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Jim Phelan

Jim Phelan, Distinguished University Professor, English, has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Philosophy by Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark. The presentation of the doctorate will take…

Professors Kay Halasek and Erin McGraw in polaroid graphics

Professor Kay Halasek and Professor Erin McGraw have been named as recipients of the 2013 Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching.

The Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching honors faculty…

Sebastian Knowles

The faculty staff and students of the Department of English have been informed of the appointment of Professor Sebastian D.G. Knowles as the next Chair of the Department, pending approval by the…

Cover of "The Rise and Fall of Early American Magazine Culture"

Professor Jared Gardner’s The Rise and Fall of Early American Magazine Culture (published by the University of Illinois Press) is the winner of…

The Oxford Handbook to Early Modern Theatre cover

The Oxford Handbook to Early Modern Theatre, a collection edited by Richard Dutton, Humanities Distinguished Professor and Chair of the…

Narrative theory by Herman, Phelan, Warhol

The Ohio State University Press has announced that Narrative Theory: Core Concepts and Critical Debates is one of five of its publications to be named Choice Outstanding Academic Titles…

a web of concepts related to rhetorical composition

Kay Halasek leads a group of five Ohio State faculty in English, including Susan Delagrange, Scott DeWitt, Ben McCorkle, and Cynthia Selfe that was recently awarded a $50,000 Bill & Melinda Gates…

Black and white photo of Denney Hall

The English Advisors Ruth Friedman and Pablo Tanguay missed our students so much over Winter Break that they made a film to commemorate the aching loneliness of Denney Hall in late…

Book with various letters and symbols

“Constructing James Castle” — the current exhibit at the Ohio State University Urban Arts Space, curated by Brenda Brueggemann, professor in English and disability studies— pays tribute to the…