NEWS
August.2012
Dr. William Walsh is planning a Shakespeare trip to England for
the summer of 2012. Students attend six live Shakespeare plays in
Stratford on Avon and London, write critical reviews, and
investigate the social and cultural context in which the plays were
written. Details of the trip can be viewed at http://blue.butler.edu/~wwalsh/.
May.2012
The 2nd Annual English Department Awards Night,
"EPILOGUE" was held on Tuesday, May 1st from 6:30-9:30pm
at the Efroymson Center for Creative Writing.
Creative Writing Contest Winners
Poetry:
1st Place: "Together" Brian Gross; 2nd Place: "Ritual for
Remembrance" Lydia Johnson; 3rd Place (tie): "The Day the Tinker
Toys Broke" Jennifer Redmond and "Thoughts on a Midwest Drive" Eric
Ellis
Fiction:
1st Place:"February Stars" Billy Whitehouse; 2nd Place: "Tuesday
Morning" Ally Denton; 3rd Place: "A Town, South of Pisek" Eric
Ellis
Non-Fiction:
1st Place: "The Rosetti Method" Emily Lazar; 2nd Place:
"Pergamum Burning" Brian Gross; 3rd Place: "Shattering Mirrors"
Ally Denton
Senior Essay Contest
Winner: Jennifer Redmond
Dr. Marshall Gregory will be directing a week long
interdisciplinary seminar on teaching for faculty members at Taylor
University.
April.2012
Winner of the Mortar Board Outstanding Faculty of the Year -
Professor Bill Walsh
Congratulations to Michael Dahlie who has now joined the English
Department on a tenure track.
Spring Awards Day - April.14.2012
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Donald Sandstrom Scholarship for showing promise as a writer -
Eric Ellis
John Newcombe Wright Award for Excellence in the Study of
English - Allison Denton and Mark Wilhelm
Jessie H. Cochran Memorial Award for Excellence in Creative
Writing - Madeline Eckrich and Lydia Johnson
James T. Watt Award for the student who has made the
largest contribution to the Butler Literary Community -
Katie Arnt
The Grace Farrell Award for the student Devoted to Political
Engagement and Social Activism - Kate Newman
Winner of the Annual Liberal Arts Education Essay Contest for
2011-2012 - Jennifer Redmond
The Allegra Stewart Award for Outstanding graduating English
Majors - Brian Gross and Mary
Sekela
The Catharine Merrill Award for Outstanding junior English Major
- Emily Kile
The Margaret M. Kuhn Scholarship for Distinction in the
field of Literature - Emelia Abbe, Taylor Meador and
Hannah Sutton
The Jean T. Whitcraft Scholarship for interest in teaching
English - Melissa Rangel, Chloe Richardson, Elizabeth Shick
and Michelle Trainor
March.2012
Professor Dan Barden's second novel, The Next Right
Thing, was published by Dial Press.
February.2012
The Butler Writing in the Schools program won a Jefferson Award
from Students in Action and the Shortridge community for
"Outstanding Community Service in Recognition of Outstanding
Leadership in Volunteerism."
Dr. Hilene Flanzbaum had two articles appear in journals in
February 2012: a cultural studies piece "Traces of Trauma" in the
Phi Kappa Phi Review; "Teaching the Holocaust Right Here
Right Now" in Holocaust Studies' A Journal of Culture and
History.
Dr. Brynnar Swenson's article "The Human Network: Social Media
and the Limit of Politics" was published in February 2012 in the
Baltic Journal of Law and Politics.
Dr. Ania Spyra's article "Between Theory and Reality:
Cosmopolitanism of Nodal Cities in Pawel Huelle's Castorp"
is forthcoming in Comparative Literature (Fall 2012).
Dr. Andrew Levy completed a book manuscript
entitled Been There Before: On Mark Twain, Huck Finn, and
Misremembering the American Past (Simon and Schuster,
2013).
Michael Dahlie is the the PEN/Hemingway and Whiting Writers'
Award winner for A Gentleman's Guide to Graceful
Living. His second novel, The Best of Youth, will be
published by W.W. Norton in 2013.
2011
The Efroymson Center for Creative Writing
opened its doors on December 2nd. Located at 530 West Hampton
Drive, purchased and beautifully remodeled with the $1 million
donation from the Efroymson Family Fund, the Center is a site for
graduate-level workshops and public readings. It is also a
living and work space for visiting writers, visiting students,
faculty and alumni. The Efroymson Family also sponsors the
Efroymson Scholarships in Creative Writing. This year, the
scholarships were awarded to four M.F.A. who were from out-of-state
and who showed tremendous promise as writers.
Professor Chris Forhan was the recipient of a 2011
$10,000 Creative Renewal Arts Fellowship from the Arts Council
of Indianapolis to assist in his writing a memoir.
Dr. Joseph Colavito presented "The Child Ain't Right: Fringe
Films, Pulp Play, and the Figure of the Malevolent Child," at the
Midwest Modern Language Association (October 2011).
Professor Chris Forhan's poems "Petition," "The Severing,"
"Spat Out," and "While Reading The Lives of the Saints in a Lawn
Chair" will appear in The Recorder: Journal of the American
Irish Historical Society. His poem "The Church of the
Backyard" was included in the most recent anthology edited by
Garrison Keillor, Good Poems: American Places (Viking,
2011). Three of his poems can be found at www.cerisepress.com/vol-2-issue-6-features.
Dr. Jason Goldsmith published "John Clare and the Art of
Politics" (2011) in John Clare Society.
Dr. Marshall Gregory finished a book manuscript on teaching
called For the Love of Teaching: The Intellectual and Ethical
Foundations of Teaching Excellence.
Susan Neville recently finished a short story and novella
collection called The Green Room.
Dr. Carol Reeves published "Scientific Visuals, Language, and
the Commercialization of a Scientific Idea: The Strange Case of the
Prion" (2011) in Technical Communication Quarterly.
Dr. William Watts's article "Butler University v. John Doe:
A New Challenge to Academic Freedom and Shared Governance" (2011)
was published in Journal of Academic Freedom.
May.2011
Congratulations to our graduating seniors and the winners of our
annual awards:
Senior Essay Winner -
Britlynn Hasnen-Giroux
The John Newcomb Wright
Award for excellence in the study of English - Ben Sippola
and Matt Wright
The Jessie H. Cochran Memorial
Award for excellence in creative writing - Spenser Isdahl
and Mary Sekela
The Donald Sandstrom
Scholarship for a promising young writer - Lydia
Johnson
Poetry
1st Prize - Joanna Parypinski, "This Is Not a Love Poem"
2nd Prize - Mark Wilhelm, "Undifferentiated"
3rd Prize - Eric Ellis, "Digging"
Fiction
1st Prize - Mark Wilhelm, "Noose Therapy"
2nd Prize - Farhad Anwarzai, "Maple Street"
3rd Prize - Ros Lederman, "Coronation"
Non-Fiction
1st Prize - Joanna Parypinski, "Valentine's Card"
Mixed-Genre
1st Prize - Katie Arnt, "Thirteen Ways of Looking at an
Airplane"
Apr.2011
English Major Ben Sippola has won the 5th Annual Kristi Schultz
Broughton Liberal Arts Essay Contest. You can read his essay
"Metaphors of the Market Economy and the Learning Community" here.
Mar.2011
Congratulations to Dr. Goldsmith, who has been promoted to
Associate Professor with tenure.
Jan.2011
Dr. Goldsmith's exhibition, Here &
There, was named Weekend's Best in the
Indianapolis
Star. His nature-inspired paintings and
photographs will be on display from January 11 - March 11 at the
Holliday Park Nature Center. If you are in town, swing by the
opening reception on Sunday, Jan. 23rd from 2 - 4 pm.
Dr. Chris Forhan's Black
Leapt In (Barrow Street, 2009) was named a 2010 Best
Book of Indiana by the Indiana Center for the Book. You can also
find some of his newest poems in recent issues of The Georgia Review, Ploughshares, Pleiades, The Laurel Review, and West Branch Wired.
Dr. Gregory has just published "How Teachers Need to Deal With
the Seen, the Unseen, the Improbable, and the Nearly Imponderable"
in Liberal Education. He also
has a piece on Redefining Ethical Criticism: The Old vs. the New"
forthcoming in the Fall 2011 issue of The Journal of Literary Theory.
Dr. Garver's "Neither Progressive nor Reactionary: Reassessing
the Cultural Politics of The New Age" has been accepted for
publication in the Journal of Modern
Periodical Studies. He has also published reviews of
the edited collection Broadcasting
Modernism (in English
Literature in Transition, 1880-1920 54.2) and of Adrian
Bingham's Family Newspapers?: Sex,
Private Life, and the British Popular Press, 1918-1978
(forthcoming in the Journal of
Modern Periodical Studies).
Technical Communication
Quarterly will publish Dr. Reeve's "Visual Promotion of a
Scientific Ideal: The Strange Case of the Prion."
Drs. Flanzbaum and Goldsmith recently returned from Los
Angeles, where they delivered talks at the Modern Language
Association's annual convention. Dr. Flanzbaum presented a paper
entitled "Defending The
Reader: Why We Should Continue to Teach it." Dr. Goldsmith
spoke on "John Clare's 'Don Juan' and the Art of Politics."
Dr. Flanzbaum's "The Holocaust as Bestseller" appeared in Sonderdruck aus The Holocaust, Art, and
Taboo: Transatlantic Exchanges on the Ethics and Aesthetics of
Representation, Winter 2010.
Dr. Goldsmith has just published "The Metamorphosis; Or a
Phenomenology of Teaching" in Arts
and Humanities in Higher Education Volume 9 Issue 3,
October 2010. The current issue can be found at http://ahh.sagepub.com/.
Congratulations to Bryan Furuness, associate editor
for Booth,
whose "Man of Steel" was selected for Best American Non-required Reading
2010.