Department of English Events

Shirley Brice Heath, linguistic anthropologist, studies learners across the life span in non-formal environments of learning. She earned her M.A. in Linguistics at Ball State University in 1964. Heath has taught at universities throughout the world, most notably Stanford University and Brown University. She will be receive an honorary doctorate at the Fall 2018 Commencement Ceremony.

The fourteenth annual In Print Festival of First Books is a two day event featuring a multi-author reading on Day 1 and a panel discussion on the writing life and literary editing and publishing on Day 2. This year In Print welcomes poet Chen Chen, fiction writer Nafissa Thompson-Spires, creative nonfiction writer Dustin Parsons and editor/poet Allison Joseph.

The fourteenth annual In Print Festival of First Books is a two day event featuring a multi-author reading on Day 1 and a panel discussion on the writing life and literary editing and publishing on Day 2. This year In Print welcomes poet Chen Chen, fiction writer Nafissa Thompson-Spires, creative nonfiction writer Dustin Parsons and editor/poet Allison Joseph.