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10/09/2026

Join us in welcoming the newest members of the English Department! For more information on each of them, visit: https://bit.ly/4zmEU34.

10/07/2026

Happy Banned Books Week! Head to the library for your week of reading banned books, and maybe even pick up one of these staff recommendations from the Comm Team. What's your favorite banned or challenged book?

10/05/2026

Why are we still fascinated by Frankenstein and Dracula?

Literature and Culture of London: London's Monsters is a May 2027 program open to all majors, with particular interest for students in English, history, popular culture, communication, and the humanities.

Step into the eerie world of Gothic fiction and explore how two of literature's most famous monsters emerged from the anxieties of a rapidly changing world.

Based in London, you'll experience the city as both a classroom and a character, visiting locations connected to these iconic novels while exploring the darker side of Victorian Britain.

Join us Thursday, Oct. 20 from 4 to 5 p.m. in 160 Enarson Hall to learn more about the program, and check out our event posting for more details: https://bit.ly/4hywPC5

10/02/2026

The Department of English would like to congratulate Associate Professor Pranav Jani for being awarded a 2026 National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Affiliate Intellectual Freedom Award!

The Ohio Council of English Teachers of Language Arts honored Dr. Jani for his commitment to free speech, academic freedom, and building a more just world, both inside and outside the classroom.

Read more about Jani's recognition on our website: https://bit.ly/4hwrrOM

10/01/2026

Join The Ohio State University Libraries for their Banned Books Week event featuring classic American and British books that have been banned or challenged! The program will take place on October 7th in 150 Thompson Library and begin with selected readings from 1–1:30 p.m. After the readings, visitors can explore first and early editions from the Rare Books & Manuscripts Library collections until 3 p.m. This is a drop-in event, so you are welcome to arrive at any point and stay as long as you would like. For more information, check the link in our bio.

09/30/2026

Hey Undergrads, want to get more involved in the English Department? Consider these undergraduate student organizations to bring you into the fold!

EUGO is the English Undergraduate Organization. They host all kinds of English-related events, from trivia nights to German Village Book Loft outings.

Mosaic Magazine is an undergraduate-run literary magazine open for submissions of writing or artwork. They also accept applications to be a part of their editorial staff.

Sigma Tau Delta is Ohio State's chapter of the international English honors society, hosting fun events for all students.

To get more information on these organizations, head to our website: https://bit.ly/4xOO0nK

09/29/2026

Add a little magic to your week and join the OSU Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies tomorrow night for the first movie showing in their Magic & Witchcraft Film Series! "Spirited Away" follows ten-year-old Chihiro Ogino through her journey into a surreal spirit world. Imaginative, mystical, and visually stunning, this coming-of-age story is a great start for the series!

On select Wednesdays, the center will show classic films exploring the consequences of living in a world where magic can influence people's lives. These showings are FREE to the public with pizza and refreshments provided! A brief talk and Q&A session will follow each film.

For more details and to see the movie schedule for the rest of the semester, head to the CMRS website: https://bit.ly/4ABpGIM

09/25/2026

Join us on Thursday, Oct. 1, at 6:30 pm for an evening with Professors Simone C. Drake and Molly Farrell in conversation at Prologue Bookshop!

Becoming Educated is Simone C. Drake’s engaging and bold memoir about race, class, gender, and the meaning of education in the urban Midwest, drawing on her own story as a Black girl attending recently desegregated Columbus public schools in the 1980s and 1990s.

In New World Calculation, Molly Farrell tells the story of colonial America as a testing ground for new ways of conceptualizing numbers, uncovering overlooked forms of numerical thinking to argue that colonialism and the rise of racial capitalism incited a struggle about what exactly a number is and what it can do.

Interested in learning more? Check out our event posting: https://bit.ly/4ivz8a4

09/22/2026

September is National Library Card Sign-up Month, so visit your local libraries and get yours before the month is over! Whichever campus you're at, there's a library full of stories waiting for you. Check out some of our recommendations below!

09/17/2026

Join poet and scholar Kathy Fagan on September 24 from 7 - 8:30 p.m. at Gramercy books for the launch of her poetry collection, The Unbecoming, in conversation with fellow poet and New York Times bestselling author Maggie Smith!

The Unbecoming is Fagan's seventh poetry collection, demonstrating yet again her "special gift for putting into line and color the essential in-betweenness of being that makes up the majority of our days; the griefs and triumphs, the stings and sensualities, that live within mere seconds, moments that quietly coalesce to make up the weight of our lives."

Purchase your tickets now–– and note that the admission fee is waived with purchase of The Unbecoming! https://bit.ly/4iydemy

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