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Ohio Eminent Scholar Harvey Graff's Undisciplining Knowledge Now Available
Ohio Eminent Scholar and Professor of English and History Harvey J. Graff's Undisciplining Knowledge: Interdisciplinarity in the Twentieth Century is now available from Johns Hopkins…

President Carter Contributes to OSU Digital Literacy Archive
This past May, staff of the Digital Archive of Literacy Narrative (DALN) at The Ohio State University (and in conjunction with Georgia State University) released to the public former U.S.…

Martinez Receives American Book Award
Dr Manuel Luis Martinez was recently awarded the American Book Award for his novel Los Duros (Floricanto Press, 2014). The American Book Awards were created to provide recognition…

R.L. Stine Scholarship for Undergraduate Creative Writing
The Department of English is very pleased to announce the inaugural R.L. Stine Scholarship, an undergraduate scholarship for Ohio State English majors who have demonstrated a serious…

Professional Writing Minor Prepares Students for Writing in the Contemporary Workplace
Originally published December 1, 2014
From BalletMet to the Ohio Commission on Minority Health, from the Mid-Ohio Foodbank to McGraw-Hill Education, professional writing minor students…
English Alumni Panel Supports Undergraduate Mentorship Plans
Originally Published November 25, 2014
Last Wednesday, the Department of English hosted its eighth semi-annual English Major Alumni Panel. Designed to highlight the exciting work and…
Trigger Warning Panel Elucidates Questions of Inclusion
Originally published November 12, 2014
November 10, 2014: The department’s Diversity and Inclusion Committee held “Trigger Warnings in the Classroom,” a roundtable discussion and community…

Accuracy Counts in Grammar Smackdown
Originally published November 7, 2014
October 23, 2014: The Minor in Professional Writing’s Grammar Smackdown introduced the savagery of professional wrestling with the finer points of the…

Shuman Awarded Grant for 2015 Workshop
Originally published November 4, 2014
Professor of English and Director of Disability Studies Amy Shuman and Bridget Haas, of Case Western University, were awarded a Wenner-Gren Foundation…