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Kathy Fagan Grandinetti: Finalist for the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
Kathy Fagan Grandinetti, Director of Ohio State's Creative Writing Program, is a finalist for the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, one of the world’s most prestigious poetry awards.
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Yonina Hoffman Wins the Presidential Fellowship
Yonina Hoffman (PhD) has won the 2017-2018 Presidential Fellowship, an award given each year by the Ohio State Graduate School. The Presidential Fellowship is the most prestigious award given by…

Striding with STEP: English Majors Showcase Their Signature Projects
Become an international artist. Launch a YouTube songwriting channel. Serve communities in need. Research drugs to combat cancer. This is what Ohio State English undergraduates are doing nowadays—…

Dance, Movement and Ethnography Panel
On Friday, November 3, 2017, four panelists led a discussion about the connections between dance, movement and ethnography. The panelists—Ann Cooper Albright and Meiver De la Cruz from Oberlin…

Lauren Squires Wins Ratner Distinguished Teaching Award
The Ohio State University College of Arts and Sciences has selected Associate Professor Lauren Squires to receive the prestigious Ratner Distinguished Teaching Award. Squires will use the funds…
Elissa Washuta Wins NEA Fellowship
In late November, the National Endowment for the Arts announced that Elissa Washuta, the department’s newest creative writing faculty member, would receive one of their prestigious 2018 Creative…

Obsession: Leslie Lockett and the History of Cheesemaking
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, Associate Professor Leslie Lockett …

Course Profile: Oscar Wilde
Everyone has secrets—skeletons in the closet they hope, for whatever reason, will never be brought to light. Literary characters are certainly no exception. A classic example is that of…

Meghan Callahan: From High Street to The High Castle
All games have rules, whether they are explicit or implicit. In Monopoly, for example, when one lands on GO, one collects $200. Conversely, if one lands on another’s property, they must, as rules…