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English Professor Dinty W. Moore, Director of Creative Writing at Ohio University, recently judged an international writing contest at Writing for Peace where participants, age 13-19, are asked to write an 800-1000 word essay about a social, political, environmental, or familial challenge faced by individuals within a cultural group, or […]

“Some people describe a lonesome highway or the middle of a desert town—even a state like Ohio—as ‘the middle of nowhere.’ But for others, like Eric LeMay, no such place exists,” writes Jill Talbot in a discussion for New Books in Literature with the writer about his new book. There […]

Daniel Keyes, Professor of Creative Writing at Ohio University from 1966-90, passed away on June 15. Keyes arrived at Ellis Hall a year after his first novel—Flowers for Algernon—was published. His story of the mouse named Algernon, a man with an I.Q. of 68, and an experimental procedure to make […]

Dr. Eric LeMay published a new book, In Praise of Nothing: Essays, Memoir, and Experiments. Why do we play the lottery when we know we’ll lose? How does what we laugh at tell us who we are? What happens when, through some misstep or mishap, we lose ourselves and become […]

Ohio University alum Kathryn Potraz ’13 is interning with the Sierra Club’s Green Life Blog and the Sierra Club magazine. Potraz earned two degrees from Ohio University, a B.A. in English from the College of Arts & Sciences and a B.S.J. in Journalism. Her recent story on “Largest Mule Deer […]

Poetry enthusiast Dr. Albert Rouzie, Associate Professor of English and Director of Composition at Ohio University, interviews Ohio University alum and rising poet Steven Kapela ’12 on WOUB‘s Conversations from Studio B. Kapela majored in Creative Writing and graduated from the College of Arts & Sciences at Ohio University. He […]

Five Ohio University undergraduate students are in Cambodia this summer in a student-faculty collaborative “externship” project call “Imagining International Justice in Post-Genocide Cambodia.” The students are working with various organizations through partnerships with the Ohio University Center for Law, Justice & Culture. Ohio University has a strong history of Southeast Asian […]