The OWU English Department Blog
Who are you and what do you do?
My name is Sarah Lucas. I graduated from OWU in 2016 with a double major in History and Ancient Studies and a minor in Classics. I currently work as a Circulation Team Leader at Worthington Libraries.
How did you become interested in librarianship?…
Who are you and what do you do?
I’m Ashley Vassar. I graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University in Spring 2016. I majored in English (Literature concentration), Classics, and Medieval Studies. In December of 2018, I earned my Master of Library and Information Degree from Kent State University’s School of Library and Information Science.…
Who are you and where did you study abroad?
My name is Michael Wadsworth and I’m a graduating senior with a major in English and a concentration in nonfiction writing. I spent the Spring of 2018 in London, UK, through Arcadia University’s Study Abroad & Internship Program.
Why did you want to study abroad and how did you decide on a program?…
Who are you and where did you study abroad?
My name is Rebecca Gerrish (’19) and I’m an English major. I studied in Cork, Ireland, at the University College Cork through an Arcadia University program.
Why did you want to study abroad and how did you decide on a program?
The main thing that interested me about studying abroad was the opportunity to immerse myself in a culture that I was completely unfamiliar with.…
On her first semester of grad school: The greatest lesson I had to learn my first semester in graduate school was to make a place for myself in the program. I am in a Masters in Comparative Literature program at the University of Massachusetts — Amherst, and most people are doctoral students.…
On his first semester of grad school: Last spring, Dr. Allison mentioned to me that the highs of graduate school are higher and, inevitably, the same can only be true of the lows. For my first semester in the English Department at SUNY Buffalo, I could not have agreed more. Life after undergrad has used angst to prove the law of conservation of mass which may very well follow from the ending of OWU, the beginning of grad school, and the short months between them, but the feeling after the first semester is like wanting to get back onto a roller coaster I had been needlessly screaming on, and realizing afterwards that I had actually been laughing.…
Sturges Hall is the place we call home, but did you know that it has changed in purpose, design, and identity many times since its construction in 1885? Click on the slide show below to discover some of its wide-ranging metamorphoses over 130 years!
~ Compiled by Sierra Mainard ~…
Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go is one of the first books I read as an English major my freshman year in Professor Allison’s Dystopia class. This class is one of the reasons I decided to become an English major and this book was one of my favorites in the class.…
This novel captures a historical culture in a unique way. When I first opened this novel I was immersed in the world of 1930s Germany. The story line follows an Englishman living in Berlin just as Hitler rose to power. Throughout the novel there are many twists and turns that shock and engage the reader.…
Happy #throwbackThursday everyone! We’re throwing it all the way back to late 1800’s to the writings of Robert and Elizabeth Browning. See their collection, personal books, statues and artifacts, including this bust of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, within our very own #owu #archive! #owu #owuenglish #archivalquality…