What We’re Reading: A Separate Peace by John Knowles

Recommended by Madison Williams.

A Separate Peace by John Knowles follows Gene Forrester, a 16 year old boy attending a prestigious boarding school during World War II. The novel details his close friendship with fellow boarder Finny. Their friendship quickly evolves from mutual admiration to intense rivalry culminating in a shocking event that explores the idea of moral ambiguity.…

Mid-Semester Thank You!

As we cross the midway point of the semester, we at The Sturges Script just want to take this opportunity to thank everyone who’s made the launch of this blog possible. Whether you’ve answered one of Anna’s thousand emails, provided Kirsten with a “What We’re Reading” or “Scholars of Sturges” quote, assisted Carrie in the OWU archives, edited your post per Dr.…

Reading Through Black History Month

To celebrate Black History Month, Dr. Nancy Comorau (the resident postcolonial specialist of Sturges) teamed up with Kirsten Whitford and Carrie Kubicki (the resident Instagram gurus of Sturges) to share a book by a Black author every few days.

Books ranged from plays by Afro-Carribian British actors to volumes of poetry about being a Jamaican woman in the US to nonfiction works by journalists investigating the Black Lives Matter movement.…

Jase Jacobson: Gummies

I consider myself a connoisseur of gummies. They have always been my favorite, and I have always been opinionated. One could say that gummy candies have been a consistent presence in my life.

Two summers ago, I was at a bus stop eating candy from a bag. The bus was late by two hours and I found that nervously chugging gummies while reading Dostoyevsky or Hemingway helped me pretend to be calm.

Dr. Nancy Comorau: Using Technology in the Humanities

Too often technology and the Humanities are assumed to be mortal enemies, but the Scholars of Sturges are using their liberal arts expertise to change this perception. Dr. Nancy Comorau was recently interviewed by Inside Higher Education about her use of technology for student final projects in her “Queering the Cannon” first-year literature tutorial and her “Re-Placing Great Britain” Travel-Learning Course.…

Sarah Gielink: A Whole New Worldview–Travel Learning as a First Year

Being enrolled in a Travel-Learning Course (TLC) my freshman year (ENG 228:Ā Re-placing Great Britain: Alternative Narratives of National Identity) was a highlight of my experience at OWU. It was my first international flight, and the class centered around subject matter that would broaden my worldview.

I still struggle to narrow down my favorite moments of the trip–in which we visited London, Liverpool, and Manchester in two too-short weeks–to even a top three.