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Kelcey Ervick
Kelcey Ervick is an associate professor of English and creative writing at Indiana University South Bend, a public university in South Bend, Indiana. She is the author of six books. Ervick has also published comics and illustrated work in The Washington Post, The Rumpus, The Indianapolis Review, Hypertext Magazine, and The Believer, amongst other publications. Ervick grew up in Ohio and currently lives in Indiana. Education Ervick earned her Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati in 2006 and a B.A. from Xavier University in 1993. While at Xavier, Ervick played soccer and was a goalkeeper for four years. Ervick's career saves record (1990–1993) at Xavier stood until 2014. Career At Indiana University South Bend, Ervick teaches classes in English, creative writing, and comics. Additionally, Ervick is the Director of Creative Writing. She also served as the faculty advisor for IU South Bend's literary journal from 2006 to 2011. Ervick has been teaching at Indiana University ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indiana University South Bend
Indiana University South Bend (IU South Bend or IUSB) is a public university in South Bend, Indiana. It is the third largest and northernmost campus of Indiana University. History Indiana University began offering classes in South Bend in 1922 as an extension of the main campus of Indiana University Bloomington. In the Great Depression, the superintendent of South Bend schools asked that more classes be added for those who could not afford to attend classes at the Bloomington campus. The classes were offered at Central High School in downtown South Bend and within a few years enrollment reached 500. Classes were taught by local high school teachers with master's degrees and occasionally by Bloomington faculty who traveled once a week for class. The university appointed a resident director in 1940. Lynton Keith Caldwell, then a graduate student at the University of Chicago, took on the job. In 1941, Ernest Gerkin was named the first permanent full-time faculty member. Donal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Washington Post
''The Washington Post'', locally known as ''The'' ''Post'' and, informally, ''WaPo'' or ''WP'', is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital. It is the most widely circulated newspaper in the Washington metropolitan area and has a national audience. As of 2023, the ''Post'' had 130,000 print subscribers and 2.5 million digital subscribers, both of which were the List of newspapers in the United States, third-largest among U.S. newspapers after ''The New York Times'' and ''The Wall Street Journal''. The ''Post'' was founded in 1877. In its early years, it went through several owners and struggled both financially and editorially. In 1933, financier Eugene Meyer (financier), Eugene Meyer purchased it out of bankruptcy and revived its health and reputation; this work was continued by his successors Katharine Graham, Katharine and Phil Graham, Meyer's daughter and son-in-law, respectively, who bought out several rival publications. The ''Post ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rumpus
''The Rumpus'' is an online literary magazine founded by Stephen Elliott (author), Stephen Elliott, and launched on January 20, 2009. The site features interviews, book reviews, essays, comics, and critiques of creative culture as well as original fiction and poetry. The site runs two subscription-based book clubs and two subscription-based letters programs, Letters in the Mail and Letters for Kids. ''The Rumpus'' has fostered writers, artists, and editors like Roxane Gay who served as Essays Editor and who credits the site for developing her audience, Isaac Fitzgerald who served as managing editor before moving to BuzzFeed to help create BuzzFeed Books, Rick Moody, Wendy MacNaughton, Paul Madonna, Peter Orner, Yumi Sakugawa, Steve Almond, and Cheryl Strayed, who began her "Dear Sugar" advice column on the site. In July 2016, the site launched the Rumpus Lo-Fi Film Festival in Los Angeles as response to the high cost of other festivals. In January 2017, ''The Rumpus'' was purc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hypertext Magazine
''Hypertext Magazine'' is an independent, non-profit social justice literary magazine headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Founded in 2010 by editor-in-chief Christine Maul Rice, the magazine publishes bi-annually with print and online editions. Subscriptions are free. In 2018, Hypertext Magazine received a "Gold Star Seal of Transparency" award from non-profit information service GuideStar. History The magazine was founded online in 2010 after freelance writer Christine Maul Rice attended the 2008 Story Week editorial panel at Columbia College. Hypertext Magazine expanded from solely an online literary magazine to bi-annual print magazine in 2017. After seven years of online distribution of content, the first print journal was published in 2017, with an intention of publishing two editions per year. In addition to a bi-annual print magazine, Rice also launched Hypertext Magazine & Studio in 2017. Hypertext Studio accepts donations from readers. Notable writers published i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Believer (magazine)
''The Believer'' is an American quarterly magazine of interviews, essays, and reviews, founded by the writers Heidi Julavits, Vendela Vida, and Ed Park in 2003. The magazine is a thirteen-time finalist for the National Magazine Award. Between 2003 and 2015, ''The Believer'' was published by McSweeney's, the independent press founded in 1998 by Dave Eggers. Eggers designed ''The Believer'' original design template. Park left ''The Believer'' in 2011, with Julavits and Vida continuing to serve as editors. In 2017, the magazine found a new home, moving from McSweeney's to the Black Mountain Institute, Beverly Rogers, Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute, an international literary center at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. In October 2021, the UNLV College of Liberal Arts announced that the February/March 2022 issue of ''Believer'' would be the final issue published. UNLV then sold the magazine to digital marketing company Paradise Media, which in turn sold it back to its ori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Cincinnati
The University of Cincinnati (UC or Cincinnati, informally Cincy) is a public university, public research university in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. It was founded in 1819 and had an enrollment of over 53,000 students in 2024, making it the second-largest university in Ohio. It is part of the University System of Ohio. The university's primary uptown campus and medical campus are located in the List of Cincinnati neighborhoods, Heights and Corryville, Cincinnati, Corryville neighborhoods, with branch campuses located in University of Cincinnati Clermont College, Batavia and University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College, Blue Ash, Ohio. The university has 14 constituent colleges, with programs in University of Cincinnati College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning, architecture, Carl H. Lindner College of Business, business, University of Cincinnati College of Education Criminal Justice and Human Services, education, University of Cincinnati College of Engineering and Appli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Title IX
Title IX is a landmark federal civil rights law in the United States that was enacted as part (Title IX) of the Education Amendments of 1972. It prohibits sex-based discrimination in any school or any other education program that receives funding from the federal government. This is Public Law No. 92‑318, 86 Stat. 235 (June 23, 1972), codified at 20 U.S.C. §§ 1681–1688. Senator Birch Bayh wrote the 37 opening words of Title IX. Bayh first introduced an amendment to the Higher Education Act to ban discrimination on the basis of sex on August 6, 1971, and again on February 28, 1972, when it passed the Senate. Representative Edith Green, chair of the Subcommittee on Education, had held hearings on discrimination against women, and introduced legislation in the House on May 11, 1972. The full Congress passed Title IX on June 8, 1972. Representative Patsy Mink emerged in the House to lead efforts to protect Title IX against attempts to weaken it, and it was later re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central Michigan University
Central Michigan University (CMU) is a Public university, public research university in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, United States. It was established in 1892 as a private normal school and became a state institution in 1895. CMU is one of the eight research universities in Michigan and is Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity". It has more than 15,000 students on its Mount Pleasant campus. CMU offers 200 academic programs at the undergraduate, master's, specialist, and doctoral levels. The Central Michigan Chippewas compete in the NCAA Division I Mid-American Conference in six men's and ten women's sports. History CMU opened in 1892 as the Central Michigan Normal School and Business Institute. Prof. Charles F. R. Bellows, a University of Michigan graduate, became the founding principal of the school in June 1892. For the first year, 31 students attended classes in the Carpenter Buildi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Hart (cartoonist)
Tom Hart (born October 8, 1969, in Kingston, New York) is an American comics creator and educator best known for his graphic novel ''Rosalie Lightning'' and his ''Hutch Owen'' series of comics. He is the co-founder of SAW, the Sequential Artists Workshop. Career Tom Hart began making mini-comics while living in Seattle in the early 1990s. Like many of his colleagues including Megan Kelso, Dave Lasky, Jason Lutes, Jon Lewis, and James Sturm, he was an early recipient of the Xeric Foundation grant for cartoonists. His Xeric-winning book, ''Hutch Owen's Working Hard'' was 56 pages and self-published in 1994. Hart returned to the Hutch Owen series and published a first collection of stories with Top Shelf Productions in 2000. Later books in the series have also been published by Top Shelf. ''Time'' magazine called ''Hutch Owen'' "A devastating satire hichfeels like a scalding hot poker cauterizing the open wound of American corporate and consumer culture." ''Hutch Owen'' was also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Bell (author)
David J. Bell (born November 17, 1969) is an American writer and university professor of English. His most recent novel is ''She's Gone,'' his first young adult novel and a ''New York Times'' bestseller. Bell's next adult novel, ''Try Not To Breathe'', will be published in June 2023. Education David Bell was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he attended St. Catharine of Siena grade school and graduated from St. Xavier High School in 1988. Bell earned his B.A. in English from Indiana University Bloomington, his M.A. in creative writing from Miami University of Ohio, and his Ph.D. in American literature and creative writing from the University of Cincinnati, where he was a Taft Fellow. In 1998, he married author Molly McCaffrey, who writes under the name M Hendrix. They have lived in Bowling Green, Kentucky, since 2008. Career Bell began publishing stories in 2002, and they appeared in numerous journals including '' Cemetery Dance'', ''Rain Crow'', ''Black Petals'', ''The Edge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Literary Hub
''Literary Hub'' or ''LitHub'' is a daily literary website that was launched in 2015 by Grove Atlantic president and publisher Morgan Entrekin, American Society of Magazine Editors Hall of Fame editor Terry McDonell, and '' Electric Literature'' founder Andy Hunter. Content Focused on literary fiction and nonfiction, ''Literary Hub'' publishes personal and critical essays, interviews, and book excerpts from over 100 partners, including independent presses ( New Directions Publishing, Graywolf Press), large publishers (Simon & Schuster, Alfred A. Knopf), bookstores ( Book People, Politics and Prose), non-profits (PEN America), and literary magazines (''The Paris Review'', n+1). The mission of ''Literary Hub'' is to be the "site readers can rely on for smart, engaged, entertaining writing about all things books." The website has been featured in ''The Washington Post'', ''The Guardian'', and '' Poets & Writers''. In 2019, ''Literary Hub'' launched their new blog, ''The Hub' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
Purpose: Because living persons may suffer personal harm from inappropriate information, we should watch their articles carefully. By adding an article to this category, it marks them with a notice about sources whenever someone tries to edit them, to remind them of WP:BLP (biographies of living persons) policy that these articles must maintain a neutral point of view, maintain factual accuracy, and be properly sourced. Recent changes to these articles are listed on Special:RecentChangesLinked/Living people. Organization: This category should not be sub-categorized. Entries are generally sorted by family name In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several give .... Maintenance: Individuals of advanced age (over 90), for whom there has been no new documentation in the last ten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
