David Wanczyk’s “The Birthplace of the Tomato”

News for 01-20-2012

David Wanczyk, Director of Special Programs, investigates the surprising origins of the modern tomato in his featured documentary, "The Birthplace of the Tomato," on the Web site of Alimentum: The Literature of Food.

David Wanczyk teaches at Ohio University, where he also studied Creative Nonfiction. His work has been published or is forthcoming in American Literary Review, The Awl, Defunct, Grantland, Lake Effect, New York Quarterly, and Prick of the Spindle. This is his first "talkie," which is a motion picture with a synchronized sound track.

Jaswinder Bolina Wins the Green Rose Prize

News for 01-20-2012

The English Department at Ohio University and New Issues Press is pleased to announce the winner of the 2012 Green Rose Prize: Jaswinder Bolina for his manuscript Phantom Camera. Bolina wins a $2,000 award and publication of his manuscript in the spring of 2013.

Jaswinder Bolina is the author of Carrier Wave, winner of the 2006 Colorado Prize for Poetry. His recent work has appeared in Black Warrior Review, Columbia Poetry Review, the Offending Adam, and in the Best American Poetry 2011. He currently lives and teaches in Athens, Ohio, as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English at Ohio University. The Green Rose Prize is awarded to an author who has previously published at least one full-length book of poems. Winners are chosen by the editors of New Issues Press. New Issues Poetry & Prose, a literary publisher based at Western Michigan University, was established in 1996 by Herbert S. Scott. New Issues publishes six to eight new titles each year with a focus on contemporary poetry.

Taking Care of Business: Administrative Roles in the English Department

News for 01-06-2012

Taking Care of Business: Administrative Roles in the English Department is a symposium where members of the English Department's administration will share their experiences in their respective roles. Speakers include the Director of Creative Writing, Professor Dinty Moore, the Undergraduate Director, Professor Beth Quitslund, and the Director of Composition, Professor Albert Rouzie.

The symposium will take place in Ellis Hall room 111 on Friday, January the 27th at 10 am. All Ph.D. students are required to attend; all M.A. students are cordially invited.

A Reading by Acclaimed Fiction writer Porter Shreve

News for 01-06-2012

The English Department is pleased to announce a reading by Visiting Fiction Writer Porter Shreve. The reading will take place next Thursday, Jan. 12th, at 7:30, in Baker Center Theater.

Porter Shreve is the author of three novels, all with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: The Obituary Writer was a 2000 New York Times Notable Book and a Borders Original Voices Selection; Drives Like a Dream was a 2005 Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year and a People "Great Reads" Selection, and When the White House Was Ours was a 2008 Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year and a Reading Group Choices Featured Selection. He is coeditor of six anthologies, including the Contemporary American Short Story: A Longman Anthology and Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: I & Eye. Shreve’s book reviews, nonfiction, op-eds and short stories have appeared in Witness, Northwest Review, Salon, the Chicago Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Boston Globe and the New York Times.

He is currently working on a new novel and a story cycle, both set in Chicago. He has taught at the University of Michigan, the University of Oregon, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and is now Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Purdue University.

Janis Butler Holm’s Plays Performed at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival

News for 11-09-2011

Dr. Janis Butler Holm's "The Cock Robin Porn Shop" and "If Paris Hilton Wrote Poetry" were performed by the Secret Room Theater group at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival in September. "If Paris Hilton" was also performed at the Omaha Lit Festival in October.

Jaswinder Bolina’s Forthcoming Publications

News for 11-07-2011

Jaswinder Bolina's forthcoming poem titled "Mine Is the First Rodeo, Mine Is the Last Accoladein" will be published in The Best American Poetry 2011. He also has poems "Phantom Camera," and "In Another Version of the Afterlife" forthcoming in Ecotone, as well as the poems "Aviary," "Sunday, Sunday," and "Oops Canary" in the online journal The Offending Adam.

Jaswinder Bolina is currently on faculty in the Department of English Language & Literature at Ohio University where he has been awarded a 2011–2012 Postdoctoral Fellowship.

Dr. Jill Ingram publishes an edition of Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost

News for 10-20-2011

Dr. Jill Ingram has published an edition of Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost with Focus Publishing.

Dr. Mara Holt’s CIFER Project Reviewed On Blogora

News for 10-18-2011

The Composition Theory and History Timeline project, or CIFER, is an ongoing product of graduate student collaboration that includes a timeline of the history of Rhetoric and Composition, vital information on Journals in the field, and a collection of pedagogical tools and strategies for instructors. Read the full review here.

Mara Holt is the director of the CIFER project. This research can be accessed via the English Department's Web pages, under "CIFER: composition theory."

Dr. Tasneem Shahnaaz speaks at “Lunch and Learn: Women in Islam and Indian Muslim Women”

News for 10-18-2011

On Friday, November the 4th at 12p.m., Visiting Assistant Professor Dr. Tasneem Shahnaaz will speak at a special "Brown Bag Lunch and Learn" hosted by The Ohio University Women's Center. The session is titled "Women in Islam & the Indian Muslim Women," and will be held at the center in Baker Hall room 403. Dr. Shahnaaz is visiting the Ohio University English Department from Sri Aurobindo College, University of Delhi, India.

Professor Kevin Haworth Wins This Year’s Columbia Journal Nonfiction Prize

News for 10-17-2011

Professor Kevin Haworth is the winner of this year’s Columbia Journal Nonfiction Prize. His winning essay, "Cut," was published in the summer issue of Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art. Other recent prose appears in print in Sou’wester and online at Glimmer Train and Fiction Writers Review.