News Archive
2003
Posted Dec. 12, 2003
Bruce Hozeski recognized at MMLA:
Bruce Hozeski was recognized as a featured author at the
Midwest Modern Language Association Convention in Chicago, Nov. 7-9,
2003.
Posted Dec. 5, 2003
Bill Liston Unplugged:
Lamda
Iota Tau will host a conversation with Professor Bill Liston on
Friday, Dec. 5, at 4:00 pm in the Studio (room outside Starbucks) in
the Art and Journalism building.
Posted Dec. 3, 2003
Penscape: Penscape will take place Thursday, Dec. 4, at 7:00 pm in RB
361. Readers include Elizabeth Young, Joel Jupp, Shane Sullivan, Amy
Genova, and Lisa Galloway.
Posted Dec. 1, 2003
Reception for Neena Ellis Dec. 2: The creative writing graduate
students will host a reception for and conversation with Neena Ellis on
Tuesday, Dec 2, from 9:30 to 11:00 in RB 361. Ms. Ellis, the author of If
I Live to Be 100, is a freelance reporter and a former staff producer for
NPR's All Things Considered. Her recently published book is a collection
of interviews with centenarians.
Posted Dec. 1, 2003
Luz Mary Rincon dissertation defense: Luz Mary will defend her dissertation,
“Middle-Class Spanish of the City of Bucaramanga, Colombia”, on Friday,
Dec. 12, 2003, in RB 361 from 2:00 - 4:00 PM. The dissertation is now
available in the Main Office.
Posted Nov. 7, 2003
Wei Jang Dissertation Defense: Wei Jiang will defend
his dissertation, “Peer Review in ESL Writing: Attitudes and
Cultural Concerns,” on Wednesday, November 19, 2003, in RB 360 from
10:00 - 12:00. The dissertation is now available in the English
department main office.
Posted Nov. 3, 2003
Distinguished M.A. Thesis: Doyle Haeussler has won the
Ball State University Alumni Association Distinguished MA Thesis
Award for her thesis, "Chasing Losses: A Book of Poems." Doyle
received her MA in English (Creative Writing) in May of 2003.
Posted Oct. 3, 2003
New book by Kristie Fleckenstein: The Department of English is happy to announce the publication of
Embodied Literacies: Imageword and a Poetics of Teaching
(Southern Illinois University Press), a "terrifically smart book" by
our colleague Kristie Fleckenstein.
Posted Sept. 29, 2003
"Hiring with Vision" updated: The updated version of "Hiring with
Vision," the English Department's long-range hiring plan, includes both original and revised text from 1997, as
well as a supplement written in 2003.
Posted Sept. 29, 2003
Film inspired by Patti White's poem to premiere Oct. 8:
"Tackle Box," a short film by Matthew Mebane, will be shown at
4:00 p.m. Oct. 8 in the Indiana Room at Minnetrista Cultural Center.
Mebane makes his directorial debut by reinterpreting
Professor White's narrative poem as
a transformative silent film. Professor White's
Tackle
Box
collection won the Anhinga Prize for Poetry in 2001.
Posted Sept. 29, 2003
Bruce Hozeski recognized:
Professor
Bruce W. Hozeski is listed in Who’s Who in America
2003 and in Who’s Who in American
Education 2003, Marquis Who’s Who.
Posted Sept. 29, 2003
Barbara Ehrenreich to speak Oct. 8 at Emens:
Barbara Ehrenreich is author of this year's Freshman Common Reader,
"Nickel and Dimed: On NOT Getting By in America."
Ehrenreich will speak at 7:30 p.m.
Oct. 8 in Emens Auditorium.
Posted Sept. 12, 2003
Writing Center website gets a new look:
The
Writing Center recently re-designed its website and changed its
website address. Visit the new and improved site at
www.bsu.edu/web/writingctr
Posted Sept. 10, 2003
Nikki Giovanni to read Sept. 12: Award-winning poet Nikki Giovanni
will read her work at Pruis Hall, 5:00 p.m., Friday, Sept 12. The English Department is one of the sponsors of this
event, which has been organized by Delta Sigma Theta as part of
their 50th anniversary celebration.
Posted August 25, 2003
English Faculty honored at Fall Faculty Meeting: Three members 1
of the English department were honored for outstanding contributions
to the university at the fall faculty meeting Friday, August, 22.
They are:
Posted April 23, 2003
Writing in the Community: Professor
Barbara Bogue and her creative
writing students were recently featured in The Star Press.
Posted April 10, 2003
Dissertation Defense:
Ibrahim Al-Qarni will defend his dissertation, “Rote Repetition in Saudi Foreign Language Vocabulary
Acquisition," on Thursday, April 24, in RB 360 from 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. The dissertation is now available in the Main Office.
Posted April 4, 2003
Pamela Hartman wins national AERA award:
Pamela Hartman was selected to
receive the American Education Research Association Literature SIG
award for the outstanding dissertation in literature for 2001-2002.
Her dissertation, "Conflicted Strategies for Success: Working Class Girls, Gender,
and Literacy," examines the relationship between gender identity
and literacy among academically successful, female high-school
students. Dr. Hartman will be presented with the award at the
AERA national conference this spring.
Posted April 4, 2003
Distinguished Dissertation Award:
Dr. Carolyn Goffman has won the
2002-2003 BSU Alumni Association Distinguished Dissertation Award
for her dissertation,“`More Than
the Conversion of Souls’: Rhetoric and Ideology at the American
College for Girls, Istanbul, 1871-1923.” Dr. Goffman will be
honored at the Graduate Student Recognition Ceremony on April 17th.
Posted April 4, 2003
Dissertation Defense: Muhammad Faqeehi will defend his dissertation, "Exploring the
Effects of Combined Strategies on English Vocabulary Learning Among
Saudi Arabian University Freshmen," on April 23 in RB 361 at 10:00
a.m. The dissertation is now available
in the Main Office.
Posted April 1, 2003
Friday Faculty Forum:
Jill Leeper will present on Thomas Pynchon at the next Faculty Forum,
Friday, April 4, at 4 p.m., in RB 361. Her presentation is titled is "Disrupting
the Normal: Chaos, Order and the Freakish Body in Gravity's Rainbow."
Posted March 18, 2003
Dissertation Defense: John Prince will defend his dissertation, “Utopia
Victoriana: The Utopian Novel in Late Victorian Britain, 1871-1905”
on Wednesday, April 2, 2003, in S.C. 102A (International Programs conference
room) from 2:15 – 4:15 PM. The dissertation is now available in the
Main Office.
Posted March 18, 2003
Friday Faculty Forum: Mark Neely will read selections from
his poetry at the next Faculty Forum on March 21 at 4 p.m. in RB 360.
Posted March 3, 2003
3rd Creative Writing Faculty Recital: Margaret
Dimopolon and Patti White will
read from their works Thursday, March 6, at 4:00 p.m., in RB 125.
Posted March 3, 2003
Poet Ed Ochester to read March 20: Distinguished poet, teacher, and editor Ed
Ochester will give a poetry reading on Thursday, March 20th, in AJ
175 at 4:00 p.m. Ed Ochester edits the Pitt Poetry Series and is
general editor of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize for
short fiction, both published by the University of
Pittsburgh Press. From 1978 to 1998 he was director of the Writing Program
at the University of Pittsburgh,
and was twice elected president of the Associated
Writing Programs. His most recent books of poetry are
Cooking in Key West (Adastra Press), The Land of
Cockaigne (Story Line Press) and Snow White Horses:
Selected Poems 1973-1988 (Autumn House Press). In
addition to these books, he has previously published
three full-length collections of poetry and numerous
chapbooks. He is the co-editor of The Pittsburgh Book
of Contemporary American Poetry. He is a member of the core faculty
of the MFA writing seminars at Bennington College and co-edits the poetry
magazine "5 AM." Most recently he is the Distinguished Visiting
Poet at Wichita State University. He lives in a rural county northeast
of Pittsburgh.
Posted Feb. 28, 2003
Friday Faculty Forum: Mark Neely will present at the next Faculty
Forum on March 21. Adrienne Bliss will present on April 18.
Posted Feb. 7, 2003
Book Signing: Faculty author Jill
Christman will sign copies of her award-winning
memoir, Darkroom:
A Family Exposure, on Wed., Feb 12, from 1:30 - 2:30 in the
atrium outside Barnes and Noble (Art and Journalism Building).
Posted Jan. 27, 2003
Dissertation Defense: Curtis Wilken will defend his dissertation,
"An Examination of American Reading Textbooks, 1785-1819, As An Expression
of Eighteenth-Century Rhetorical Theory, And As A Precursor to Nineteenth
Century Writing Instruction," on Monday, February 10th, from 2-4
p.m. in RB 361. His dissertation is now on display in the main office.
Posted Jan. 23, 2003
Practical
Criticism Midwest 13: The 13th annual graduate student conference
will be held Feb. 7 from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Virginia Ball Center
for Creative Inquiry.
Posted Jan. 17, 2003
2nd Creative Writing Faculty Recital: Barbara
Bogue and Jill Christman will
read from their works Wednesday, Jan. 22, at 4:00 - 5:00 pm, in AJ 175.
Posted Jan. 15, 2003
Dissertation Defense: Fathi Migdadi will defend his dissertation,
“Complimenting In Jordanian Arabic: A Sociopragmatic Analysis”
on Jan. 29 in RB 361 from 9:00 – 11:00 am. The dissertation is now
available in the Main Office.
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