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Like many English majors, Audrey Smith’s academic focus grew out of her love of both reading and writing, in and out of school. As she began her time at Ohio State, she knew that…
As Ohio gets ready to mark a once-in-a-lifetime total solar eclipse on Monday, April 8, the Department of English is excited to announce an Undergrad Eclipse Poetry Contest! Undergraduate students…
The Department of English is excited to congratulate PhD student Elise Robbins, who was awarded a 2023-24 Graduate Associate Teaching Award! Robbins is one of only 20 awardees…
In April of 2023, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation awarded 171 outstanding individuals the Guggenheim Fellowship to help them pursue their work in any field of work. The department’s…
In the spring of 2021, Amrita Dhar and Dr. Amrita Sen of the University of Calcutta co-led a seminar, “Shakespeare in the ‘Post’Colonies,” at the…
Every year the Department of English invites a distinguished speaker of national or international reputation to speak about a topic relevant to the disciplines of the Department of English at the…
The Department of English would like to announce that MFA student Andrew Romriell is one of the recipients of the 2023-24 Presidential Fellowship
As Ohio State’s Graduate…
As we start this new semester and new year, we are pleased to welcome the following new faculty members to the department.
Ruth Awad joins us for the semester as a…
Jordan Woodward, a PhD student in the Department of English, was recently awarded the 2023 Zora Neale Hurston Award from the American Folklore Society (AFS) for her project …