It's Inauguration Day!
Congratulations, Matt vandenBerg, OWU's 17th President!
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Congratulations, Matt vandenBerg, OWU's 17th President!
View details for Inauguration Day and stream the event live.
The English major is an important foundation for a wide variety of careers. As an English major, you build analytical and communications skills that make you an attractive job candidate, especially in today's dynamic, global economy dependent on flexibility, critical thinking, and fast and accurate communication. And if you are interested in pursuing graduate study in English in a literature or MFA program, a top-notch faculty and flexible curriculum will provide you with the ability to tailor your studies to your academic goals.
The English Department fosters curiosity about language and culture. In English courses, pleasurable reading is the foundation for developing skills in writing, speaking, and analytical thinking.
The Creative Writing Concentration encourages the comprehensive study and practice of more than one genre, and at the upper-level, students have the opportunity to specialize in a genre of writing in rigorous, advanced genre-specific workshops. Along with working alongside talented and publishing authors, our students enjoy an impressive annual Poets & Writers Reading Series, which brings in award-winning authors and lecturers for readings, writing salons, and classroom visits.
The English for Educators Concentration prepares students who are interested in teaching English in middle or high school with an easy-to-navigate path designed specifically to meet their needs. Through a rigorous and wide-ranging course of study that includes literature, language, writing, and multimedia narratives, students will acquire essential skills and cultural competencies while meeting licensure requirements for teaching English grades 7-12.
The Literature concentration focuses on reading and analyzing a variety of English-language literatures from around the world, both historic and contemporary. Students gain important skills in research, critical thinking, and written and oral expression. Through spirited discussion and debate of complex issues such as race, power, and identity, students study the ways in which historical and cultural contexts impact literary traditions, genres, and modes of expression.
The English minor consists of five units of literature and writing. Minors must take ENG 250 and four electives. All prospective minors are encouraged to take ENG 250 before enrolling in an upper-level course. A course taken credit/no entry may not be counted toward the minor. At least three of the five required courses must be taken at Ohio Wesleyan. NOTE: ENG 105 and 495 do not count toward the minor.
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Professor Allison specializes in nineteenth-century Britain literature. He also teaches and publishes in the areas of utopian literature, the novel, and literary theory. He is finishing a book on the literature and aesthetics of British socialism.
Professor Comorau's specialty is postcolonial British literature. She is working on a book on postcolonial reworkings of canonical novels. She has traveled with students on numerous occasions to England, Ireland, and New York.
A past recipient of the Shankland Award for outstanding teaching, medievalist Professor DeMarco is working on a book on changing literary depictions of war and changing ideas of vengeance in the chivalric classes. Her work has appeared in journals such as Speculum and Studies in the Age of Chaucer. She serves as Director of Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies.
Professor Long teaches literature of the English Renaissance and the history of theatre. His specialty is Shakespeare, but he also loves teaching writing and cultural criticism and taking students around the world on travel-learning courses.
Professor Butcher is the Director of Creative Writing and the author of Mothertrucker, forthcoming from Little A Books and recently acquired for a film adaptation by Makeready with Joey Soloway directing and Julianne Moore in a starring role. Additional essays appear in Harper's, Granta, The New York Times Modern Love and Opinion Pages, Literary Hub, and Brevity, among others. She teaches courses in the essay.