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Ohio State’s English faculty are all teacher-scholars. Some have published novels, short stories, poems or creative essays; others have edited texts from Old English poems to Shakespeare’s plays to nineteenth-century poems and novels; still others have written books and/or articles on folklore, rhetoric, composition and literacy, literary theory and criticism that circulate nationally and internationally; while others have published textbooks that have become classics in their fields. Whether in the classroom or advising theses and dissertations, our English faculty speak from deep expertise.
Expand the accordions below to view detailed lists of related expertise areas. Within each accordion, some related expertise areas are linked to individual pages that may detail active and emeritus faculty, course offerings, scholarly resources and additional resources. Many faculty members in this diverse and interdisciplinary department are experts in more than one area.
AREAS OF FACULTY EXPERTISE
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- Fiction
- Nonfiction
- Poetry
- Screenwriting
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- Aesthetics
- Critical legal theory
- Critical race theory
- Disability theory
- Feminist theory
- Hermeneutics
- Historicism
- Marxist theory
- Medical humanities theory
- Narrative theory
- Psychoanalytic theory
- Queer theory
- Theory of the novel
- Thing theory
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- Digital media studies
- Digital composing
- Digital media coding
- Video game studies
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- Disability studies
- Rhetoric of disability
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- Popular culture studies
- Film and television studies
- Comics
- Science fiction
- Fantasy
- Children's literature
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- Folklore
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- Women writers
- LGBTQ+ studies
- Feminist studies
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- History of the book
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- Human rights and English Studies
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- Anglo-Saxon language and literature
- Middle English
- Renaissance
- Restoration and 18th-century British
- Romantic and Victorian
- Colonial and U.S. Literature to 1900
- 20th- and 21st-century British and American
- U.S. Ethnic and postcolonial
- African American
- Asian American
- Latinx
- Anglophone world literatures
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- Medical humanities
- Narrative medicine
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- Print, film, television and graphic narratives
- Fiction and nonfiction
- Narrative theory and its history
- Formalist and historical approaches
- Cognitive and neuroscientific approaches
- Queer and feminist approaches
- Rhetorical approach
- Socio-linguistic approach
- Narrative ethics
