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Autumn 2025
Autumn 2025
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Welcome from the Chair
Dear Alumni and Friends, When I first became chair, I set up my browser to alert me with news and changes in higher education policy around the country. I didn’t want to miss anything that was…
Kelsey Stratman awarded research grant for health communication
The Department of English is excited to announce that Kelsey Stratman, PhD student in writing, rhetoric, and literacy, has been awarded a 2025-2026 Graduate Student Engaged Scholar Seed Grant to…
AJ Calderon builds community through storytelling
Looking at AJ Calderon’s life, you might not expect that he’d be an English major. A veteran of the Marine Corps, Calderon initially pursued a degree in psychology because he wanted to help future…
Breaking classroom barriers: Jasmyn Maingi’s OPEEP experience
During her freshman year at The Ohio State University, English major Jasmyn Maingi stumbled upon a flyer that would change the course of her college experience: an invitation to join the Ohio Prison…
3D-printing Frankenstein: critical making in the digital media classroom
“Everything is Frankenstein,” Senior Lecturer Calvin Olsen exclaims. “Everything is made of smaller parts that are pieced together that somehow work and eventually do something.” …