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by Kristin Distel Sarah Minor, Ph.D. candidate in English (nonfiction), recently published an essay, “Foul Chutes,” in Ninth Letter literary magazine. Minor refers to the essay as a “blown up” version of a previously published piece—an essay that examined the history of the laundry chute—which she felt needed revision and […]

by Kristin Distel Doctoral student Hugh Martin’s second book, a collection of poems titled In Country, is being published by BOA Editions. The book draws heavily on Martin’s own experiences as an Iraq War veteran; he served six years in the Army National Guard as an M1A1 Tanker. In Country […]

Graduate student Christine Adams’s essay “Terms of Venery” was selected by judge Carmen Maria Machado as the winner of the Prairie Schooner Creative Nonfiction Contest. Adams is a doctoral student studying nonfiction in Ohio University’s English Department. She will receive a prize of $500, and her essay will appear in […]

Nonfiction Ph.D. student Christine Adams’s poem “Ars Biologica“ has been chosen for inclusion in the Best New Poets 2018 anthology. Best New Poets is an annual anthology of fifty poems from emerging writers, currently distributed nationally as a University of Virginia Press title and produced in cooperation with Meridian, a semiannual literary magazine from the […]

English fiction Ph.D. candidate Michelle Pretorius presented her paper, “Postcolonial Crime Fiction: Dealing with Trauma in the Postcolonial State,” at a conference in the United Kingdom. Pretorius’s talk situated “Postcolonial crime fiction … as the new political novel.” The conference, titled “Captivating Criminality,” was sponsored by the International Crime Fiction […]

Houghton Mifflin’s Best American Essays 2018, the latest in an annual series of anthologies marking the finest nonfiction essays published over the previous year, lists three Ohio University faculty and one current Ph.D. candidate in the Notable Essays section. Fiction Ph.D. candidate Lizzie Tran is noted for her essay “Miss […]

Dr. Katarzyna Marciniak, Professor of English at Ohio University, is a guest editor of Aporias of Foreignness: Transnational Encounters in Cinema (Special Issue of Transnational Cinemas 9:1 2018). The other guest co-editor is Dr. Bruce Bennett of Lancaster University, United Kingdom. Abstract: This introduction examines the meaning of foreignness, drawing […]