{"id":17558,"date":"2023-10-12T12:40:49","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T16:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/english\/?p=17558"},"modified":"2023-10-12T12:40:49","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T16:40:49","slug":"good-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/english\/blog\/2023\/10\/12\/good-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Good News!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Faculty<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Professor Rani Deighe Crowe has been working on writing and producing her short film <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Safety State<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, where a gay and a lesbian couple form an unlikely friendship while fleeing the Midwest for safety in New England. She did principal photography with her collaborators in Athens, Ohio in April, and now they are in post-production, finalizing the edit and working on animation sequences, sound, music, and color. She received a $1,500 grant from The Puffin Foundation toward completing the film. Her short screenplay for <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Safety State, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">was selected for a reading at the Women in Film and Television Short Film Atlanta Short Film Showcase. It was also selected for the Kinodrome International Motion Picture and Screenplay Festival in Cleveland.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rani\u2019s short monologue film, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Just in Case <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">was a selection for<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> the International Black and Diversity Film Festival in Toronto.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The short film depicts a nurse in quarantine for testing positive for Covid recording an emotional video message for her young sons after the murder of George Floyd.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rani\u2019s short film screenplay, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Church Ladies<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a comedy about casserole judgment and repressed lesbian desire at a church potluck, was a semi-finalist in the San Francisco Indie Fest Screenplay Competition and a Quarter Finalist in the International Comedy Film Festival.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Indiana Writing Project, directed by faculty members Susanna Benko, Andrea Wolfe, and Matt Hartman, was very busy this summer! IWP is a site of the National Writing Project, a network of teachers, university faculty, researchers, writers, and community educators working together to advance writing and the teaching of writing. With grant support from the Learning Recovery Grant from Teachers College, IWP ran the following writing programs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Youth Writing\u00a0 Camps<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: In June 2023, over 75 students from east central Indiana attended a writing camp sponsored by IWP. In these camps, students wrote (and wrote and wrote and wrote), revised, conferenced, and published a piece of writing. All told, IWP provided more than 1983 <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">hours <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">of literacy instruction for students! These camps were led by area teachers including Julie Fierce, Amanda Craw, and Aryn Enos.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Summer Professional Development for Teachers<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">:\u00a0 IWP sponsored our annual Invitational Summer Institute, where 10 local teachers attended over 70 hours of professional development on campus with facilitators Barb Miller and Heather Abernathy. In this institute, teachers spent time writing, studying writing pedagogy, researching problems of practice in their own classrooms, and collaborating with their peers.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Many of our teacher leaders have earned their undergraduate degrees at Ball State (Barb Miller; Julie Fierce \u201804) and graduate degrees at Ball State (Heather Abernathy \u201809, Amanda Craw in English \u201818).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Drs. Darolyn \u201cLyn\u201d Jones, Kathryn Ludwig, and Laura Romano participated in the\u00a0 Summer Scholarship Program at Ball State University over the summer, successfully crafting and submitting a 10,000-word article titled \u201cComposition in the Community: the 5 C\u2019s Model\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dr. Jones presented \u201cBabies and Bathwater: Post Pandemic Effects on Faculty Members with Children with Special Needs,\u201d with James W. Jones, Roan Distinguished Professor and Department Chair for Construction Management and Interior Design (CMID), Ball State University at the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ICQI), University of Illinois, Champagne- Urbana, ILL on May 19, 2023<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dr. Jones authored four articles for <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Indy Special Needs Living <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Magazine including:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe Gregory S. Ferhibach Center: Turning Dreams into Reality,\u201d September 2023 Issue<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cMeet Dr. Courtney Jarrett: Pioneering Disability Services at Ball State University, August 2023 Issue<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cSee Me, Not the Wheelchair,\u201d (featured a Ball State student, Leslie Gonzalez), July 2023 Issue<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cTim Vermande\u2019s Good Fight,\u201d June 2023 Issue<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Over the Summer of 2023, Dr. Emily Ruth Rutter signed publishing contracts for book chapters forthcoming in the following volumes: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Greater Atlanta: Black Satire after Obama <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(University Press of Mississippi, 2024); <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Race in the Multiethnic Literature Classroom <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(University of Illinois Press, 2024); and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oxford Bibliographies in American Literature <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Oxford University Press, 2024).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Molly Ferguson<span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> was honored to be a faculty speaker at the Freshman Convocation (to 3,800 incoming first-year students) on August 19th. This summer, she was also a speaker at the Ball State Dual Credit Workshop for teachers. In June, she presented a panel paper and a roundtable presentation at the American Conference for Irish Studies in San Jose, CA.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Prof. Michael Begnal<span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> recently published the article \u201cAmerican Punk and the Rhetoric of \u2018Political Correctness\u2019\u201d in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Popular Music and Society<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, vol. 46, no. 2, May 2023, pp. 172-90.<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/03007766.2023.2184600\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/03007766.2023.2184600<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Begnal also published the article\u00a0 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/article\/871434\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201c&#8217;Torn by the Rocks Like the Drowned Girls&#8217;: Dark Ecology in the Early Poetry of Peggy Pond Church\u201d<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Arizona Quarterly<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, vol. 78, no.\u00a0 4, Winter 2022-23, pp. 55-79, DOI: 10.1353\/arq.2022.0022.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some of Begnal\u2019s recent poetry publications include:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Two poems at <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Trasna <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Spring 2023 issue), a journal of Irish and Irish-diasporic writing:<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/trasna.online\/michael-begnal\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/trasna.online\/michael-begnal\/<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cBetween Two Fires\u201d at <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pine Hills Review<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/pinehillsreview.com\/2023\/02\/22\/michaelsbegnal\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/pinehillsreview.com\/2023\/02\/22\/michaelsbegnal\/<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cHomage to Fred Hampton\u201d at <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">JMWW<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (June 2023): <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/jmwwblog.wordpress.com\/2023\/06\/30\/poetry-homage-to-fred-hampton-by-michael-begnal\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/jmwwblog.wordpress.com\/2023\/06\/30\/poetry-homage-to-fred-hampton-by-michael-begnal\/<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Finally, Begnal\u2019s book <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/The-Music-and-Noise-of-the-Stooges-1967-71-Lost-in-the-Future\/Begnal\/p\/book\/9780367648466\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Music and Noise of the Stooges, 1967-71: Lost in the Future<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (Routledge, 2022) was published in a paperback edition in May 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Kathryn S. Gardiner<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2019s feature-length screenplay <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Art of Yielding<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> advanced to the second round of the Austin Film Festival. Second-rounders represent the top 20% of the scripts received by the AFF. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Art of Yielding <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">is a fictionalized account of Kathryn\u2019s time as an amateur mixed martial arts fighter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jill Christman\u2019s new(ish) book, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nebraskapress.unl.edu\/nebraska\/9781496232359\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays<\/span><\/i><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(University of Nebraska Press, 2022), is celebrating its first birthday as a finalist for the<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heartlandfallforum.org\/heartland-booksellers-award.html\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2023 Finalist Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Award<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Last spring, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ITWF <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">won a<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forewordreviews.com\/awards\/books\/if-this-were-fiction\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2022 Foreword INDIES Award Winner for Autobiography &amp; Memoir (Silver)<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. In October, Christman will be a featured presenter at the<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lityoungstown.org\/fall-literary-festival-2023\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2023 LitYoungstown\u2019s Fall Literary Festival<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> with Ross Gay and Alison Stine.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Emeritus<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On Wednesday 22 March, Dr. Felsenstein was the guest of the International Museum of Surgical Science in Chicago where his subject was &#8220;&#8216;No Peaceful Burial Place&#8217;: Encountering Body-Snatching and Teaching Anatomy from a Lost Letter of Tobias Smollett, M.D., to Dr. William Hunter&#8221;. A version of his talk is due to be published later this year in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tobias Smollett after 300 Years<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">,&#8221; ed. Richard J. Jones (Clemson UP).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On Tuesday 2 May, Frank Felsenstein was the invited speaker for the 2023 Kirkham Lecture to the Friends of the Bracken library. His topic was &#8220;From Gutenberg to Google: Teaching Book History from the Bracken Library.&#8221; The lecture is named after Edwin Bruce Kirkham (1938-2021), Executive Secretary of the Friends from 1976 to 2000, and Professor of English. An exhibition based on the academic work and donated book collection of Dr. Felsenstein is at present on display at Archives &amp; Special Collections of the Bracken Library (second floor).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On Saturday, 6 May, Dr. Felsenstein was an invited speaker at a day symposium on &#8220;Abolitionism and the Arts&#8221; at Columbia University in New York (see <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fabolitionism.university%2F&amp;data=05%7C01%7Cvlrapatz%40bsu.edu%7Cd49b07f664e142e755a008db4ffb7a0a%7C6fff909f07dc40da9e30fd7549c0f494%7C0%7C0%7C638191713733795077%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=lJ5dzHY%2Bz82eW%2FjUOi9S0GE%2BdL7soE6uTc58Jqbk2GQ%3D&amp;reserved=0\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/abolitionism.university<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">seminars.columbia.edu). His topic was &#8220;An Ekphrastic Interlude: From Mainland Liberty to Island Enslavement in the Story of Inkle and Yarico.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faculty Professor Rani Deighe Crowe has been working on writing and producing her short film Safety State, where a gay and a lesbian couple form an unlikely friendship while fleeing the Midwest for safety in New England. 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