Fall 2004

Fillman wins Forester Speak-Off
Sophomore Brittany Fillman won this semester’s Forester Speak-Off on December 9, in the Recital Hall of the Merillat Centre for the Arts.  Fillman is an English education major from Markle, Ind. Runner-up honors were awarded to junior music business major Isaac Thompson. Thompson is from Covington, Ind. For their efforts, Fillman and Thompson were awarded exemption from the final exam in Public Speaking. Details...

Heller, students attend conference
Dr. Jack Heller, assistant professor of English, along with students Rebekah Nimtz and Katherine Chilcoat, will attend the professional meetings of the Mideast Conference on Christianity and Literature at the University of Dayton on October 22-23.

Doughty has second book published
Dr. Del Doughty, Associate Professor of English, has had his second collection of poems published.  His first book, The Sound of Breathing, won the Virgil Hutton International Prize in 2000 for best chapbook.  Doughty's second collection, Flow, published by Red Moon Press in Winchester, Va., received funding from the Indiana Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts.  Details...

Heller has article published
Dr. Jack Heller, Assistant Professor of English, published an article on worldview tests titled "Christian College Professor Flunks Christian Worldview Tests."  The article can be found online at http://www.newpantagruel.com.  

Martin presents in London
In July, Dr. Todd Martin presented some of his research on British author Joseph Conrad at the Joseph Conrad Society conference in London, England.  The title of his essay was “Nostromo: Human Nature and the Fall of Conrad’s Hero,” and the essay considered Conrad’s Catholicism as a significant influence on his view of human nature, a view demonstrated in his title character.

Spring 2004

Doughty attends conference
Dr. Del Doughty, associate professor of English, attended “Teaching Peace: Nonviolence and the Liberal Arts Curriculum,” an interdisciplinary conference held at Bluffton College in May.

Shindle receives Alpha Chi Scholar Award
The Outstanding Alpha Chi Scholar Award was presented to Beth Shindle, an English major from Greencastle, Pa. Shindle is a writer for the student newspaper, Dean’s List honoree and has been named to Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges. She also received the Outstanding Senior Award in English. Details...

Tinon receives one of 10 Alpha Chi Nolle Scholarships
Rachel Tinon, a junior English major from Pataskala, Ohio, is one of 10 winners of the Alpha Chi National Honor Society Alfred H. Nolle Scholarship. The scholarship offers a stipend of $1,500 and is for the senior year of undergraduate study. For eligibility, a nominee must be a full-time undergraduate student in the fall of the academic year following his or her nomination in the spring. This scholarship is named after Dr. Alfred Nolle, who served as Alpha Chi's secretary-treasurer for 41 years.

Urschel presents at pop culture convention
Dr. Linda Urschel, professor of English, recently presented her paper Victims and Activists: The Captivity Narratives of Mary Rowlandson and Harriet Jacobs at the joint convention of the Popular Culture Association and the American Culture Association in San Antonio, Texas.

Martin elected Midwest Regent
Dr. Todd Martin, associate professor of English, has been elected the Midwest Regent for Sigma Tau Delta, the International English Honor Society, at a caucus held at the national convention. In this role, he will represent the chapters of the Midwest region on the national board of the society and will be responsible for building cohesion among the chapters as well as providing support for struggling chapters. Martin revived the Huntington College chapter of Sigma Tau Delta in 2001. Since its re-activation, he has acted as the chapter sponsor and has served on the Electronic Communications Committee and Service Committee of the national organization.

Doughty gives reading of new book
Dr. Del Doughty, associate professor of English, read his forthcoming collection of haiku entitled Flow at a regional meeting of the Conference on Christianity and Literature. He is also writing an introduction to a new edition of James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, as well as presenting his paper, "'In Orthodox Samaritan Fashion': James Joyce and the Myth of Redemptive Violence," at the South Central Modern Language Association in New Orleans.

Martin is promoted
Todd Martin was promoted to Associate Professor of English.  The announcement was made during the annual Honors Convocation.

Dr. Todd Martin publishes article, presents paper
Dr. Martin's article, "“The Enormous Room as Spiritual Autobiography: A Puritan Context for the Text,” has been accepted for publication in Spring: The Journal of the E. E. Cummings Society.  Also, he will present a paper at the Twentieth Century Literature Conference in late February.  The title of his paper is “Edwidge Danticat’s Cultural Revolution: Ezili and the subversion of the Holy Virgin in Breath, Eyes, Memory.”

Urschel featured in Who's Who Among America's Teachers 
Dr. Linda Urschel, professor of English, has again been nominated to be featured in the eighth edition of Who's Who Among America's Teachers. Honorees must be nominated by former students who were themselves selected to be a part of The National Dean's List. Teachers are selected because a student has identified them as "making a difference in his/her life." Only five percent of the nation's teachers are honored in each edition. Dr. Urschel was previously featured in the sixth edition, making her a part of only two percent of teachers included in more than one edition.

Dr. Todd Martin gives Faculty Lecture
Part of the Annual Forester Lecture Series, Dr. Martin's lecture focused on the topic of Science Fiction, particularly the fact that Christians should actively engage the ideas presented in works of Science Fiction (or any form of popular culture, for that matter).  His lecture analyzed  The Matrix and two works of classic Sci-Fi--Heineline's Stranger in a Strange Land and Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 

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