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News Archive2007Graduate students will read creative works at Penscape event, Nov. 1310/12/2007 Read more on the Creative Writing website >> Deborah Mix's new book places Gertrude Stein at the center10/12/2007
Leslie Wheeler of Washington and Lee University calls A Vocabulary of Thinking an “accomplished work,” and observes, “Mix argues freshly and usefully that Stein provides crucial resources for understanding the innovations of later women writers…she provides subtle, lucid, and convincing close readings of difficult but interesting works.” Read more at the publisher's website >> Mai Kuha and Liz Riddle to present at Friday Forum Nov. 210/24/2007 Drs. Mai Kuha and Liz Riddle will present their research "Sorry about Bush, Sweetie The Co-Construction of Solidarity among Strangers through Intimate Style in Apologies," at Friday Forum, Nov. 2, at 2 p.m. in Robert Bell 361. Thousands of Americans posted personal apologies for George W. Bush’s win in the 2004 U.S. presidential election at sorryeverybody.com, eliciting responses from around the world. In this Friday Forum, Drs. Mai Kuha and Liz Riddle will present upon their findings from over a thousand of the apologies found on this site. Though the apologies posted on the site were addressed to strangers, Kuha and Riddle examined the phenomenon of linguistically framing the apologies as messages to close friends, a strategy to achieve image repair and minimize the gravity of the “OFFENSE” by separating the self from “OFFICIALDOM”. Friday Forum is sponsored by GSAB. Mai Kuha to present on southern Indiana speech Sept. 279/26/2007 Mai Kuha will be presenting on “Indiana residents’ perceptions of southern Indiana speech: Nice and slow" in RB 361, on Thursday, Sept. 27 at 3:30. The Broken Plate now accepting submissions for Spring 2008 issue9/10/2007 The Broken Plate, Ball State’s undergraduate literary magazine, is now accepting submissions from all BSU undergraduates. This magazine is produced by students in English 489, Practicum in Literary Editing and Publishing. The next issue will appear in Spring 2008. Visit the Broken Plate website for submission guidlines, or contact the editors at brokenplate@bsu.edu. Mark Neely will read from Dogs of Indiana at Friday Forum, Sept. 289/7/2007 Listen to Mark Neely read poems from his manuscript Dogs of Indiana and discuss his writing process Friday, Sept. 28, at the first Friday Forum of the fall semester. Professor Neely will also answer your questions about poetry and production. Friday Forum is sponsored by Graduate Student Advisory Board. The reading will take place at 1 p.m. in Robert Bell 361. Snacks and beverages will be provided. Visiting writer Debra Marquart to read Oct. 39/7/2007 Author Debra Marquart will give a reading of her work Oct. 3 at 7pm in Bracken Library Room 225. Learn more >> English faculty earn top honors8/20/2007 Ball State bestowed its most prestigious honors to two English faculty members during the annual fall faculty meetings on Aug. 17. The outstanding educators, selected by their peers, received cash
awards from the Ball State University Foundation and plaques from the
Alumni Association during the ceremony, considered the pre-eminent
annual awards presentation for faculty.
Estate funds new scholarship for English students6/13/2007 A $50,000 estate gift will fund a new scholarship at Ball State. The gift is from the estate of Janet Ross, a professor emeritus of English who taught at Ball State from 1961 until she retired in 1980. During her career, Ross also taught English as a second language classes to foreign students and was director of Ball State's master's degree program in teaching English as a foreign language. The gift will fund the English Studies Scholarship to benefit Ball State students pursuing undergraduate, master's or doctoral degrees in English. Graduating MAs to read their creative works4/25/2007 The graduating MA students will read from their creative works Thursday, April 26, at 7 p.m. in Bracken Library 225. Readings will include memoirs, stories, and poetry. English department awards ceremony4/18/2007 The English department will conduct an awards ceremony at 3pm this Friday in RB 361 to celebrate the achievements of our outstanding students. Sean Lovelace Unplugged4/18/2007 Sean Lovelace will talk at an Unplugged event this Friday at 4pm in RB 361. The title of his presentation is “How Metaphor Took Over my Fiction: Or Why All My Characters Explode.” This event is sponsored by Lambda Iota Tau. Two events in Indy to feature creative writing faculty3/30/2007 Writing Home: The Writers' Center of Indiana's 2007 Gathering of Writers and Readers will feature BSU creative writing faculty members Jill Christman and Mark Neely, along with visiting writer Michael Martone and 17 of Indiana's best writers for a day of classes, workshops, and writing community. The gathering will take place on April 14, 2007 at the Indiana Art Center. For more information, visit www.indianawriters.org or contact event coordinator Victoria Barrett at vdbarrett@bsu.edu. The Writers' Center of Indiana's Indy Underground Reading series will feature BSU creative writing professor Sean Aden Lovelace along with Michael Martone for an evening of fiction readings, live music, and great company on Friday, April 13 at Big Car Gallery in Indianapolis. Find out more at www.indianawriters.org. Creative Writing in the Community reading April 123/30/2007 - The public reading of excerpts from original works written by students in Barbara Bogue's English 409 (Creative Writing in the Community) in collaboration with their partners from Big Brothers Big Sisters, Heritage Retirement Village, Hillcroft Services, Inc., Motivate Our Minds, and VSA arts of Indiana at Hillcroft will take place in the historic and charming Cornerstone Center for the Arts on Thursday, April 12th, from 6:30 to 8 P.M. This reading is more than just a showcase of creative works; the event also acknowledges the friendships forged between students and their agency partners. This is an opportunity for your students to venture off the campus grounds to meet citizens of Muncie, to enjoy a historic setting, and to hear examples of fine writing (prose and poetry).Perhaps the reading will fit into or complement an assignment that you've planned for your class. The event is free and open to the public. Fred Johnson wins Distinguished Dissertation Award3/26/2007 - Fred Johnson has been awarded the Distinguished Dissertation Award for his dissertation, “Net Work: Social Networks, Disruptive Agency, and Innovation in Howells, Fitzgerald, Heller, Pynchon, and Gibson.” He will be given the award formally at the Graduate Student Recognition Ceremony on Tuesday, 10 April 2007, Cardinal Hall A-B. The reception begins at 3 p.m., the Recognition Ceremony will be held at 3:30 p.m., and the Distinguished Thesis Award and Distinguished Dissertation Award will be presented at 4 p.m. Both Fred and Dr. Kecia McBride, his Dissertation Director, will speak at that time. Kecia McBride selected as Virginia B. Ball Center fellow
The students will partner with Burris Laboratory School and the Indiana High School Athletic Association to produce a documentary. It will focus on the lives of student athletes who play for Steve Shondell's nationally renowned Burris Lady Owls volleyball team. In addition, the film will feature Birch Bayh, sponsor of the Title IX Amendment, and Pat Summitt, coach of the University of Tennessee Lady Volunteer basketball team. Read more. Dr. Lauren Onkey Unplugged3/22/2007 - Today at 4pm, Dr. Lauren Onkey will give a multimedia Unplugged presentation titled “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Write about Rock & Roll.” Dr. Onkey will talk about how she incorporates her musical interests into her academic work, and how students can put their writing skills to work in writing about music. Dr. Onkey has published essays on Jimi Hendrix, U2, Van Morrison and Bruce Springsteen, and is currently teaching a course in the English Department on racial interaction in rock and rap music. She will discuss how she got involved in writing about music and how English majors can do the same! This session is sponsored by Lambda Iota Tau and will take place in RB 284 (not 361, where Unplugged sessions often are held). There will be refreshments! Mary Theresa Seig to present her research on living history3/19/2007 - This talk has been cancelled. As part of this year's Department of Sociology colloquium series, Mary Theresa Seig, Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics, in the English Department at Ball State University, will discuss her research on talk in Conner Prairie. This presentation will describe a two-phase comparative study of interpreter and visitor interaction which was conducted over four years at the living history museum. Practical Criticism Midwest Conference February 21/31/2007 - The Practical Criticism Midwest Conference will be held this Friday, February 2, 2007 at the Virginia Ball Center for Creative Inquiry. PCM provides a friendly forum for graduate students in the department to present papers to their peers and faculty. Priority is given to first time PCM presenters. The theme of this year's conference is "Alternative Identity: Voices from a Voiceless Generation."
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her new book, A Vocabulary of Thinking: Gertrude Stein and
Contemporary North American Women’s Innovative Writing, from the
University of Iowa Press, 
3/26/2007
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