The English Department is proud to welcome its newest faculty member. Dr. Talinn Phillips joins our Rhetoric & Composition faculty bringing a wealth of experience working with both multilingual writers, and with writing centers.

Dr. Phillips has published articles in TESOL Quarterly and Writing Program Administration. She is an Ohio University Alum, having graduated in 2008 with a Ph.D. in English. In addition to teaching, Dr. Phillips serves as co-director of the Appalachian Writing Project along with Dr. Sherrie Gradin. She and other members of the AWP are organizing a Young Writers Camp for area students to be held this June.

Sarah Green, a PhD candidate, was poet-in-residence for Mandoline Whittlesey's Embodied Writing week-long poetry retreat in Montmelard, France, in October. Sarah is a co-editor of the online literary journal Octave, which features poetry and fiction by musicians who write and by writers who make music.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The article discusses the literary representation of trauma in the novels "Ceremony," by Leslie Marmon Silko and "The God of Small Things," by Arundhati Roy. It mentions that the representation of trauma on the novels shows forms of imperial violence wherein its damaging effects has been ongoing and cannot be confined to the past. It also notes that the representations highlights the engagements of the readers with histories of violence and oppression in and through works of fiction.