The OWU English Department Blog
When I applied to be on the English Department Student Board, I didnât 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. 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. …
#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) interviewed 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!…
You asked and we answered! For our first installment of “Ask an English Major (or Minor),” we are answering an anonymous question from one of Prof. Allison’s ENG 150 students about on-campus opportunities for English majors. Because there are so many of them, we have decided to break this answer up into installments!…
In the Spring 2019 semester I took Dr. Allisonâs seminar on the aesthetics of British socialism. For this class we read William Morrisâs 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.…
“The Yellow Wallpaper” (1892) by Charlotte Perkins:
Written in first person as a collection of journal entries, The Yellow Wallpaper details a woman who is diagnosed with a âslight hysterical tendencyâ following the birth of her child. Her husband, a doctor, prescribes a rest cure in a mysterious colonial mansion that does not sit well with the woman.…
1. DO THE READING
I shouldnât even have to say this, but I do. You may be laughing, but itâs serious! Itâs a little obvious when you donât. Nothing is worse than being in class when you didnât do the reading and no one is talking. It is terribly awkward; itâs worse than when I called my 3rd-grade teacher âmom.â…
If I had to recommend something that every English major should do before they graduate it would be to go on a literary pilgrimage. My mother read me the first Harry Potter book when I was in fifth grade and I have loved the books and movies ever since. Last year I went to London with my mom and I turned a mother-daughter trip into a hunt for Harry Potter book and film sites.…
When Dave Lucas became Ohioâs 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.…
The Book of Salt, written by Monique Truong, is one of the reasons that I became an English major. We read this in Professor Comorauâs English 145 class, âReading the Global Kitchen,â and I continually find myself recommending it to anyone who will listen. Truongâs work fascinated me due to its ability to excellently pose the question of how we, as readers, take narrators at their word, often not ruminating upon the idea that this character may be untruthful and unreliable.…
