Academic and Trade Titles from Ohio’s Largest University Press

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An important and beautifully told tale of ’sanctioned forgetting,’ and glorious remembering.

Sisonke Msimang, author of The Resurrection of Winnie Mandela

A fascinating study….The book is a story of one person and it is a history of the twentieth century, with all its conflicts, hopes, experiments, and persecution.

John C. Swanson, author of Tangible Belonging: Negotiating Germanness in Twentieth-Century Hungary

Exciting, accessible, and very personal. The Code Talkers are named, and their experiences—their emotions, actions, dedication, and bravery—are palpable….A remarkable true story, well told.

Kirkus

[D]espite its privileged place at the heart of British domesticity, the ‘old Cashmere shawl’ possessed an uncanny power to disturb and disrupt. An important, original, and long-awaited contribution to the literary study of British India.

Nigel Leask, author of Stepping Westward: Writing the Highland Tour, c.1720-1830

New and Upcoming Releases

Settling Ohio
First Peoples and Beyond
Edited by Timothy G. Anderson and Brian Schoen
· Foreword by M. Duane Nellis
· Afterword by Glenna J. Wallace

Scholars working in archaeology, education, history, geography, and politics tell a nuanced story about the people and dynamics that reshaped this region and determined who would control it. This volume retells a worn story as one of contested spaces, competing visions of nationhood, and complicated relations with Native American peoples.

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Wilfrid Sellars and Phenomenology
Intersections, Encounters, Oppositions
Edited by Daniele De Santis and Danilo Manca

This collection offers the first systematic, comparative analysis of Wilfrid Sellars’s Pittsburgh school of thought and Husserlian phenomenology. Beginning with an introduction to contemporary philosophical debates about the mind and pragmatism, the essays examine and clarify the discursive divide between analytic and Continental philosophy.

Afrofuturisms
Ecology, Humanity, and Francophone Cultural Expressions
By Isaac Vincent Joslin

As a philosophical, literary, and visual aesthetic, Afrofuturism has been predominately defined through Anglophone, diasporic expressions. In Afrofuturisms Isaac Vincent Joslin reorients and expands this critical discourse toward colonial and postcolonial Francophone literature and film originating from continental Africa.

Literary Criticism, Africa · African Art · Literary Criticism | Science Fiction & Fantasy · Art | Film & Video · Africa · African Studies

Apartheid’s Leviathan
Electricity and the Power of Technological Ambivalence
By Faeeza Ballim

Beginning in the 1960s, the security of electricity supply has shaped South Africa’s economic growth and prosperity, and electricity shortages have negatively inflected the rise of its postapartheid democracy. Construction delays and escalating costs have thwarted the nation’s mining, manufacturing, and power generation.

Children of the Albatross
By Anaïs Nin
· Introduction by Anita Jarczok

This novel, from Anaïs Nin’s Cities of the Interior series, plays out in two parts: “The Sealed Room” and “The Café.” Nin portrays her characters—many of whom represent Nin herself—with intense psychological depth as she boldly depicts eroticism, homosexuality, and androgyny using richly layered metaphors and her signature diaristic style.

Literary Fiction · Fiction | Psychological · Literature · Anaïs Nin

Collective Chaos
A Roller Derby Team Memoir
By Samantha Tucker and Amy Spears

Through stories about playing this full-contact, theatrical, and revolutionary sport, Collective Chaos shows the value of gaining a truly radical self-knowledge through teamwork, love, discipline, and critical consideration of our local and global societies and of our roles and responsibilities within them.

Biography & Autobiography | Sports · Sports & Recreation | Roller & In-Line Skating · Biography & Autobiography | LGBTQ+ · Sports & Recreation | Cultural & Social Aspects · Ohio · Ohio and Regional

Exam, Desk, and Review Copies

Examination copies for course adoption consideration are available for books priced under $35. Instructors can also request one complimentary desk copy for every 20 copies of a book ordered.

You can request an exam copy, a desk copy, or a review copy directly from book description pages on our website. For instructions, please read Requesting a Desk, Examination, or Review Copy.

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In the Press

Katie Berta’s work featured in Poetry Daily, May 16, 2023
Posted on May 16, 2023 for Retribution Forthcoming
“Tonia Lechtman’s Life Embodied the Struggle for Human Dignity,” Jacobin, May 2023
Posted on May 15, 2023 for An Ordinary Life?
Review in Historical Geography 49, pp. 84–87 (2021)
Posted on May 11, 2023 for Safari Nation
Review in Ohio History 130, no. 1 (Spring 2023)
Posted on May 09, 2023 for On the Plains in ’65
Excerpt in the Johannesburg Review of Books, May 4, 2023
Posted on May 09, 2023 for Written Out
Andrew Collard on “Stateside,” Michigan Radio / NPR, May 3, 2023
Posted on May 04, 2023 for Sprawl
Review in the Journal of African History 63, no. 3 (November 2022)
Posted on May 02, 2023 for Village Work

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Hollis Summers Poetry Prize

Named for the distinguished poet who taught for many years at Ohio University and made Athens, Ohio, the subject of many of his poems, the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize invites writers to submit unpublished collections of original poems.

The competition is open to both those who have not published a book-length collection and those who have.

Congratulations to Katie Berta, winner of the 2024 Hollis Summers Poetry Prize for Retribution Forthcoming.

New in African Studies

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African Activists of the Twentieth Century
Hani, Maathai, Mpama/Palmer, Saro-Wiwa
By Hugh Macmillan, Tabitha Kanogo, Robert R. Edgar, Roy Doron, and Toyin Falola

This omnibus edition brings together concise and up-to-date biographies of Chris Hani, Wangari Maathai, Josie Mpama/Palmer, and Ken Saro-Wiwa. The volume complements history, social justice, and political science courses and is a useful collection for general readers interested in learning about Africa’s most influential historical figures.

Biography, Activists · History | Modern | 20th Century · African History · Kenya · Nigeria · South Africa · African Studies

Afrofuturisms
Ecology, Humanity, and Francophone Cultural Expressions
By Isaac Vincent Joslin

Literary Criticism, Africa · African Art · Literary Criticism | Science Fiction & Fantasy · Art | Film & Video · Africa · African Studies

Apartheid’s Leviathan
Electricity and the Power of Technological Ambivalence
By Faeeza Ballim

New Trade Titles

Sprawl
Poems
By Andrew Collard

Andrew Collard’s lyrical poems about Detroit show how the social and geographical past influences the present. Written from the perspective of a single parent raising a child amid increasing social isolation, economic insecurity, public catastrophes, and anxiety, Sprawl reminds us of the comforting endurance of communal experience.

Poetry | Subjects & Themes | Places · Poetry | Subjects & Themes | Family · Detroit · Poetry · Literature

Collective Chaos
A Roller Derby Team Memoir
By Samantha Tucker and Amy Spears

Gardening for Moths
A Regional Guide
By Jim McCormac and Chelsea Gottfried

Loaded with stunning color photographs, this practical guidebook, which encompasses the identification of moths, their caterpillars, and their vital roles in midwestern ecosystems, shows gardeners how to use native plants to attract these essential, but often overlooked and misunderstood, insects.

Children of the Albatross
By Anaïs Nin
· Introduction by Anita Jarczok

Literary Fiction · Fiction | Psychological · Literature · Anaïs Nin

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