{"id":13749,"date":"2017-11-02T09:00:28","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T13:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bsuenglish.com\/?p=13749"},"modified":"2021-05-19T14:43:39","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T18:43:39","slug":"october-good-news-molly-ferguson-is-elected-president-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/english\/blog\/2017\/11\/02\/october-good-news-molly-ferguson-is-elected-president-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"October Good News: Molly Ferguson is elected President and More!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve got a lot of good news this month!<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Faculty News<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Andrea Wolfe<\/strong> will be presenting a session entitled &#8220;Facing International Students: Building Empathy through Storytelling&#8221; with Lizz Alezetes and Deborah McMillan, both of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bsu.edu\/academics\/centersandinstitutes\/intensive-english-institute\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Intensive English Institute<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at Ball State, at the 2017 INTESOL Conference on November 11th<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Molly Ferguson<\/strong> was elected president of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MidwestACIS\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Midwest Regional American Conference for Irish Studies.\u00a0<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On October 6th, she presented a paper, \u201c\u2018To say no and no and no again\u2019: Fasting as Resistance in Emma Donoghue\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Wonder<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d at the Midwest ACIS at the University of Missouri.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Katy Didden\u2019s<\/strong> essay <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetrynw.org\/poetics-tectonic-scale\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cA Poetics of Tectonic Scale: The Great Distance Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Marianne Moore, and Layli Long Soldier\u201d<\/a> was published by <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetrynw.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Poetry Northwest<\/a>.<\/em> \u00a0They also published her interview-style \u201cdouble erasure\u201d (a poem that engages with a historical text that critiques the naming of Mt. Rainier). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Jill Christman\u2019s<\/strong> book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Borrowed-Babies-Apprenticing-Jill-Christman-ebook\/dp\/B00N86X1ZE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Borrowed Babies<\/em><\/a> has been adapted into a play by Ball State professor Jennifer Blackmer. This play will be produced at Ball State University in Spring 2019 in Strother Studio with Karen Kessler directing. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The ADE (<a href=\"https:\/\/ade.mla.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Association of Departments of English<\/a>) has invited\u00a0<strong>Cathy Day<\/strong> to join Dr. Robert Matz (dean at George Mason) and present on &#8220;Reversing the Decline in English Majors and Enrollments&#8221; at the ADE workshop in Ann Arbor, MI July 9-12, 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13779\" style=\"width: 317px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13779\" class=\"wp-image-13779\" src=\"https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/11\/10095404\/pamhartmanCAEPSPA-300x164.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"307\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/11\/10095404\/pamhartmanCAEPSPA-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/11\/10095404\/pamhartmanCAEPSPA-768x420.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/11\/10095404\/pamhartmanCAEPSPA-1024x561.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/11\/10095404\/pamhartmanCAEPSPA-1279x700.jpg 1279w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/11\/10095404\/pamhartmanCAEPSPA.jpg 1414w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 307px) 100vw, 307px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13779\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pictured left to right: Pat Clark (Elementary Ed), Kathy Shafer (Math) , Tom McConnell (Biology), Pamela Hartman (English), Sheryl Stump (Math\/Inter. Assoc. Dean, TC), and Roy Weaver (Inter. Dean, TC)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Pamela Hartman<\/strong> was honored at the CAEP\/SPA Reception. This event honors the programs that received National SPA Recognition and the faculty who wrote the reports in preparation for the CAEP Accreditation Process.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Emily Rutter<\/strong> was selected to serve on the Editorial Board for <em>Performing Celebrity<\/em>, a new book series from the <a href=\"https:\/\/library.udel.edu\/udpress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">University of Delaware Press<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Darolyn \u201cLyn\u201d Jones<\/strong> was invited to present on both flash memoir and telling the story of your life at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indypl.org\/indyauthorfair\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Indiana Author\u2019s Fair<\/a>, held annually in Indianapolis at Central Library in Indianapolis. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Rani Deighe Crowe\u2019s<\/strong> poem, &#8220;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My First Love<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">has been accepted to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanjournalofpoetry.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Journal of Poetry<\/a> for its Fourth Volume, published New Year\u2019s Day. Her short film, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Beautiful Eyes, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was screened in Final Girls Women In Horror \u201cBest of\u201d screenings in Innsbruck, Austria on October 6, and in Tel Aviv<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Israel on October 24. <em>Beautiful Eyes<\/em> was also screened in the Final Girls&#8217; special Halloween screenings in Nuremburg and Berlin on October 31.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Megumi Hamada<\/strong> (faculty) and Nuha Alsalem (Applied Linguistics graduate student) presented their paper, &#8220;Role of Semantic Transparency in English L2 Lexical Inference&#8221; at <a href=\"https:\/\/u.osu.edu\/slrf2017\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Second Language Research Forum<\/a>, on October 14, at Columbus, Ohio. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Megumi Hamada&#8217;s<\/strong> article, &#8220;L2 Word Recognition: Influence of L1 Orthography on Multi-syllabic Word Recognition,&#8221; was published in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Journal of Psycholinguistic Research<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Joyce Huff<\/strong> presented a paper entitled \u201cDigging Up the Past: British Victorian Constructions of the Corpse Trade in James Blake Bailey\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Diary of a Resurrectionist<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (1898) and Robert Louis Stevenson\u2019s \u2018The Body Snatcher\u2019 (1884)\u201d at the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.navsa.org\/2017\/02\/07\/cfp-midwest-conference-on-british-studies-2017-3262017-929-1012017\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Midwest Conference on British Studies <\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">on September 29, 2017. She had the honor of being on the panel with Ball State English graduate student, Anthony Salazar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Mary Lou Vercellotti\u2019s<\/strong> article, &#8220;Do interactive learning spaces increase student achievement? A comparison of classroom context,&#8221; was published in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Active Learning in Higher Education<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Mark Neely\u2019s<\/strong> poem \u201cSubvocal (3)\u201d was published by <em>Willow Springs<\/em>\u00a0in their summer issue. The poem also appears on their website along with a brief <a href=\"http:\/\/willowspringsmagazine.org\/featured-profiles\/mark-neely\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview.\u00a0<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He also had three minimalist poems appear in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.juked.com\/2017\/08\/mark-neely-three-poems.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Juked.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Sean Lovelace<\/strong> has three new hybrid texts (letters), \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/newlimestonereview.as.uky.edu\/2017\/10\/01\/letter-to-jim-harrison\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Letters to Jim Harrison<\/a>,\u201d in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New Limestone Review.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/passagesnorth.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Passages North <\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">has taken six of the \u201cLetters to Jim Harrison\u201d to appear in Spring 2018. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Juked<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Magazine has taken a \u201cLetter to Jim Harrison\u201d for Spring 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Student News<\/span><\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_13770\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13770\" class=\"wp-image-13770 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/10\/10095405\/EmilyFordDefends-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/10\/10095405\/EmilyFordDefends-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/10\/10095405\/EmilyFordDefends-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/10\/10095405\/EmilyFordDefends-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/10\/10095405\/EmilyFordDefends-933x700.jpg 933w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/10\/10095405\/EmilyFordDefends.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13770\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pictured left to right: Emily Ford, Dr. Joyce Huff, Dr. Pat Collier, Dr. Bob Habich<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Emily Ford<\/strong> defended her dissertation, \u201cBRING THEM INTO TRAINING\u201d: EMBODYING THE VICTORIAN TEACHER.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anthony Salazar&#8217;s<\/strong> article &#8220;Curing the Vampire Disease with Transfusion: The Narrative Structure of Bram Stoker&#8217;s Dracula&#8221; was accepted for publication by <em>English Language and Literature Studies.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kathryn Powell<\/strong> (Undergraduate English Studies) won Best Presentation for her creative work, &#8220;The Listening Horizon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abdullah Albalawi<\/strong> (Practical Criticism Midwest) also won Best Presentation for presenting his research, &#8220;Gender Differences in The Speech Act of Thanking in Saudi Arabic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hannah Bovino<\/strong> won the Doggeral Contest at PCM for presenting her poem, &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry iPhone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Alumni News\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Kelsey Englert<\/strong>\u00a0(MA in English, 2014) had her flash fiction piece &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/passagesnorth.com\/2017\/10\/textbook-endings-by-kelsey-englert\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Textbook Endings<\/a>&#8221; published in <em>Passages North.\u00a0<\/em>She was also featured in our\u00a0Grad School Confidential series in 2015.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nikole Darnell<\/strong> (Creative Writing, May 2017) accepted a position as the Editorial Production Coordinator at the<em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reporter.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lebanon Reporter<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Do you have anything cool happening in November? We want to brag on you, #bsuenglish! Send us your November Good News at bsueng@bsu.edu!\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve got a lot of good news this month! 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