The OWU English Department Blog
Hey, Scholars of Sturges! Next week’s post–our last of the semester!–is going to be an especially fun one (and hopefully an enjoyable respite from finals week): a visual history of Sturges Hall, and of the many things that have been housed within it! So today we thought we’d give you a sneak peek.…
Are you a creator? Do you have a manuscript or artistic work you’re especially excited about? Consider submitting to the OWL over Winter Break!
The OWL is OWU’s annually-published, student-run literary and art journal. This year’s editors are Symone Mann ’19, Chanel Cruz ’19, A.L. Davies ’19, Karina Primmer ’21, Becca Porter ’20, and Julia Melio ’20.…
George Cruikshank was a 19th century British caricaturist best known for illustrating his friend Charles Dickens’s novels, such as Oliver Twist. One of the more interesting (and amusing) of his works that we have in the library, though, is his Comic Almanack. A little bit like the The Onion today, it contained cartoons and sociopolitical satire.…
Have you ever wondered what it would have been like had you attended OWU 100 years ago? A peak into the 1918-1919 Ohio Wesleyan University Catalog provides some fascinating insight into this question.
Campus life 100 years ago would certainly have looked different than it does now, for a number of reasons.…