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By Meah McCallister The English Department presents visiting writer Nicole Walker, reading from her work on Thursday, Oct. 17, at 7:30 in Galbreath Chapel. Walker is an essayist, poet, and professor. She is the author of The After-Normal: Brief, Alphabetical Essays on a Changing Planet, Sustainability: A Love Story, and […]

Dr. Edmond Chang’s essay “Drawing the Oankali: Imagining Race, Gender, and the Posthuman in Butler’s Dawn” was published in the edited collection Approaches to Teaching the Works of Octavia E. Butler from The Modern Language Association. Chang is Assistant Professor of English at Ohio University. According to Chang, “Octavia Butler’s […]

Ohio University alum Jack Kolkmeyer’s fourth book of poetry, Deeper Soul, is about to be published.  Kolkmeyer ’68 studied English Literature/Creative Writing at Ohio University in the 1960s, where he developed a special interest in the Romantic, Imagist and Beat poets. He was the Editor of  Sphere, the Ohio […]

Ohio University graduate student Anna Chotlos published an essay featuring swimming raccoons and a park naturalist whose “eyebrows look like albino wooly bear caterpillars” in Hippocampus. Her essay, Raccoon Olympics, begins: “I’m eleven years old, wearing a hand-me-down tie-dye t-shirt way too big for me, and soccer shorts—my legs riddled […]

Ohio University graduate student Angie Mazakis’ collection I Was Waiting to See what You Would Do First was named a finalist for the 2020 Miller Williams Poetry Prize and will be published next year by the University of Arkansas Press. Mazakis’ manuscript was also a finalist for the National Poetry […]

Dr. Eric LeMay, Associate Professor of English, wins the 2019 CutBank Chapbook contest for “Remember Me: An Essay.” LeMay’s long essay will be published as a chapbook by CutBank, the literary journal of the University of Montana, in 2020. The CutBank Chapbook Contest honors three works of “startling, evocative, and […]

The Ohio University Mock Trial Team selected 20 students to compete during the 2019-20 academic year. Tryouts occurred on Sept. 11 and 12. In order to tryout, students were required to prepare and deliver a three-minute speech on a selected topic. At the conclusion of their prepared remarks, students were […]