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The 2017 Spring Literary Festival, held April 5, 6, 7, will feature authors Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum, Mary Cappello, Gerald Early, Tom Sleigh, and Colm Tóibín. The festival is sponsored by the Creative Writing program in the English Department at Ohio University, in conjunction with Alden Library. All readings and lectures […]

All are invited to a one-day symposium, “Literary Space Time,” sponsored by the English Department, on Friday, April 14. All sessions will take place in Ellis 113. Coffee and welcoming remarks begin at 8:30 a.m., followed by three panels, a roundtable discussion, and a keynote address. The symposium is a […]

Dr. Samuel Crowl, Trustee Professor of English, is the featured speaker at The Shakespeare Guild’s April 26 meeting. The event is part of The Shakespeare Guild’s 2016-17 series of engagements, each of which features Guild director John Andrews interviewing a Shakespearean scholar, actor, director, or filmmaker. The Shakespeare Guild meeting […]

OHIO’s English Department hosts its first Dogwood Bloom Reading Series event of 2017, which will feature the essays of Tom Tiberio. Tiberio will read his work on Friday, Jan. 20, at 7 p.m. The event will be held at Galbreath Chapel. Fluff cookies will be served. All are welcome! Tiberio […]

by Kristin M. Distel Dr. Nicole Reynolds, Associate Professor of English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, gave two conference presentations on Alden Library’s Special Collections and the Edmund Blunden library in summer 2016. Discovering Blunden Blunden, a World War I poet, avid book collector, literary critic, and Oxford Professor […]

by Kristin M. Distel “This was one of the best things I could have done,” says freshman Alexandra Petrovski, a student in Deni Naffziger Hackworth’s Writing and Rhetoric I course. Hackworth’s students spent five class sessions volunteering at Echoing Connections, a local facility that provides day habilitation services and life […]

by Kristin M. Distel Master of Arts student Sean Merz, who is studying English literature at Ohio University, has found a way to combine his love for language and his passion for hockey. Since April, Merz has been working as a writer and editor for Last Word on Sports, a […]