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How did you get interested in publishing?
Writing was the first great love of my life and I’ve always been a voracious reader, so everything fell into place when I came to OWU and took English and Journalism classes. I aimed toward publishing because I really wanted to be a literary agent; it excited me to think about being a champion for books!…
When I got the group email from Professor Butcher asking if someone wanted to introduce Martha Park for the Sagan National Colloquium, I waited a couple of hours before responding. āIf no one has responded, then I can do it,” I wrote.Ā The idea made me nervous because I don’t like public speaking.…
Adorned on either side by the headstones of the deceased, the stage was ready for the ominous performance that would soon grace it. Spiderwebs hung from the trees, glistening with the droplets of the recent rain, shaking with the movement of the spider crawling slowly toward its prey.Ā Meanwhile a ghost floated stationary in the air, waiting to scare of all who dared pass by.…
When I was in college back in the sixties, the only telephone in our dorm was a payphone at the end of the hall. If anyone called (your parents, a girlfriend), the RA usually would answer the phone and then yell out, āHey, Musser! Your motherās calling!ā So everyone in the hall knew who was calling you.…
When I applied to be on the English Department Student Board, I didnāt realize that a part of our job was to evaluate the English faculty for their performance review. The first step of the process is that student board representatives from all departments are invited to attend a meeting with the Faculty Personnel Committee (FPC) to learn about how their feedback fits into faculty review.…
Hey, Scholars of Sturges, check out this interview OWU English and Theatre alum, Madeline Shire (’13), where she shares what she’s currently doing with her English major.Ā In addition to talking about what it’s like working as a book buyer for Powell’s Books, Madeline shares her passion for helping kids, teens, and young adults find the right books, and reflects on how reading and acting have impacted her life.Ā …
#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) interviewedĀ 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!…
In the Spring 2019 semester I took Dr. Allisonās seminar on the aesthetics of British socialism. For this class we read William Morrisās News from Nowhere, a novel about a character who falls asleep and enters the future, where he finds it to be a socialist utopia. Before this seminar, I had taken multiple classes with Dr.…
1. DO THE READING
I shouldnāt even have to say this, but I do. You may be laughing, but itās serious! Itās a little obvious when you donāt. Nothing is worse than being in class when you didnāt do the reading and no one is talking. It is terribly awkward; itās worse than when I called my 3rd-grade teacher āmom.ā…
When Dave Lucas became Ohioās second-ever Poet Laureate on Jan. 1, 2018, he approached the position with a mission. Despite his impressive academic background–B.A. from John Carroll University, MFA from the University of Virginia, and MA and PhD from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor–Lucas firmly believes poetry belongs outside the classroom as a staple of everyday life.…