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
- Fiction
- Nonfiction
- Poetry
- Screenwriting
- 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 composing
- Digital media coding
- Video game studies
- Disability studies
- Rhetoric of disability
- Popular culture studies
- Film and television studies
- Comics
- Science fiction
- Fantasy
- Children's literature
- Women writers
- LGBTQ+ studies
- Feminist studies
- Human rights and English Studies
- 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
- Narrative medicine
- 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