Post Tagged with: "English research"

Moore: The Story Cure: How to Revise a Draft Without Going Crazy

Dinty W. Moore

Dinty W. Moore, Professor of English at Ohio University, penned an article in Signature about his new book, The Story Cure: A Book Doctor’s Pain-Free Guide to Finishing Your Novel or Memoir. Moore teaches creative nonfiction at Ohio University and is the author of Dear Mister Essay Writer Guy: Advice […]

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May 2, 2017 at 7:48 pmResearch

English Grad Student Headed to Iceland for Dissertation Research

Sarah Minor, doctoral candidate in creative writing

by Kristin M. Distel Sarah Minor, doctoral student of creative writing, will spend 10 weeks this summer in Iceland, where she will write a “visual essay about the historic and modern relationship between literature and landscape in Iceland.” Minor’s research will examine “Beinakerling,” which, she explains, refers to “‘bone crone’ […]

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April 29, 2017 at 9:01 pmResearch

Wisland Publishes Essay on AIDS Crisis, Father’s Life

Wisland Publishes Essay on AIDS Crisis, Father’s Life

by Kristin M. Distel “This is the story of one of the longest-surviving HIV-positive men in the United States, a story irrevocably intertwined with my own,” says Kirk Wisland, doctoral candidate in creative writing. Wisland has published an essay in the latest issue of Proximity Magazine. The essay, “Inheritance,” chronicles […]

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April 18, 2017 at 3:36 pmResearch

Reynolds Brings Alden Library’s Special Collections to Paris and Berkeley

Reynolds Brings Alden Library’s Special Collections to Paris and Berkeley

by Kristin M. Distel Dr. Nicole Reynolds, Associate Professor of English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, gave two conference presentations on Alden Library’s Special Collections and the Edmund Blunden library in summer 2016. Discovering Blunden Blunden, a World War I poet, avid book collector, literary critic, and Oxford Professor […]

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December 9, 2016 at 2:38 pmResearch

Gupta Earns Scholarship, Studies Sept. 11 Documents in NYC

Priyadarshini Gupta, English doctoral student

  Priyadarshini Gupta‘s doctoral work on literary representations of Islam in the post-9/11 world took her to the New York Public Library this summer. A doctoral student of English, Gupta was awarded a competitive scholarship from Ohio University’s English Department, one of eight to students who are conducting research for their respective dissertations […]

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October 28, 2016 at 8:32 amResearch

Sundberg Works on Memoir at an Artist’s Residency in Belgium

Kelly Sundberg

Kelly Sundberg, a doctoral student in the Creative Writing program at Ohio University, worked on an upcoming memoir on her trip to Belgium, where she participated in an artist’s residency. She was awarded a competitive scholarship from Ohio University’s English Department, one of eight to students who are conducting research for their respective dissertations […]

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October 12, 2016 at 1:33 pmResearch

Wisland Earns Scholarship, Studies AIDS Crisis, His Father

Creative writing doctoral student, Kirk Wisland

Kirk Wisland, creative writing doctoral student, conducted research for his nonfiction project on his family history and the AIDS crisis. He was awarded a competitive scholarship from Ohio University’s English Department, one of eight to students who are conducting research for their respective dissertations and projects. ABSTRACT: My father will probably die of […]

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October 10, 2016 at 12:41 pmResearch