Faculty and Staff Scholarship

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

Faculty and staff in the Department of English at Ohio State are highly active. They write and direct plays, publish collections of poetry, delivery keynote addresses at international conferences, edit journals and more. The following citations were self-reported and filed under the month they were received. For a more in-depth look at a particular faculty or staff member's work, click on their name and view their People page. 

Faculty and staff are encouraged to submit their research and scholarship at any time via our webform.


SUBMITTED SEPTEMBER 2022

Creative and research publications


SUBMITTED AUGUST 2022

Creative and research publications 

Speeches, lectures or presentations

  • Hamlin, Hannibal. “Writers and the Canon.” Roundtable on Bibles and Literature. Society of Biblical Literature. Salzburg, Austria, July 18, 2022. Participated via Zoom.
  • Hamlin, Hannibal. “The Personification of Death in Paradise Lost and Elsewhere.” Keynote Lecture. A Collective Address to Death: A Graduate Student Conference. The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, May 13, 2022.
  • Hamlin, Hannibal. Why Macbeth Should Have Stopped Worrying and Loved the Psalms.” Shakespeare’s Psalms: A Community Seminar Series. New Swan Shakespeare Center UC Irvine/ The Humanities Institute UC Santa Cruz. Zoom series, May 4, 2022.
  • Weiser, Elizabeth M. "Breaking the Taboo of Silence without Breaking the Nation." Keynote address. International Committee for Museology, 45th Annual Symposium. Prague, Czechia, August 26, 2022.

Awards or recognitions


SUBMITTED JULY 2022

Creative and research publications


SUBMITTED JUNE 2022

Speeches, lectures or presentations

  • Hughes, Robert. "'Michel Serres' Parasitical Tartuffe and the Disposable Heroes of Hypocrisy." International Philosophical Seminar XXIX: Reading Michel Serres. Kastelruth, Alto Adige, Italy.

SUBMITTED MAY 2022

Creative and research publications

Speeches, lectures or presentations

  • Ponce, Martin Joseph. Panelist. Stand By Me: The Legacies and Possibilities of Afro-Asian Coalitions, 30 Mar. 2022, Oberlin College, OH, virtual.
  • Ponce, Martin Joseph. “Mobilizing Anti-Racist Ideas and Practices Through Public-Facing Content.” Association for Asian American Studies, 15 Apr. 2022, Denver, CO.
  • Ponce, Martin Joseph. “Looking at Atrocity Photographs in Wing Tek Lum’s The Nanjing Massacre: Poems.” Association for Asian American Studies, 16 Apr. 2022, Denver, CO.

SUBMITTED APRIL 2022

Creative and research publications

Speeches, lectures or presentations

  • Brewer, David. “Stuff and People in the Time of the Ukiyo-zōshi.” Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 31 Mar. 2022, Baltimore, Maryland.
  • Friedman, Ryan. "Rethinking Assessments in a Large-Lecture General Education Course." College English Association of Ohio Spring Conference, 9 Apr. 2022. Virtual.
  • Hesford, Wendy S. “Carceral Rhetoric: Race and the Politics of Recognition.” Social Justice and Rhetoric Lecture Series, 23 Mar. 2022, Appalachian State University.
  • Hesford, Wendy S. “Community-Engaged Scholarship.” 12 Apr. 2022, Ohio Student Union, The Ohio State University.
  • Kolkovich, Elizabeth Zeman. "Rowe, Dyce, and the Love's Labor's Lost 'Black-moores.'" Shakespeare Association of America, Jacksonville, FL. 9 Apr. 2022.
  • Modan, Galey. Gabriella Modan and Katie Wells. "Signs at Work: New Labor Relations in Washington, DC’s Covid Landscape." Society for Linguistic Anthropology Conference, Boulder, CO, Apr. 2022.

Grants or fellowships

  • Jones, John. Education Grant. The Ohio State University Sustainability Institute 2022. 20 Apr. 2022.
  • Kolkovich, Elizabeth. "Women's Patronage as Playmaking." Research Fellowship. Folger Shakespeare Library. May 2022.

SUBMITTED MARCH 2022

Awards or recognitions

  • Hill Kazemi, Sona. Honored as a faculty mentor at the 33rd Annual SPHINX Senior Honorary Faculty and Staff Recognition Reception. 28 Feb. 2022.

Creative and research publications

Speeches, lectures or presentations

  • Patton, Jenny. “A Look at OSU’s Career Preparation for Humanities Majors Course: Content, Evolution, Constraints and Successes.” College of Liberal Arts Dean’s Meeting, 8 Mar. 2022, University of Nevada, Reno, NV.
  • Warhol, RobynSynchronic Reading: How to Unsettle the Time-Space of the Victorian Novel, co-presenter Helena Michie. North American Victorian Studies Association annual conference, 3 Mar. 2022. Virtual.

SUBMITTED FEBRUARY 2022

Creative and research publications

Digital Humanities Scholarship

Grants or fellowships

Speeches, lectures or presentations

  • Jani, Pranav. “Fearless Martyrs, Heroic Queens, and the Shadow of Hindutva: 1857 in the Anticolonial Imagination.” SASI Brown Bag Workshop, South Asian Studies Initiative, 17 Feb. 2022, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

SUBMITTED JANUARY 2022

Creative and research publications

Speeches, lectures or presentations

  • Graff, Harvey J. "The Past and Future of Interdisciplinarity." Invited presentation to the faculty of Zayed University, United Arab Emirates. 

SUBMITTED DECEMBER 2021

Creative and research publications

Speeches, lectures or presentations

Grants or fellowships

  • Roberts, Jefferson; MacDonald, WilliamGoodell, KarenBuelow, Melissa and Weiser, Elizabeth. “Enhancing a Transfer Pathway to Improve STEM Student Success,” National Science Foundation Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Grant for $1,444,207.
  • Hardin, Ashleigh. Affordable Learning Exchange High Support Grant: $5748. 

Archive