Tag: Cathy Day

Low-Res, High Motivation: an interview with Jill Christman (Part Two) By Cathy Day

May 30, 2011 by bsuenglish

Read part one of the interview. Just ten or fifteen years ago, there were hardly any low-res programs, but they’ve grown exponentially. Not just low-residency programs. According to AWP’s statistics, in 1975, there were 24 undergraduate minors, 3 undergraduate majors, and 15 MFA programs nationally, now those numbers are 347, 157, and 184, respectively. It’s […]

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Low-Res, High Motivation: an interview with Jill Christman (Part One) By Cathy Day

May 26, 2011 by bsuenglish

Jill Christman’s memoir, Darkroom: A Family Exposure, which won the AWP Award Series in Creative Nonfiction and was published by the University of Georgia Press in 2002, will be reissued in paperback this fall. Recent essays appearing in River Teeth and Harpur Palate have been honored by Pushcart nominations and her writing has been published in […]

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Good News #2

April 6, 2011 by bsuenglish

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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Faculty reading: Cathy Day and Matt Mullins

February 9, 2011 by bsuenglish

On Thursday, February 10th, there will be a faculty reading in AJ 225 featuring Professors Cathy Day and Matt Mullins. The reading will start at 7:30, and is a great opportunity to see what your professors/peers are writing. Cathy Day is the author of Comeback Season, a memoir following the Indianapolis Colts’ Super Bowl season, […]

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The Circus in Winter comes to the Muncie Civic Theater

January 31, 2011 by bsuenglish

Last week, I was walking down Main Street when I saw this on the marquee of the Muncie Civic Theater. Yes, I know this is Muncie, Indiana, not New York City, but it’s still pretty cool to see the name of your book on a theater marquee. Last year, an amazing group of Ball State […]

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Two events this weekend starring our very own BSU professors!

January 13, 2011 by bsuenglish

Looking for a way to round out your first week? Well, we’ve got a couple of events that should help. This Friday, January 14th, Professor Cathy Day will read from her memoir Comeback Season: How I Learned to Play the Game of Love. The event will be held at the E.B. & Bertha C. Ball […]

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Introducing our Good News series!

December 17, 2010 by bsuenglish

This post will be the first in our Good News series, which will highlight our faculty and graduate students’ accomplishments. Without further ado, here’s what our Ball State University English professors and students are doing: Cathy Day attended the Indiana Historical Society’s Holiday Author Fair on December 4th, the largest book-signing gathering for Indiana-related material, featuring 75 Hoosier […]

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Faculty Profile: A Conversation with Professor Cathy Day

December 8, 2010 by bsuenglish

Cathy Day is the newest member of Ball State’s Creative Writing faculty in the Department of English. She is the author of two books. Her most recent work is Comeback Season: How I Learned to Play the Game of Love (Free Press, 2008), part memoir about life as a single woman and part sports story […]

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Don’t miss the Annual Undergraduate Writers Gala tonight!

December 7, 2010 by bsuenglish

Today is the Annual Undergraduate Writers Gala. For those who have never been to this event before, twenty students will present a piece of their own written work to a panel of judges made up of English Department faculty. This year, the judges are as follows: Rai Peterson, Cathy Day, and Jared Sexton, along with Creative […]

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“You Gotta Read This!” with Professor Debbie Mix

November 22, 2010 by bsuenglish

Anyone who has talked to me for more than, say, five minutes, probably knows the first book on this list: Moby-Dick. Why? Because it’s about everything! Love, grief, justice, power, gender, epistemology, language, disability, anger, belief, history, responsibility, humor, awe, identity, race—and that’s just the beginning. I’ll admit that I didn’t pick up this book […]

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