The Department of English includes faculty distributed among four program areas: Literary Studies, Creative Writing, Composition and Rhetoric, and English Education. We offer doctoral degrees in literary studies, creative writing, and composition/rhetoric, and a master’s degree in English, serving approximately sixty graduate students in any given year. On the undergraduate level, we serve close to six hundred undergraduate majors, including almost two hundred integrated language arts majors enrolled in the College of Education.
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Spotlight
Announcing the 2008 Spring Literary Festival
Since 1986, The Spring Literary Festival has featured some of the world's finest, most distinguished writers of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. This three-day festival will be held from Wednesday May 7th to Friday May 9th on the Ohio University campus in Athens, Ohio. It is sponsored by the Program in Creative Writing of the Department of English and is generously funded by the College of Arts and Sciences. All readings and lectures are free and open to the public as the featured writers present, lecture, and read from their work.
This year's writers include Tony Hoagland, Kathryn Harrison, Thomas Glave, Edwidge Danticat, and Lee K. Abbott. For a detailed schedule of this year's Literary Festival click on the "Special Programs" link of our website.
News
Creative Writing Program receives GERB award
The Creative Writing Program in the Department of English was selected from a pool of six finalists to receive a GERB award. The Program will use the new $131,000 in base funding to offer an additional doctoral student stipend, increase stipend amounts for other graduate students and fund a visiting professor. read more >>
Events
Reading and Book-Signing for Visiting Author Joel Peckham
On Saturday at 7:00 p.m., Jackson and Traci Connor will host a reading and book-signing for visiting author Joel Peckham at their home, 146 Morris Avenue. read more >>
Announcements
Congratulations to Jennifer Schomburg Kanke
Jennifer Schomburg Kanke's poem entitled "Cropping" will be published in Earth's Daughters, issue number 72. read more >>
Congratulations to Rachael Peckham
Rachael Peckham's lyrical essay, “Of Saints and Neighbors: A Pathology of Place,” has been accepted for publication in Oxford Magazine. read more >>
Michelle Disler receives two nominations for 2008 Pushcart Prize in Nonfiction.
Michelle Disler recently received two nominations for the 2008 Pushcart Prize in Nonfiction. read more >>