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Winter 2024

Winter 2024

Susan Williams
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…
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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…
The participants of the 2023 Young Writers Workshop laughing and smiling together
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…
Richa Thakar
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…
Hannibal Hamlin
Research Spotlight: Hannibal Hamlin
Periodically, the Communications Team reaches out to members of the Department of English faculty and graduate program and asks them to elaborate on a current research or creative project they are…