The OWU English Department Blog
A big struggle most college students face is the question, āWhat am I going to do after college?ā And the answer is often not so simple. But sometimes hearing other peopleās stories can help. In a new series entitled āWhy English?ā we are speaking with members of the OWU community and beyond about how they discovered what they wanted to do with their lives.…
Too often technology and the Humanities are assumed to be mortal enemies, but the Scholars of Sturges are using their liberal arts expertise to change this perception. Dr. Nancy Comorau was recently interviewed by Inside Higher Education about her use of technology for student final projects in her “Queering the Cannon” first-year literature tutorial and her “Re-Placing Great Britain” Travel-Learning Course.…
āI hate to write, letās confess that right now. Itās damn hard to do, and itās not fun. It never gives back as much as you give because you never know if itās good enough. Waking up every morning to go to your desk at 4 or 5 am, praying that the phone will ring with someone to distract you.…
We usually think of racism as a moral defect or wrong. But what if racism is less a moral shortcoming than medical disorder? In herĀ i-Cubed lecture, Dr. Judylyn Ryan invites us rethink racism and ask ourselves where we fall on “Racism Spectrum Disorder,” or R.S.D. Are you on the spectrum?…
Looking for the perfect western focusing on the lesser-known sides of American history? Check out this OWU news story about the release of Dr. Olmstead’s latest book,Ā Savage Country: A Novel.Ā
For snippets of the reviews and praise he’s getting from notable review publications likeĀ Kirkus Reviews,Ā New York Times Book Review, andĀ NY Journal of Books,Ā check out the OWU Magazine’s wrap-up in their Winter 2017 issueĀ here!…
In Spring 2016, Dr. Lynette Carpenter and her “Reading and Writing about Place: Southern Louisiana” class participated in an interdisciplinary New Orleans adventure over Spring Break. Check out the storyĀ (written by Sturges alumnae Julia Stone ’16) about how her class worked together with Dr. Barbara Terzian’s history class and Dr.…
āThe thing about the 2016 welcoming ceremony in Alexandria is that I didnāt go there to see HÅkÅ«leāa. Instead, I was there with my friend Steve Tamayo, who is Lakota. He and I had been visiting with staff members in the Cultural Resources Center of the National Museum of the American Indian, and visiting various museums in and around D.C.…
Not only is Dr. Caplan a world-renowned poet and literary scholar, he’s also a member of theĀ Modern Language Associationās Creative Writing Forum, an international association for literature academics, critics, and researchers. Check out the OWU news story here!…