The English Department would love to welcome our newest English Advisor, Dr. M. Renee Benham, to the Newark branch! She will be assisting English students (M-Z) in their academic journey and cannot wait to get to know her students. Here is a little background on our newest addition!
Dr. M. Renee Benham received her Ph.D. in English Literature from Ohio University. Her dissertation, Beyond Nightingale: The Transformation of Nursing in Victorian and WWI Literature, traced the evolution of the literary representation of nursing from a denigrated last resort for poor widows to an esteemed, efficient profession for middle-class British women. A portion of this project, “The Cost of Efficiency in Great War Nursing Literature” was recently published in the medical humanities collection Medicine, Health, and Being Human (Routledge, 2018). Benham taught multiple courses at Ohio University including freshman and junior composition courses themed on Sherlock Holmes and literature survey courses including texts from Austen’s Northanger Abbey to Rowling’s Harry Potter. Benham received her M.A. from Wright State University and her B.A. from Denison University.
I am really excited to get to know the English majors at OSU-Newark
If you have any questions for Dr. Benham, she can be reached at benham.20@osu.edu. And make sure to welcome her to campus this August!