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By Anushka Mukherjee

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…

By Anushka Mukherjee

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 Shakespeare Association of America Annual…

By Kira Kadar

Every year the Department of English invites a distinguished speaker of national or international reputation to speak about a topic relevant to 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 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 visiting assistant…

By Anushka Mukherjee

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 "Environmental Racism…

Each month, the Communications Team reaches out to members of the Department of English faculty and graduate program and asks them to elaborate on a…

The Department of English is excited to announce Professor Simone Drake’s inclusion in the 2023 edition of Who’s Who in Black Columbus.  …

By Han Chen

From entering The Ohio State University without a declared major to completing an externship at the Supreme Court of Ohio, third-year English student…