The OWU English Department Blog
On her first semester of grad school: The greatest lesson I had to learn my first semester in graduate school was to make a place for myself in the program. I am in a Masters in Comparative Literature program at the University of Massachusetts — Amherst, and most people are doctoral students.…
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 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 ~…
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.…
As a writing exercise, I was once told to pick someone in the room and describe them — what they wore, what they looked like, how they spoke, how they moved — and then to invent a “why” for each observation. Why is he wearing that shirt? Because he keeps forgetting to do laundry and this was the last shirt that didn’t smell rancid.…
A big struggle most college students face is the question, “What am I going to do after college?” And the answer is often not so simple. But sometimes hearing other people’s stories can help. In a new series entitled “Why English?” we are speaking with members of the OWU community and beyond about how they discovered what they wanted to do with their lives.…
Did you know that one of Ohio Wesleyan’s founders was a civil rights champion? This week’s feature is especially exciting, because you can go see it for yourself! On display outside of the Special Collections section of Beeghly Library is some of the literature of the Western Freedmen’s Aid Commission (WFAC) and the Freedmen’s Aid Society (FAC).…
Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go is one of the first books I read as an English major my freshman year in Professor Allison’s Dystopia class. This class is one of the reasons I decided to become an English major and this book was one of my favorites in the class.…
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.…
