Reports from the Field: Izzy Taylor (’18) on English and Professionalism

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As I sit in my windowless, cinder block department office, I reflect on my first semester in a Master of Science program in Geography at Pennsylvania State University and of the ways in which my English minor from OWU has helped prepare me for my transition to graduate studies. While my time at Penn State has undoubtedly been an educational experience thus far, what strikes me most about the distinction between undergraduate and graduate studies is the professionalizing and bureaucratic processes central to grad school.…

Reports from the Field: Lee Seigel (’06) on English and Information Technology

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When people ask me, “So how did you get into I.T. and Operations?”, it is usually accompanied by a blanket assumption about my collegiate education. When you work in I.T., you most likely studied computer science. When I inevitably hem and haw a bit and explain that I was an English Literature major at a small liberal arts school, their puzzled faces are always enough to bring the beginnings of a smirk to mine.…

Reports from the Field: Ashley Vassar (’16) on The Library Life

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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.…

Reports from Abroad: Rebecca Gerrish (’19)

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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.…

Reports from the Field: Michael Barr (’18)

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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: A Visual History

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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 ~…