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Kristin Distel, doctoral candidate of English literature, published a chapter in a new volume on Toni Morrison. Her chapter, titled “‘Are you sure she was your sister?’: Sororal Love and Maternal Failure in Toni Morrison’s Paradise,” considers the ways in which sisters serve as mother figures in Morrison’s 1997 novel. […]

Dr. Edmond Chang gave the keynote at a Queer History Month Workshop at Oregon State University where he explored the desire for queerer design, queerer play, and queerer possibilities in video games. Chang is Assistant Professor English at Ohio University. His keynote was titled “Ready Player Three: Queergaming and Queer […]

Ohio University alum Jami Curl ’97 authored an article headlined “How a Natural Candy Company Finds Balance” in Business News Daily. Connect with Curl on LinkedIn. Curl is the founder of QUIN Candy and author of the candy cookbook “Candy is Magic” (Ten Speed Press, 2017). She earned a B.A. […]

Ohio University alum Kelly Francis ’01 shares “From Bobcat to Archivist – What it was Like to Work at the JFK Presidential Library” on Thursday, Feb. 1, from 3:15 to 4:15 p.m. in Baker Theatre during the Arts & Sciences Career & Networking Week. Watch live or later on A&S […]

by Kristin Distel Dr. Amritjit Singh, Langston Hughes Professor of English and African American Studies, has had a year full of rich and wide-ranging activity. His career and scholarship were recently celebrated in multiple venues—an international television interview, a volume of essays published in his honor, and a story in […]

  English Ph.D. fiction candidate Madeline ffitch published a nonfiction essay in the latest issue of Granta. The essay, “When We Fight, We Have Our Children With Us,” has been exceptionally well-received and widely shared on social media and elsewhere. Excerpt: “… Friends ask me about being a parent who […]

Exerpeted from Division of Student Affairs Ohio University has announced the fifth cohort of Margaret Boyd Scholars, the University’s first and only women’s academic enrichment program. The newest 20 women bring the total number of scholars to 100 (including program graduates). The Margaret Boyd Scholars Program, which began in 2013, […]