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See here! Featured Courses for Spring 2013!!
Are you still looking for courses to take next semester? Consider the possibilities that the English Department is offering for Spring 2013! Places are still available in a number of exciting…
Donald Ray Pollock (MFA, 2009) Awarded Grand Prix de Littérature Policière 2012
MFA graduate Donald Ray Pollock has been awarded the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière 2012 for the best international crime novel published this year, for his novel The Devil All the Time…
Mitchell Honored by SSAWW for "Living With Lynching"
Professor Koritha Mitchell has been awarded the Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW) book award, which honors the best book published between November 2008 and November 2011,…
EUGO Race for Education Scores!
EUGO, our English Undergraduate Organization, had a great day for their 5K Race for Education, raising $1800 which benefits the Columbus area non-profit “I Know I Can.” Congratulations, EUGO; it…
Departmental Collaboration Results in Volume in Reference Series on Disability
WRL Professor Brenda Jo Brueggemann collaborated with current Ph.D. candidate Elizabeth Brewer and now-alumni Nicholas Hetrick and Melanie Yergeau on the Arts and Humanities volume of the SAGE…
The New Yorker: Professor Henri Cole's Paris Blog
My little apartment in the Latin Quarter is on the Street of the Iron Pot (rue Pot de Fer), which I’ve renamed Street of the Iron Poet. ... My neighborhood on Montagne Ste.-Geneviève—a hill on the…
An OHIO Handshake: Professor Brenda Brueggemann Speaks at 2012 Convocation
Professor Brueggemann’s words at the 2012 President’s Convocation for first-year students took the form of a “handshake” in American Sign Language – “my offering to you: a huge, humble,…
OSU MFA Hosting First Alumni Book Fair and Festival, September 14–16, 2012
The OSU MFA is hosting its first Alumni Book Fair and Festival, sponsored by the MFA Program in Creative Writing, the Office of the President, and the Ohio State University Libraries. Seven…
Living with Lynching: Mitchell honored for restoring playwrights to rightful place in U.S. theatre history
Over the summer months, Professor Koritha Mitchell has received a number of accolades for her book, Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890-1930.…