Category: Good News

August Good News

September 2, 2018 by mjbyerly

We were really busy over the summer, writing and researching and submitting and job hunting. So we’ve got a lot of good news to share this month! Faculty News Prof. Michael Begnal His article “‘Bullets for Hands’: Witter Bynner, Arthur Davison Ficke, and the Spectra Poems of World War I” was published in Twentieth-Century Literature, […]

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The hits keep coming: English MVPs

May 8, 2018 by Jacket Copy Creative

Two months of good news means double the accomplishments for our #BSUEnglish faculty, students, and alumni! Please note the actual baseball references below. Faculty Good News On April 20, four English faculty were nominated as BSU Softball’s MVPs (Most Valuable Professors): Adrienne Bliss, Kathryn Ludwig, Katherine Greene, and Brianna Mauk. Prof. Katy Didden won a Junior […]

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February Good News: Publications and Jobs and Plays, Oh My!

March 13, 2018 by ceceliamwestbrook

Not only was February a month full of love; it was also a month full of awesome accomplishments for our #BSUEnglish faculty, students, and alumni! Faculty News Professor Guilherme D. Garcia’s paper “Can you get stress without feet?” (joint work with Heather Goad) was accepted for presentation at the 36th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL), […]

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January Good News: Prof. Lyn Jones Receives a Provost Immersive Learning Grant (and More!)

February 8, 2018 by Jacket Copy Creative

We’ve got a lot of good news to share this month! Faculty News Prof. Sean Lovelace published four “Letters to Jim Harrison” in Willow Springs Magazine Winter 2018 issue. Prof. Carolyn J. MacKay and Prof. Frank R Trechsel published “An Alternative Reconstruction of Proto-Totonac-Tepehua” in the International Journal of American Linguistics. Prof. Michael Begnal published a review of […]

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November Good News: Prof. Grutsch McKinney’s Awards and More!

November 30, 2017 by ceceliamwestbrook

In between Halloween and Thanksgiving, check out how much good news we have to share! Prof. Jackie Grutsch McKinney won the 2017 International Writing Centers Association Outstanding Book Award for two of her books: Strategies for Writing Center Research and The Working Lives of New Writing Center Directors (co-authored with Becky Jackson and Nikki Caswell). Nikki […]

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October Good News: Molly Ferguson is elected President and More!

November 2, 2017 by masmart95

We’ve got a lot of good news this month! Faculty News Andrea Wolfe will be presenting a session entitled “Facing International Students: Building Empathy through Storytelling” with Lizz Alezetes and Deborah McMillan, both of the Intensive English Institute at Ball State, at the 2017 INTESOL Conference on November 11th Molly Ferguson was elected president of […]

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September Good News: Kayla Peterson turns her classroom into Hogwarts (and more!)

October 3, 2017 by masmart95

In The News Kayla Peterson (BA in English Ed, 2016) is an English teacher at Penn High School in Mishawaka, IN. She was recently featured on WNDU News for transforming her classroom into Hogwarts. Check out the other awesome things #bsuenglish students and faculty have been up to! Faculty News Kathryn S. Gardiner is […]

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August Good News: Prof. Collier’s Book a Finalist (and More)

September 1, 2017 by Jacket Copy Creative

This August brings us so much good news. Let’s start… Prof. Patrick Collier’s book Modern Print Artefacts: Textual Materiality and Literary Value in British Print Culture, 1890–1930s (Edinburgh University Press) was a finalist for the Modernist Studies Association Book Prize. A panel of judges determined the book that made the most significant contribution to modernist […]

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Prof. Scalzo Publishes Book (And other March Good News)!

April 5, 2017 by Jacket Copy Creative

We’ve got a lot of good news this month, so we’re dividing it into faculty and student/alum accomplishments. Check out all the amazing things your friends and colleagues have done! Faculty Good News Prof. Emily Scalzo’s new book The Politics of Division was published on Mar. 27! The Indiana Writing Project was awarded a $15,000 grant titled […]

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Writing Project Grant (and more February Good News)

March 15, 2017 by Jacket Copy Creative

The Indiana Writing Project directed by Professor Susanna Benko was recently awarded a $20,000 grant for the College Ready Writers Program, sponsored by the National Writing Project. This program focuses on teaching argument writing in middle and secondary classrooms. The grant money will be used to invest in 12-16 experienced middle and high school Writing Project […]

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