Student Scholarship

Students in the Department of English at Ohio State engage in a wide variety of research and scholarship. The following citations were self-reported and filed under the month they were received. 

Students are encouraged to submit their research and scholarship at any time via our webform


SUBMITTED MAY 2022

Awards and honors

Speech, lecture or presentation

  • Trzinski, Samantha. "A Pedagogy of Sorrow: Alice Flowerdew’s Writing for Young People." British Women Writers Conference, 19-21 May 2022, Baylor University, Waco, TX.

SUBMITTED APRIL 2022

Creative and research publications

Grants or fellowships


SUMITTED MARCH 2022

Creative and research publications

Grants or fellowships


SUBMITTED FEBRUARY 2022

Awards and honors

  • Trusty, Maria. "Real World Fantasy: A Look at Fantasy World Building and its Focus on Important Topics." Accepted to 2022 Denman Undergraduate Research Forum.

Creative and research publications

Grants or fellowships

  • Trzinski, Samantha. William T. Buice III Scholarship. Rare Book School at University of Virginia. 

SUBMITTED DECEMBER 2021

Publications

Archive

SUBMITTED NOVEMBER 2021

Speeches, lectures or presentations

  • Trzinski, Samantha. "Unstable Identities: The Case of The Woman of Colour (1808)." South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA), 5 Nov. 2021. Virtual.

SUBMITTED OCTOBER 2021

Speeches, lectures or presentations

  • Colón Alvarez, Natalia. "The Graphic Novel as a Literary Text: An Introduction to Comic Studies." English Major Association (EMA), University of Puerto Rico, 21 Oct. 2021. Virtual.
  • Trzinski, Samantha. "Setting Sail for Sensibility: Masculinity and Class Mobility in Persuasion." Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA), 14 Oct. 2021. Virtual.

SUBMITTED SEPTEMBER 2021

Publications


SUBMITTED AUGUST 2021

Publications

  • Marsden, Mariah, and Hanna Luechtefeld. The Secret Garden: A Graphic Novel, Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2021.

SUBMITTED APRIL 2021

Awards and recognitions

  • Neal, D'Arcee. First Place Honors. Hayes Graduate Research Forum Humanities Division, 2021. 
  • Woodward, Jordan. Outstanding Writing Instruction Award, Writing Across the Curriculum, 2021. 

Grants or fellowships

  • Barnum, Daniel. Presidential Fellowship. The Ohio State University Graduate School, 2020. 

Publications


SUBMITTED MARCH 2021

Publications

Speeches, lectures or presentations

  • Bishop, Andrew. "Deep-Time Tourism in Herman Melville's 'The Encantadas,'" Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Virtual Conference: Discovery, 11 Mar. 2021. Panel on "Science and Science Fiction: Time and Mind."

SUBMITTED JANUARY 2021

Grants or fellowships

  • Trzinski, Samantha. Access 2021 Scholarship. Rare Books School at University of Virginia.

Publications

  • Chavez, Mercedes. "Vernacular Landscapes: Reading the Anthropocene in the Films of Kelly Reichardt." AfterImage: The Journal of Arts and Cultural Criticism, vol. 48.1, March 2021.
  • Chavez, Mercedes. "Cinetracts essay: Mercedes Chavez on Natalia Almada." Read, Watch, Listen, Wexner Center for the Arts, 18 Oct. 2020. 
  • Smith, Sarah Grace. "Pink." Flash Fiction Magazine, Nov. 2020. 

SUBMITTED DECEMBER 2020

Publications

  • Pizarro, Nicole. "'What'll Become of Me?': Adaptation and the Mediation of Black Women's Bodies." New Approaches to Contemporary Adaptation, Wayne State University Press, 2020. 

SUBMITTED OCTOBER 2020

Publications


SUBMITTED SEPTEMBER 2020

Awards or recognitions

Publications


SUBMITTED APRIL 2020

Awards or recognitions

Grants or fellowships

  • Mitchell, Ryan. U.S. Student Fulbright Study/Research Award, awarded by the Fulbright U.S. Student Program. 2020.
  • Morrison, Clint, Jr. Hope Emily Allen Dissertation Grant, awarded by the Medieval Academy of America. 2020.
  • Nelson, Chloe. U.S. Student Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Award, awarded by the Fulbright U.S. Student Program. 2020.
  • Peddireddi, Ayush. U.S. Student Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Award, awarded by the Fulbright U.S. Student Program. 2020.

Publications

  • DeCarlo, Evan. "Snyder’s Spiral in 'Burning the Small Dead': Megatropic Synecdoche as Evinced by Fractals and Zen Buddhist Interdependence." Text in Context, October 2020.
  • Julius, Robert. "Everyone You Meet Is God in Drag." The Rumpus, 14 Apr. 2020.

Speeches, lectures or presentations

  • Rooney, Jack. “‘If I could seize a soul’: Victorian Poetic Theory as the Generic Bridge Between Elegy and Psychography." NAVSA 2019: Media, Genre, the Generic, 19 October 2019, Hilton Columbus Downtown, Columbus, OH. Conference Paper.
  • Rooney, Jack. “‘Nor atom that his might could render void’: Elementing Immortality in Romantic Sepulchral Meditation." NASSR 2019: Romantic Elements, 8 August 2019, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL. Conference Paper.
  • Rooney, Jack.“‘What wouldst thou?’: Conjuration as the Crisis of Terror and Horror in Three Romantic Poets." International Gothic Association 2019: Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror, 2 August 2019, Lewis University, Romeoville, IL. Conference Paper.
  • Sydlik, Andrew. "'No Great Stretch of Fancy': Madness in the American Gothic." Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association Conference, 9 Nov. 2019, Pittsburgh, PA. Conference Presentation.

SUBMITTED MARCH 2020

Awards or recognitions

  • Awad, Ruth. Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist's Fellowships in Poetry ($5000). Ohio Arts Council. 2020.
  • Borgen, Seth. Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist's Fellowships in Fiction ($5000). Ohio Arts Council. 2020.
  • Cabey, Akhim. Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist's Fellowships in Poetry ($5000). Ohio Arts Council. 2020.
  • Cieskowski, Babette. Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist's Fellowships in Poetry ($5000). Ohio Arts Council. 2020.
  • Cumming, Valerie. Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist's Fellowships in Fiction ($5000). Ohio Arts Council  2020.
  • Fox, James. Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist's Fellowships in Nonfiction ($5000). Ohio Arts Council. 2020.
  • Ellenberger, James. Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist's Fellowships in Poetry ($5000). Ohio Arts Council. 2020.
  • Hallal, Billy. Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist's Fellowships in Fiction ($5000). Ohio Arts Council. 2020.
  • Smith, Eliza. Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist's Fellowships in Nonfiction ($5000). Ohio Arts Council. 2020.
  • Smith, Jamie Lyn. Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist's Fellowships in Fiction ($5000). Ohio Arts Council. 2020.
  • Townsend, Ann. Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist's Fellowships in Poetry ($5000). Ohio Arts Council. 2020.
  • Ventre, Gina. Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist's Fellowships in Fiction ($5000). Ohio Arts Council. 2020.

Publications


SUBMITTED FEBRUARY 2020

Publications

Speeches, lectures or presentations

  • Yeager, Sean. "Visualizing the Temporal Space of Narratives." Hayes Forum, 28 February 2020, The Ohio State University, Columbus. Conference Presentation. Awarded first-place prize in Humanities Conference Presentation by Hayes Forum.

SUBMITTED JANUARY 2020

Publications

Speeches, lectures or presentations

  • Bashford, AndrewIndya Jackson, and Edgar Singleton. "Can What and How We Teach Make the World More Just?: Antiracist Pedagogy in Teaching First-Year Students." Focus on the First Year Conference, 14 January 2020. Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.
  • Morrison, Clint. "Caroling around in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." MLA, 9 January 2020, Washington State Conference Center, Seattle, WA. Conference Paper.
  • Rooney, Jack. “‘If I could seize a soul’: Victorian Poetic Theory as the Generic Bridge Between Elegy and Psychography." NAVSA 2019: Media, Genre, the Generic, 19 October 2019, Hilton Columbus Downtown, Columbus, OH. Conference Paper.
  • Rooney, Jack. “‘Nor atom that his might could render void’: Elementing Immortality in Romantic Sepulchral Meditation." NASSR 2019: Romantic Elements, 8 August 2019, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL. Conference Paper.
  • Rooney, Jack. “‘What wouldst thou?’: Conjuration as the Crisis of Terror and Horror in Three Romantic Poets." International Gothic Association 2019: Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror, 2 August 2019, Lewis University, Romeoville, IL. Conference Paper.

SUBMITTED DECEMBER 2019

Awards or recognitions

Publications


SUBMITTED SEPTEMBER 2019

 

Awards or recognitions

  • Podraza, Morgan. "Happy Halloween, Michael: Laurie Strode and the Survival of the Final Girl." Gary Burns Graduate Student Travel Award, awarded by the Midwest Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference. October 2019.
  • Roundtree, Sherita. Presidents Dissertation Award of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric & Composition (CFSHRC) for her dissertation “Pedagogies of Noise: Black Women’s Teaching Efficacy and Pedagogical Approaches in Composition Classrooms.” Dissertation. September 2019.

Publications

  • Kimball, Kamal. "Seasonal Affective." Tahoma Literary Review, vol. 16 (forthcoming)

Speech, lecture or presentation

  • Russell, Shaun. "Behind 'The Altar': Rethinking Typography in George Herbert's /The Temple/." Sixteenth Century Society Conference, 18 October 2019, Hyatt Regency, St. Louis, MO. Conference Paper.
  • Sydlik, Andrew. "'No Great Stretch of Fancy': Madness in the American Gothic." Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association Conference, 9 November 2019, Pittsburgh Marriott City Center, Pittsburgh, PA. Presentation.
  • Yeager, Sean. "fine tuning Antin's 'tuning': a mathematical model of communication." Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Annual Meeting, 7-9 November 2019, Irvine, CA. Conference Presentation. 
  • Yeager, Sean. "An Autistic Narratology and the Mechanics of Storytelling." Modern Language Association Annual Convention, 11 January 2020, Seattle, WA. Conference Presentation.

SUBMITTED JULY 2019

 

Awards or recognitions

  • Bishop, AndrewWinner of the Twenty-Sixth Annual Victor J. Emmett, Jr., Memorial Award for “Health or Wealth? Environmentalism and Consumerism in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman.The Midwest Quarterly, vol. 60, no. 4, 2019, pp. 402-418.

Speeches, lectures or presentations

  • Opliger, BonnieCristina Rivera, and Edgar Singleton. “Competing and Cooperating Voices in Curriculum Design: Including All Stakeholders in Program Revision.” Council of Writing Program Administrators Conference, 27 July 2019, Baltimore Marriott Waterfront, Baltimore, MD. 

SUBMITTED MAY 2019

 

Publications

  • Bishop, Andrew. "Wasted Bulls and Fungus-Ridden Fish: Waste, Travel, and Entitlement in Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises." The Hemingway Review, vol. 38, no. 2, 2019, pp. 27-41.

SUBMITTED APRIL 2019

 

Awards or recognitions

  • Bonifacio, AyendyNortheast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) 2018 Caribbean Studies Essay Award for “¿A’ca’o Qué, Comadre?: Border Languages, Xicanisma and Ciudadanía in Ana Castillo’s So Far from God.”
  • Bowen, Maria. Second Place, Ohio State Newark Annual Student Research Forum. “You, Me & 9/11: Collective Memory in the National Sept. 11 Museum.” Oral Presentation, March 5, 2019.

  • Gallaher, Megan. First Place, Ohio State Newark Annual Student Research Forum. “Nineteenth Century Literary History and Liverpool.” Oral Presentation, March 5, 2019.


SUBMITTED FEBRUARY 2019

 

Publications


SUBMITTED JANUARY 2019

 

Publications

  • Berry, ConnieA Dream of Death. Crooked Lane Books. Forthcoming April 2019.

SUBMITTED DECEMBER 2018

 

Awards or recognitions

Publications

Speeches, lectures or presentations


SUBMITTED OCTOBER 2018

 

Publications


SUBMITTED SEPTEMBER 2018

 

Publications

Speeches, lectures or presentations

  • Knapper, Daniel. “Living and Active: Saint Paul, Lancelot Andrewes, and the Rhetoric of Misquotation,” Renaissance Society of America, New Orleans, LA. March 2018.

SUBMITTED MAY 2018

 

Publications

Reviews


SUBMITTED MARCH 2018

Grants or fellowships

  • "Mary Lily Research Grant." PI: Miller, Rachel. Received from the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture at Duke University. 2018-2019.
  • "Fulbright Scholarship." PI: Timmins, Alejandra. Received for use towards scholarship in Spain. 2018. 

Publications

Reviews

Speeches, lectures or presentations

  • Bonifacio, Ayendy. “The Celebrity Climate of the Poetess Persona in Robert E. Bonner's New York Ledger,” C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists (C19), Albuquerque, New Mexico, March 2018.
  • Cleto, Sara. Roundtable discussion: The Case of the Alchemist's Daughter. The 39th Annual International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts. Orlando, Florida. March 16th, 2018.
  • Warman, Brittany and Sara Cleto. "'Spooky Action at a Distance': Fairylore's Intrusion on Vampiric Tradition in Only Lovers Left Alive." The 39th Annual International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts. Orlando, Florida. March 17th, 2018. 
  • Warman, Brittany. Roundtable discussion: "Folklore and Frankenstein." The 39th Annual International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts. Orlando, Florida. March 16th, 2018. 

SUBMITTED FEBRUARY 2018

 

Publications

  • Gordon, Kaiya. "Review: Death by Sex Machine by Franny Choi." Up the Staircase Quarterly, 1 February 2018.
  • Harvat, Zachary. "S(t)imulating History: Queer Historical Play in Gone Home and The Tearoom," Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture, vol. 3, no. 1.
  • Matlock, Maryna“‘What’s in the Empty Flat?’: Specular Identity and Authorship in Neil Gaiman’s Coraline.” The Victorian Era in Twenty-First Century Children’s and Adolescent Literature and Culture, edited by Sonya Sawyer Fritz and Sara K. Day, Routledge, 2018, pp. 38-54.
  • Showler, Suzannah. Most Dramatic Ever: The Bachelor. ECW Press, 23 January, 2018.

Speeches, lectures or presentations


SUBMITTED JANUARY 2018

 

Publications

SUBMITTED DECEMBER 2017

 

Publications


SUBMITTED NOVEMBER 2017

 

Author Talks and Q&As

  • Bonifacio, Ayendy. "Dique Dominican: A Memoir." 10 November 2017. Molasses Books, Brooklyn, NY.

Awards or recognitions

Publications

Speeches, lectures or presentations

  • Bonifacio, Ayendy. "Memoir Writing Workshop." 9 November 2017. Fordham Leadership Academy  for Business & Technology, Bronx, NY.
  • Bonifacio, Ayendy, and Joey S. Kim. "Applying to Graduate School: McNair Scholars Program." 8 November 2017. Hunter College (CUNY), New York, NY.

SUBMITTED OCTOBER 2017

 

Awards or recognitions

  • Moran, Ben. "M. Rick Smith Memorial Prize for Best Graduate Student Essay." The Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference. 21 October 2017.

Publications

  • Chivington, Lauren. "The Girl, the Jew, and the Maus: Holocaust Narratives in Controversial Media". The Knowledge Bank at The Ohio State University, 2017.
  • Stroup, Rachel"A Feminist Reads Philip Roth." PopMatters, 21 July 2017.

Speeches, lectures or presentations

  • Bahl, Erin. ""What Do You See, Old Gray?": Narrative Accessibility, Creative Audio Description and "The Bremen Town Musicians."" 2017, American Folklore Society, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
  • Bonifacio, Ayendy. "Dique Dominican." Author Talk, 21 October 2017, The Potter's House, Washington, D.C.
  • Cleto, Sara. ""Come, Give Me a True History": Storytelling and the Creation of a Legend in Bronte's Wuthering Heights." 2017, American Folklore Society, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
  • Hopkin, Rachel C. "Tell Us a Story: Interviewing and Alchemy." 2017, American Folklore Society, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
  • Jacobs, Tessa. "Beliefscapes of Climate Change: Rumor and Legend for the Anthropocene." 2017, American Folklore Society, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
  • Johnson, Christofer. "Fishing in Uncertain Waters: Resilience and Cultural Change in a Small North Atlantic Community." 2017, American Folklore Society, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
  • Johnson, Christofer. "Modernity, Resilience and Change." 2017, American Folklore Society, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
  • Lovejoy, Jordan. ""Them Girls Shake It:" Affrilachian Poetry as Social and Environmental Justice Performance Activism." 2017, American Folklore Society, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
  • Marsden, Mariah. "The Ghost in the Narrative: Spectral Intersubjectivity and Resistance in an Ozark Cattlewoman's Narratives." 2017, American Folklore Society, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
  • Moran, Ben. "Churning Earth." The 41st Annual Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference, 21 October 2017, Baldwin Wallace University, Berea, OH. 
  • Smith, Madeline. "Authority, Identity, Sainthood and Complex Forms of Dissent in the Vernacular Religion of the Modern Catholic Worker Movement." 2017, American Folklore Society, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
  • Vaillancourt, Gregg. "Reclaiming the Pagan Past: The Neo-Pagan Revival of the AEcerbot and Early Medieval Charms." 2017, American Folklore Society, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
  • Varajon, Sydney""Not Responsible for Consequence:" Market Altars, Performativity and Placemaking in the Greater Hilltop." 2017, American Folklore Society, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
  • Warman, Brittany. "Her Story: A Feminism and Folklore Retrospective 2017. 2017, American Folklore Society, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
  • Warman, Brittany. "Queering Constructions: Multivariance and Liminality in Folk Narrative." 2017, American Folklore Society, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
  • Warman, Brittany. "You Have Set Yourself to Music": Fairy Legend in Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray." 2017, American Folklore Society, Minneapolis, Minnesota.


SUBMITTED SEPTEMBER 2017

 

Awards or recognitions

  • Kim, Joey. Finalist. ROAR Story Slam. KoreanAmericanStory.org. Council of Korean-Americans National Summit & Gala, Washington, D.C., October 2017.

Publications

Speeches, lectures or presentations


SUBMITTED SUMMER 2017
(May through August)

 

Publications