{"id":4586,"date":"2015-02-02T12:30:35","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T17:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bsuenglish.wordpress.com\/?p=4586"},"modified":"2019-01-25T11:50:50","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T16:50:50","slug":"good-news-january-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/english\/blog\/2015\/02\/02\/good-news-january-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Good News, January 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">In the latest installment of the <a href=\"https:\/\/bsuenglish.wordpress.com\/category\/good-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cGood News\u201d<\/a> series, the Ball State English <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bsu.edu\/academics\/collegesanddepartments\/english\">department<\/a> highlights the accomplishments of our faculty and students up through the month of January.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2 class=\"p1\">All the Good News that&#8217;s fit to print!<\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bsu.edu\/academics\/collegesanddepartments\/english\/connect-with-us\/faculty-staff\/faculty\/vercellotti-mary-lou\"><strong>Mary Lou Vercellotti<\/strong><\/a> received a grant to work with Wollo University in Ethiopia. Full details are available in the following\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ethiopia.usembassy.gov\/mobile\/\/pr_045.html\"><span class=\"s2\">press release<\/span><\/a>. She will advise in their English language program, and Ruby Cain from Teacher\u2019s College will advise on higher education administration. Dr. Vercellotti will visit\u00a0Ethiopia during\u00a0<\/span>spring break.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bsuenglish.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/01\/englert.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-4675\" src=\"https:\/\/bsuenglish.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/01\/englert.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"Englert\" width=\"334\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2015\/01\/10095856\/englert.jpg 960w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2015\/01\/10095856\/englert-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2015\/01\/10095856\/englert-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2015\/01\/10095856\/englert-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2015\/01\/10095856\/englert-700x700.jpg 700w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2015\/01\/10095856\/englert-600x600.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 334px) 100vw, 334px\" \/><\/a><strong>Kelsey Englert<\/strong>, a Ball State English alum, had her\u00a0story, &#8220;Goodbye to the Karls,&#8221; published in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bartlebysnopes.com\/storyofthemonth.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bartleby Snopes<\/a><\/em>. This online magazine asks its readers to vote on their favorite story, which is then published in an online edition, and Kelsey&#8217;s story was the one selected. She is currently a graduate student in the MFA program at West Virginia University.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bsu.edu\/academics\/collegesanddepartments\/english\/connect-with-us\/faculty-staff\/faculty\/christmanjill\"><strong>Jill Christman<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p1\">She was\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestarpress.com\/story\/life\/2014\/11\/13\/writers-literary-passion-following-motherly-course\/18975187\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">featured in the <em>Star Press<\/em><\/a>\u00a0on the publication of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shebooks.net\/book\/ebook\/borrowed-babies\/9781940838694#.VImmlWTF90x\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Borrowed Babies: Apprenticing for Motherhood<\/em>.<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Her January 7<\/span><span class=\"s2\" style=\"line-height: 1.5\"><sup>th<\/sup><\/span><span class=\"s1\" style=\"line-height: 1.5\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.byuradio.org\/episode\/a1b6bf49-27ce-4d97-8df4-540435ba74b7\/the-morning-show-dementia-piketty-borrowed-babies?playhead=4745&amp;autoplay=true\"><span class=\"s3\">radio interview on BYU Radio\u2019s Morning Show<\/span><\/a>\u00a0digs into her research in Cornell\u2019s archives for <em><span class=\"s3\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shebooks.net\/book\/ebook\/borrowed-babies\/9781940838694#.VImmlWTF90x\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Borrowed Babies<\/a>.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">An essay by Prof. Christman, \u201cDo I See Myself as Others See Me?\u201d is on news stands now in <em>O Magazine\u2019s<\/em> February issue.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bsu.edu\/academics\/collegesanddepartments\/english\/connect-with-us\/faculty-staff\/faculty\/scalzoemily\">Emily Scalzo<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>published her haikus,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unitedhaikuandtankasociety.com\/senryu151=2.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8220;Dutch Alcoholics&#8221;<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/halcyonmagazine.blogspot.ca\/p\/2014.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;A Polar Vortex,&#8221;<\/a> in <em>Cattails<\/em> and <em>Halcyon<\/em> this winter.<!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4736\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bsuenglish.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/02\/hollowell.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4736\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4736\" src=\"https:\/\/bsuenglish.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/02\/hollowell.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"Undergraduate student Sarah Hollowell speaks to students at our recent Group Advising Sessions. \" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2015\/02\/10095850\/hollowell.jpg 960w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2015\/02\/10095850\/hollowell-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2015\/02\/10095850\/hollowell-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4736\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Undergraduate student Sarah Hollowell speaks to students at our recent Group Advising Sessions.<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>Sarah Hollowell\u00a0<\/strong>published in<em> <a href=\"http:\/\/the-toast.net\/2015\/01\/26\/fat-woman-love-laid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Butter<\/a><\/em> (edited by Roxane Gay), which is a sister site of <em>The Toast<\/em>. Her essay, <a href=\"http:\/\/the-toast.net\/2015\/01\/26\/fat-woman-love-laid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;This is an Essay About a Fat Woman Being Loved and Getting Laid<\/a>,&#8221; encourages fat positivity, while also condemning the propaganda that perpetuates fat hatred.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Undergraduate students <strong>Becca Austin<\/strong>, <strong>Sarah Hollowell<\/strong>, and <strong>Brittany Means<\/strong>\u00a0had creative work accepted at <a href=\"http:\/\/english.taylor.edu\/making-literature-conference\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Taylor University&#8217;s Making Literature Conference\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0which will take place from February 26-28 in Upland, IN. They will compete\u00a0for the $200 prize for creative writing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bsu.edu\/academics\/collegesanddepartments\/english\/connect-with-us\/faculty-staff\/faculty\/morrisonbrian\">Brian Morrison<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bsu.edu\/academics\/collegesanddepartments\/english\/connect-with-us\/faculty-staff\/faculty\/hansensilas\"><strong>Silas Hansen<\/strong><\/a> read in front of an impressive crowd as part of Ball State&#8217;s Faculty Reading Series. Three undergraduates <strong>(Brittany Means<\/strong>, <strong>Matt Glassburn<\/strong>, and <strong>Becca Austin<\/strong>) were also picked to read their contest submissions.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4698\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bsuenglish.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/01\/brian-morrison.jpeg\" rel=\"lightbox-2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4698\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-4698\" src=\"https:\/\/bsuenglish.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/01\/brian-morrison.jpeg?w=150\" alt=\"Brian Morrison\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2015\/01\/10095855\/brian-morrison.jpeg 604w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2015\/01\/10095855\/brian-morrison-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2015\/01\/10095855\/brian-morrison-600x453.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4698\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brian Morrison<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p1\">Brian Morrison also had four poems (&#8220;A History of Love,&#8221;\u00a0&#8220;A History of Biting, Circa 1599,&#8221;\u00a0&#8220;A History of Fashion,&#8221; and\u00a0&#8220;Fur Elise Played Quietly in a Room on Fire&#8221;) published in <em>The Bitter Oleander<\/em>, <em>West Branch<\/em>, <em>The Knickknackery<\/em>, and <em>Rust + Moth<\/em> last week.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_4727\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bsuenglish.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/01\/revision-banner.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox-3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4727\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4727\" src=\"https:\/\/bsuenglish.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/01\/revision-banner.jpg\" alt=\"Do you have any good news? Let us know so we can put it in our alumni newsletter!\" width=\"620\" height=\"124\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2015\/01\/10095850\/revision-banner.jpg 620w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2015\/01\/10095850\/revision-banner-300x60.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4727\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Do you have any good news? Let us know so we can put it in our alumni newsletter!<\/p><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"p4\"><strong>Jeremy Bauer<\/strong> (B.A. &#8217;11) published recently in <em>Everyday Genius<\/em>. You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.everyday-genius.com\/2014\/07\/jeremy-bauer.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">read &#8220;Adult Lord&#8221; here.<\/a> Jeremy graduated with an M.F.A. in poetry\u00a0from Texas State in 2013, where he served as Interviews Editor and Co-Managing Editor for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frontporchjournal.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Front Porch Journal<\/em>,<\/a> the university&#8217;s literary magazine. You can connect with him on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jeremybauer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn here<\/a>. Jeremy was our very first Public Relations Intern and started the Ball State English Department blog!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Becca Jackson <\/strong>(a double major in Creative Writing and Math)\u00a0recently\u00a0won best poster (Humanities) at the National Collegiate Honors College Conference in Denver. Her project,\u00a0&#8220;Verb-STEM: Poetry and Prose Composed with Code and Mathematical Notation\u200b,&#8221; discusses writing poetry in code as a way to bridge the &#8220;liminal space between the arts and sciences.&#8221; She collaborated with\u00a0Osayame Gaius-Obaseki,\u00a0who studies Computer Science and English at the University of West Georgia.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4729\" style=\"width: 259px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bsuenglish.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/01\/silas-reading.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox-4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4729\" class=\" wp-image-4729\" src=\"https:\/\/bsuenglish.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/01\/silas-reading.jpg\" alt=\"Silas Hansen, after his reading.\" width=\"249\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2015\/01\/10095850\/silas-reading.jpg 815w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2015\/01\/10095850\/silas-reading-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2015\/01\/10095850\/silas-reading-768x493.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4729\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Silas Hansen, after his reading.<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bsu.edu\/academics\/collegesanddepartments\/english\/connect-with-us\/faculty-staff\/faculty\/jonesdarolyn\">Lyn Jones<\/a>&#8216;s<\/strong> article &#8220;Opening the Gates&#8221; is just out in <em>Reading Today, <\/em>a journal for teachers and librarians with a readership of\u00a075,000. \u00a0Jones discusses the genesis of <em>Rethinking Children&#8217;s Literature<\/em>, a\u00a0free, digital, interactive literary magazine that invites the reader to engage with children\u2019s literature as a way to raise social consciousness. <a href=\"https:\/\/bsuenglish.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/01\/jones_opening-the-gates_readingtoday.pdf\">You can read her article here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Alysia Sawchyn <\/b>(M.A., Rhetoric and Composition)\u00a0has a story forthcoming in\u00a0<i>Midwestern Gothic.\u00a0<\/i>&#8220;The Accidental Beekeeper&#8221; will appear in their Spring 2015 issue (Volume 17).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest installment of the \u201cGood News\u201d series, the Ball State English department highlights the accomplishments of our faculty and students up through the month of January. 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