The Ohio State University Press is the

university press A university press is an academic publishing house specializing in monographs and scholarly journals. Most are nonprofit organizations and an integral component of a large research university. They publish work that has been reviewed by scholars ...

Ohio State University The Ohio State University, commonly called Ohio State or OSU, is a public land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio. A member of the University System of Ohio, it has been ranked by major institutional rankings among the best publ ...

. It was founded in 1957. The OSU Press has published approximately 1700 books since its inception. The current director is Tony Sanfilippo, who had previously worked for over 14 years at the

Penn State University Press The Penn State University Press, also known as The Pennsylvania State University Press, was established in 1956 and is a non-profit publisher of scholarly books and journals. It is the independent publishing branch of the Pennsylvania State Uni ...

. OSU Press's book ''A Mother's Tale'', by Phillip Lopate, was widely reviewed by national media in 2017. ''How to Make a Slave'' was a finalist for the National Book Award in nonfiction in 2020.

Series/imprints

Series/imprints by OSU press include:

Latinographix

''Latinographix'' was founded in 2017 as an imprint to publish graphic fiction and nonfiction narratives by Latino creators, and satirical studies such as ''Drawing on Anger: Portraits of U.S. Hypocrisy'' by Eric J. Garcia. The series also publishes graphic novels on pressing social justice issues, such as sexual abuse and homelessness in Mexico (such as ''Angelitos'' by

Santiago Cohen Santiago Cohen (born 1954) is a cartoonist, animator, illustrator, and fine artist based in Jersey City, New Jersey. He studied Communications design in the Metropolitan University in Mexico followed by a MFA in Pratt Institute. Cohen illustr ...

and

Ilan Stavans Ilan Stavans (born Ilan Stavchansky on April 7, 1961) is a Mexican-American author and academic. He writes and speaks on American, Hispanic, and Jewish cultures. He is the author of ''Quixote'' (2015) and a contributor to the ''Norton Anthology ...

), as well as children's books for young people of color (such as ''

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Charlie'' by

Frederick Luis Aldama Frederick Luis Aldama is an American academic, known for this work as the Jacob & Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities, founder and director of the Latinx Pop Lab, and Affiliate Faculty in Radio-TV-Film at the University of Texas, Austi ...

Others

*21st Century Essays *Abnormativities *The Academy for Leadership and Governance *Classical Memories/Modern Identities *Cognitive Approaches to Culture *Formations *Global Latin/o Americas *Interventions *Intersectional Rhetorics *''The Journal'' Charles B. Wheeler Poetry Prize *''The Journal'' Non/Fiction Prize *Machete *New Directions in Rhetoric and Materiality *New Suns *Race and Mediated Cultures *Studies in Cartoons and Comics *Theory and Interpretation of Narrative *Mad Creek Books *Trillium

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