IU Southeast English News and Features
Faculty Innovator: Jeremy Wells
March 19, 2020
By Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)–Not many courses conclude with the students voting to exile the instructor. Not many instructors would be happy about it. But Jeremy Wells, associate professor of English, isn’t just any instructor. Wearing a zombie mask and communicating only in grunts, Wells humbly accepted banishment at the end of his literature ...
Faculty Innovator: Charlotte Tresa Reynolds
April 5, 2019
By Steven Krolak Who am I? The question lurks inchoate in every classroom on campus. That is the nature of college, a place where so many people take their first big steps toward what they have chosen to be, or change direction to pursue a different path from the one they may have once plotted ...
Scholarship in 20th year helps literature students advance
December 14, 2016
By Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)—Taryn Hall of Shepherdsville, Ky. (pictured) has known since the fourth grade that literature is her calling. Now the IU Southeast English major is poised to graduate with a double concentration in literature and writing, thanks in part to a scholarship honoring a professor who valued, modeled and nourished devotion ...
Writing faculty Michael Jackman to read at Louisville writer’s forum
June 13, 2016
By Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)—Michael Jackman, senior lecturer in writing and academic affairs diversity coordinator at IU Southeast, will read poems and prose as part of the Spalding at 21c: Voice and Vision literary series. The event takes place on Thurs., June 16 at 21c Museum Hotel in Louisville, Ky. Jackman will share the ...
IU Southeast grads view academic futures
May 18, 2016
By Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)—IU Southeast graduates from all disciplines are moving on. Many are finding their way into careers, while others are poised to pursue graduate degrees. And some of these students have already been accepted to academic programs, including those at IU Southeast. We are proud to share news of some of ...
IU Southeast faculty honored with IU Trustees Teaching Awards
April 28, 2016
By Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)—Seven IU Southeast faculty have received 2016 IU Trustees Teaching Awards. The Trustees Teaching Awards were first awarded in 2000-2001 to recognize and enhance excellent teaching, especially at the undergraduate level. The awards are open to tenured and tenure-track faculty, as well as full-time lecturers and clinical faculty primarily involved ...
Langston Hughes Project and IU Southeast students celebrate poetry, jazz, social justice
February 15, 2016
By Steven Krolak It’s an epic song of social justice, born in struggle and swaddled in jazz. Langston Hughes, poet laureate of the Harlem Renaissance, was also on the board of directors of the Newport Jazz Festival when he wrote “Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz.” The year was 1960, in the heat of ...
What’s New: Minor in Creative Writing
January 15, 2016
What’s New at IU Southeast? The minor in creative writing at IU Southeast gives students the chance to spread their creative wings while learning about the many applications of writing in careers ranging from finance to fine arts. When is it offered? Every semester. What does it look like? The minor requires 18 hours of coursework ...
