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Department of English welcomes new hires

As students, staff and faculty settle into the semester, we want to take a moment to welcome our new hires to the English department! Please send a warm welcome to our newcomers this semester.…

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Innovative Description: Erin Bahl and Margaret Price explore the possibilities of audio description

By Kira Kadar

Consider this scene from a folktale: “Four animals sit in a circle in a grassy field: a donkey, a cat, a dog, and a rooster. A banner above them reads ‘Too old ... too weak ... too slow.’ The…

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2023 Alumni Book Recommendations

Over the summer we asked our Department of English alumni to share the books they’ve been reading and the books on their to-be-read list. Check out the recommendations below! 

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Research Spotlight: Samantha Trzinski

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…

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Ready Player Juan: Carlos Kelly González explores Latinidad in video games

By Jayasree Sunkireddy

Dr. Carlos Gabriel Kelly González has always been passionate about video games. He just never expected to be able to study them for a living, not until…

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PhD student Caleb Gonzalez acknowledged by Vice President Kamala Harris for his endeavors in the field of writing education

By Anushka Mukherjee

Earlier this year, PhD student Caleb Gonzalez wrote a letter to Vice President Kamala D. Harris about how his students in the Young Scholars Program used writing to examine topics related to K-12…

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CMRS Director Chris Highley Awarded Scholarly Digital Project Grant

Professor Chris Highley of the Department of English and Director of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies is part of a team of scholars who have been awarded an NEH collaborative…

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Beth Hewitt selected for President and Provost’s Leadership Institute

We are excited to announce Professor Beth Hewitt, the Director of Undergraduate Studies, has been selected to join the 2023-24 cohort…

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CSEEES Director Angela Brintlinger and Affiliates Dorothy Noyes and Jennifer Mitzen Visit the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Belgrade

The Ohio State University delegation consisting of the director of the Center for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, Angela Brintlinger, director of the Mershon Center for International…