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Ohio Arts Council Honors English Faculty
The Ohio Arts Council board has honored seven faculty from the English department in their 2016 Individual Excellence Awards. Those honored include Lee Martin, professor, English; Memory…

The 2016 English Awards Ceremony
Two weeks ago today, faculty, staff, students, families, and friends all gathered in the Longaberger Alumni House to celebrate another successful year of English at Ohio State. They were…

Esposto Wins 2016 R.L. Stine Scholarship
Laura Esposto has been awarded the second inaugural R.L. Stine Scholarship. Generously provided by author R.L. Stine, an Ohio State English alumnus (BA, 1965) and award-winning author of…

Wendy Hesford Receives Yale Fellowship, to Step Down as Vice Chair
The Department of English would like to congratulate Wendy Hesford on receiving Yale University's Human Trafficking and Modern Day Slavery interdisciplinary fellowship at the Gilder Lehrman…

Robyn Warhol's Graphic Memoir Class Creates Stunning Comics
“Graphic Memoir,” English 5664 in the Spring of 2016, is a course on autobiographies written and drawn by comics artists. All the students (half of them graduate students and half advanced…

Award-Winning Rand Morrison Offers Advice to Students: Know Deeply, Write Well, Intern
Rand Morrison was teeming with advice when he sat down for his interview conducted by professional writing minor students Emily Berestecky and Trent Lammers on Friday, April 15. Morrison visited…

Scott DeWitt Featured in Dispatch for His Ukulele Sessions
Scott DeWitt, Associate Professor of English and Vice Chair of Writing, Rhetoric, and Literacy, appeared in the Columbus Dispatch on Sunday, April 24th for his work in Strings Attached, a beginner…

Andreá Williams Wins University's Distinguished Diversity Enhancement Award
The Department of English would like to congratulate Andreá Williams on receiving the University’s Distinguished Diversity Enhancement Award. The award is the highest honor that the…

Video Games Level up to the Classroom
This article originally appeared in The Lantern and was written by Mitch Hooper. Check out the original article.
From Tulsa, Oklahoma, to Columbus, two graduate students bring a…