Programs and Areas

The English Department at the Ohio State University has a number of faculty teaching, researching, and publishing in the areas of U.S. ethnic and postcolonial literatures. While each faculty member has his or her own method and approach to their various objects of study (narrative fiction, poetry, autobiography, comic books, performance art, and film, to name a few) all share a common interest in enriching our understanding of how race and ethnicity, colonialism and imperialism, nationalism and transnationalism intersect with class, gender, sexuality, and other categories of power and difference. In the study of verbal and visual expressive culture in its many guises, our faculty strengths stand in areas such as African-American, American Indian, Asian American, Latino/a, Jewish, and Postcolonial.

Adeleke Adeeko, Professor
Frederick Aldama, Professor
Chadwick Allen, Associate Professor
Stephanie Brown, Assistant Professor, Newark campus
Cynthia Callahan, Assistant Professor, Mansfield campus
Steve Fink, Associate Professor
Ryan Friedman, Assistant Professor
Pranav Jani, Assistant Professor
Valerie Lee, Chair and Professor
Manuel Martinez, Associate Professor
Koritha Mitchell, Assistant Professor
Beverly Moss, Associate Professor, Director of the Center for the Study and Teaching of Writing
Martin Joseph Ponce, Assistant Professor
John Roberts, Dean of Humanities and Professor
Andrea Williams, Assistant Professor

281: Introduction to African American Literature
580: Special Topics in Gay and Lesbian Literature and Language
581: Special Topics in U.S. Ethnic Literature and Culture
582: Special Topics in African American Literature
583: Special Topics in World Literature in English
586: Studies in American Indian Literature and Culture
587: Studies in Asian American Literature and Culture
588: Studies in Latino/a Literature and Culture
757.01: Introduction to Graduate Study in African American Literature, 1746–1900
757.02: Introduction to Graduate Study in African American Literature, 1900–Present
758: Introduction to Graduate Study in U.S. Ethnic Literature
760: Introduction to Postcolonial Literature and Theory
788: Imaginative Writing
851: Seminar in Critical Approaches to Black Literature
858: Seminar in U.S. Ethnic Literature and Culture
864: Seminar in Postcolonial/Transnational Literatures