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The Chillicothe Gazette writes about Ohio University alum Karen Harper ’67 returning to Chillicothe, the setting for her best-selling novels, for a reading. Harper earned a B.A. in English from the College of Arts & Sciences at Ohio University. CHILLICOTHE – A New York Times bestselling author from Columbus whose […]

Dr. Ayesha Hardison is the Fall 2014 Langston Hughes Visiting Professor at the University of Kansas. Hardison is Associate Professor of English at Ohio University, where she teaches courses in African American literature. Her first book, Writing through Jane Crow: Race and Gender Politics in African American Literature (American Literatures […]

Dr. Loreen Giese, Professor of Shakespeare and early modern drama at Ohio University, was the featured speaker at the Schreiner University Syers Lecture on Oct. 23, reports the Bandera County Courier. She presented “Uncovering Cruelty in Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew and Early Modern London.” The marriage of Katherine […]

Dr. Katarzyna Marciniak’s new book “Immigrant Protest: Politics, Aesthetics, and Everyday Dissent” explores how political activism, art, and popular culture challenge the discrimination and injustice faced by “illegal” and displaced peoples. The Ohio University Women’s Center hosts an International Women’s Coffee Hour and Book Party featuring Marciniak on Wednesday, Nov. […]

Ohio University poetry alum Becca J.R. Lachman ’07MA reviewed Brian Turner’s My Life as a Foreign Country for Brevity. “Of all the issues that can tear a family down the middle over time, deciding how to define and live out service has shaped–and divided–the people I love most. Both sides […]

Kelly Sundberg, a graduate student in English, has been named the 2015 A Room of Her Own Foundation’s Courage Fellow. The fellowship was created to enable a survivor of domestic violence or sexual assault to attend the foundation’s annual retreat in Ghost Ranch, NM. While at the retreat, Sundberg will […]

The English Department’s New Ohio Review has a part-time Managing Editor’s position posted on the Ohio University website. Job Description: The Managing Editor will work in an office setting where she or he will be under the direct supervision of the Editor. The ideal candidate for this position will be […]