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Winter 2024
Winter 2024
In this issue
Welcome from the Chair
Dear Alumni and Friends,In December, right before the winter break, committee chairs and other leaders in the Department of English met together in the departmental Commons Room to talk about our…
The role of AI in literature
If artificial intelligence (AI) continues to evolve and becomes capable of producing first-rate literature, will the technology eventually replace human writers? Author, journalist and professor…
Cultivating the writers of tomorrow
For an entire week in the summer 30 students from high schools in Columbus City Schools, charter schools in the city of Columbus, and students in public schools across Ohio got a taste of what…
Student Spotlight: Richa Thakar
From entering The Ohio State University without a declared major to completing an externship at the Supreme Court of Ohio, third-year English student Richa Thakar has come a long way. Thakar is now…