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, writing, rhetoric, 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.
AREAS OF FACULTY EXPERTISE
Creative writing
- Fiction
- Nonfiction
- Poetry
- Screenwriting
Critical and cultural theory
- 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
Digital media studies
- Digital media studies
- Digital composing
- Digital media coding
- Video game studies
Disability studies
- Disability studies
- Rhetoric of disability
Film and popular culture
- Popular culture studies
- Film and television studies
- Comics
- Science fiction
- Fantasy
- Children's literature
Folklore
Gender and sexuality studies
- Women writers
- LGBTQ+ studies
- Feminist studies
History of the book
Human rights and English studies
- Human rights and English Studies
Linguistics
Literature
- Medieval (Old and Middle English)
- Renaissance
- Restoration and 18th-century British
- Romantic and Victorian
- American literature before 1900
- 20th- and 21st-century British and American
- U.S. Ethnic and postcolonial
- African American
- Asian American
- Latinx
- Anglophone world literatures
Medical humanities
- Medical humanities
- Narrative medicine
Narrative
- 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