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The Department of English would like to congratulate Assistant Professor Corinne Sugino and Assistant Professor Charles Athanasopoulos for each being recognized by the National Communication…
The Department of English would like to congratulate Associate Professor Pranav Jani for being awarded a 2026 National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Affiliate Intellectual Freedom Award. …
The Department of English is incredibly proud of these recent and forthcoming works from our MFA students, faculty, and alumni! From reflections on parenthood to a poetic reimagining of
The Department of English is delighted to congratulate Assistant Professor Corinne Mitsuye Sugino for receiving the Cultural Studies Association’s (CSA) First…
The Department of English would like to congratulate fifth-year PhD candidate Adrian Salgado for being awarded a 2025-2026 Graduate Associate Teaching Award.
The Graduate…
Lord Denney's Players has announced the winners of its nineth annual sonnet contest. Congratulations to the following award recipients:
1st Place: "A Tale of Salt" by Sam…
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Dorothy Noyes, a world-renowned folklorist and director of The Ohio State University's Mershon Center for…
The Department of English is thrilled to announce a new scholarship endowed by a former professor, the Frederick Luis Aldama Leadership Scholarship Fund…
The Department of English is honored to announce the Morris Beja Odyssey Award: Thriving Through Global Discovery, an endowment created in honor of
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Herbals, a genre of books that contain information and illustrations about plants and their uses, dominated the print marketplace in England…
The Department of English is delighted to congratulate Senior Lecturer Weston Morrow and Visiting Assistant Professor of Poetry Allison Pitinii Davis…
The Department of English is excited to announce that Kelsey Stratman, PhD student in writing, rhetoric, and literacy, has been awarded a 2025-2026 Graduate Student Engaged…
In the Department of English we're fortunate to have multiple teams of talented students working in our offices: they are often the first faces visitors see, and we couldn't do all we do without…
In the new rankings of English graduate programs by U.S. News and World Report, released earlier this month, the Department of English graduate program has moved up to #26. This is a rise from the…
The Department of English is proud to congratulate Sabrina Durso for winning third place in Humanities research at the 39th annual Edward F. Hayes Advanced Research Forum on…
Lord Denney's Players has announced the winners of its eighth annual sonnet contest. Congratulations to Nicholas Orzo, who won all three prizes this year!
First Prize: "The Sacred Garden" by…
The Department of English is thrilled to announce the launch of Senior Lecturer Zoë Brigley’s project: Women of Ohio: Poetry and Art Competitions Celebrate…
The Department of English is proud to congratulate Elyse Reed for her Center for Ethics and Human Values Award at the Richard J. and Martha D. Denman Undergraduate Research Forum!…
The Department of English is excited to announce that Professor Paloma Martinez-Cruz was awarded a silver medal in the Best Biography category at the International Latino Book…
The English Department is thrilled to congratulate Associate Professor Margaret Price, who has been awarded the Alison Piepmeier Book Prize from…
In the Department of English we're fortunate to have two teams of talented students working in our main office: our Department Ambassadors and the Communications Team. The Department Ambassadors…
The Department of English is excited to announce that the Greater Columbus Arts Council has awarded Senior Lecturer Zoë Brigley a $10,000 Artist Projects Grant in a new program…
Every year at our Awards Celebration, the Department of English recognizes the excellent work of our students, faculty and staff. (If you missed this year’s event, feel free to peruse this year’s…
In the lead-up to the Great American Eclipse on April 8th, the Department of English announced an Undergrad Eclipse Poetry Contest open to any undergraduate student at Ohio State, to be judged by…
The Department of English is excited to congratulate PhD student Elise Robbins, who was awarded a 2023-24 Graduate Associate Teaching Award! Robbins is one of only 20 awardees…
In April of 2023, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation awarded 171 outstanding individuals the Guggenheim Fellowship to help them pursue their work in any field of work. The department’s…
The Department of English would like to announce that MFA student Andrew Romriell is one of the recipients of the 2023-24 Presidential Fellowship
As Ohio State’s Graduate…
Jordan Woodward, a PhD student in the Department of English, was recently awarded the 2023 Zora Neale Hurston Award from the American Folklore Society (AFS) for her project …
The Department of English is excited to announce Professor Simone Drake’s inclusion in the 2023 edition of Who’s Who in Black Columbus.
Who’s Who in Black…
On October 24, the Graduate School announced Julie Kim and Samantha Trzinski as recipients of the 2023-2024 Alumni Grants for Graduate Research and Scholarship …
In September, Newark Earthworks earned the title of Ohio’s first UNESCO site. Elizabeth Weiser and the exceptional team in Newark were greatly rewarded for their hard work. Read…
Consider this scene from a folktale: “Four animals sit in a circle in a grassy field: a donkey, a cat, a dog, and a rooster. A banner above them reads ‘Too old ... too weak ... too slow.’ The…
Professor Chris Highley of the Department of English and Director of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies is part of a team of scholars who have been awarded an NEH…
We are excited to announce Professor Beth Hewitt, the Director of Undergraduate Studies, has been selected to join the 2023-24 cohort of the President and Provost's Leadership…
The Ohio State University delegation consisting of the director of the Center for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, Angela Brintlinger, director of the Mershon Center for International…
The Department of English is thrilled to announce that Professor Kathy Fagan Grandinetti has received the 2023 William Carlos Williams Award.
The William Carlos Williams…
The Department of English is excited to announce that Professor Simone Drake is the recipient of the Distinguished Diversity Enhancement Award.
The Distinguished Diversity…
The Department of English is thrilled to announce that Associate Professor Ben McCorkle has been awarded the Nancy Dasher Book Award.
The College English Association of…
The Department of English is thrilled to announce that Associate Professor Elissa Washuta has been selected for the Provost’s Midcareer Scholars: Scarlet and Gray…
The Department of English is excited to announce that Professor Andreá N. Williams has received the Susan M. Hartmann Mentoring and Leadership Award.
According to the…
The Department of English congratulates the following faculty and staff award winners on their outstanding accomplishments!
The Department of English would like to congratulate Morgan Podraza on winning first place, Chris Turpin on winning third place and Sabrina Durso…
The Department of English congratulates the following graduate award winners on their outstanding accomplishments. The recipients of these awards include any Ohio State graduate student who has…
The Department of English is excited to announce that Evan DeCarlo has received the Robert L. and Phyllis J. Iles Award for Graduate Study of Myth.
The Robert L. and…
Lord Denney's Players has announced the winners of its sixth annual sonnet contest. Congratulations to the following award recipients:
First Prize: "Long Married" by Eleanor…
The Department of English is pleased to announce that Professor Elizabeth Weiser has been named an Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor.
The College of Arts and…
The department of English is thrilled to announce that Assistant Professor Amrita Dhar is the recipient of the Virginia Hull Research Award.
The Virginia Hull Research…
Julia Keller is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer from Huntington, West Virginia. She holds a PhD in English Literature from The Ohio State University and has taught at Princeton University, the…
In addition to congratulating our graduating English majors, the Department of English is recognizing all the outstanding undergraduate award winners. The recipients of these awards include any…
Kathy Fagan Grandinetti, professor in the Department of English, and David L. Hoffmann, College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of History, have…
The Department of English is thrilled to announce that Rolando Rubalcava has been chosen as a Career Diversity Fellow by Humanities Without Walls.
The Career Diversity…
The Department of English is thrilled to announce that Associate Professor Leslie Lockett has received the 2022-23 Honors Faculty Service Award…
Angus Fletcher, a professor in The Ohio State University Department of English, has been awarded the U.S. Army’s Public Service Commendation Medal for training special operations personnel in…
The Department of English would like to congratulate Clarissa Surek-Clark on becoming certified as a court interpreter by the Supreme Court of Ohio. She received this…
Adélékè Adéẹ̀kọ́, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Humanities in the Department of English and interim chair of the African American and African Studies (AAAS) department,…
The year is 1978, viewers watch as Laurie Strode fights for her life against the masked Michael Myers. Laurie is the only survivor of John Carpenter’s Halloween, left alone in the wake of…
The English department is excited to announce that Katie Stanutz has been selected for The Women's Place Staff Leadership Series 2022-23 cohort.
The Women…
The English department is excited to announce that Melissa Guadrón and Katlin Sweeney-Romero have been named Presidential Fellows for 2022-23.
The…
The Department of English is excited to announce that PhD student, Sean Yeager, is a recipient of the Graduate School’s 2022-2023 Alumni Grants for Graduate Research and…
The Department of English would like to congratulate Associate Professor Elissa Washuta for her essay “Drinking Story” (originally titled “How Do I Tell My Story of Getting Sober?…
Graduate Students Noah Bukowski and Mariah Marsden are recipients of the Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme’s 2022-23 Graduate Team Fellowship competition. …
The Department of English congratulates Associate Professor Jacob Risinger on being awarded the Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching.
The Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching…
Associate Professors Molly Farrell and Martin Ponce have been named as a part of The Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme’s 2022-23 Society of Fellows Faculty…
The Department of English would like to congratulate Undergraduate Studies Program Manager, Katie Stanutz, on receiving the College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Staff Award…
Associate Professor Elissa Washuta is the recipient of the Early-Career Distinguished Scholar Award and the College of Arts and Sciences’ Early-Career Faculty Excellence Award. …
The English department would like to congratulate Amy Shuman and Mary Hufford for winning 2022-2023 Discovery Field School Grant Awards! Discovery Field School…
Over a hundred students, colleagues, and friends gathered in person and virtually on Monday, May 2nd to celebrate Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor Brian McHale, who is…
The Department of English would like to congratulate Associate Professor Pranav Jani for receiving the ASC Diversity Enhancement Faculty Award. This award recognizes faculty whose…
As we celebrate graduation and the class of 2022, we also bid a bittersweet farewell to three of our student employees. These students have contributed to and supported the department in myriad…
Lord Denney's Players has announced the winners of its fifth annual sonnet contest. Congratulations to the following award recipients:
First Prize: "The Constants" by Lindsay…
The Department of English congratulates academic advisor MaryKatherine Ramsey for winning the Susan M. Hartmann Mentoring and Leadership Award!
According to the College of…
The Department of English congratulates the following faculty and staff award winners on their outstanding accomplishments!
The Department of English congratulates the following graduate award winners on their outstanding accomplishments. The recipients of these awards include any Ohio State graduate student who has…
The Department of English is pleased to announce that professors Jared Gardner and Wendy Hesford have received the President and Provost's Award for Distinguished…
In addition to congratulating our graduating English majors, the Department of English is recognizing all the outstanding undergraduate award winners. The recipients of these awards include any…
The Department of English congratulates Keira Hambrick on placing first in the Hayes Forum Humanities Oral division!
The Hayes Forum is an opportunity for graduate…
The Department of English is pleased to announce that Nick Hoffman and Liz Miller have won the 2022 Graduate Associate Teaching Award (GATA). The GATA recognizes…
The Department of English is excited to announce that Professor Elizabeth Hewitt and Associate Professor Scott DeWitt have been awarded the Ronald and Deborah…
The Department of English congratulates Professor Emeritus Doug Sutton-Ramspeck on winning the Tenth Gate Prize for his publication Blur.
Sutton-Ramspeck’s book…
Congratulations to Professor Elizabeth Weiser, as well as Jefferson Roberts, William MacDonald, Karen Goodell, Melissa Buelow from The Ohio State…
The English department in thrilled to announce that faculty members Amrita Dhar, Leslie Lockett, John Jones, Amy Shuman and Karen Winstead have been recognized as Buckeye Access All-Stars…
The Department of English is excited to announce that Associate Director of First-Year Writing Ashleigh Hardin has received a 2022 Affordable Learning Exchange (ALX) Grant. The…
The Department of English congratulates graduate student Keira Hambrick on her invitation to join the 2022 Summer Seminar for Composition and Research. Her dissertation project …
The Department of English would like to congratulate Professor Emeritus Richard Firth Green on being elected a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America.
Fellowship is…
The English department is delighted to announce that Andrew Bishop, Keira Hambrick and Clinton Morrison Jr. have been named Presidential Fellows…
The Department of English congratulates Caleb Gonzalez on being awarded the 2022 K. Patricia Cross Future Leader Award in Higher Education.
The K. Patricia Cross Future…
Professor Dorothy Noyes is the recipient of the Kenneth Goldstein Award for Lifetime Academic Leadership, awarded by the American Folklore Society. This award is presented to…
Ty Williams, an undergraduate English major, was awarded a scholarship from the Aida Cannarsa Snow Endowment Fund, which will help him to pursue his passion for creative writing. …
The Department of English is excited to announce that postdoctoral scholar Dr. Chris Castillo has been awarded the Emerging Scholars Award at the annual Coalition for Community…
COLUMBUS, Ohio (November 2, 2021) — Sonya Huber didn’t have the idea to write her latest book until the afternoon of the “anxiety-fueled” day it’s written about.
The Department of English is proud to announce that Dr. Beverly Moss, associate professor of English, has been awarded the 2021 Coalition for Community Writing’s Distinguished…
College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of English Robyn Warhol was awarded the 2022 Wayne C. Booth Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society for the…
The Department of English is delighted to announce Associate Professor Christa Teston has received a Research and Implementation Grant from the Michael V. Drake Institute for…
The Department of English would like to congratulate recent PhD alumna Jordan Lovejoy ‘21 on receiving a 2021 American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Emerging Voices…
Associate Professor Scott DeWitt has been named the 2020 recipient of the Charles Moran Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Field. One of the most prestigious awards in…
The Department of English is proud to announce that PhD candidate Antonio "Joey" Ferraro is a recipient of the Outstanding Student Advocate Award from Disability Services…
Undergraduate students in the Department of English contribute to their community in innumerable ways; from creative endeavors to extracurriculars, from internships to scholarship, our…
Promises. We’ve all made them, and we’ve all had someone make one to us. We’ve also all experienced the disappointment of an unfulfilled promise. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines a promise…
The Department of English is proud to announce that Associate Professor Christa Teston is one of 21 faculty members admitted to the inaugural cohort of the Growing Research…
As we celebrate graduation and the Class of 2021, we also bid a bittersweet farewell to five of our student employees. Each of these students has played a huge part in supporting our entire…
As the 2020–2021 academic year draws to a close and newly minted alumni celebrate graduation, The Ohio State University Department of English wants to express its gratitude and well wishes to a…
The Department of English congratulates the following faculty and staff award winners on their outstanding accomplishments!
The past year has been full of twists and turns, but members of the Department of English have continued to find opportunities to create, to share their research, to support one another and to…
In addition to congratulating our graduating English majors, the Department of English is recognizing all the outstanding undergraduate award winners. The recipients of these awards include any…
The Department of English congratulates the following graduate award winners on their outstanding accomplishments. The recipients of these awards include any Ohio State graduate student who has…
The Department of English is proud to announce that PhD in English student Jordan Woodward is the recipient of the 2021 Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) Outstanding Writing…
The Department of English would like to congratulate D’Arcee Neal on winning first place honors in the Humanities Division of the 35th Annual Hayes Graduate Research Forum! Neal’s…
Dr. Jian Neo Chen, associate professor of queer studies in the Department of English and Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies at Ohio State University, received the 2021 Social…
The Department of English warmly congratulates Professor Dorothy Noyes on receiving the 2021 University Distinguished Scholar Award. Established in 1978, the award recognizes and…
Lord Denney's Players has announced the winners of its fourth annual sonnet contest. Congratulations to the following award recipients:
First Prize: "Ode to Prometheus" by…
The Department of English is thrilled to announce that MFA in Creative Writing student Daniel Barnum was named an autumn 2020 Presidential Fellow. Every autumn and spring semester…
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, please welcome to the stage Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at The Ohio State University, Elissa Washuta. Her…
The Department of English would like to congratulate undergraduate student Emma Deimling, a junior English major in the Creative Writing concentration, for the publications of …
COLUMBUS, Ohio (March 22, 2021) — Born in Chicago to a Filipina mother and South Indian father, Aimee Nezhukumatathil is a ’96 BA English and ’00 MFA poetry and creative…
The Department of English is thrilled to announce that Professor Simone Drake has received a 2021 Community Engaged Scholar Award. According to the award’s website, the Community…
Whether it’s a Zoom family holiday, a virtual Super Bowl watch party or a work happy-hour moved to video conferencing, many of us have had to endure the shift from in-person to virtual events over…
The Department of English is delighted to congratulate undergraduate student Brittany Halley, a junior English major in the Writing, Rhetoric and Literacy concentration, for the…