For this series, we reach out to a member of the department who has a very particular obsession and ask them to share it with the world. In this edition, Professor Dorothy Noyes shares her fascination with opera.
Jessica Johnson, a first-year lecturer here at Ohio State, recently gave a presentation in Lima as part of Black History Month.
On Sephora.com, you can find the eau de parfum, Book, for $105—an exclusive fragrance designed by Commodity to meet the needs of those fat-pocketed readers who just don’t have time for real books. It belongs to the “earthy and woody” fragrance family and boasts key notes of sandalwood, bergamot and cypress. “Book tips its hat to the Hemingways and Fitzgeralds of the world. Transporting you away to a world of imagination and stories while capturing that quiet moment when you’re curled up with a good book.” One might presume that at $105 per bottle, the book-loving Commodity could afford a copywriter who didn’t trade in sentence fragments, but whatever.
Looking for a new podcast? Interested in learning more about contemporary literature on folklore? PhD Candidate Rachel Hopkin and Tim Thurston, Ohio State alumnus and folklorist in East Asia studies, have recently begun releasing their New Books in Folklore podcast on the New Books Network.
We have a show! Congratulations to The Lord Denney’s Players and all those students, faculty and staff members recently cast in the upcoming production of Sir John Falstaff and the Merry Wives of Windsor.
For this series, we reach out to a member of the department who has a very particular obsession and ask them to share it with the world. In this edition, Lecturer Karen Bruce shares her fascination with crosswords.
During the winter of 2013 in Toronto, Suzannah Showler sifts through streaming channels for a less-than-intellectually-stimulating TV show as her feverish mind and flu-stricken body recoup. That TV show? The Bachelor. that fairy-tale game show embedded with jealousy, scandal, playfulness and, most important, love.
