsky.social’s brand-new collection, AT THE PARK ON THE EDGE OF THE COUNTRY. Get your copy for 20% + free shipping here: ohiostatepress.org/books/titles...
February 18, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Courtney Lewis reflects on the ways that comics & graphic novels inspire #Indigenous students as well as facilitate the education of and dialogue between Indigenous and non-Indigenous students regarding the critical issues faced today. Free on @projectmuse.bsky.social: shorturl.at/Cm9HP
February 17, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Literary scholars discuss the ethical & intellectual labor involved with recovering and preserving Black literature from 19th century periodicals to fight the erasure of Black Print culture. check it out on @projectmuse.bsky.social shorturl.at/tpex6 #BlackHistory #AmericanPeriodicals
February 14, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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mbumatay.bsky.social MBumatay @mbumatay.bsky.social · Feb 12
🤩✨I got my copy of On Black BD & Transcolonial Power! Get yours too ohiostatepress.org/books/titles... my deepest thanks to everyone at @ohiostatepress.bsky.social esp the series editors @seehatfield.bsky.social & @rawreader.bsky.social 🩵
February 12, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Stephen C. E. Hopkins explores the popular medieval apocryphon, the #ErythraeanSibyl and argues that it represents a crucial element in a network of Welsh religious prose texts which present prophecy in royal presences. #CelticStudies Available on @projectmuse.bsky.social shorturl.at/zMZsA
February 12, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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#Maidu artist Chag Lowry spotlights the importance of Native artists telling and owning their own stories as a direct result of the stereotypical imagery that informs American society. Available on @projectmuse.bsky.social for free until 02/22: muse.jhu.edu/pub/30/...
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February 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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"Driven by mission and tolerant of risk, these houses are publishing some of the most-vital books around." Even without the recognitions we and other UPs are used to, this golden age has long been apparent. Thanks, @derekkrissoff.bsky.social! www.chronicle.com/article/this... @aupresses.bsky.social
Opinion | This Is a Golden Age for University Presses
The focus on efficiency and innovation misses the point: We are producing fabulous books.
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February 7, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Blues is often touted as one of the genre fathers of country music. As we celebrate #Beyonce's historic win with #COWBOYCARTER, take a look at how African-American Blues and Folk storytelling continues to enrich music and literary narratives. shorturl.at/ana2Z @projectmuse.bsky.social
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February 7, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Māori artist Zak Waipara explores the relationship between indigenous art practices and sequential storytelling in this stunning visual essay. muse.jhu.edu/pub/30/...
February 6, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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📚 In honor of #BlackHistoryMonth, we’re spotlighting a must-read from the #PathToOpen program on JSTOR! Jones’s powerful book by @ohiostatepress.bsky.social offers a compelling exploration of Black speculative feminist writers. Access this live title on #JSTOR here: bit.ly/40Rl4NQ
February 4, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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We apologize for the technical difficulties -- Inks 8(3) will now be free to access @projectmuse.bsky.social until the end of the February: muse.jhu.edu/issue/53356
Cover image of Inks 8(3) showing image of boat with people rowing on an ocean, Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society, special issue: Seeing Stories with Indigenous Comics
February 5, 2025 at 6:52 PM