OU Expository Writing Program

Justice Arts Coalition is sponsoring an art show at Chimera Cafe in Tulsa on Friday, October 6th, and has invited the Oklahoma Prison Writers and Artists Foundation (OPWAF) to read from Emergence: Writings by the JHCC Writers Guild.

Please share the flier with all of your people, and attend if you can! This promises to be a wonderful show with live music to follow!

by Bryce Barnett A Film and Media Studies major from Ft. Worth, Texas, Bryce Barnett wrote this essay for Catherine Mintler's "Doppelgängers and Doubles" class. In a 1972 episode of The Dick Cavett Show (a popular daytime program that ran from 1968 to 1995), Cavett began his interview with Alfred Hitchcock with a reference to the director’s iconic taste for the macabre, asking “How did you acquire this turn of mind?” “I think my mother scared me when I was three months old,” Hitchcock begins, pausing while the audience laughs before he continues, “You see, she said, ‘BOO!’ It gave me the hiccups....

Motherhood in Horror Revealed: Complexities of the Maternal Thriller by Bryce Barnett A Film and Media Studies major from Ft. Worth, Texas, Bryce Barnett wrote this essay for Catherine Mintler’s “Doppelgängers and Doubles” class. In a 1972 episode …

by Rachel Emery A Meteorology major and a GIS minor from Glenarm, Illinois, Rachel Emery wrote this essay for Catherine Mintler's "Doppelgängers and Doubles" class. Have you ever wished Sigmund Freud was still alive so you could finally make clear your dislike for him and your disagreements with his outdated, problematic scientific ideas? Although not the same as bringing him back to life, his new form as a modern Voodoo doll gives you a chance to tell him how you really feel, and even stick a few pins in him....

The Uncanny Freud by Rachel Emery A Meteorology major and a GIS minor from Glenarm, Illinois, Rachel Emery wrote this essay for Catherine Mintler’s “Doppelgängers and Doubles” class. Have you ever …

Expository Writing Program course offerings for Spring 2023