Faculty Expertise

Faculty Expertise

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 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
  • 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
  • Medical humanities
  • Narrative medicine

Project 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