LibGuides: English/Creative Writing: Overview

Welcome to the English Department Research Guide

Welcome! This libguide is meant to offer you customized access to the library resources available to English majors. It will empower you to conduct research on historical and contemporary texts, authorial biography, national and world literatures, literary letters, film and media studies, cultural and historical contexts, literary and critical theory, and interdisciplinary topics. Please feel free to contact the English subject area librarian (featured in the box to the right) with any questions or suggestions for improvement.

Libguide Contents

General Sources
This includes links to indexes and catalogs other than OPAL and OhioLink, several online reference sources, and websites of general literary interest.
Contemporary and Historical Primary Sources
This includes links to full literary texts made mostly available through Libraries Connect Ohio.
Book Reviews
This page includes electronic and print sources for book reviews.
Historical and Cultural Contexts
This page includes links to electronic databases that offer full-text access to newspaper, magazine, and other popular periodical publications. It includes contemporary as well as historical sources.
Film and Media Studies
This page includes a list of electronic databases that offer access to critical articles on film, media and theater, as well as access to broadcast transcripts and other primary sources.
Ethnicity, Gender, Race, and Sexuality Studies
This page indexes electronic sources for primary documents and critical articles on issues dealing with gender, class, and race.
Literary and Critical Theory
This page includes a list of print monographs and electronic databases featuring full text and abstracts of critical articles on a wide range of issues pertaining to critical and literary theory.
Author Studies
This page contains two subpages that link to 1) electronic and print biographical and epistolary sources and 2) author criticism and interpretation.
Genre and Textual Studies
This page contains links to library catalog books that are part of series of introductions to literary themes, genres, or periods and to critical editions of classical texts.
Interdisciplinary Research
This page includes links to databases that host critical articles on a variety of disciplines, including philosophy, medicine, media, religion, science, etc.
MLA Citation Resources
This page contains general suggestions and resources for using the MLA formatting and citation style.