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Creative Writing graduate student Micah McCrary wrote “Review of Sarah Manguso’s Ongoingness: The End of a Diary” in Brevity’s Nonfiction Blog. McCrary is a doctoral student in the Creative Writing program at Ohio University. I tried to keep my first diary during junior high, a diary which I began under […]

Maggie Messitt, an English doctoral student in the Creative Writing non-fiction program, was awarded the John Cady Fellowship for the 2015-16 school year. Her project—”Art(i)fact: An Atlas of my Search“—is the story of her aunt, a missing person, and the journey to find her. In 2009, my aunt, an artist, […]

Ohio University alum Patrick Heery ’08, editor of Presbyterians Today, which won an Award of Excellence for the Best in Class Denominational Magazine by the Associated Church Press, the oldest and largest religious press association in North America. Heery also received the prestigious James Solheim Award for Editorial Courage. Heery […]

Graduate student Sarah Minor won first place in Hotel Amerika’s TransGenre Writing Contest for her essay “Nest.” Minor is a doctoral student in the Creative Writing nonfiction program in the English Department at Ohio University. Her work will be published in Hotel Amerika Volume 14, coming Winter 2016. About Hotel […]

From Compass Dr. Samuel Crowl, Ohio University Trustee Professor of English, was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters at Ohio University’s May 2 afternoon Commencement ceremony. Crowl was also the commencement speaker, and he touched upon the history of Ohio University and how alumni carry on the traditions set forth […]

By Jacob Zuckerman From Research Communications Students in Matthew Vetter’s English class aren’t just using Wikipedia for research, they’re using it to publish their articles about Appalachia. After Wikipedia launched in 2001, a new edict formed in college classrooms across the country: Wikipedia has no place in the realm of […]

Dr. Amritjit Singh gave a public lecture on “The ‘Frontier’ and the American Imagination: A Retrospective View” on April 16 at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Goa Campus, India. Singh, Langston Hughes Professor of English at Ohio University, is currently a Fulbright-Nehru Visiting Professor of English at the University of Delhi. […]