Post Tagged with: "English News"

The 2015 Lit Fest welcomes essayists Dorothy Allison and Brian Doyle, novelist Charles Johnson, and poets Marie Howe and Robert Pinsky. The Ohio University Spring Literary Festival is March 25-27. All readings and lectures are free and open to the public. The five visiting writers will be present throughout the […]

The Rainy Season: Three Lives in the New South Africa, a new work of literary journalism by Maggie Messitt, releases in April. Messitt is a doctoral student in Ohio University’s Creative Writing non-fiction program. Just across the northern border of a former apartheid-era homeland sits a rural community in the […]

  “I am an MFA dropout,” writes Maggie Messitt, a doctoral student in Ohio University’s Creative Writing non-fiction program. Her column “In Defense of the Low-Res MFA” appears on the Brevity blog. …Still, I was convinced that graduate school was my next step. I wanted to tell true stories. After […]

PBS NewsHour weekly poem series featured a reading of “As If” by Dr. J. Allyn Rosser, Associate Professor of English at Ohio University, from her new book Mimi’s Trapeze. The Artsdesk story carried the headline: Poet posits, ‘We humans, we’re kind of a disappointment.’ In Mimi’s Trapeze, her fourth book, […]

Valparaiso, Round the Horn, a book of short stories by English doctoral student Madeline ffitch, is just out at Publishing Genius Press. ffitch is a doctoral student in the Creative Writing fiction program in the English Department at Ohio University. She will be reading from the book on March 1 […]

Ohio University alum Eric Schwerer ’01 Ph.D. contributed an article on “Courageous reflections on virtue” to Johnstown, PA, Tribune-Democrat. Schwerer, who earned a Ph.D. in English from Ohio University, teaches creative writing at the University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown. In January’s Wisdom for the Ages feature, young people who were interested in […]

Dr. Eric LeMay, Assistant Professor of English, is seeking an undergraduate research apprentice for an electronic literature project investigating the culture of war on “Ground Zeros”—the times after World War II and 9/11. College of Arts & Sciences freshmen, sophomores and juniors are eligible for the Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Pilot Program […]