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During the reign of the Khmer Rouge (1975-1979) up to a quarter of Cambodia’s population was killed through torture, execution, forced labor, and starvation. Two of the most infamous sites of torture and execution in Phnom Penh, Tuol Sleng and Choeung Ek, remain today as sites of memory. Five Ohio […]

Dr. Ayesha K. Hardison, Associate Professor of English, published an article on “Where Author and Auteur Meet: Genre, the Erotic, and Black Female Subjectivity” in Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism 12.1 (April 2014): 88-120. Abstract: This essay examines black women’s transition from cultural consumers to artistic producers in Martha Southgate’s under-studied […]

Dr. Ayesha K. Hardison, Associate Professor of English, published a book on Writing through Jane Crow: Race and Gender Politics in African American Literature (University of Virginia Press 2014). In Writing through Jane Crow, Hardison examines African American literature and its representation of black women during the pivotal but frequently […]

  Dr. Amritjit Singh,Langston Hughes Professor of English at Ohio University, gives the closing plenary on “Migration, Exile, and NonViolence: Through a Transnational Glass Darkly” at the International Conference on the Cultural Politics of Memory on May 16 in London. The conference was hosted by the Centre for Critical and […]

Dr. Zakes Mda, Professor of Creative Writing: Fiction and Ohio University alum, will receive an honorary degree at Dartmouth College’s commencement in June, reports the Valley News (NH). Dartmouth Now further reports that Mda, a novelist, poet, playwright and professor, will receive a Doctor of Arts. Mda is also an […]

While some scholars study the science of structure and organization, Dr. Katarzyna Marciniak is a tear-down-the-walls sort of scholar. She grew up in Poland “behind the Wall,” but as a leading author on transnational feminism, she writes about immigration, borders, and rage in what she calls “noborders scholarship.” In an […]

A letter to the editor in the Athens News proclaimed Ohio University’s Spring Literary Festival scored a major coup with writer. “I am truly impressed. The Spring Literary Festival at Ohio University has somehow managed to persuade one of my favorite writers to come to Athens. Rebecca Solnit will be […]