ONU English

We're always happy to hear from Alumni and celebrate their achievements. Congratulations on the upcoming publication Dominic!

Congratulations Evelyn!

We had a blast at the release party for yesterday! Thanks to all our submitters, staff and editors, our faculty advisor Dr. Jen Pullen, for hosting us in the Elzay Gallery, and to all who joined us! Check out our new issue in Dukes and across campus!

Congratulations to English, Philosophy & Religion Chair Dr. Douglas Dowland, whose article Antihostility Pedagogies: Humility, Empathy, Reciprocity has been published in the Winter 2024-25 issue of MLA Profession.

We had a blast at last night’s Reading Series! Thanks to all who joined us, and especially for her beautiful work, and and .jett for their stories and poems!

Tonight tonight! Join us in the Elzay Gallery at 7pm to hear fiction writer read with and .jett!

We’re excited for this Thursday’s lecture—our own Dr. Pitts has been invited to present as a part of the A & S Connections lecture series on his Fulbright experience, “The Silk Road to America: My Fulbright Journey.” Students, faculty, and staff are welcome!

Dr. Jennifer Pullen has an interview over at the blog! Check out the conversation on fantasy, origins, publishing, and more! https://casit.bgsu.edu/marblog/

Welcome back, Polar Bears! Save the date for our spring 2025 Reading Series, which will feature fiction writer Brenda Peynado with graduating CW students , , and .jett! Join us in the Elzay Gallery on Monday, Feb. 24th! .

at BGSU’s Winter Wheat festival, where Dr. Jennifer Pullen was the keynote speaker! Proud of our faculty & student editors—past & present (love seeing alumni too!)

Polaris hosted their Spooky Rapid Fire Reading and costume contest last night at Ezra Gallery! Check out all the cool and creative costumes!

Ohio Northern University’s English professors generally frown upon the overuse of idioms like “a blast from the past” or “out of the blue.”

Thankfully, they are making an exception this summer.

Because if not “a blast from the past,” how else would 212 unsuspecting English alumni describe the experience of receiving “out of the blue” their senior capstone paper in the mail from their alma mater decades after graduating?

The long-forgotten papers surfaced in the course of summer renovations in the Dukes Building, notorious for its nooks and crannies. Some were found in a cubbyhole under a pile of dusty ROTC helmets and others in the back of a storage cabinet. The papers spanned approximately 1990-2012.

The English senior capstone is the crowning achievement of each student’s college career, said Douglas Dowland, Ph.D., professor of English and chair of the Department of English, Philosophy, and Religion. It’s a student’s final creative effort that represents four years of hard-earned knowledge and countless cups of coffee, library visits, and late nights.

“I couldn’t just toss them out.” After all, he added: “English is all about heart.”

Since the papers were mailed to the alumni a couple of weeks ago, Dowland and his English colleagues have received dozens of messages from alumni sharing gratitude and stories about their ONU experience.

ONU professors never forget their students, but it’s been heartening to discover that many alumni haven’t forgotten their professors either, he said.

“That is the ONU difference to me, we remember people.”

Read about how Erik Hoeke, BA ’05, and Janet (Hufford) Gump, BA ’92, reacted to receiving their senior capstones in the mail: https://bit.ly/3X6goD1