The OWU English Department Blog
If you are reading this, then you probably love the Java Chip Frappuccino as much as I do. It was one of Starbucks’ signature coffee beverages officially until March 2025. The Java Chip Frappuccino was my drink of choice once my young taste buds grew to develop a liking for the flavor of coffee.…
This post contains spoilers for Fleabag and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.
Fleabag and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel are two of the most hilarious television series that I have ever seen. Both series were written by women and have a woman in the lead role. These are the aspects of the show that I greatly admire.…
This post contains spoilers, some images of gun violence, and discussion of political violence. I do not condone violence of any kind.
How many times have you heard someone say: “You talkin’ to me?!” or “The first rule of fight club is you do not talk about fight club.” Too many times may be your answer, but that’s because these films are so widely cherished.…
I originally downloaded Avalanche Software’s “Hogwarts Legacy” during its release in February 2023. During this time, there was some controversy surrounding the author of the Harry Potter Franchise, J.K. Rowling due to her transphobic remarks. One of these remarks was tweeted in response to a woman being fired from her job for being transphobic in the workplace, “Dress however you please, but force women out of their jobs for saying sex is real?…
This piece contains spoilers for Bones and All and The Lighthouse.
Bones and All and The Lighthouse are two very unique horror films that travel back in time to bend reality, and to speak on common aspects of humanity that are always present in life. I am not the biggest lover of horror films, and I actually tend to avoid them, especially if they are excessively gory.…
“Are people born wicked? Or do they have wickedness thrust upon them?” A line from the opening song that cements a popular theme that drives the narrative of “Wicked” throughout the film. The line itself is sung by Glinda (or rather Galinda), the Good Witch of the North, which is in reference to the Wicked Witch of the West, otherwise known as Elphaba.…
The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen was originally titled An Intimation of Things Distant. It consists of five fiction stories by Nella Larsen that were written in the 1920s during the Harlem Renaissance, which was a movement to foster Black culture and pride through literature, art, and music. The pieces in her collection discussed tensions and hardships of the Black middle class in Harlem during the 1920s: restlessness, isolation, searching for belonging, psychology, marriage, race, and the complexities of having mixed-race heritage.…
On Thursday, March 6th, before we all went on Spring Break, the English Department was pleased to host poet Marianne Chan as part of the Poets & Writers Series. Chan read poems from her recently published collections All Heathens and Leaving Biddle City. She also shared a few poems that she is currently working on as part of her next collection.…
In all honesty, writing was not my first love. It was not the career path that I was willing to center my future around, not immediately. However, it was always there in my life somewhere. As a child I had a great passion for art—painting, drawing, and such. I remember the fun I had making drawings for the kids in my first-grade class who would give me a quarter to draw whatever they wanted. …