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By George E. Mauzy Jr. From Compass The Ohio University Department of English hosted its second annual Futures in English Symposium on Friday in Alden Library to demonstrate to its students that anything is possible with an English degree. Organizers said the event lets students know that there are many […]

The Visitors by Patrick O’Keeffe has been named to the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award 2015 Shortlist. O’Keeffe is Assistant Professor of English at Ohio University, where he teaches creative writing fiction. Following a tremendous response to a call for submissions to the Kerry Group Irish Novel of […]

Dr. Amritjit Singh gives a talk on “The Minority Psyche: Between South Asia and North America” on April 20 at Delhi University in India. Singh, Langston Hughes Professor of English at Ohio University, is currently a Fulbright-Nehru Visiting Professor of English at the University of Delhi. Abstract: In my talk, I […]

Students in a new Food Justice course spent spring break learning firsthand that it’s not just the distance food travels to the plate—sometimes it never makes it to the plate. Hunger. Poor nutrition. How does that happen around Athens, a fertile region once filled with farms and ranches and known […]

Dr. Ayesha Hardison, Associate Professor of English at Ohio University, won the College English Association of Ohio’s Nancy Dasher Award for Writing through Jane Crow: Race and Gender Politics in African American Literature. She will be honored at the association’s conference on April 18. The selection committee was very complimentary […]

Two of Ohio University Ph.D. students in creative writing are among 10 finalists for the Iron Horse Review chapbook prize. “Who do we root for?” says Dinty Moore, Professor and Director of Creative Writing. “Congratulations to current nonfiction Ph.D. Kirk Wisland and recently-graduated and greatly-missed Geri Lipschultz. May the best […]

The 2015 Lit Fest welcomes poet Marie Howe. The fest is March 25-27. All readings and lectures are free and open to the public. The five visiting writers will be present throughout the festival, lecturing and reading from their work, and books by the authors will be available for purchase […]