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News Archive
2004
Posted Dec. 7, 2004
Poet Daniel Nester to read at the MT Cup,
Friday, Dec. 10: Daniel Nester will read at 8:00 p.m Friday,
Dec. 10, at the MT Cup. His reading will be followed by local
musicians playing a tribute to Queen. Nester is the author of
two books of poetry, God Save My Queen and God Save My
Queen II, which have been praised in publications such as the
New York Times Book Review. He is the editor of the online
journal Unpleasant
Event Schedule and is assistant web editor of the sestinas at
McSweeney's. His
poems have appeared in many magazines and in the anthology, Best
American Poetry 2003.
Posted Nov. 17, 2004
Penscape: Graduate students to read
creative works at Penscape Nov. 17 at 4:20 pm in Robert Bell 361.
Posted Nov. 16, 2004
Gertrude Stein Unplugged with Debbie Mix:
Debbie Mix will present on Gertrude
Stein at the next "Unplugged" lecture event this Friday at 4:00 pm
in Robert Bell 361. The "Unplugged"
lecture series is sponsored by
Lambda Iota Tau.
Posted Nov. 5, 2004
Lauren
Onkey to discuss Irish-Black relations in the work of John Boyle
O'Reilly Nov. 12: Lauren
Onkey will present at the next Faculty Forum on Friday, Nov. 12,
at 3:00 pm, in RB 361. Professor Onkey's presentation will
examine the work of John Boyle O’Reilly, whose work as a writer and
editor of The Boston Pilot from 1870-1890 challenges dominant
paradigms regarding Irish-American attitudes on race. This event is
sponsored by
GSAB.
John Boyle O'Reilly, an Irish Republican who was sentenced to hard
labor and exile in Australia for attempting to infiltrate the British
Army, escaped and ended up in Boston. O’Reilly brought a new sensibility
about race to the Irish-American community in Boston and to The
Boston Pilot, which had taken a pro-slavery position before the
Civil War. O’Reilly attempted to revive the anti-slavery Irish tradition
of Daniel O’Connell in his work in the paper, his political work in
Boston, his poetry, and his two novels. His editorial work, speeches,
and poetry such as "Crispus Attucks" and "Wendel Phillips" serve to
caution us against monolithic definitions of 19th-century Irish
Americans as uniformly hostile towards African Americans.
Posted Nov. 4, 2004
Poet Stephen Herz to read at Ball State Nov. 15:
Poet Stephen Herz will read on Monday, November 15th at 5 p.m. in
Bracken Library, room 225, on the Ball State campus as part of the
2004-2005 Visiting Writers Series sponsored by Lilly II and Creative
Writing in the Department of English. Refreshments will be served after
the reading at a book signing and reception with the author. Both events
are free and open to the public. For more information, please contact
Jill Christman.
Poet Stephen Herz, a former advertising copywriter, has been widely
published in the literary journals and magazines. He's a winner of the
New England Poet's Daniel Varoujan Prize. His book Whatever You Can
Carry: Poems of the Holocaust (Barnwood Press, 2003), is a collection of
experiences and responses to the Holocaust by inmates of the
concentration camps, Nazis, persons who saw the deportations, American
soldiers who liberated the camps and the author's American Jewish family.
Posted Oct. 14, 2004
Poet Marilyn Kallet to read at Ball State Oct. 25:
Poet
Marilyn Kallet will read on Monday, October 25th, at 7 p.m. in
the Art and Journalism Building, room 225, on the Ball State campus
as part of the 2004-2005 Visiting
Writers Series sponsored by Lilly II and Creative Writing in the
Department of English. Refreshments will be served after the reading
at a book signing and reception with the author. Both events are
free and open to the public. For more information, please contact
Jill Christman.
Marilyn Kallet is the author of nine books, including her most recent
collection of poems How to Get Heat Without Fire (New Messenger,
1996) and a book for young readers,
One for
Each Night: Chanukah Tales and Recipes (Celtic Cat Publishing,
2003). With Judith Ortiz Cofer, she co-edited Sleeping With One Eye
Open: Women Writers and the Art of Survival (University of Georgia
Press, 1999). Her poems have appeared in hundreds of literary magazines,
including New Letters, Prairie Schooner, and Tar River
Poetry. She is the poetry editor for New Millennium Writings.
In 2005, BkMk Press, University of Missouri/Kansas City, will publish
her next volume of poems, Lure, and the University of Tennessee
Press will publish an essay collection, The Art of College Teaching:
28 Takes, co-edited with April Morgan. Marilyn Kallet holds the
Hodges Chair for Distinguished Teaching at the University of Tennessee,
where she is Professor of English.
Posted Oct. 5, 2004
Adam Beach to discuss "The Pleasures of Pursuing
Obscure Research" Friday, Oct. 8: The "Unplugged"
lecture series, sponsored by
Lambda Iota Tau, starts
with Adam Beach this Friday at
4:00 pm in Robert Bell 361. Professor Beach will talk about "The
Pleasures of Pursing Obscure Research: The Literature of English
Tangier."
Posted Sept. 29, 2004
Ball State to host Indiana College English Association Conference
Friday, Oct. 1: The annual Indiana College English
Association Conference, hosted by Ball State, will take place in the
Robert Bell building on Friday, Oct. 1. The conference
features panels on literature, linguistics, pedagogy, and creative
writing.
Posted Sept. 27, 2004
University to host conference on medieval
studies in October: The accomplishments of a medieval
Christian visionary and composer will be celebrated during a joint
conference Oct. 6-9. The 20th anniversary celebration of the
International Society of Hildegard von Bingen Studies will take
place in conjunction with the 35th annual
Interdisciplinary CAES Conference.
Posted Sept. 10, 2004
 Fiction
writer Julie Schumacher to read at Ball State: Fiction writer
Julie Schumacher will
read on Thursday, September 23rd at 7 p.m. in Bracken Library, room
225, on the Ball State campus as the inaugural reader in the
2004-2005 Visiting Writers Series sponsored by Lilly II and Creative
Writing in the Department of English. Refreshments will be served
after the reading at a book signing and reception with the author.
Both events are free and open to the public
Julie Schumacher’s first novel, The Body Is Water, was
published by Soho Press in 1995 and was an ALA Notable Book of the Year,
a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, and winner of the Minnesota Book
Award. Her other books include a short story collection, An
Explanation for Chaos (Soho Press, 1997) and two new books for young
adults: Grass Angel (Delacorte, 2004) and The Chain Letter (Delacorte,
2005). Schumacher’s first published story, “Reunion,” was written to
fulfill an undergraduate writing assignment and was eventually reprinted
in The Best American Short Stories 1983. Additional stories were
published in The Atlantic, MS, Minnesota Monthly, and Prize
Stories: The O. Henry Awards (both 1990 and 1996).
An Associate Professor of English at the University of Minnesota, Ms.
Schumacher teaches classes such as fiction writing, dystopian
literature, monsters in fiction, and Latin American literature in
translation.
Posted Sept 9, 2004
New book by Robert Habich:
 The Department of English is happy to announce the publication of
Lives Out of Letters (Fairleigh Dickinson University
Press), a collection of essays edited by
Robert Habich. The eleven essays
in this collection address from a practitioner's perspective the
relationship between American literary biography, documentation, and
interpretation.
Posted August 13, 2004
Bruce Hozeski named new department chair:
 The English department is pleased to announce that
Bruce Hozeski has been named as
the Chairperson of the department. Professor Hozeski was also
elected as Vice Chair of University Senate and Chair of the
Governance Committee on campus. He is a member of the Dean's
Advisory Council in the College of Sciences and Humanities. He was
recently elected to be one of the seven members of the Board of
Directors of the Association of College Honors Societies (ACHS), the
national organization for the 67 honor societies in the United
States. The 67 societies have a total membership of seven and a half
million members and among their many activities award seven and a
half million dollars of scholarships
The other administrative appointments are as follows:
Posted April 26, 2004
English majors honored at awards reception:
Undergraduate students in English were recognized for their
outstanding achievements at the Kitselman Center April 23. The
department honored Elizabeth A. Greene as the Outstanding Senior
English Major for 2004. In addition, the following
students received scholarship awards:
- Paul Robb Scholarship: Janice Gaylena Merritt
- Elizabeth Martin Scholarships: Jennifer Gibson, Jessica Leigh
Gonzalez, and Krista Quesenberry
Also at the reception,
Lambda Iota
Tau, the national honor society for literature, initiated 25 new
members.
Posted April 22, 2004
Herbert Stahlke to present at Faculty
Forum, April 30: Herbert
Stahlke, along with graduate students Yonghong Cheng and Duck
Hee Sung, will give a presentation on "English Nominalizations in
-s" at the next Faculty Forum. The Forum will take place on Friday,
April 30, at 4:00 p.m., in Robert Bell 361.
Posted April 13, 2004
Graduate students honored for achievements
at reception: Graduate students were honored at the Graduate
Student Recognition Reception April 6. The highlight of the program
was the presentation of awards from the Ball State Alumni
Association for the outstanding doctoral dissertation and master’s
thesis. Both awards went to students in the Department of English.
Luz Rincon (left) received the Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award
for 2003-04. Carolyn MacKay
chaired the dissertation committee.
Doyle L. Haeussler (right) received the Distinguished Master’s Thesis Award.
Thomas Koontz was chair of the thesis
committee.
The program recognized students identified for distinguished
achievements during the past year. These include publications in scholarly
journals, creative works, presentations at national and regional meetings,
fellowships and research grants, and recognition by professional
societies. Faculty advisers were also recognized for their role in the
professional distinctions earned by their students.
Posted April 9, 2004
Hungry Bird faculty reading: Please mark
your calendars to attend the 2nd Hungry Bird faculty reading. The
date is Friday, April 16 at 4:00 (doors open at 3:30) in Robert Bell
125. Cathy Hunter, Todd McKinney, and Andrew Scott will be on hand
to astound us. This event is free and open to the public.
Posted April 9, 2004
Matt Hart poetry reading: Ball State
English Department graduate and Pushcart Prize nominee Matt Hart
will read his poetry April 15, 5:00 p.m., in Robert Bell 125.
He will be joined by special guests
Tom Koontz and Patti White.
This event is free and open to the public.
Posted April 5, 2004
David Marlow dissertation defense: David
Marlow will defend his dissertation, “Writing Under the Gun: a
multimodal analysis of technical trouble tickets as an IText genre”,
on Thursday, April 15, 2004, in Robert Bell 361 from 2:00 - 4:00 PM.
The dissertation is now available in the Main Office, RB 297.
Posted March 30, 2004
Creative Writing in the Community
Reading: Barbara Bogue's
English 309 (Creative Writing in the Community) students will
present a reading of original collaborative works with their writing
partners from Big Brothers, Big Sisters, Heritage Retirement
Village, Hillcroft Services, Inc., and Poetic Empowerment in
partnership with Muncie Civic Theater and funded by Lilly Endowment.
The reading will take place April 6, 6:30 - 8:00 p.m., at Muncie
Civic Center. This event is free and open to the public.
Posted March 25, 2004
Lauren Onkey awarded a Virginia Ball
Center Fellowship: As a recipient of
a Virginia Ball Center Fellowship
for Spring 2005, Lauren Onkey will lead a group of students to
Ireland, where she and her students will study the roles tourism and
travel writing play in constructing and marketing Ireland’s national
identity. The seminar will travel throughout Ireland conducting
their research with microphones. Upon their return, the students
will create and produce a series of short radio programs, “Consuming
a Nation,” that will illustrate the significance of tourism in
contemporary culture. The seminar will also publish its findings in
an academic journal devoted to Irish Studies. Lauren’s community
sponsor is Indiana Public Radio.
Posted March 25, 2004
Luz Mary Rincon wins Distinguished
Dissertation Award: Luz Mary Rincon
has won the 2003-2004 BSU Alumni Association Distinguished
Dissertation Award for her dissertation, "Middle-Class Spanish of
the City of Bucaramanga, Columbia." Luz Mary defended in December
and will graduate this May.
Posted March 9, 2004
Hungry Bird faculty reading Wednesday, March 10: The first
session of the Hungry Bird faculty reading series will feature Peter
Bethanis (poetry), Dan Hefko (poetry), and Susan Yanos
(non-fiction). The reading takes place Wednesday, March 10, in
Robert Bell 125, from 5:30-6:30 p.m. (doors unlock at 5). This event
is free and open to the public.
Posted March 4, 2004
Trey Strecker edits new anthology of vintage
baseball fiction: The Department of English is pleased to
announce the publication of
Dead Balls and Double Curves: An Anthology of Early Baseball
Fiction (Southern Illinois University Press), edited by our
colleague Trey Strecker. The anthology collects twenty-two classic
stories from baseball’s youth, presented in chronological order to
capture the development of this most American of sports. Many of
these tales have never before been reprinted, adding historical
value to the rich literary merits of this anthology. Dead Balls
and Double Curves presents a lineup of first-division writers,
including Mark Twain, Frank Norris, Christy Mathewson, Edna Ferber,
and the game’s poet laureate, Ring Lardner, plus legendary
characters such as Baseball Joe, South-Paw Skaggs, Tin Can Tommy,
and the sole artiste of the mythic double curve, Frank Merriwell.
Posted Feb. 12, 2004
Scott Russell Sanders to read March 24:
Indiana writer
Scott
Russell Sanders will read from his work on Wednesday, March 24th
at 4:00 p.m. in Room 125, Robert Bell building, Ball State
University campus. This event is free and open to the public.
Posted Feb. 5, 2004
Luis Rodriguez will give a reading
Feb. 18:
Luis Rodriguez, memoirist, poet, fiction writer, publisher, and
social activist, will present a reading and talk, with Q&A,
Wednesday, February 18, 7:30 pm, in Art and Journalism building,
Room 175. In 1993 Luis
Rodriguez published La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A., a memoir
of his experiences in the 60s and 70s. He has published volumes of
poetry and short stories, beginning in 1989, and his first novel
will be published later this year.
Posted Jan. 15, 2004
Practical Criticism Midwest 14: "The Enigma of Language": The annual graduate student conference will take place on February
6, 2004, at the Virginia B. Ball Center for Creative Inquiry from 8 a.m. to 5
p.m.
Posted Jan. 13, 2004
Memoirist Beth Finke to read from her new memoir, Long
Time, No See:
Memoirist and NPR commentator Beth Finke will be reading from her
new memoir Long Time, No See (University of Illinois Press,
2003) on Friday, January 30th at 3 p.m. in Room 175, Arts &
Journalism building. A book signing will follow
at 4 p.m. in the Barnes & Noble Café. Both events are free and open
to the public.
Beth Finke is a freelance writer, public speaker, and a
commentator on National Public Radio's "Morning Edition." Her topics
include writing, disabilities, assistive technology, service dogs,
and special education, among others. Her articles have been
published in Writer Magazine, the Anchorage Press,
Dog Fancy, and The Bark. She is also a grief counselor
and works part-time as a nude model for university art classes.
For more information, visit
Beth Finke's website.
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