{"id":16862,"date":"2021-03-05T10:00:09","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T15:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/english\/?p=16862"},"modified":"2021-04-09T23:39:56","modified_gmt":"2021-04-10T03:39:56","slug":"january-february-good-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/english\/blog\/2021\/03\/05\/january-february-good-news\/","title":{"rendered":"January & February Good News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Us #bsuenglish folks just keep accomplishing more and more great things! Read our good news from January and February to share in the joy radiating from our faculty, students, and alumni.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Faculty <\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

Dr. Suban Nur Cooley<\/strong> has won the 2021 Conference on College Composition and Communication James Berlin Memorial Outstanding Dissertation Award for her dissertation\u00a0Carrying Culture: Temporal and Spatial Constructions of Somalia Among Women in the Diaspora.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Kathryn Ludwig\u00a0<\/strong>has been announced as the 2021-2023 Ball Brothers Foundation Honors College Faculty Fellow.<\/a> She\u00a0will develop and teach several Honors College courses during the next two academic years. Her HONR 199 (Inquiries in Contemporary American Society) sections will interrogate the notion and challenge of the American Dream <\/em>through diverse and disparate narratives. A Spring 2022 HONR 390 (Honors College Colloquium) will use campus-community book discussions to explore how stories <\/em>can impact attitudes about religious cultural diversity. During the second year, Prof. Ludwig will mentor a team of students as they develop undergraduate theses which critically examine questions of selection, representation, and resiliency in American literature, in collaboration with the American Writers Museum.<\/p>\n

Jennifer Grouling and PhD alum, Stephanie Hedge\u2019s<\/strong>, edited collection \u201cRoleplaying Games in the Digital Age\u201d<\/a> is out! This collection <\/span>includes essays on the transmedia ecology that has connected analog with digital and audio spaces. Essays explore the boundaries of virtual tabletops and how users engage with a variety of technology to further role-playing. Interviews with content creators are interspersed with academic essays.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dr. Mary Lou Vercellotti<\/strong> co-authored an article entitled “Creating Analytic Rubrics for Assessing Open-Ended Tasks in the Language Classroom” about creating analytic rubrics for classroom assessment, available to read online<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"Cathy Day<\/strong> will be giving two presentations this semester about the work she\u2019s doing directing the Compass Advantage for the College of Sciences and Humanities: <\/span>\u201cHelping Humanities Majors Tackle a Tough Job Market from a Position of Strength,\u201d <\/span>National Humanities Alliance (NHA) Annual Meeting<\/span><\/a>, March 8, 2021 as a virtual panelist, and \u201cHelping English Majors Pivot from College to Career.\u201d W.W. Norton workshop series, <\/span>Paths Forward for the Humanities: Practical and Inspiring Ideas for College Faculty <\/span><\/i>on\u00a0<\/span>February 18, 2021 as a virtual featured presenter.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In other news, Prof. Day recently earned a 9\/10 on Room Rater @ratemyskyperoom.<\/a> This is definitely going on her CV.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dr. Darolyn \u201cLyn\u201d Jones\u2019<\/strong> case study and article titled <\/span>\u201c\u2018Don\u2019t Speechify: Do Something\u2019: University Students Experience Counter Narratives,\u201d was published in a special topics issue of the <\/span>North Meridian Review<\/span><\/i><\/a> on the topic of Freedom to Make and Remake, January 1, 2021<\/span><\/p>\n