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by Kristin M. Distel Christine Adams’ poem, “The Root Systems of Orchids,” has been selected by poet Mary Szybist to appear in Best New Poets 2016, an annual anthology of 50 poems from emerging writers. Adams is a second-year doctoral student and teaching assistant in Ohio University’s English Department, where […]

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 […]

by Kristin M. Distel Doctoral student Michelle Pretorius’ novel, The Monster’s Daughter, has received many glowing reviews from domestic and international outlets. The novel, Pretorius’s first, was published in July 2016 by Melville House and Audible. The Monster’s Daughter takes as one of its two main characters Alet Berg, a […]

by Kristin M. Distel Dr. Amritjit Singh’s edited volume, Revisiting India’s Partition: New Essays on Memory, Culture, and Politics (Lexington Books, June 2016), has begun to receive strong reviews from international news outlets. The book, co-edited by Singh with Professor Nalini Iyer and Dr. Rahul K. Gairola, has also been […]

Public radio show BackStory interviewed Dr. Paul Jones for a Halloween feature on the American horror story, specifically the work of Edgar Allan Poe. Jones is the Samuel and Susan Crowl Professorship in English Literature & Director of Graduate Studies at Ohio University. BackStory with the American History Guys is […]