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Koritha Mitchell & Frances Ellen Watkins Harper: Shadows Uplifted
Associate Professor Koritha Mitchell distinctly remembers seeing a Malcolm X poster on the walls of her high school that said “Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the…
Beverly Moss Wins Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching
Associate Professor Beverly Moss is the most recent recipient of the Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching. She is one of ten faculty members awarded this year for their excellence in teaching.…
YWW Alumna and Teen Vogue Writer Kayinsola Ole on Parkland & Protest
Kanyinsola Oye, a Columbus high school senior and two-time alumna of the department’s Young Writers Workshop, has co-written an article for Teen Vogue about the recent Parkland, Florida…
Course Profile: English 6764-Graduate Workshop in Screenwriting
We poked around the heads of twins—balancing back and forth on that thin occipital nerve between understanding and perspective—playing with every trope that comes with having an identical…
Course Profile: English 4569-Digital Messaging and Storytelling
The Digital Media laboratories in Denney Hall are usually kept fairly chilly. Large ventilators perch on window tops where they pump out the excess heat created by computer components, then stream…
Sneak Peek: Graduate Lounge Remodel
In the spring of 2017, the Department of English received a generous donation from Andrea Lunsford—the Director of Stanford University's Program in Writing and Rhetoric, former director of Ohio…
Obsession Story: Dorothy Noyes and Opera
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 Dorothy Noyes…
The Book as Body: Judging Books by Their Covers
On Sephora.com, you can find the eau de parfum, Book, for $105—an exclusive fragrance designed by Commodity to meet the needs of those fat-pocketed readers who just don’t have time for real books…
Rachel Hopkin’s New Books in Folklore Podcast
Looking for a new podcast? Interested in learning more about contemporary literature on folklore? PhD Candidate Rachel Hopkin and Tim Thurston, Ohio State alumnus and folklorist in East Asia…