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Research Spotlight: Elizabeth Renker
Each month, the Communications Team reaches out to members of the Department of English faculty and asks them to elaborate on a current research or creative project they are working on or have…

Obsession Story: Hannibal Hamlin on Music
For this series, we reach out to a member of the department who has a very particular obsession and ask them to share it with the world. In this edition, Professor Hannibal Hamlin chronologizes…

Lord Denney's Players Announces Cast and Crew for Romeo and Juliet
This April, join Lord Denney’s Players in "fair Verona" as they share the story of those star-crossed lovers. Congratulations to all students, faculty and staff members recently cast in LDP's…

Alumni Profile: Lauren Culley on Crafting a Columbus Coffee Narrative
By Madalynn Conkle
Fox in the Snow owner and creative writing alumna Lauren Culley mixes delectable pastries with skilled storytelling to forge a new Columbus coffee identity.
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Alumna Laila Ujayli selected as Rhodes Scholar
By Avery Samuels
This beginning feels familiar.
Those of us who are bibliophiles have likely encountered a book about a protagonist who, like us, loves, loves, loves to read.…

Higginbotham wins Sixteenth Century Literature Prize
By Avery Samuels
There are very few children in Shakespeare’s work. Excluding the occasional infant, and capping the age at tween—thereby excusing Romeo and Juliet and their…

Washuta earns Creative Capital Award
By Avery Samuels
Assistant Professor of Creative Writing Elissa Washuta has been announced as a recipient of a 2019 Creative Capital Award for a brave personal project that is…

Knapper and Miller awarded Presidential Fellowships
This past autumn, English graduate students Dan Knapper and Rachel Miller were each awarded a Presidential Fellowship, the most prestigious award given by Ohio State’s Graduate School. Recipients…

Hesford named Ohio Eminent Scholar
Wendy S. Hesford, professor and faculty director for the Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme, has been named Ohio Eminent Scholar in Writing, Rhetoric, and Literacy.
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