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Professor Sebastian Knowles Appointed Chair of Department of English
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…
Gardner Awarded 2012 EBSCOhost-RSAP Book Prize
Professor Jared Gardner’s The Rise and Fall of Early American Magazine Culture (published by the University of Illinois Press) is the winner of…
Richard Dutton Wins Annual Elizabeth Dietz Award
The Oxford Handbook to Early Modern Theatre, a collection edited by Richard Dutton, Humanities Distinguished Professor and Chair of the…
Herman, Phelan, Warhol & Co-Authors Win CHOICE Award
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…
WRL Team Awarded $50K Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Grant for MOOC “Writing II: 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…
English Advisors Welcome Students: Watch the video, Come to evening drop-in hours!
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…
“Constructing James Castle:” Exhibit pays tribute to deaf artist
“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…
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…