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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.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\"LynneBSU media’s article “Parents learning English benefit from class offered by\u00a0Ball State, Muncie Schools”<\/a> is\u00a0based on a partnership between BSU ESL licensure students in Prof. Lynn Stalling<\/a><\/strong>‘s\u00a0Methods and Practicum courses and the Muncie Community Schools. The ELL (English Language Learner) program has been offered to Muncie students for several years, and is now expanded to caregivers who want to learn supplemental English and need an introduction to the American school system.<\/p>\n

Elisabeth Buck<\/a><\/strong> and Nikki Litherland Baker<\/strong> successfully defended their dissertations!<\/p>\n

Drs. Carolyn MacKay<\/a><\/strong> and Frank Trechsel<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>published “Hacia una reconstruci\u00f3n del proto-totonaco-tepehua” in the collection\u00a0Investigaciones (inter)disciplinarias en ling\u00fc\u00edstica<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Prof. Angela Jackson-Brown<\/a><\/strong> was interviewed<\/a> on The Art of the Matter\u00a0<\/em>with Travis DiNicola to discuss her play, ANNA\u2019S WINGS. Her play\u00a0is a part of the 2016 DivaFest at Indyfringe in Indianapolis, IN. Jackson-Brown<\/strong> also hosted a Sneak Peak Cocktail Party for all of the Divas of Divafest at Indy Reads Books.<\/div>\n
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In addition, Jackson-Brown<\/strong> presented a workshop \u00a0entitled \u201cWhy Did They Do That: Learning to Ask the Right Questions of our Characters\u201d at the 2016 Gathering of Writers<\/a>, sponsored by the Indiana Writers Center.<\/p>\n

Undergraduate Lauren Cross<\/strong> has been awarded the Senate’s Gudal Memorial Scholarship<\/a>. She currently works as a Legislative Intern for State Senators Lonnie Randolph and Greg Taylor.<\/div>\n

Dr. Adam Beach<\/a><\/strong> presented a paper entitled, “Torture, Trauma, and Slaves Who Love Their Masters” at the annual meeting of the American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies in Pittsburgh, PA.<\/p>\n

Prof. Eva Grouling Snider<\/a><\/strong> has been awarded a 2016 Provost Immersive Learning Grant for her project\u00a0\u201cHolistic Communications for the 21st<\/sup> Century,\u201d also titled Jacket Copy Creative.\u00a0Students\u00a0will\u00a0manage the\u00a0public communications of Whitely Community Council and the Ball State English Department. Students in the project will work together to produce promotional materials, manage social media, maintain websites, edit blogs, and conduct focus groups. They’ll gain experience in\u00a0editing\/publishing, content marketing, public relations, graphic design, web development, strategic communications, and social media management. For more information, visit our blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Profs. Lynne Stallings<\/a><\/strong>, Carolyn Dowling, and Dave Largent were awarded a 2016 Provost Immersive Learning Grant for their project “Developing SED (Science, Education, and Diversity) Modules”. The focus will be to expose students of diverse backgrounds to\u00a0STEAM (Science Technology Engineering Art Math) by developing activity templates and modules for students at a local middle school and after-school program. The modules will incorporate science experiences, while allowing students to effectively communicate about those experiences. It will be offered as an HONR390 colloquium course in the fall.<\/p>\n

Dr. Rai Peterson<\/a><\/strong> and Prof. Sarojini Jha Johnson have been awarded a joint Virginia Ball Center Fellowship for the 2016-17 school year. Rai, Sarojini, and their students will be working in the cross-disciplinary field of book arts to develop a Book Arts Collaborative in downtown Muncie, Indiana. It will house community programs and a proposed Ball State interdisciplinary minor in book arts that encourages cross-collaboration between students and community members.<\/p>\n

BSU alumnus JD Mitchell<\/strong> has been accepted into the University of Louisville College of Business Entrepreneurship MBA program.<\/p>\n

Two #bsuenglish students, Luke Bell<\/strong> and Sara Huber<\/strong>, have been selected as recipients of the university-wide Academic Honors in Writing award for the 2015-2016 year.<\/p>\n

#bsuenglish senior\u00a0Darren Sible<\/strong> was nominated for IACTE Outstanding Future Educator award. He is invited to attend a reception later this month with nominees from other universities from across the state. Congratulations!<\/p>\n

Dr. Joyce Huff<\/a><\/strong> was interviewed by NPR for their broadcast, “‘You Cannot Shame Me’: Two New Books Tear Down ‘Fat Girl’ Stereotypes”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dr. Jackie Grutsch Mckinney<\/a><\/strong> was a keynote speaker at the 2016 Northeast Writing Center Conference <\/a>in New Hampshire. She presented “Connecting the Dots of Writing Center Labor Stories” at their largest conference to date.<\/p>\n

Dr. Lyn Jones<\/a><\/strong> presented “Keeping and Creating Peace: The Alliance of Black Teachers Club” at the Benjamin V. Cohen Peace Conference: Peace in Troubled Times. In addition, her essay\u00a0“I Want To Write For Regular People” was featured in Permission: The International Interdisciplinary Impact of Laurel Richardson’s Work<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Prof. Emily Scalzo<\/a><\/strong> published a poem, “Higher Education Held Hostage”<\/a> in\u00a0New Verse News.\u00a0<\/em>Her poem “Duplicity, Or Why I Will Not Support Hillary for 2016” is available at Blue Collar Review<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>and will be\u00a0in the print edition.<\/p>\n

Dr. Susanna<\/strong><\/a> Benko<\/a><\/b>\u2019s\u00a0article, \u201cInstruction matters: Secondary English preservice teachers\u2019 implementation of cognitively demanding writing tasks,\u201d will be published in April\u2019s edition of\u00a0English Education, <\/i>a journal sponsored by the National Council for Teachers of English.<\/p>\n

Along with colleagues Dr. Emily Hodge and Dr. Serena Salloum, Dr. Benko <\/strong>will also present\u00a0two papers at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association in Washington DC later this month. Those papers are:<\/p>\n