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In the latest installment of the \u201cGood News\u201d series, the Ball State English department highlights the accomplishments of our faculty and students.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Prof. Jackie Grutsch McKinney<\/a><\/strong> delivered the keynote address at the National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing<\/a> in Salt Lake City. Jackie\u00a0is the current director of the Ball State Writing Center and has conducted extensive research on writing center labor and how technology has changed the functions of writing centers. The theme of NCPTW ’15 was\u00a0(De)Center: Testing Assumptions about Peer Tutoring and Writing Centers. <\/em>Congratulations, Jackie!<\/p>\n

Prof.\u00a0Michael Begnal<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0had three poems published in the literary magazine\u00a0The Pickled Body<\/a>.<\/i>\u00a0One of these poems, \u201cParis of Appalachia,\u201d was nominated for a 2016\u00a0Pushcart Prize.<\/p>\n

Matthias Raess<\/a> <\/strong>gave a poster presentation of\u00a0“Because formality: The conjunction-noun construction in online text corpora” with Kenneth Baclawski (UC Berkeley) and Justin Bland (Virginia Tech) at the joint annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America\u00a0and the American Dialect Society, in Washington D.C.<\/p>\n

Dr. Adrienne Bliss<\/a><\/strong> presented her paper entitled\u00a0“Flipping\/Flopping, Tech No and Techno” at the Lilly Conference: Evidence-Based Teaching and Learning in Austin, Texas.<\/p>\n

Prof. Emily Scalzo<\/a><\/strong> published a haiku in the 2015 anthology of\u00a0Element(ary) My Dear<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0through Kind of a Hurricane Press.<\/p>\n

Dr. Frank Felsenstein<\/a><\/strong>‘s essay “‘If You Tickle Us, Do We Not Laugh?’: Stereotypes of Jews in English Graphic Humor of the Georgian Era” was published in\u00a0No Laughing Matter: Visual Humor in Ideas of Race, Nationality, and Ethnicity<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Dr. Mary Lou Vercellotti<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0co-wrote a research paper with Dr. Nel de Jong of Amsterdam, Netherlands, entitled\u00a0“Similar prompts may not be similar in the performance they elicit: Examining fluency, complexity, accuracy, and lexis in narratives from five picture prompts”. It will\u00a0be published by Language Teaching\u00a0Research <\/em>and is\u00a0currently available online<\/a> ahead of print. Mary Lou also presented “Maximizing Students’ Interactions With An Expert”<\/a> at the Lilly Conference on College Teaching at Miami University in Ohio.<\/p>\n

Dr. Robert Habich<\/a><\/strong> has published \u201cAn \u2018Extempore Adventurer\u2019 in Italy: Emerson as International Tourist,” in a collection entitled A Power to Translate the World: New Essays on Emerson and International Culture<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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