English and Modern Foreign Language: A Marriage of Majors

#TBT: Taking a time machine two years back, today we bring you another throwback interview. In April of 2018, Sturges Script Managing Editor Anna Davies (’19) interviewed  Dexter Adams (’18), Brandon Stevens (’20), and Adrian Burr (’19) on the relationship between their English and Modern Foreign Language majors and minors. They share what they find most rewarding about each discipline as well as the marriage of their literary and linguistic loves!…

Alumni Achievements: Harry Potter Meets Shakespeare

From an experimental course with Dr. Zack Long to the stage with Chicago-based theatre troupe Odd’s Bodkins, Hannah Mary Simpson ’16 has seen “The Tragedy of Tom Riddle” in all stages of production. Originally a playwriting project for Dr. Long’s “How to Write Like Shakespeare” class, “The Tragedy of Tom Riddle” tells the story of Voldemort in Shakespearian verse.…

Seniors of Sturges: Part Four

We at The Sturges Script couldn’t be prouder of this year’s Seniors of Sturges, and want to extend our warmest congratulations on their academic accomplishments and future plans! To all our seniors, we wish you the best, and you will be missed!

Cooper Comstock: My time spent at Ohio Wesleyan were the better part of my college experience.…

Seniors of Sturges: Part Three

We at The Sturges Script couldn’t be prouder of this year’s Seniors of Sturges, and want to extend our warmest congratulations on their academic accomplishments and future plans! Today, we’ll be recognizing some of our wonderful English minors!

Zoe Sares: I have had such an amazing experience through the OWU English department and I am sad to be leaving it.  

Seniors of Sturges: Part Two

We at The Sturges Script couldn’t be prouder of this year’s Seniors of Sturges, and want to extend our warmest congratulations on their academic accomplishments and future plans! For this week’s posts, we’ll be featuring our seniors. Today, we’ll be honoring some of our senior double majors and their diverse academic passions!…

Seniors of Sturges: Part One

We at The Sturges Script couldn’t be prouder of this year’s Seniors of Sturges, and want to extend our warmest congratulations on their academic accomplishments and future plans! This week, we’d like to feature all the English students who’ve contributed four great years to helping Sturges grow. We’ll be starting our features with this year’s graduating English Student Board members, 2018 inductees to Sigma Tau Delta, and seniors headed to graduate school.…

The 2018 Literary Award Winners

We are so proud of our Scholars of Sturges who received literary awards this year! Congratulations to all who won, and all who applied. This year’s winners are…

Riley Sutliff ’19 and Anthony Padget-Gettys ’20 for the Marie Drennan Prize. This prize is awarded for the best poem or group of poems by an anonymous donor in memory of Marie Drennan.

Scholars of Sturges: Keegan Lammers (Hayes Class of 2018)

Keegan Lammers is a senior at Rutherford B. Hayes High School in Delaware, Ohio. She attends OWU through a duel-enrollment program so she can get ahead in college credits. She’s taken classes in History, Music Theory, and (of course) English.

Keegan says, ” …as a high school student in the world of university students, I’ve been able to see parts of what truly is an authentic Ohio Wesleyan University experience.…