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Nov 06, 2009, 12:00 pm
Dulles 308

Center for Folklore Studies presents the ALUMNUS BOOK LUNCH

Dr. Mickey Weems: "After the Dissertation is Done: Publication 101." ; See more information.

Nov 06, 2009, 10:30 am-12:00 pm
311 Denney Hall

LiteracyStudies@OSU, together with The History of the Book presents Professor Stephen Hall, Department of History

"African American Historical Writing in Nineteenth Century America." ; See more information.

November 6, 2009, 10:30 am-12:00 pm, 311 Denney Hall

Nov 03, 2009, 3:30 pm-05:00 pm
311 Denney Hall

Project Narrative Presents

A Dialogue on Graphic Narrative ; See more information.

Hillary Chute, Harvard Society of Fellows will present her current work on contemporary graphic narratives. Professor Jared Gardner, OSU Department of English, will respond.

Time: 3:30-5:00 pm, Tuesday November 3
Location: 311 Denney Hall

Oct 30, 2009, 1:30 pm
311 Denney Hall

Annual Kane Lecture

'After the good life, an impasse: Notes on the Cinema of Precarity' ; Lecture information.

Invited Speaker: Lauren Berlant, George M. Pullman Professor of English at the University of Chicago

Time: Friday, October 30th @ 1:30 pm
Location: Denney 311

Using case studies of two films from French director Laurent Cantet, Berlant suggests that the new anxious, contingent, precarious terms used to describe people position in the contemporary economy make a new aesthetic language possible. What happens when an older ambivalence about security (the Weberian prison of disenchanted labor) meets a newer detachment from it (everything is contingent)? How do we understand the emergence of new affective state as an objective and felt crisis?"

Oct 29, 2009, 7:00 pm
311 Denney Hall

Visiting Writer

Amit Majmudar

Amit Majmudar is a diagnostic radiologist specializing in nuclear medicine. He lives in Dublin, Ohio, with his wife and twin sons. His first book, 0',0' (Zero Degrees, Zero Degrees), has been published by Northwestern University Press.

Amit Majmudar will read from his work on Thursday, October 29 at 7:00 p.m. in the Denney Hall Commons Room (DE 311). The reading is free and open to the public.

Oct 19, 2009, 4:30 pm-05:30 pm
Faculty Club

Professor Chris Highley Chosen to Give Annual Arts and Humanities Inaugural Lecture

Time: 4:30-5:30 pm Location: Faculty Club

English Department Professor Chris Highley has been chosen to give the 2009-2010 Annual Arts and Humanities Inaugural Lecture. His talk, "Henry VIII: Exploring the Royal Body," explores the public focus on Henry VIII's body and its representations during and after the monarch's life.

Oct 15, 2009, 7:00 pm
DE 311

Visiting Writer

Daniel Anderson

Daniel Anderson’s work has appeared in Poetry, The Kenyon Review, New England Review, The Yale Review, The Hudson Review, Harper’s, The New Republic, The Southern Review, The Sewanee Review, The Best American Poetry, and Southwest Review among other places. His books of poetry include Drunk in Sunlight (Johns Hopkins University Press) and January Rain (Story Line Press). He is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Bogliasco Foundation. He is currently the Director of Creative Writing at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. (Photo by Miriam Berkley)

Daniel Anderson will read from his work on Thursday, October 15 at 7:00 p.m. in the Denney Hall Commons Room (DE 311). The reading is free and open to the public.

Oct 15, 2009, 4:00 pm-05:30 pm
Knight House, 104 E. 15th Avenue

LiteracyStudies@OSU Fall Lecture: David Nord Tracks Readers

David Nord, Journalism and History, Indiana University, will give a talk entitled "Tracking the Readers of Journalism: Elusive Evidence of Ephemeral Reading" that draws on research in the history of reading and readers of American journalism from the 1730s to the 1910s:

The LiteracyStudies@OSU Fall Lecture is Thursday, October 15, 2009 from 4:00 to 5:30 p.m. at the Knight House, 104 E. 15th Avenue.

Oct 15, 2009, 4:00 pm
311 Denney Hall

A talk by Meredith McGill

Thursday, October 15, @ 4 pm 311 Denney Hall Read more...

Oct 14, 2009, 3:30 pm-05:00 pm
Denney 311

Project Narrative Presents A Dialogue on Time in the Modernist Novel

Time: 3:30-5:00 pm
Location: 311 Denney Hall

Professor Stephen Kern, of the Department of History at OSU, will present his current work on aspects of modernists’ innovations in the treatment of time in their fiction. Dr. Sarah Copland, Project Narrative Visiting Scholar, will respond.

Oct 13, 2009, 7:00 pm
Weigel Hall Auditorium

Visiting Writer

Francine Prose

Francine Prose is the author of fifteen books of fiction, including A Changed Man and Blue Angel, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and the nonfiction New York Times bestseller Reading Like a Writer. Her latest novel, Goldengrove, was published in September 2008. She is the president of PEN American Center. She lives in New York City. (Photo by Stephanie Berger)

Francine Prose will read from her work on Tuesday, October 13 at 7:00 p.m. in the Weigel Hall Auditorium. The reading is free and open to the public.

Oct 10, 2009, 8:00 pm
WCBE, 90.5 FM

Andrew Hudgins Featured on Writers Talk

Listen to OSU faculty Andrew Hudgins discuss his book, Shut Up You’re Fine: Poem for Very, Very Bad Children, on Writer’s Talk, WCBE, 90.5 FM, Wednesday, October 10 at 8:00 pm, or at The Writer's Talk Web site.

If you are an OSU author and would like to be featured on OSU’s television, radio, and Internet show Writers Talk, please contact Doug Dangler (dangler.6@osu.edu).

Oct 07, 2009, 10:00 am-03:00 pm
311 Denney Hall

The Department of English presents its annual Study Abroad Fair

Find out about:

Literary Locations, London -- Winter 2010
Literary Locations, Venice -- Spring 2010
University of Greenwich Program -- Summer 2010

Mark your calendar!

Oct 02, 2009, 4:15 pm
The Blackwell

Visiting Writer

Rebecca Goldstein

Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, a novelist and philosopher, was awarded a MacArthur "Genius" prize for her ability to "dramatize the concerns of philosophy without sacrificing the demands of imaginative storytelling." She is currently an associate researcher at Harvard University. Her second career is as a novelist. Her first novel was the critically acclaimed bestseller The Mind-Body Problem. She has received numerous prizes for her five other works of fiction. In addition she has published two non-fiction books. She has been awarded two honorary doctorates, a Guggenheim fellowship, and a Radcliffe fellowship, and is a Humanist Laureate and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Goldstein lives in Boston and in Truro, Massachusetts.

Rebecca Goldstein will read from her work on Friday, October 2 at 4:15 p.m. at The Blackwell. The reading is free and open to the public.

Sep 30, 2009, 7:00 pm
DE 311

Visiting Writer

Stephen Elliott

Stephen Elliott is the author of seven books including The Adderall Diaries (September 2009) and Happy Baby, a finalist for the New York Public Library's Young Lion Award as well as a best book of 2004 in Salon.com, Newsday, Chicago New City, the Journal News, and the Village Voice. Elliott's writing has been featured in Esquire, The New York Times, GQ, Best American Non-Required Reading 2005 and 2007, Best American Erotica, and Best Sex Writing 2006. He was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and is a member of the San Francisco Writer's Grotto. He is the editor of The Rumpus. (Photo by Lizzy Brooks)

Stephen Elliott will read from his work on Wednesday, September 30 at 7:00 p.m. in the Denney Hall Commons Room (DE 311). The reading is free and open to the public

Sep 29, 2009, 8:00 pm
Browning Amphitheater, OSU Campus

DMP Presents: RiP: A Remix Manifesto

Click to view.

You are cordially invited to a free screening of RiP: A Remix Manifesto.

Sponsored by the Department of English's Digital Media Project.

Tuesday, September 29 @ 8 pm
Browning Amphitheater, OSU Campus

Sep 24, 2009, 4:30 pm-05:30 pm
311 Denney Hall

Lecture on Asian American Literature

The Asian American Studies Program at OSU is pleased to present a lecture by Dr. Walter S. H. Lim of the National University of Singapore, “Reading Asian American Literature from Ohio to Singapore - notes from a comparative perspective” on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2009, 4:30 - 5:30 pm, 311 Denney Hall. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Sep 23, 2009, 12:00 am
WCBE, 90.5 FM

Erin McGraw Featured on Writers Talk

Listen to OSU faculty Erin McGraw discuss her book, The Seamstress of Hollywood Boulevard, on Writer's Talk, WCBE, 90.5 FM, Wednesday, September 23 at 8:00 pm, or at The Writer's Talk Web site.

If you are an OSU author and would like to be featured on OSU's television, radio, and Internet show Writers Talk, please contact Doug Dangler (dangler.6@osu.edu).

Sep 23, 2009, 3:00 pm
DE 311

Visiting Writer

Holly Goddard Jones

Holly Goddard Jones was born and raised in western Kentucky, the setting for her fiction. Her short stories have appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Hudson Review, Epoch, and elsewhere, and they’ve been anthologized in two volumes of New Stories from the South (2007 and 2008) and in Best American Mystery Stories 2008. She was honored with a Peter Taylor Scholarship at the Sewanee Writers' Conference in 2006 and was the winner in 2007 of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award. A graduate of the MFA program in creative writing at The Ohio State University, she has taught at Denison University, Murray State University, and The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She lives there with her husband, Brandon, and two dogs, Bishop and Martha.

Holly Goddard Jones will read from her work on Wednesday, September 23 at 3:00 p.m. in the Denney Hall Commons Room (DE 311). The reading is free and open to the public.

Sep 09, 2009, 8:00 pm
WCBE, 90.5 FM

Student and Author Donald Pollock on OSU Radio Show

Listen to OSU student Donald Ray Pollock’s thoughts on writing and how the OSU Creative Writing program helped him as an author on CSTW’s Writers Talk, on WCBE, 90.5 FM, at 8 p.m. Wednesday, September 9th.

If you are an OSU author and would like to be featured on OSU’s television, radio and Internet show Writers Talk, please contact Doug Dangler

Aug 09, 2009, 2:00 pm
Sherrie Gallerie, 694 N. High Street

New Play by Emeritus Professor Kathy Burkman

Kathy Burkman, with the help of Wild Women Writing, will present her new play, I DON'T THINK SO: Life's Stages, on August 9, 2:00 pm, at the Sherrie Gallerie, 694 N. High Street. Admission free, but reservations are desirable.

I DON'T THINK SO: Life's Stages is a play by Katherine Burkman that consists of 15 monologues. Each character, rebels all, at some point says, "I don't think so." They range in age from 10 to 72, hence the "Life’s Stages" as a subtitle. The event is being produced by Sherrie Hawk of the Sherrie Gallerie with Wild Women Writing (Susie Gerald, Carole Dale, Anne Brethauer, Patricia Ake, Laura Zakin, Ann C. Hall, and Katherine Burkman). Performing the monologues in this staged reading are: Haley Hawk, Emily Bach, Heather Caldwel, Susie Gerald, David Fawcett, Heather Carvel, and Katherine Burkman, who will also direct.

Enjoy the beautiful art at the gallery, refreshments provided by Sherrie Hawk, and the play, which will be making its premiere.

For reservations you may either call 457-6580 or email burkman.2@osu.edu

May 21, 2009, 5:00 pm
Wexner Center Bookstore

Reading and Book Signing for Frederick Aldama's New Book Your Brain on Latino Comics

In this, the first ever study of Latino comics, Professor Frederick Aldama combines cognitive science and narrative theory-along with interviews with 21 Latino comic author/artists-to offer a groundbreaking analysis of how Latino comics appeal to the mind and why we process them the way we do.

Professor Aldama will be doing a reading & book signing at the Wexner Center Bookstore on Thursday, May 21 at 5 pm.
See Flyer for more information on Aldama's signing!

May 17, 2009, 7:30 pm
Roy Bowen Theatre at The Ohio State University's Drake Performance and Event Center (1849 Cannon Drive, Columbus, OH)

Remembrance of Pinter's Past

Harold Pinter was an English playwright, screenwriter, actor, director, poet, author, political activist, and the 2005 Nobel Laureate in Literature. At the time of his death in December 2008, Pinter was considered by many "the most influential and imitated dramatist of his generation" and "one of the most influential British playwrights of modern times."

Harold Pinter scholars Ann C. Hall, Katherine Burkman (Professor Emeritus from the OSU Department of English), and Alan Woods will produce Remembrance of Pinter's Past: An Evening of Staged Readings of Pinter Scenes, Poetry, Etc. as a memorial to this great dramatist.
Date: Sunday, May 17th @ 7:30 pm

Harold Pinter with Ann Hall (left) and Katherine Burkman (right)

May 14, 2009, 7:00 pm
Denney Hall Commons Room (DE 311)

Visiting Writer

Jean Valentine

Jean Valentine, the current State Poet of New York (2008-2010), was born in Chicago, earned her B.A. from Radcliffe College, and has lived most of her life in New York City. She won the Yale Younger Poets Award for her first book, Dream Barker, in 1965. Her most recent book is Little Boat (Wesleyan University Press, 2007). Her previous collection, Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems 1965 - 2003, was the winner of the 2004 National Book Award for Poetry.

Author of eight other books, Jean has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and awards from the NEA, The Bunting Institute, The Rockefeller Foundation, The New York Council for the Arts, and The New York Foundation for the Arts, as well as the Maurice English Prize, the Teasdale Poetry Prize, The Poetry Society of America's Shelley Memorial Prize, and the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

She has taught at Sarah Lawrence College, the Graduate Writing Program of New York University, Columbia University, and the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan, among many other places.

Jean Valentine will read from her work on Thursday, May 14 at 7:00 p.m. in the Denney Hall Commons Room (DE 311). The reading is free and open to the public.

(source: Jean Valentine Web site)

May 14, 2009, 4:00 pm-05:30 am
George Wells Knight House, 104 E. 15th Avenue

LiteracyStudies@OSU Spring Lecture: 'Can Critical Literacy Change the World?'

Featured Speaker: Ira Shor
Professor of Rhetoric/Composition at the City University of New York and the College of Staten Island

Reception immediately following

May 11, 2009, 4:30 pm
Ramseyer Hall 200 (29 W Woodruff Avenue)

Poetics and Counter-Storytelling When Young Black Women Right/Write The Wor(l)d

Poetics and Counter-Storytelling When Young Black Women Right/Write The Wor(l)d

Talk by Carmen Kynard
Assistant Professor of English, St. John’s University

May 06, 2009, 3:30 pm-05:00 pm
311 Denney Hall

The Fourth Annual Department of English Emeriti Series

Gordon Grigsby, Emeritus Professor, Modern Literature and Creative Writing, will be reading from his new book manuscript, Dawn Night Fall.

Apr 30, 2009, 3:30 pm
Denney Hall 311, 164 W 17th Avenue

"Total War, Modernism, and Encyclopedic Form"

A talk by Paul Saint-Amour, Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania

Sponsored by The Department of English and the Institute for Collaborative and Public Humanities

View the flyer for Dr. Saint-Amour's talk [PDF]

Apr 29, 2009, 4:00 pm
Wexner Center Film and Video Theater 1850 College Rd

2009 Wexner Center Lecture:

Ryan Friedman: "The Two-Way Mirror: African American Films and the Transition to Sound" ; Read More

Location: Wexner Center Film and Video Theater 1850 College Rd

Ryan Friedman is an Assistant Professor in OSU’s Department of English and the Film Studies Program.

Founded in 2005, Ohio State's program in film studies draws together the teaching and research expertise of recognized scholars from almost a dozen university departments, offering students the opportunity to think historically and critically about the entire culture of global cinema.

Apr 23, 2009, 4:30 pm
Ramseyer Hall 200 (29 W Woodruff Avenue)

Language, Literacy, and Pedagogy of Caribbean Creole English Speakers

Talk by Shondel Nero
Associate Professor of Education at NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development

Time: Thursday, April 23 @ 4:30 pm
Location: Ramseyer Hall 200 (29 W Woodruff Avenue)

Apr 22, 2009, 4:00 pm
George Wells Knight House, 104 E. 15th Avenue

Writing the Self, Writing the Other

Author and Audience in Popular Disability Narrative

Featuring:

"Words and Worlds in Disability Studies and Narrative Theory" by Nick Hetrick, English Department

"Empathy, Rhetoric, and Bodily Displacement in Parent Narratives of Autism" by Melanie Yergeau, English Department

"Gender, Authority, and Audience in Bipolar Life Writing" by Krista Paradiso, Comparative Studies Department

Presented by Project Narrative and The OSU Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities

Time: Wednesday, April 22 @ 4:00 pm
Location: George Wells Knight House, 104 E. 15th Avenue

Apr 21, 2009-Apr 22, 2009, 9:30 am-05:00 pm
Digital Media Project, Denney Hall 324

Everybody has a Literacy Story

On April 21^st and 22^nd, the Ohio State English department will lead over forty other educational institutions in a mass collection of literacy narratives. OSU's two-day event, "Everybody has a Literacy Story," will be hosted in the Digital Media Project; faculty, graduate and undergraduate students are welcome to come and share their personal stories about their literacy practices and experiences. Literacy narratives are autobiographical recollections of how individuals learn to read and write; the conditions under which they do so; and what influences and values have shaped their literate practices. At this event, OSU's Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives will be recording literacy narratives where people tell stories about their own literacy histories, practices, and values.

Click here to read more and for more information about the DALN!
Click here for a flyer with more information about the "Everybody has a Literacy Story" event

Apr 21, 2009, 7:00 pm
Wexner Center Film/Video Theater

Visiting Writer

Lucille Clifton

Lucille Clifton is one of the most beloved and respected figures in American poetry today, widely acclaimed for her powerful explorations of race, womanhood, spirituality, and mortality. She has published 12 collections of her poetry, one autobiographical prose work and 19 children's books, with more on the way. She received the National Book Award for Poetry for her book, Blessing the Boats (BOA 2000). Her most recent book of poems is Mercy (BOA 2005); other titles include Ordinary Woman, Quilting, and The Book of Light. Her work has been anthologized in close to 200 anthologies of poetry.

Ms. Clifton has received many fellowships and awards for her poetry collections and children's books, including the 2007 Ruth Lilly Prize, Shelley Memorial Prize, a Charity Randall Citation, an Emmy Award from the American Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, selection as a Literary Lion by the New York Public Library, a Lannan Achievement Award in Poetry and a Lila Wallace/Reader's Digest Writer's Award. Ms. Clifton served as distinguished Professor of Humanities and holder of the Hilda C. Landers Endowed chair in the Liberal Arts at St. Mary's College of Maryland until her retirement in the fall of 2005. She continues to serve St. Mary's as Professor emeritus and Friend to the College. She served as Poet Laureate of the State of Maryland from 1975-1985. Ms. Clifton serves on the board of Chancellors of the Academy of American Poets, and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Lucille Clifton will read from her work on Tuesday, April 21 at 7: 00 p.m. in the Wexner Film/Video Theatre. The reading is free and open to the public.

(source: Blue Flower Arts)

Apr 09, 2009, 4:00 pm-05:30 pm
311 Denney Hall, 164 W 17th Avenue

Public Lecture on 'The Impact of Marriage Bans on Minority Stress and Well-Being in the LGBT Community'

Featuring Invited Speakers Ellen Riggle and Sharon Rostosky of the University of Kentucky ; Read More

The public debate around state amendments banning legal recognition of same-sex marriage has frequently featured negative rhetoric and images of LGBT individuals and their families. Riggle and Rostosky will discuss their research on the emotional effects of these defamation campaigns, and role LGBT activism plays in helping individuals and their families use for dealing with the stress and pursuing equality.

Apr 03, 2009-Apr 05, 2009,
OSU Campus

Grad Student Literacy Studies Conference

Expanding Literacy Studies, the first international, interdisciplinary conference on Literacy Studies for graduate and professional students, will be held on the OSU campus April 3-5, 2009. Organized and hosted by OSU graduate students from English and many other OSU departments, along with students at nine other universities, the conference will include 225 participants from over 60 institutions and 6 different international sites.

To view the full conference program, or to register to attend the conference, please visit the Expanding Literacy Studies website. Please join us in welcoming graduate students from across the country and from across Ohio State to this significant event! The conference is sponsored by LiteracyStudies@OSU.

Mar 13, 2009, 7:00 pm-09:00 pm
Department of African American and African Studies Community Extension Center, 905 Mount Vernon Avenue

Acting Out, Acting Up: Robbie McCauley’s Sugar

Time: 7-9:00 pm
Location: AAASCEC, 905 Mount Vernon Avenue

Robbie McCauley's Sugar brings together storytelling, social commentary, and interactive dialogue on the subject of diabetes and health care disparities. She plays sugar as a metaphor and a reality related to race, class, gender, and health. Also, earlier in the day Robbie McCauley will lead a Brown-Bag Lunch Discussion on Participatory Theater, Storytelling, and Social Action
Time: noon-1:30 pm
Location: 311 Denney Hall, 164 W. 17th Avenue

Feb 20, 2009, 9:00 am-05:30 pm
The Mershon Center – 1501 Neil Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210

Mirrors and Compasses: An 85th Birthday Symposium for Professor Emeritus Erika Bourguignon

Date & Time: Friday, February 20, 2009; 9:00 am - 5:30 pm
Location: The Mershon Center, 1501 Neil Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210

This event honors one of Ohio State's most distinguished, influential, and interdisciplinary faculty members. Known above all for pioneering work on the relationship of religious trance to gender roles and social change, Erika Bourguignon set longterm agendas in psychological and psychiatric anthropology, religious studies, women's studies, and African American performance studies. More recently her explorations of her family past have garnered attention in Jewish studies and the study of memory in Central Europe. In her forty years at OSU (1949-90), she chaired the Department of Anthropology, cocreated with her husband (the Belgian artist Paul-Henri Bourguignon) a weekly radio program on world music, cofounded the still-running Women in Development seminar, and was the first chair of the Council on Academic Excellence for Women.

The symposium brings Bourguignon's contemporaries and students, all of them distinguished OSU alumni, to explore three different aspects of her scholarly contribution: how Austrian history shaped a generation of exiles, approaches to religious experience, and performance and the body in African diaspora studies. Melinda Kanner, a psychological anthropologist working on contemporary American cultures, will draw links between Bourguignon's biography and these different scholarly conversations.

Mirrors & Compasses is organized by the Center for Folklore Studies, with support from the Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities, the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, the Center for the Study of Religions, the Melton Center for Jewish Studies, the Mershon Center for International Security Studies, the Religious Studies Roundtable, the Department of Women's Studies, the Department of English, the Department of Anthropology, OSU-Women in Development, and the School of Music.

Feb 19, 2009, 7:00 pm
311 Denney Hall, 164 West 17th Avenue

An Evening of Poetry and Prose with Lee Martin, Beth Breese, and K.C. Wolfe

Hosted by the Student/Faculty Creative Reading Series

Admission is free.

Questions? Contact the Creative Writing Program @ 614-292-2242 or fickle.7@osu.edu.

Feb 17, 2009, 7:00 pm
Wexner Center Film and Video Theater

Visiting Writer

John Hemingway’s Book Talk about His Memoir Strange Tribe, an Exploration of Growing up Hemingway

John Hemingway, author and grandson of Nobel Laureate Ernest Hemingway, will read from, discuss, and sign copies of his critically acclaimed 2007 memoir Strange Tribe, which examines the similarities and the complex relationship between his father, Dr. Gregory Hemingway, and his famous grandfather. In particular, the memoir addresses the issue of Gregory Hemingway’s cross-dressing and sex reassignment and their connection to Ernest Hemingway.
7:00 pm @ Wexner Center Film and Video Theater.
Free and Open to the Public.

Click here to read more

Feb 09, 2009, 7:00 pm
Ross Heart Hospital Auditorium 1213

Visiting Writer

Danielle Ofri

Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD, DLitt (Hon), is an attending physician in the medical clinic at Bellevue Hospital, and Assistant Professor of Medicine at New York University School of Medicine. She divides her time between seeing patients, teaching medical students and residents, editing and writing.

Dr. Ofri was born in New York City. She studied physiology as an undergraduate at McGill University in Montreal. She spent the next decade at New York University Medical Center and Bellevue Hospital for her medical and scientific education. She obtained her PhD in biochemistry along with her MD, followed by a residency at Bellevue in internal medicine.

After residency, Dr. Ofri spent nearly two years traveling. She worked as a free-lance physician in a variety of communities from East Hampton to rural New Mexico. These stories have been published in numerous literary and medical journals, and are collected in her first book, Singular Intimacies: Becoming a Doctor at Bellevue. Dr. Ofri's second book, Incidental Findings: Lessons From My Patients on the Art of Medicine, was published in 2005 by Beacon Press.

Dr. Ofri's essays and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, the Los Angeles Times, and on National Public Radio. Her writings have been included in Best American Essays 2002 and 2005, and Best American Science Writing 2003. She is the recipient of the Missouri Review Editor's Prize for nonfiction and the McGovern award by the American Medical Writers Association.

Dr. Ofri lives in New York with her husband, three children, and dog. Danielle Ofri will read from her work on Monday, February 9 at 7:00 p.m. in the Ross Heart Hospital Auditorium 1213. The reading is free and open to the public.

(source: Danielle Ofri Web site)

Literacy Narrative

An interview with author Danielle Ofri during her visit to Ohio State University, 10 February 2009. Listen to the Narrative

Feb 04, 2009, 3:30 pm
Denney 311

Come One, Come All to the Winter Graduate Student Colloquium!

The Graduate Student Colloquiums are presented by the English Graduate Organization

Date: Wednesday, February 4 @ 3:30
Location: Denney 311

This event will feature presentations by English Department graduate students Paul McCormick, Emily Hooper, and Lauren Clark

Jan 29, 2009, 4:00 pm-05:30 pm
Knight House @ 104 E 15th Avenue

Upcoming Literacy Studies Lecture: 'The Word and the World: The Cultural Politics of Literacy in Brazil'

Invited speaker Lesley Bartlett of Columbia University will present her ethnography-based analysis of how non-governmental organization educators in Brazil understand Freire's ideas about literacy and social change. She will also discuss how these ideas get translated into classroom practice and speak to how the adult students' perceptions of the meaning, purpose, and effect of literacy programs impact the learning process.

Presented by The Ohio State University Lecture on Literacy Studies
Please RSVP to literacystudies@osu.edu

Jan 14, 2009, 4:00 pm-05:30 pm
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Visiting Scholar in Digital Media Studies to Give Talk

Professor Richard Miller (Rutgers University) will be giving a public talk about the new Writers' House at Rutgers, an English Department facility which brings together and supports writers of all kinds, from 4:00-5:30 pm on Wednesday afternoon, 14 January 2008

Professor Richard Miller is Chair of the Department of English at Rutgers and the sixth OSU Visiting Scholar in Digital Media Studies, His specialties include writing, educational reform, and the essay. Miller is also the author of As if Learning Mattered: Reforming Higher Education (Cornell University Press, 1998) and Writing at the End of the World (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005). His articles have appeared in the journals College English, CCC, JAC: A Journal of Advanced Composition, WPA Journal, and Pedagogy, as well as in the collections Composition Studies in the 21st Century: Rereading the Past, Rewriting the Future, Teaching/Writing in the Late Age of Print, and Professing in the Contact Zone: Bringing Theory and Practice Together. He is also the co-editor, with Kurt Spellmeyer, of The New Humanities Reader (Hougton-Mifflin, 2nd edition, 2006) and co-author of The New Humanities Reader Web site.

Jan 13, 2009, 7:00 pm
Wexner Center Film/Video Theater

Visiting Writer

Sue Miller

Sue Miller has written a collection of short stories, a memoir, and eight novels, including While I Was Gone, The Good Mother, and The Senator's Wife. She has won a Guggenheim Fellowship, a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, the Carl Sandburg Prize from the Chicago Public Library, and she has been nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, and for The Orange Prize. She has been a committed advocate for the writer's engagement with society at large through her work with PEN New England. She has taught fiction at Amherst, Bennington, Tufts, and MIT, among other places. She lives in Boston.

Sue Miller will read from her work on Tuesday, January 13 at 7:00 p.m. in the Wexner Film/Video Theatre. The reading is free and open to the public.

Sue Miller Reading

Watch a clip of the reading

Literacy Narrative

A literacy narrative contributed by novelist Sue Miller during her visit to the OSU campus, 13 January 2009. Listen to the Narrative

Nov 21, 2008, 11:30 am
168 Dulles Hall

Goldberg Teaching Colloquium Presents: Grading

More and more professors are assigning digital narratives, iMovies, websites and other new media projects in their undergraduate classes. This can leave instructors with a host of new questions. How do we evaluate and assess these student-produced projects? What grading criteria can we establish to ensure that students are producing rigorous historical narratives and not flashy YouTube videos? Can we employ the same types of grading criteria we use for written papers, or do we need to develop new criteria?

Nov 06, 2008, 7:00 pm
Denney Hall Commons Room (DE 311)

Visiting Writer

Thomas Lynch

Thomas Lynch is an essayist, poet and funeral director of Lynch & Sons funeral home in Milford, Michigan. His most recent book, released this past June 2005, is "Booking Passage: We Irish and Americans."

Other more recent books include: "The Undertaking," "Still Life in Milford" and "Bodies in Motion and at Rest." He published his first volume of poetry, "Skating with Heather Grace" in 1987. Following this unique collection of poems, in 1994, he published his next volume of poetry "Grimalkin & Other Poems."

He is regularly featured on the op-ed page of The New York Times, The Boston Globe and The Times of London, as well as in the pages of Harper's. He has appeared on C-SPAN, MSNBC, the NBC "Today" program and the PBS series "On Our Own Terms."

Thomas Lynch will read from his work on Thursday, November 6 at 7:00 p.m. in the Denney Hall Commons Room (DE 311). The reading is free and open to the public.

(source: Thomas Lynch Web site)

Nov 05, 2008, 7:30 pm
Drake Union Thurber Theatre

Visiting Writer

Diana Abu-Jaber

Diana Abu-Jaber is the author of Crescent, which was awarded the 2004 PEN Center USA Award for Literary Fiction and the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award and was named one of the twenty best novels of 2003 by The Christian Science Monitor, and Arabian Jazz, which won the 1994 Oregon Book Award and was nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award. She teaches at Portland State University and divides her time between Portland and Miami.

Diana Abu-Jaber will read from her work on Wednesday, November 5 at 7:30p.m. in the Drake Union Thurber Theatre. The reading is free and open to the public.

(source: Dian Abu-Jaber Web site)

Nov 05, 2008, 3:30 pm
311 Denney Hall, 164 W. 17th Ave

Why the Humanities Matter

A Symposium presented by
Project Narrative and The Narrative and Cognition Working Group
of the Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities
Featuring Keynote Address: "Literature, Science, and a New Humanities" by Jonathan Gottschall of Washington and Jefferson College

Other Symposium participants include Frank Donoghue, Sebastian Knowles, Nina Berman, Paul Reitter, and Frederick Aldama

Event Information: Wednesday, 11/5, 3:30 pm
311 Denney Hall
164 W 17th Avenue

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Nov 04, 2008, 4:00 pm-05:30 pm
GEORGE WELLS KNIGHT HOUSE, 104 East 15th Avenue

LiteracyStudies@OSU Fall Program:

The Challenge of "New" Literacies

Featuring Speakers from across the OSU Campus:
Sandy Cornett, Allied Medicine, on Health Literacy
Susan Fisher, Biology, on Scientific Literacy
Kay Bea Jones, Architecture, on Spatial Literacy

The profusion of proclaimed new literacies, from science, civic, and spatial literacy to media, information, and health literacy, is redefining both the concept of “literacy” and the fields declaring their own literacies. Our panelists will discuss the critical issues and opportunities these new literacies represent and introduce the courses they have developed to help meet the growing needs and challenges of emerging literacies in their fields.

Tuesday, 11/4, 4:00–5:30 pm
@ GEORGE WELLS KNIGHT HOUSE, 104 East 15th Avenue
RSVP to literacystudies@osu.edu.

Full Article

Oct 23, 2008, 7:00 pm
Denney Hall Commons Room (DE 311)

Visiting Writer

Mark Svenvold

Mark Svenvold's second book of poems, Empire Burlesque, won the 2007 Journal Award for Poetry and was published by Ohio State University Press. He was winner of a Discovery/The Nation award, and his first book, Soul Data, won the Vassar Miller Award, selected by Heather McHugh. A 2007 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in Nonfiction, Svenvold has written about bicycle nomads for Orion Magazine; wildcat oil geology for Fortune; offshore wind power for The New York Times Magazine, tornadoes and the culture of catastrophilia for his book Big Weather (Henry Holt & Co, 2005); and unraveled the bizarre career of a Long Beach, California, fun house mummy in Elmer McCurdy: The Misadventures in Life and Afterlife of an American Outlaw, (Basic Books, 2002), movie rights for which have been optioned by Aaron Mendelsohn, with John Heder (Napoleon Dynamite) attached to star. He was Fordham University's Poet-in-Residence from 2002 to 2005 and is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Seton Hall University.

Mark Svenvold will read from his work on Thursday, October 23 at 7:00 p.m. in the Denney Hall Commons Room (DE 311). The reading is free and open to the public.

Oct 16, 2008, 12:30 pm
Denney Hall Commons Room (DE 311)

Visiting Writer

B.T. Shaw

B. T. Shaw grew up in central Ohio near her great-grandparents' homestead. Now settled in Portland with her husband and children, she edits the poetry column for The Oregonian and teaches writing and literature at Portland State University and the University of Portland , as well as through writers-in-the-schools programs. Her poems have appeared in AGNI, FIELD, Orion, Poetry Northwest, the Seattle Review, Tin House, and Willow Springs. She holds a BS from the University of Oregon and a MFA from the University of Washington. This Dirty Little Heart is her first book.

B.T. Shaw will read from her work on Thursday, October 16 at 12:30 p.m. in the Denney Hall Commons Room (DE 311). The reading is free and open to the public.

(source: Eastern University Press)

Oct 16, 2008, 4:00 pm-05:30 pm
George Wells Knight House, 104 East 15th Avenue

Literacy as a Labyrinthine and Protean Concept

Literacy Studies' first event of the year is talk by Dr. Jerry Zaslove of Simon Fraser University. His latest work examines Walter Benjamin's concept of language as duplicitous: a medium of instrumentality or force that invades the integrity of the person through writing, reading and language as such. Zaslove will view Benjamin's work through his metaphor of the labyrinth-an emerging literacy of performance where the loss of the object through mechanical reproduction creates a different road to understanding how language is a sphere of "human agreement that is non-violent" and "wholly inaccessible to violence".

Oct 03, 2008, 7:30 pm
Roy Bowen Theatre, 1849 Cannon Drive, Columbus, OH 43210

Innovative One-Man Show in Columbus

The Departments of English and Theatre are proud to sponsor E. Patrick Johnson's performance of his one-man show, Pouring Tea: Black Gay Men of the South Tell Their Stories at 7:30pm on Friday, October 3rd at the Roy Bowen Theatre. The show is based on interviews with black gay men who are Southern by birth and upbringing, and who have chosen to remain in the South as adults. Free to OSU Students, one ticket per Buck-ID. $5 General admission for non-students. Contact: OSU Theatre box office 614-292-2295

Oct 02, 2008, 4:00 pm-05:30 pm
311 Denney Hall, 164 W. 17th Avenue

Sexuality Studies Lecture: Michael L. Wilson

Sexuality Studies presents a lecture by Michael L. Wilson, "'Quelle Horreur!' Sex between Men in Belle Époque France"

Michael Wilson (University of Texas at Dallas) will reconstruct and analyze how representations of sexuality between men were articulated, shaped, and circulated in print culture in France between 1870 and 1914.

Sep 12, 2008-Sep 18, 2008, 12:00 am
Denney Hall

Workshop for First-Year Writing Instructors

The Pre-Quarter Workshop for Professional Development (PQW) is currently taking place in Denney Hall. With the help of the staff of the First-Year Writing Program, GTAs who are new to teaching at Ohio State prepare for their first experiences in the classroom through eleven days of workshops, conversation, reading, writing, and interaction with faculty and invited guests. The PQW continues through September 18 in anticipation of the start of classes on September 24.

Jul 31, 2008-Aug 08, 2008, 12:00 am
Ohio State University

Summer break

Have an enjoyable and productive summer, and please check back for upcoming events.

Photo Courtesy of Old Shoe Woman, Creative Commons

May 20, 2008-May 22, 2008, 12:00 am
Columbus, Ohio

2nd Annual Alumni Board Meeting

Department of English 2008 Advisory Board Members
Top row: Scott Powell, Pamela Transue, Esther Rauch, Courtney Howard
Bottom row: William O’Neil, Jim Ryan, Stacy Klein
Not pictured: Paul Eisenstein and Trudier Harris

May 16, 2008, 12:00 pm-01:30 pm
324 Denney Hall

T@DMP: Professor Gary Bays on Teaching Digital Composing

At the next T@DMP (the Digital Media Project’s presentation-discussion series), Dr. Gary Bays, professor at the University of Akron-Wayne College and visiting scholar in Digital Media and Composition for 2008, will present “Early Returns: Student and Faculty Responses to Digital Composing,” on Friday, May 16, 2008 from noon-1:30 p.m. in Denney 324 In this presentation and the following informal discussion, Professor Bays will share feedback from students and faculty at various OSU campuses who have participated in digital composing courses. The responses—drawn from surveys, questionnaires, and interviews—provides a framework for an open discussion on digital media in the English classroom. Bring your lunch. Tea and cookies provided.

May 15, 2008, 5:30 pm-07:30 pm
Dulles 250

How To Make a Living Doing What You Really Want To Do

Folklore Workshop by Dr. Alan Govenar ; Read more about the workshop

In this workshop, Alan Govenar explores the practical issues related to working as a folklorist and bridging the public and academic realms. Subjects of discussion include the process of starting and funding a non-profit organization, maintaining academic affiliation, acquiring technical skills, and creating a body of work through publications, photographs, films, videos and other media that express the depth of one’s personal interests and aspirations.

Pizza will be provided after the workshop. All are welcome. Please RSVP to Sheila Bock (bock.42@osu.edu) by Tuesday, May 13 if you plan to attend this workshop.

May 14, 2008, 7:00 pm
Wexner Film / Video Theatre

Visiting Writer

Amy Bloom is the author of two novels, two collections of short stories, and a nominee for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her stories have appeared in Best American Short Stories, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, and numerous anthologies here and abroad. She has written for the New Yorker, and the New York Times Magazine, the Atlantic Monthly, Vogue, Slate, and Salon among many other publications, and has won a National Magazine Award. Her first book of nonfiction, Normal: Transsexual CEOs, Crossdressing Cops, and Hermaphrodites with Attitude, is an exploration of the varieties of gender. A practicing psychotherapist, she lives in Connecticut and teaches at Yale University.

Amy Bloom will read from her work on Wednesday, May 14 at 7:00 pm in the Wexner Film/Video Theatre. The reading is free and open to the public.

(source: http://www.amybloom.com)

May 06, 2008, 4:00 pm
Denney 311

Making Human Rights Legible: Narrative Forms, Legal Norms, and the Universal Declaration.

Joseph Slaughter ; Read more about Joseph Slaughter

Joseph Slaughter, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Studies at Columbia University, will present a talk based on his award-winning book "Human Rights, Inc.: The World Novel, Narrative Form, and International Law".

Sponsored by the Department of English, RCL (Rhetorical Visions Fund), and Project Narrative. Please contact Wendy Hesford (hesford.1) for further information.

May 01, 2008, 4:00 pm
ICRPH Knight House 104 E. 15th Ave

LiteracyStudies@OSU Spring Lecture

Heather Williams on “Acquiring Literacy, Acquiring Freedom” ; Read more about the Literacy Studies Spring Lecture.

Apr 24, 2008, 4:30 pm-06:00 pm
311 Denney Hall

Kane Lecture with Suvir Kaul

"Towards a 'Postcolonial' History of Eighteenth-Century English Literature"

Thursday, April 24, 2008 at 4:30 p.m. Room 311 Denney Hall

Professor Kaul is currently the Chair of the Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania.His research interests also include contemporary South Asian writing in English as well as literary and critical theory. Kaul has co-edited (with Ania Loomba, Antoinette Burton, Matti Bunzl and Jed Esty) an interdisciplinary volume entitled Postcolonial Studies and Beyond (2005). He has edited a collection of essays entitled The Partitions of Memory: the Afterlife of the Division of India (2001). Kaul's Poems of Nation, Anthems of Empire: English Verse in the Long Eighteenth Century (2000) won the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an outstanding work of scholarship awarded biennially to a scholarly manuscript in eighteenth-century studies in history, literature, philosophy or the arts. He is also the author of Thomas Gray and Literary Authority: A Study in Ideology and Poetics (1992).

Apr 23, 2008, 4:00 pm-05:30 pm
311 Denney, Commons Room

Featured Novelist Stephanie Grant

Stephanie Grant will read from and discuss her new novel, Map of Ireland (Scribner, March, 2008), a contemporary re-telling of Huck Finn set during the desegregation of the Boston Public Schools in 1974. The novel places female friendship and sexuality at the center of a foundational American myth about race. Reviewers have called the novel "a distinctive coming-of-age tale." A Visiting Writer at the Franklin Humanities Institute located at Duke University, Stephanie is also the author of the highly acclaimed novel, The Passion of Alice (Houghton Mifflin 1995), which was nominated for Britain's Orange Prize for Women Writers and the Lambda Award for Best Lesbian Fiction. Her talk, which is free and open to the public, is co-sponsored by GLBT Student Services, the Department of Women's Studies, the Department of African American and African Studies, and the Department of English.

Apr 16, 2008, 4:00 pm
Denney 311

3rd Annual Emeriti Lecture

Murray Beja, former English Department Chair

The title is "Iconic and Filmic Joyce," and the talk traces the growth of James Joyce’s reputation from that of an iconoclast and rebel to that of an icon and canonical figure, indeed the single most prestigious writer of all in modern Western literature. As an example of the development of that reputation, I’ll pay special attention to his iconic role in the history of an art not his own, film.

Apr 15, 2008, 7:00 pm
311 Denney Hall, Commons Room

Visiting Writer

Brian Evenson is the Director of the Literary Arts Program at Brown University. He is the author of six books of fiction, most recently The Wavering Knife (which won the IHG Award for best story collection) and The Brotherhood of Mutilation. He has translated work by Chrstian Gailly, Jean Frèmon and Jacques Jouet. He has received an O. Henry Prize as well as an NEA fellowship.

Apr 04, 2008, 6:00 pm-07:30 pm
The Red Fish Grill

CCCC Reception

The Red Fish Grill
115 Bourbon Street
Time: 6.00-7.30
Date: 04.04.08
Come join us as we showcase our new online journal, Harlot, and our new First Year Writing program, Commonplace.

Apr 03, 2008, 5:30 pm
311 Denney Hall, Commons Room

Visiting Writers to Read from Their Work

Dinty Moore and Joe Mackall will read from their work on Thursday, April 3 at 5:30 pm in the Denney Hall Commons Room (DE 311).

Dinty Moore(pictured left) is an essayist and author of both fiction and nonfiction books, including his most widely known, The Accidental Buddhist: Mindfulness, Meditation, and Sitting Still.

Joe Mackall(pictured right) is the co-founder and editor of River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative and co-editor of the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Book Prize Series (in partnership with the University of Nebraska Press). His memoir, The Last Street Before Cleveland: An Accidental Pilgrimage, was published in 2006 by the University of Nebraska Press.

The reading is free and open to the public

Apr 03, 2008, 4:00 pm-05:30 pm
Denney Hall 311

Works in Progress by Dr. Jan Alber (University of Freiburg, Germany) and Dr. Marina Grishakova (University of Tartu, Estonia)

Dr. Jan Alber and Dr. Marina Grishakova are international visiting scholars working at Ohio State under the auspices of Project Narrative.

Mar 06, 2008, 5:00 pm-07:00 pm
George Well Knight House, 104 East 15th Ave.

LiteracyStudies@OSU Lecture

"Other Gods and Countries: Literacy, Rhetoric, and the Hmong of Laos"
Dr. John Duffy, University of Notre Dame
Thursday, March 6, 2008
4-5:30 p.m.
Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities
George Well Knight House, 104 East 15^th Ave.
Space limited: RSVP to literacystudies@osu.edu.

Feb 28, 2008-Mar 02, 2008,
Hosted at OSU—Science and Engineering Library 090

Seventh Annual Graduate Medieval Conference

Vagantes is an annual, traveling conference for graduate students studying any aspect of the Middle Ages. Its goals include fostering a sense of community among junior medievalists, providing exposure to an interdisciplinary forum, and showcasing the resources of the host institution. There is no registration fee for the conference and the entire OSU community is welcome to attend the paper sessions.

Feb 26, 2008, 7:30 pm
University Hall 038

CMRS Film Series

Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Winter Movie Series

The Center for Medieval and Rennaissance Studies is pleased to announce its Winter Movie Series. All movies start at 7:30 p.m. and are shown in University Hall 038. The series is free and open to the public.

Jan 15: Richard the Third (1995); Starring Ian McKellen and directed by Richard Loncraine.

Jan 29: Henry the Fifth (1944); Directed by and starring Lawrence Olivier.

Feb 12: Merchant of Venice (2004); Starring Al Pacino and Jeremy Irons; directed by Michael Radford.

Feb 26: Shakespeare in Love (1999): Starring Joseph Fiennes and Gwyneth Paltrow; directed by John Madden.

Feb 21, 2008, 12:00 am
George Wells Knight House

James Morrison to Lecture on Shipwreck Narratives

Professor James V. Morrison, Centre College, will lecture on “Shipwreck Narratives and the Reinvention of Self”’ at the George Wells Knight House on Thursday, February 21 at 4:00 pm. This talk on the literary treatment of shipwrecks explores the opportunity for personal transformation and the reinvention of self with respect to romantic possibilities or a change in political or social status. Morrison will examine the classical models of Homer's Odyssey, Shakespeare's Tempest, and Defoe's Robinson Crusoe.

Feb 12, 2008, 7:30 pm
University Hall 038

CMRS Film Series

Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Winter Movie Series

Jan 15: Richard the Third (1995); Starring Ian McKellen and directed by Richard Loncraine.

Jan 29: Henry the Fifth (1944); Directed by and starring Lawrence Olivier.

Feb 12: Merchant of Venice (2004); Starring Al Pacino and Jeremy Irons; directed by Michael Radford.

Feb 26: Shakespeare in Love (1999): Starring Joseph Fiennes and Gwyneth Paltrow; directed by John Madden.

Feb 07, 2008, 5:30 pm-08:00 pm
The Mershon Center - 1501 Neil Avenue

The Center for Folklore Studies Dinner Lecture Series

"From Satanic Cults to Latino Gangs: The Hazleton Illegal Immigration Crusade as Rumor Panic"
Lecture by Bill Ellis, Associate Professor of English and American Studies, Penn State Hazelton

Thursday, February 7
5:30-8:00 p.m.
The Mershon Center **
1501 Neil Avenue

Feb 07, 2008, 4:30 pm
Wexner Film / Video Theatre

Visiting Writer

Tom Perrotta is the author of The Abstinence Teacher, Little Children, Joe College, Election, The Wishbones, and Bad Haircut: Stories of the Seventies, among short stories, articles, and essays. Both Election and Little Children were adapted into critically acclaimed films. Perrotta co-wrote the screenplay for Little Children, for which he received an Academy Award nomination for “Writing – Adapted Screenplay.”

Perrotta will read from his work on Thursday, February 7 at 4:30 pm in the Wexner Film/Video Theatre. The reading is free and open to the public.

(source: http://www.tomperrotta.net/)

OSU Library Resources for Tom Perrotta.

Photo by Debi Milligan.

Jan 29, 2008, 7:30 pm
University Hall 038

CMRS Film Series

Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Winter Movie Series

Jan 15: Richard the Third (1995); Starring Ian McKellen and directed by Richard Loncraine.

Jan 29: Henry the Fifth (1944); Directed by and starring Lawrence Olivier.

Feb 12: Merchant of Venice (2004); Starring Al Pacino and Jeremy Irons; directed by Michael Radford.

Feb 26: Shakespeare in Love (1999): Starring Joseph Fiennes and Gwyneth Paltrow; directed by John Madden.

Jan 22, 2008, 7:00 pm
Kuhn Honors and Scholars House - Living Room

Poetry Reading and Open Mic hosted by The Mosaic

Come take a night to relax and listen to some top-notch poetry, short stories, and a musical performance by some of our students, hosted by The Mosaic, the English Department undergraduate student literary magazine. We will also be hosting an open mic! Please feel free to bring you own work to share and some friends! The event is Tuesday, January 22 at 7 p.m. in the warm and cozy living room of Kuhn Honors and Scholars House. Refreshments will be served. See you there!

Jan 13, 2008, 4:00 pm-09:00 pm
Sherrie Gallerie, 694 North High Street

Women at Play Troupe to Host Lib/Con Theater Event

Lib/Con is co-produced by Women at Play, the actors’ troupe led by artistic director and professor emeritus, Katherine Burkman, and Sherrie Hawk of Sherrie Gallerie, and directed by Burkman and Jane Cottrell.

The performance will take place on Sunday, January 13, 2008, 4 p.m. at the Sherrie Gallerie, 694 North High Street. The event will feature a staged reading of Dave Carly’s drama, The Last Liberal, and Rick Mason’s Conservatives in Love. The price of tickets, which cost $75 each, includes dinner at Rigsby’s Restaurant in between the two readings. The event will end at 9 p.m.

There are only ten tickets left. Email burkman.2@osu.edu, or call 614-457-6380 before sending a check to be sure there are seats left. Checks made out to Women at Play may be sent to: 2990 Shadywood Rd., Columbus, OH 43221.

Jan 08, 2008, 7:30 pm
Wexner Film / Video Theatre

Visiting Writer

Rosanna Warren is the author of Snow Day (1981), Each Leaf Shines Separate (1985), The Art of Translation: Voices From the Field (1989, for which she was editor and contributor), a translation of Euripides’ Suppliant Women (with Stephen Scully, 1995), and Stained Glass (1993, for which she was awarded the Lamont Prize from the Academy of American Poets). She has edited two volumes of William Arrowsmith’s translation of the poems of Eugenio Montale (Cuttlefish Bones, 1992 and Satura 1998), and three anthologies of verse by prison inmates (In Time with Teresa Iverson, 1995; From This Distance with Meg Tyler, 1996; and Springshine with Meg Tyler, 1998). Her most recent book of poems is Departure (2003).

Other publications include The Notes of André Derain, an edited translation and essay, and articles on John Ashbery, Giacomo Leopardi, Gérard de Nerval, Stephen Spender, Derek Walcott, and Apollinaire.

In 2004 Warren received the Boston University Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching. In 2006 she received the Ellen Maria Gorrissen Berlin Prize at the American Academy in Berlin. She received the 92nd Street YMHA/YWHA The Nation Discovery Award in poetry (1980), the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writer's Award for Poetry (1993), the Witter Bynner Prize for Poetry of the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1993), and the May Sarton Award from the New England Poetry Club (1995). In 1997 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2004 the American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded Professor Warren the 2004 Award of Merit of Poetry, given once every six years to an outstanding poet. In 2005 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Warren has also received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the American Council of Learned Societies. She served as Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 1999-2005. In the fall of 2000 she was The New York Times Resident in Literature at the American Academy in Rome.

Rosanna Warren will read from her work on Tuesday, January 8 at 7:30 pm in the Wexner Film/Video Theatre. The reading is free and open to the public.

(source: http://www.bu.edu/uni/faculty/profiles/warren.html)

OSU Library Resources for Rosanna Warren.

Photo by Mike Minehan.

Dec 05, 2007,
OSU

Last Day of AU07

Nov 15, 2007, 7:00 pm
311 Denney Hall, Commons Room

Visiting Writer

Allison Joseph is the author of What Keeps Us Here (Ampersand, 1992), Soul Train (Carnegie Mellon, 1997), In Every Seam (Pittsburgh, 1997), Imitation of Life (Carnegie Mellon, 2003) and Worldly Pleasures (Word Press, 2004). Her honors include the John C. Zacharis First Book Prize, fellowships from the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers Conferences, and an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in Poetry. She is editor and poetry editor of Crab Orchard Review and director of the Young Writers Workshop, an annual summer residential creative writing workshop for high school writers. She holds the Judge Williams Holmes Cook Endowed Professorship at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

Allison Joseph will read from her work on November 15, 2007 at 7:00 pm in the Denney Hall Commons Room (DE 311). The reading is free and open to the public.

(source: SIU Department of English Web site)

OSU Library Resources for Allison Joeseph [PDF].

Nov 08, 2007, 12:00 am
021L Wexner

Lecture by Comic Artist Carol Tyler

Comic artist Carol Tyler will discuss her upcoming book, Sepia Tome: Telling Dad's World War II Story, on Thursday, November 8, 2007 in 021L Wexner, the seminar room adjacent to the Ohio State University Cartoon Research Library, 27 W. 17th Ave. Mall

Tyler's comics first appeared in Weirdo and Wimmen's Comix twenty years ago. Since then she has contributed to numerous comics anthologies and published two solo works, The Job Thing in 1993 and Late Bloomer in 2005. Late Bloomer presents a rich and powerful collection of Tyler's autobiographical comic stories beautifully published in color by Fantagraphics. The event is co-sponsored by the Ohio State Cartoon Research Library, Project Narrative, the Department of Women's Studies, and the Harvey Goldberg Program for Excellence in Teaching in the Department of History. The event is free and open to the public.

For more details about Carol Tyler, visit http://www.bloomerland.com/index.htm

Nov 02, 2007,
Knight House, 104 East Ave

Lecture sponsored by Project Narrative

Project Narrative and the Working Group in Narrative are sponsoring a lecture by Dr. Joann Bromberg, "Building a Social World Through Conversational Narrative," on Friday, November 2, at the Knight House, 104 East Ave. For more information, contact Professor Amy Shuman at shuman.1@osu.edu.

Nov 01, 2007, 4:00 pm
Knight House

Barbara Sicherman

"Varieties of Reading Experience: Women and Literacy in Nineteenth-Century America."

Sponsored by Literacy Studies @ OSU with the support of the College of
Humanities, the Department of English, and the Institute for Collaborative
Research and Public Humanities.

Oct 23, 2007, 3:30 pm
311 Denney Hall, Commons Room

Visiting Writer

John Menaghan has published two books, both with Salmon Poetry (Ireland). Kirkus Reviews describes “All the Money in the World” (1999) as “an auspicious beginning” and the poems therein as “humorous, ironic, erotic, neurotic, and tender both by turns & often simultaneously . . . quite wonderful.” The Hudson Review calls his second book, “She Alone” (2006) "one of the best books of 2006," containing "fifty-odd lyrics, each in a different form, each handled with unobtrusive panache," "poetry with a human center," "smart and affecting," "utterly original," and "a book in which style and substance harmonize," & the poet himself "the real thing." And Midwest Book Review calls it "a unique experience in epic poetry and enthusiastically recommended." Menaghan is the winner of an Academy of American Poets Prize and other awards, and has published poems and articles in Irish, American, and Canadian journals. Menaghan’s one-act play A Rumor of Rain was performed at the Empty Stage Theater in Los Angeles (on the same bill with work by John Patrick Shanley and Neil Simon) in Fall 2006. His third volume of poetry is forthcoming from Salmon Poetry in Fall 2009.

John Menaghan will read from his work on Tuesday, October 23, at 3:30 in the Denney Hall Commons Room (DE 311). The reading is free and open to the public.

(source: http://www.salmonpoetry.com/shealone.html)

OSU Library Resources for John Menaghan.

Oct 18, 2007, 7:00 pm
311 Denney Hall, Commons Room

Visiting Writer

A recent Guggenheim Fellow, Linda Gregerson is the Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan, where she teaches creative writing and Renaissance literature.

Of her poems, The New Yorker has written, “Gregerson’s rich aesthetic allows her best poems to resonate metaphysically.” In her new volume Magnetic North, Linda Gregerson makes clearer than ever her passionate premise that the metaphysical only and always derives from our profound embeddedness in physical reality.

Of her critical work, Bibliotheque D'Humanisme has noted: “Here we have a detailed examination of literary style and achievement in epic poetry that brings Spenser and Milton more clearly into focus.”
Her poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry as well as in the Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, Ploughshares, The Yale Review, TriQuarterly, and other publications. Among her many awards and honors are an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, three Pushcart Prizes, and a Kingsley Tufts Award.

Linda Gregerson will read from her work on Thursday, October 18, at 7:00 pm in the Denney Hall Commons Room (DE 311). The reading is free and open to the public.

(source: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~gregerso/)

Photo by Nina Subin.

Oct 17, 2007, 7:00 pm
Mershon Auditorium

David Eggers to Visit OSU

David Eggers is the author of the memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (2000), the novel You Shall Know Our Velocity! (2002), the story collection How We Are Hungry (2004), and the novel What Is the What (2006). Eggers's most recent book, What is the What, was selected as this year's OSU First-Year Experience Freshman Common Book. He will be visiting Ohio State in conjunction with the First-Year Experience from October 16-18 and will read on Wednesday, October 17 at 7:00 pm in the Mershon Auditorium.

Oct 04, 2007, 10:00 am-03:00 pm
311 Denney Hall

Study Abroad Open Day

The English Department will be holding its first Study Abroad Open Day on Thursday, October 4 from 10:00-3:00 in Denney 311. The event
is a way for past and prospective participants in programs to mingle,
share information, and find out more about upcoming study abroad
opportunities in the department.

The Open Day will have information about this academic year's study
abroad programs: English 595 "Literary Locations: Dublin" to be
taught by Professor Seb Knowles in Winter quarter 2008; English 595
"Literary Locations: Venice" to be taught by Professor Alan Farmer in
Spring quarter 2008; as well as the six-week summer program in
Greenwich, England (2008).

Professors Knowles and Farmer will be in attendance from 10:00-12:00.

There will also be information about the financial support available
to participants in study abroad programs.
Studying in Dublin, Venice, or London may be more affordable than you think!

So please stop by for a chat, for information, and for snacks!

Oct 02, 2007, 4:00 pm
311 Denney Hall, Commons Room

Visiting Writer

Lore Segal has worked as novelist, essayist, translator, and writer of children’s books. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and grants from the National Endowments for the Arts, and the Humanities. Her reviews appear in the New York Times Book Review and her stories in the New Yorker. Her story “The Reverse Bug” was included in Best American Short Stories, 1989 and won a prize in Prize Stories 1990, The O.Henry Awards. Segal’s novels include Other People’s Houses, serialized in The New Yorker and published by Harcourt Brace in 1964, currently available from The New Press, 1994; Lucinella (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1978); and Her First American, which won an award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters (Knopf, 1985, The New Press, 1995). Segal’s most recent collection of stories, Shakespeare’s Kitchen, was published this spring.

Among Segal’s children’s books are Tell Me a Mitzi, illustrated by Harriet Pincus, Tell Me a Trudy, illustrated by Rosemary Wells (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1970 and 1979 res.), All the Way Home , illustrated by James Marshall, (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973), The Story of Old Mrs. Brubeck and How She Looked for Trouble and Where She Found Him , illustrated by Marcia Sewall (Pantheon, 1981), The Story of Mrs. Lovewright and Purrless Her Cat, illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky, (Knopf, 1985 and Atheneum, 2004), Morris the Artist, illustrated by Boris Kulikov, (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003), and Why Mole Shouted and Other Stories, illustrated by Sergio Ruzzier (FSG, 2004).

She translated Gallows Songs with W.D. Snodgrass, from the German of Christian Morgenstern, (University of Michigan Press, 1959), The Juniper Tree and Other Tales from Grimm with illustrations by Maurice Sendak (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973, revised edition 2003), The Book of Adam to Moses (Knopf, 1987) and The Story of King Saul and King David (Schocken, 1991).

Lore Segal will read in the Denney Hall Commons Room (DE 311) at 4:00 pm on Tuesday, October 2, 2007. The reading is free and open to the public.

(source: http://loresegal.net/)

Photo by Alisa Douer.

Sep 28, 2007, 10:30 am-12:00 pm
Dulles Hall 250, 230 W. 17th Ave.

This Week: Folklore Center Activities

Information Session for New Students in Folklore

Whether you're new to OSU or newly discovering folklore, come to learn the basics about the folklore program, the year's folklore courses, Center activities, and the American Folklore Society.

Sep 27, 2007, 4:30 pm-06:30 pm
Mershon Center, 1501 Neil Ave. - 8th and Neil.

This Week: Folklore Center Activities

Fall Welcome Reception

(Note to newcomers, this is the Center, not the Auditorium)

Meet old and new students, faculty, and affiliates; pick up our calendar; and toast some good news.

Sep 20, 2007, 4:00 pm
311 Denney Hall

Visiting Writer

Mark Danielewski is the author of House of Leaves, The Fifty Year Sword, Whalestoe Letters, and, most recently, Only Revolutions: A Novel, a finalist for the National Book Award. He was born in New York City and now lives in Los Angeles. Danielewski’s work is characterized by experimental choices in form, such as intricate and multi-layerd narratives, typographical variation, and inconsistent page layouts.

Danielewski will read from Only Revolutions on Wednesday, September 26, at 7:00 pm in 311 Denney Hall. The reading is jointly sponsored by the Creative Writing program and Project Narrative, and is free and open to the public.

In preparation for Danielewski’s visit, all those interested in his work are invited to particpate in a workshop on his novel, House of Leaves, on Thursday, September 20, at 4:00 pm in 311 Denney Hall. Four panelists will each speak briefly on Danielewski’s novel, followed by an open discussion. The panelists include Richard Fletcher (assistant professr, Greek and Latin), Brian Hauser (Ph.D. candiate, English), Chris Higgs (MFA candidate, English), and Paul McCormick (Ph.D. candidate, English); Brian McHale of Project Narrative will moderate the session. Jointly sponsored by the Creative Writing Program and Project Narrative, the workshop is also free and open to the public.

May 30, 2007, 5:30 pm-08:30 pm
Park of Roses Shelter House, Whetstone Park

The Departmental Picnic

Please Bring: your favorite pot luck dish and your softball equipment (bats, softballs, bases if you have them).

And don't forget the famous Faculty vs. Grad Students softball game.
(Grad students, bring your "A" game.)

May 25, 2007, 11:30 am
Knight House

FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS: Interdisciplinary Seminar on Literacy Studies

“Drafting US Literacy,” “Sponsors of Literacy,” and “Ghostwriting and Shifting Values in Literacy.” A discussion of Deborah Brandt’s recent work.

May 18, 2007, 1:30 pm-03:00 pm
250 Denney Hall

Writing Pedagogy Forum

Expanding the Rhetorical Contexts for Writing Classrooms: Service Learning in 110 and 367.

Wendy Wolters Hinshaw, Vandana Gavaskar, Kelly Bradbury, Jim Fredal, Matt Cariello, Mindy Wright, Andy Vogel, Martha Sims, Amie Wolf.

Faculty, Lecturers, and Graduate Teaching Associates are welcome.
Refreshments will be provided.

May 10, 2007, 3:30 pm-05:00 pm
311 Denney Hall (English Department Commons Room)

Lee Martin and James Phelan,

May 10, 2007 - 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM -- 311 Denney Hall (English Department Commons Room)

In preparation for John Edgar Wideman's visit during the week of May 14th, faculty and students from the MFA program and from Project Narrative (as well as other interested parties) will meet to compare perspectives on his work. The event will start with short presentations on Wideman's " Doc's Story" by Lee Martin and by Jim Phelan and then open out to general discussion of " Doc's Story" and of another Wideman story, "Everybody Knew Bubba Riff," and of the issues raised by the presentations. This event is open to all!

Pdf versions of "Doc's Story" and "Everybody Knew Bubba Riff" are available from Anne Langendorfer; simply e-mail her at langendorfer. 2@osu.edu to request them. Members of the English Department can also access the PDFs through the Shared folder on the N drive of the College's network. They are in the subfolder called "Wideman Short Stories." Finally, the stories are also available for copying from the shelf for course readings behind Raeanne Woodman's desk in Denney 421. They are in a folder labeled "Wideman--Project Narrative."

May 04, 2007, 1:30 pm-03:00 pm
250 Denney Hall

Writing Pedagogy Forum

Understanding Second Language Writers' Engagement with College Level Writing

Alan Hirvela, Karen Macbeth, Cate Crosby, ESL Composition Program

Faculty, Lecturers, and Graduate Teaching Associates are welcome.
Refreshments will be provided.

May 03, 2007, 4:00 pm-05:30 pm
0264 MacQuigg Lab

Writing Now: New Developments in Mass Literacy

A Public Lecture by Deborah Brandt ; Read More About Brandt's Lecture

In this presentation, Brandt ruminates on the value of writing, where it can be found, and why those locations make writing so culturally different from reading. Brandt will also consider the implications of these differences as Americans in the 21st century spend less time reading and more time writing.

May 03, 2007, 4:00 pm
MacQuigg Lab

DEBORAH BRANDT

on Writing Today

Public lecture and meetings with graduate students, faculty, staff. Deborah Brandt, Professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and author most recently of Literacy in American Lives (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001).

Apr 27, 2007, 11:30 pm-01:00 pm
George Wells Knight House, 104 E. 15th Ave.

Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Seminar on Literacy Studies

Copyrights and Classrooms & Teaching Critical Literacies: Technology, Copyright, and Academic Writing ; Read More About Copyright Literacy

Changing technologies both in and out of the classroom offer instructors the opportunity to challenge and deepen the academic literacies students typically encounter in the disciplinary classroom. This presentation explores how engaging with "new" technologies can help students develop critical literacies in the areas of copyright and academic writing.

Apr 27, 2007, 11:30 am-01:00 pm
Knight House

FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS: Interdisciplinary Seminar on Literacy Studies

Linking Literacies in Composition, Technology, and Copyright

with Shawn Casey, Envera Dukaj, and Cormac Slevin, (Department of English)

Apr 27, 2007, 1:30 pm-03:30 pm
250 Denney Hall

Creating a Teaching Web Site

presented by The Digital Media Project Staff

Refreshments on tap.

Apr 26, 2007-Apr 27, 2007, 4:00 pm
DE 311 (Thursday); DE 312 (Friday)

Lecture and Grad Workshop on L'Ouverture and Digital Whitman

Thursday, April 26, 4:00 p.m., DE 311: Lecture: "Imagining Toussaint Louverture: The Emergence of Radical Abolition in the United States"

Friday, April 27, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 noon, DE 312: Workshop on the Walt Whitman Digital Archive

The bi-annual Graduate Workshop in American Literature will be held spring quarter and will feature Professor Susan Belasco of the University of Nebraska. Professor Belasco will be giving a public lecture at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 26, on Toussaint L'Ouverture in Antebellum American Literature and Culture; this lecture will be followed by a workshop at 10:00 a.m. on Friday morning, April 27, focusing on the Walt Whitman Digital Archive, of which Belasco is a co-editor. You can visit the archive at http://www.whitmanarchive.org .)

Apr 18, 2007, 4:00 pm
311 Denney Hall

Second Annual Emeriti Lecture

Emeritus Professor and Former Department Chair, Julian Markels

Apr 04, 2007, 4:30 pm-06:30 pm
Wexner Center auditorium

Comics Storytelling

Scott McCloud

Apr 04, 2007, 4:30 pm-06:00 pm
Wexner Center Auditorium

Comic Artist Scott McCloud Visits Ohio State April 4

McCloud “has a rare talent for explaining the magic of comics as narratives that combine words and images. His best-known book, Understanding Comics, explores the theory of comics and is informed by narrative theory and representational theory.” Praised by The New York Times and others, Understanding Comics has been translated into more than thirteen languages.

Samples of his artwork are available at www.scottmccloud.com.

Mar 30, 2007, 11:30 am-01:00 pm
Knight House

FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS: Interdisciplinary Seminar on Literacy Studies

OurSpace: Resituating Civic Literacy in the University Curriculum

with Michael Harker & Aaron McCain (Department of English)

Mar 30, 2007, 11:30 am-01:00 pm
George Wells Knight House, 104 E. 15th Ave.

Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Seminar on Literacy Studies

"Civic Literacy," with Michael Harker (Department of English) & Aaron McCain

The Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities at the George Wells Knight House 104 E. 15th Avenue. Lunch is provided. For more information, contact Kate White at white.1142@osu.edu.

Mar 08, 2007, 12:00 am
Gallery 202, 38 N. State Street in Westerville

Professor Emeritus Writes and Directs Geraldine and Jacob

Professor Emeritus Katherine Burkman’s ten-minute play, Geraldine and Jacob, is a “tale of love in a gambling hall on a cruise—passion, illicit love, and devotion between a slot machine and a gambler.” On Thursday, March 8th, there will be a staged reading of the play she wrote and directed at Gallery 202, 38 N. State Street in Westerville. The reading is free and open to the public.

Mar 01, 2007, 4:00 pm-05:30 pm
George Wells Knight House, 104 E. 15th Ave.

The Book as an Object of Historical Inquiry

In 1958 the French scholars Lucien Febvre and Henri-Jean Martin published The Coming of the Book, a call for serious study of the “social and cultural history of communication” by the written word, hand-written or printed. This challenge was the first step in the creation of what has now become a distinct field of study: “the history of the book.”

Feb 28, 2007, 4:30 pm
311 Denney Hall

Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series

Professor Trudier Harris ; Read more about this event.

Professor Trudier Harris
J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor of English
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

“The Scary Mason-Dixon Line: African American Writers and the South”

4:30PM--311 Denney Hall
Co-sponsored by the Center for Folklore Studies.

Professor Harris' lecture will be preceded by a discussion of her scholarly work, on Friday, February 23, 10:30-12:00, 250 Dulles. You are also invited to have coffee and an informal chat with Professor Harris just before her lecture, on Wednesday, February 28, 2:00-3:30 p.m. at The Center for Folklore Studies, 308 Dulles.

Feb 27, 2007-Feb 28, 2007, 7:00 pm
Mershon Auditorium

Harvey Pekar Interviewed by Professor Jared Gardner

Straight out of Cleveland, the acclaimed, brilliant and occasionally scary comics autobiographer, Harvey Pekar will be at the Mershon Auditorium on February 28, 2007 at 7:00 p.m.

Pekar is perhaps best known from the critically acclaimed 2003 film, American Splendor, a fictionalized account of Pekar's life and work on a comic book of the same name.

Instead of a formal talk, Pekar has asked to have a conversation, and Professor Jared Gardner of the English Department will be playing the role of James Lipton. Audience members may also participate in the conversation by submitting questions ahead of time. If you have any questions you would like to ask of Pekar about his career, American Splendor, or comics in general, please send it on either to gardner.236@osu.edu or to the Cartoon Research Library at cartoons@osu.edu.

Feb 23, 2007, 11:30 am-01:00 pm
George Wells Knight House, 104 E. 15th Ave.

Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Seminar on Literacy Studies

A Literacy Studies Miscellany: Recent Work and Work in Progress

Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities at the George Wells Knight House 104 E. 15th Avenue. Lunch is provided. For more information, contact Kate White at white.1142@osu.edu.

Feb 23, 2007, 1:30 pm-03:00 pm
131 Mendenhall Laboratory

Writing Pedagogy Forum

From One Screen to Another: Teaching Writing through Film

Ryan Friedman, Anne-Marie Schuler, Anne Langendorfer.

Faculty, Lecturers, and Graduate Teaching Associates are welcome. Refreshments will be provided.

Feb 22, 2007, 4:30 pm
OSU Faculty Club Grand Lounge

Professor Susan Williams Presents College of Humanities Inaugural Lecture

"Autonomy and Collaboration: Or, Why I Study the History of Authorship"

Why study authorship as its own subject? This lecture will explore that question, focusing in particular on the history of authorship in nineteenth-century. Was the ideal author an autonomous prophetic genius or a collaborator with his or her publishers and readers? Could such a collaboration itself provide an opportunity for increased autonomy and authority? This last question was particularly vexed for women and minority authors, who eventually led the way toward a more fluid understanding of the relation between autonomy and collaboration.

Refreshments will be served.

Feb 16, 2007, 1:30 pm-03:00 pm
131 Mendenhall Laboratory

Writing Pedagogy Forum

Breaking The Routine: Creating Innovative Writing Assignments

Roger Cherry, Marisa Cull, Elizabeth Zimmerman, and Sharon Estes.

Faculty, Lecturers, and Graduate Teaching Associates are welcome. Refreshments will be provided.

Feb 09, 2007, 1:30 pm-03:00 pm
131 Mendenhall Laboratory

Writing Pedagogy Forum

Whose Text? Plagiarism, Copyright, and Cultural Differences

Matt Cariello, Cormac Slevin, and Wendy Hesford

Faculty, Lecturers, and Graduate Teaching Associates are welcome. Refreshments will be provided.

Feb 02, 2007, 1:30 pm-03:00 pm
131 Mendenhall Laboratory

Writing Pedagogy Forum

The End(s) of New Media

Sponsored by the Digital Media Project Staff.

Faculty, Lecturers, and Graduate Teaching Associates are welcome. Refreshments will be provided.

Feb 01, 2007, 7:00 pm-08:00 pm
Denney Hall Commons Room (311)

Student/Faculty Reading

Hear the poetry and prose by our MFA faculty and students.

Faculty: Erin McGraw
Students: Jason Tucker, Michael Martinez

Jan 26, 2007, 11:30 am-01:00 pm
George Wells Knight House, 104 E. 15th Ave.

Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Seminar on Literacy Studies

Literacy and Representations of Trauma with Alana Kumbier and Wendy Wolters Hinshaw ; Read More About the Seminar

Alana Kumbier (Department of Comparative Studies) will present her preliminary analysis of a set of "files" from the Atlas Group Archive. She examines how the Atlas Group uses the form of the archival artifact (and its attendant practices: descriptive, organizational, interpretive, and representational) to produce knowledge about the contemporary history of Lebanon. Kumbier is interested in how the Atlas Group uses a familiar form (the archival artifact) to investigate the experiences of subjects during the Lebanese Civil War.

Jan 25, 2007, 4:00 pm-05:30 pm
George Wells Knight House, 104 E. 15th Ave.

Literacy and Writing Across Space and Place

Writing in academic spaces follows conventions that we are all used to: faculty and student research papers that are meant to be read, faculty lectures that are intended to be spoken, student class assignments intended to demonstrate mastery of content, etc. In this panel presentation, we will hear about written literacy practices that happen in spaces between and community and the academy.

Jan 11, 2007, 7:00 pm-08:00 pm
Denney Hall Commons Room (311)

Student/Faculty Reading

Hear the poetry and prose by our MFA faculty and students.

Faculty: Andrew Hudgins
Students: Ida Stewart, Laurel Gilbert

Dec 08, 2006, 11:00 am-01:00 pm
168 Dulles Hall

History of the Book Group

David Brewer will present his new research project on authorship and attribution. Readings (Brewer's work) are available from Cynthia Brokaw brokaw.22@osu.edu Co-sponsored by the Literacy Studies Working Group

Nov 20, 2006-Nov 21, 2006,

Folklore Graduate Workshop with Carl Lindahl

Carl Lindahl, will conduct a graduate workshop on "Tales and Trauma," November 20 & 21 2006; Wednesday, February 28, 2007. Professor Lindahl, Professor of English at the University of Houston, is an internationally recognized authority on folktales, medieval folklore, festivals, fieldwork, and Francophone and Southern U.S. folk cultures.

Nov 17, 2006, 11:30 am-01:00 pm
Geroge Wells Knight House, 104 East 15th Avenue

Interdisciplinary Seminar on Literacy Studies

TAs Teaching Writing? Part II

For Graduate Students
Lunch is provided
Sponsored by the Literacy Studies Working Group.

Nov 08, 2006, 4:30 pm-06:00 pm
1180 Postle Hall, 305 West 12th Avenue

Sociolinguistics and Education

with William Labov ; Sociolinguistics and Education

William Labov, widely known as an original founder of the field of sociolinguistics, will give a talk at OSU on the topic Sociolinguistics and Education. The talk will address crucial issues that emerge at the intersection of oral language patterns and literacy education.

William Labov’s research focuses on social dialectology, especially African American Vernacular English, and on the potential role of vernacular dialects in learning to read. His groundbreaking works include Language in the Inner City: Studies in Black English Vernacular (1972), Sociolinguistic Patterns (1972), Principles of Linguistic Change: Internal Factors (1994); Principles of Linguistic Change: Social Factors (2001); and, with Sharon Ash and Charles Boberg, The Atlas of North American English (2006).

Co-sponsored by the Gladys Foster Anderson Fund in Teaching & Learning and the Literacy Studies Working Group.

*For more information, contact Marcia Farr farr.18@osu.edu or Lisya Seloni seloni.1@osu.edu

Nov 03, 2006, 1:30 pm-03:00 pm
131 Mendenhall Laboratories

Writing Pedagogy Forums

Literature and Composition

(Sebastian Knowles, Nan Johnson, Anne-Marie Schuler)

Sponsored by the Writing Programs of the Department of English

Faculty, Lecturers, and Graduate Teaching Assistants are welcome
Refreshments will be provided

Tentative Topics for Winter and Spring Forums
Teaching Multilingual Writers/ESL Pedagogy • Integrating Film into Composition Courses
Assigning and Evaluating Small Group Projects • Creating Effective Writing Assignments
Service-Learning in Composition Classes • Developing a Teaching Portfolio

Oct 27, 2006, 1:30 pm-03:00 pm
131 Mendenhall Laboratories

Writing Pedagogy Forums

Digital Media in the Writing Classroom

(Cindy Selfe, Scott Lloyd DeWitt, Susan Delagrange, and Ben McCorkle)

Sponsored by the Writing Programs of the Department of English

Faculty, Lecturers, and Graduate Teaching Assistants are welcome
Refreshments will be provided

Oct 20, 2006, 1:30 pm-03:00 pm
131 Mendenhall Laboratories

Writing Pedagogy Forums

Disability, Teaching, Writing

(Brenda Jo Brueggemann, Margo Izzo, Ken Petri)

Sponsored by the Writing Programs of the Department of English

Faculty, Lecturers, and Graduate Teaching Assistants are welcome
Refreshments will be provided

Oct 17, 2006, 4:00 pm-05:30 pm
Geroge Wells Knight House, 104 East 15th Avenue

Civic Literacy

Susan Metros, Professor of Design; Peter Shane, Professor of Law and Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Law and Policy Studies; and Lewis Ulman, Assistant Dean, College of Humanities and English. Organized and moderated by Anne Fields, OSU Libraries.
Refreshments will be served.

Oct 13, 2006, 1:30 pm-03:00 pm
131 Mendenhall Laboratories

Writing Pedagogy Forums

Teaching Style and Grammar as Rhetoric

(Kay Halasek, Jim Fredal, Kate White)

Sponsored by the Writing Programs of the Department of English

Faculty, Lecturers, and Graduate Teaching Assistants are welcome
Refreshments will be provided

Oct 06, 2006, 1:30 pm-03:00 pm
131 Mendenhall Laboratories

Writing Pedagogy Forums

Strategies of Response to Student Texts

(Mindy Wright, Eddie Singleton, Vandana Gavaskar,
Martha Sims, Amie Wolf, Wendy Wolters Hinshaw)

Sponsored by the Writing Programs of the Department of English

Faculty, Lecturers, and Graduate Teaching Assistants are welcome
Refreshments will be provided

Oct 05, 2006, 7:00 pm
311 Denney Hall (Commons Room)

Student/Faculty Reading

Michelle Herman, Sean Flanigan, Kim Brauer

Sep 29, 2006, 11:30 am-01:00 pm
George Wells Knight House, 104 East 15th Avenue

Interdisciplinary Seminar on Literacy Studies

"Visual Literacy, Cognition, and Reading"

For Graduate Students
Graduate students Rob Day, Science Education, and Vicki Daiello, Art Education, will lead a discussion on "Visual Literacy, Cognition, and Reading."
Lunch is provided

Sep 28, 2006, 4:00 pm-05:30 pm
George Wells Knight House, 104 East 15th Avenue

Ohio-based Literacy Researchers Lecture Series

"The Role of Parents in Literacy Acquisition: Historical Evidence

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