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Alumni News | Sundberg Publishes Debut Memoir to Rave Reviews

Dr. Kelly Sundberg, author of 'Goodbye, Sweet Girl'

Dr. Kelly Sundberg, a 2018 graduate of OHIO’s Creative Writing Program, published her debut memoir, Goodbye, Sweet Girl, with HarperCollins press. She earned a Ph.D. in English from the College of Arts & Sciences at Ohio University. She is now a Visiting Assistant Professor in the English Department at Ohio […]

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June 29, 2018 at 2:21 pmAlumni

Alumni News | Sports Columnist: Blind Baseball? C’mon, How’s That Possible?

Dr. David Wanczyk

Sports columnist Chip Ainsworth of the Greenfield Recorder reviewed a new book on beep baseball by Ohio University alum and English faculty member Dr. David Wanczyk in a story headlined “Keeping Score: An outta sight sport.” Wanczyk authored the first book about blind baseball, Beep: Inside the Unseen World of […]

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June 18, 2018 at 10:33 amAlumni Alumni in the News In the News

Alumni News | Book ’12 Rounds in Lo’s Gym’ Tells Story of Snyder’s Father

Todd Snyder, from  his blog Hillbilly Speaks

The Wheeling News Register writes about a new book by Ohio University alum Todd Snyder in a story headlined “Snyder Sees Book as Metaphor For West Virginians’ Fighting Spirit.” Snyder, Associate Professor of English at Siena College, earned a Ph.D. in English from the College of Arts & Sciences at […]

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June 18, 2018 at 8:43 amAlumni Alumni in the News In the News

Alumni News | Messitt Hired as National Director of Report for America

Maggie Messitt

by Dinty W. Moore Dr. Maggie Messitt ’17, a graduate of the English Ph.D. program in Creative Writing, was named national director of Report for America, an initiative of the GroundTruth Project. Report for America is a newly launched national service program deploying outstanding emerging and established journalists into newsrooms around […]

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May 8, 2018 at 2:18 pmAlumni

WOUB Studio B Interview’s Wanczyk about Book on Baseball for the Blind

Dr. David Wanczyk

In the May 7 installment of Conversations From Studio B, Dr. David Wanczyk speaks with WOUB’s Emily Votaw about his first book, Beep: Inside the Unseen World of Baseball for the Blind published on opening day by Swallow Press. “The book examines the fascinating world of the National Beep Baseball Association, […]

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May 7, 2018 at 4:49 pmAlumni Alumni in the News In the News

Benham Publishes Book Chapter on Sympathy and War Literature

English department alumni and post-doctoral fellow Renee Benham

by Kristin Distel M. Renee Benham’s chapter “The Death of Sympathy in Great War Literature” is part of the medical humanities collection Medicine, Health, and Being Human, edited by Lesa Scholl of the University of Queensland, Australia. This collection is part of the series Routledge Advances in the Medical Humanities, released […]

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April 27, 2018 at 9:03 amAlumni Research

Alumni News | Dr. Patrick Smith of Bainbridge State College Passes

Dr. Patrick Alan Smith

Dr. Patrick Alan Smith, professor of English at Bainbridge State College, Georgia, lost his three-year battle with cancer and passed away on April 22, reports the Tallahassee Democrat. Smith earned a Ph.D. in English from the College of Arts & Sciences at Ohio University in 1999. Dr. Smith graduated from Penn […]

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April 26, 2018 at 3:00 pmAlumni