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The Ohio State University Press website (ohiostatepress.org) is the online catalog of The Ohio State University Press, a university press established in 1957 that currently publishes 50–60 new books a year. The site is where you go to see what the press is publishing: it leads with a "New & Forthcoming Titles" section and offers an email newsletter signup. It is a catalog and information site for the press's books, not a general university portal.
What you'll find on the site
The homepage foregrounds current and upcoming books, listing titles with their authors or editors. From the sample of listings, the range is broad within the press's fields — poetry, essay collections, memoir, and scholarly monographs sit side by side. Examples include Weird Girl: Poems by Amy Thatcher, Shamewreck: Essays by Peggy Shinner, and Men I Hate: A Memoir in Essays by Lynette D'Amico, alongside academic titles such as Decolonial Dreamwork: Africanfuturism and Imagination Beyond Development by Jenna Hanchey and The Epic Catalogue: List Form and Reception from Beowulf to Paradise Lost by Eva von Contzen.
The site also provides a newsletter signup (email, first name, last name), which is the main way to get notified about new releases.
What the press publishes
According to the site, The Ohio State University Press specializes in:
- Literary and cultural studies, including comics, narrative theory, Victorian studies, and medieval studies
- American studies
- Rhetoric and communication
- Gender and sexuality studies
- Race and ethnic studies, including Black studies and Latinx studies
- Regional studies (the description is cut off at "regional studies on," so the specific region isn't confirmed here)
The forthcoming list reflects these categories directly — for instance, Hard Right: Muscular Rhetoric and the New Nationalism (rhetoric), Ordinary Abortion: Reproductive Choice in Twenty-First-Century Women's Writing (gender studies), and "We Must Document Ourselves Now": Black Lesbian Cultural Legacies and the Politics of Self-Representation (Black studies and gender and sexuality studies).
Who the site is for
| If you are… | The site is useful for… |
|---|---|
| A reader looking for new poetry, essays, or memoir | Browsing the New & Forthcoming list and signing up for the newsletter |
| A scholar in literary, cultural, or American studies | Checking whether the press publishes in your field and what's coming out |
| A librarian or bookseller | Seeing the current catalog and forthcoming titles by category |
| Someone trying to confirm what this organization is | Establishing that it's a university press founded in 1957, publishing 50–60 books a year |
Practical notes
The site functions as a catalog: it shows titles, authors, and editors, and collects newsletter signups. The available page information does not state prices, purchasing or payment options, or login requirements, so don't assume from the site alone that books can be bought directly there or that access is free of any account. For those details, check the individual book pages or contact the press.