Category: Good News


  • Good News, September 2014

    Tuesday = Good News In the latest installment of the “Good News” series, the Ball State English department highlights the accomplishments of our faculty and students up through the month of September. That’s right. We have so much good news that we’re sharing it once a month rather than once a semester. In fact, we […]

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  • Good News, Spring 2014

    Better late than never! In the latest installment of our “Good News” series, the Ball State English Department highlights the accomplishments of the department’s students and faculty during the Spring 2014 semester: Adrienne Bliss: She had a chapter published in Fabricating the Body: Effects of Obligation and Exchange in Contemporary Discourse. In addition, she had a […]

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  • Good News, Fall 2013

    In the latest installment of our “Good News” series, The Ball State English Department highlights the accomplishments of the department’s graduate students and faculty during the Fall 2013 semester: Amit Baishya wrote an article titled “The Act of Watching with One’s One Eyes: ‘Strange Recognitions’ in Siddhartha Deb’s An Outline of the Republic,” which is forthcoming […]

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  • Good News: Spring 2013

    In the latest installment of our “Good News” series, The Ball State English Department highlights the accomplishments of the department’s graduate students and faculty during the Spring 2013 semester: Graduate Student Adi Angel presented “’She Had Learned to Know Her Body Playing Ball:’ Exploring Representations of the Jewish Mother Through Baseball Fiction” at the PCA/ACA […]

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  • Good News: Fall 2012

    In the latest installment of our “Good News” series, The Ball State English Department  highlights the accomplishments of the department’s graduate students and faculty during the Fall 2012 semester: Graduate student Nicki Literland Baker was a co-author on a recent publication: Stewart, J. L., Baker, N. L., Chaney, S. E., Hashimov, E., Imafuji, E. L., […]

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  • Preserving Indigenous Languages in Mexico: Carolyn Mackay and Frank Trechsel

    According to National Geographic Society’s Enduring Voices Project, the endangered languages of our planet are disappearing at a rate of about one every 14 days.  Two of Ball State English Department’s faculty, Drs. Carolyn MacKay and Frank Trechsel, are among those who are working towards preserving endangered and disappearing languages. Follow the link provided below to read a recent profile […]

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  • Good News: Fall 2011

    Check out the latest installment of our “Good News” series, which highlights the accomplishments of the English Department’s graduate students and faculty. Here’s what they’ve been up to: Victoria Barrett’s fiction press, Engine Books, released its first original title, Patricia Henley’s OTHER HEARTBREAKS, this month.  Victoria coordinated the Writers’ Center of Indiana’s “Gathering of Writers” […]

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  • Good News #2

    This is the second post of our “Good News” series—a series to highlight the accomplishments of the English Department’s graduate students and faculty. Here’s what they’ve been up to: Adam R. Beach’s essay “Global Slavery, Old World Bondage, and Aphra Behn’s Abdelazer,” was accepted for publication in Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, and will appear in […]

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