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Kecia Driver McBride received the Outstanding Teaching Award. |
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Patrick Collier received the Outstanding Faculty Academic Advising Award. |
6/13/2007
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.
4/25/2007
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.
4/18/2007
The English department will conduct an awards ceremony at 3pm this Friday in RB 361 to celebrate the achievements of our outstanding students.
4/18/2007
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.
3/30/2007
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.
3/30/2007 - 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.
3/26/2007 - 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.
3/26/2007
- The Virginia B. Ball Center for
Creative Inquiry recently selected
Kecia McBride, associate professor of English, as one of three
faculty fellows to teach an immersive, interdisciplinary, collaborative,
project-driven and community-based seminar for 2007-08. In Professor
McBride's seminar, "The Expectation of Excellence: Girls, Sports and
Community," students will study the impact of the Title IX Amendment to
the Higher Education Act, prohibiting gender discrimination in
athletics, and the work ethic and leadership skills of young girls.
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.
3/22/2007 - 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!
3/19/2007 - 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.
1/31/2007 - 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."
12/11/2006 - Professors Carolyn MacKay and Frank Trechsel are working against the clock to document and preserve Tepehua, a native language spoken by residents of an isolated community in Pisaflores, Mexico.
11/15/2006 - Barbara Bogue's recently published book delves into the crime fiction of James Lee Burke. In James Lee Burke and the Soul of Dave Robicheaux, Professor Bogue examines how Burke uses his popular detective character, Dave Robicheaux, to confront serious moral issues. Burke was Professor Bogue's mentor at Witchita State University.
Professor Bogue was recently profiled in The Muncie Star Press. Read the profile.
11/15/2006 - Mary Theresa Seig was recently profiled in Ball State's Daily News and in the Muncie Star Press for her work to improve interaction between employees and visitors at Conner Prairie, a living-history museum in central Indiana.
11/3/2006 - Ball State's writing program was recognized as one of the best in the country when it received the Writing Program Certificate of Excellence for 2006-2007 by the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). Ball State representatives will receive the honor March 23, 2007, at the CCCC conference.
The CCCC awards committee cited the Ball State writing program for its "solid approach to teaching composition as an act of reading and writing across modes of communication."
The program was also cited for its excellence in meeting the needs of students and faculty, including offering faculty professional development opportunities and using best teaching practices.
Ball State's writing program is administered by the English department. Most students take at least two semesters of writing at Ball State.
The CCCC, which has 6,000 members worldwide, supports and promotes the teaching and study of college composition and communication.
11/1/2006 - Candace Denning will read a just-completed short story, “My Mother’s Hat,” this Friday, November 3, at the next Faculty Forum. Candace will read at 3:30 pm in Robert Bell 361. This event is not only free and open to the public, but snacks will be provided.
10/16/2006
- Andrew Scott will
read from his story chapbook, Modern Love, on Tuesday, October
24. The reading begins at 8:00 p.m. in RB 125. Copies of the chapbook
will be available after the reading.
Scott is also scheduled to read at the Writers' Center of Indiana on
December 14 in Indianapolis.
9/29/2006 - Every week professors Pat Collier and Bob Nowatzki share their love of quirky and unusual words on their radio program "Word Nerds." The show airs Saturdays at 11 a.m. on Indiana Public Radio (IPR, 92.1), immediately following "Car Talk."
8/18/2006
- During the fall faculty meeting on August 18,
Herbert Stahlke, professor of English,
was presented with the Outstanding Faculty Award, the university's
pre-eminent award in recognition of outstanding contributions to
students and the university. Since joining Ball State in 1980,
Professor Stahlke has consistently demonstrated dedication to the
university, the Department of English, the discipline of linguistics and
the many graduate and undergraduate students he has taught and mentored.
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