Post Tagged with: "English News"

by Kristin Distel “If you enjoy and/or teach Appalachian literature, this anthology is a necessary addition to your libraries and syllabi. There’s literally quite nothing like it!” says Dr. Bianca Spriggs, Assistant Professor of English, says of the newly published book Black Bone: 25 Years of the Affrilachian Poets. Spriggs, along […]

Sports columnist Chip Ainsworth of the Greenfield Recorder reviewed a new book on beep baseball by Ohio University alum and English faculty member Dr. David Wanczyk in a story headlined “Keeping Score: An outta sight sport.” Wanczyk authored the first book about blind baseball, Beep: Inside the Unseen World of […]

by Kristin Distel Graduate student Hugh Martin’s poem, “Iraq Good,” has been published in The Cincinnati Review and selected as a winner of the prestigious Pushcart Prize. Martin, a doctoral student in Creative Writing, is studying nonfiction at OHIO. The poem reflects on Martin’s own experience as a soldier in […]

by Dinty W. Moore Dr. Maggie Messitt ’17, a graduate of the English Ph.D. program in Creative Writing, was named national director of Report for America, an initiative of the GroundTruth Project. Report for America is a newly launched national service program deploying outstanding emerging and established journalists into newsrooms around […]

In the May 7 installment of Conversations From Studio B, Dr. David Wanczyk speaks with WOUB’s Emily Votaw about his first book, Beep: Inside the Unseen World of Baseball for the Blind published on opening day by Swallow Press. “The book examines the fascinating world of the National Beep Baseball Association, […]

Anna Turner at Outlet on WOUB Digital quotes Dr. Edmond Chang, Assistant Professor of English, in a story headlined “Queer Representation in Video Games.” According to Chang, another one of the reasons queer representation is lacking in gaming is because the structure of the games themselves doesn’t leave much room […]

“Keep LARPing!” was one student’s reaction to a new component of HIST 1222 Medieval History in Film and Literature this spring. Dr. Kevin Uhalde, Associate Professor of History, has taught this introductory course in history and medievalism for many years. The syllabus contained mostly historical texts and films such as […]