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MBU Humanities Division News and Events

2008-09 Academic Year

Dr. John Han delivered a paper, "‘Burned Clean': Creative Destruction in O'Connor's The Violent Bear It Away," at the "Obliterature: The Art of Creative Destruction" Conference organized by the Graduate English Organization at Truman State University, Kirksville, MO, 3-4 April 2009. He also gave a poetry reading at the conference.
The English department held a discussion of Flannery O'Connor's novel The Violent Bear It Away at Borders in Ballwin, March 31, 2009. The event was attended by more than 40 people, including MBU students and Professors Mary Bagley, Mary Ellen Fuquay, John Han, and Jo Ann Miller. Dr. Bagley moderated the session, and Dr. Han delivered a keynote lecture on the theme of Christian vocation in the novel.
The English department held a discussion of Robert Penn Warren's novel All the King's Men at Borders in Ballwin, March 3, 2009. The event was attended by 43 people, including MBU students and Professors Mary Bagley, Mary Ellen Fuquay, John Han, and Jo Ann Miller. Dr. Bagley moderated the session, and Dr. Han delivered a keynote lecture on sin and redemption in the novel.
Dr. John Han's essay "Partner Perspectives: The High School Visit from a Faculty Liaison's Point of View" is posted on the news website of the National Alliance of Concurrent Enrollment Partnership (http://supa.syr.edu/nacep/news/?p=16). An earlier version of the essay was presented at the 2008 NACEP Conference in Kansas City, MO, October 26-28, 2008.
The English department held a discussion on forms of Japanese poetry at Borders in Ballwin, November 20, 2008. The event was attended by approximately 55 people, including an AP English teacher and her students at Parkway South High School, MBU students, and Dr. Carol Dolan. Dr. Mary Bagley moderated the session, and Dr. John Han delivered a keynote lecture and led a workshop on haiku, senryu, and tanka.
Dr. John Han and Mary Ellen Fuquay joined two other faculty members in a presentation entitled "Clear Connections: Maintaining Consistent Communication among CEP Administrative Staff, University Faculty Liaisons, and High School Partners." The presentation was given at the annual conference of the National Alliance of Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships (NACEP) in Kansas City, MO, October 26-28, 2008.
Mary Ellen Fuquay has served as a member of the Communications Committee of the National Alliance of Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships (NACEP) since 2001. She edited news items and articles for the RSS feed and other pages on the NACEP website at www.nacep.org.
Dr. John Han gave a poetry reading at the Focal Point in Maplewood, September 23, 2008.
The English department held a discussion of John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath at Borders in Ballwin, October 7, 2008. The event was attended by approximately 85 people, including three English teachers and their students at Parkway South High School, MBU students, and Dr. Jerry Dees. Dr. Mary Bagley moderated the discussion, and Dr. John Han delivered a keynote lecture entitled "Is The Grapes of Wrath a Marxist Novel?"

2007-08 Academic Year

Mary Ellen Fuquay hosted two EXCEL summer professional development workshops, June 18 and July 30, 2008, on the main campus of Missouri Baptist University. Dr. John Han and Dr. Mary Bagley served as session leaders for dual credit English teachers, and Joan Dudley led a session for Spanish teachers.
John Han delivered a paper, "Steinbeck's Romantic Vision of Life in Travels with Charley in Search of America," at the 32nd Steinbeck Conference of the Steinbeck Society of Japan, Hiroshima University, Japan, 25-26 May 2008. A two-page abstract of his paper presented at the 2007 Steinbeck conference in Tokyo, "Steinbeck's Use of Intercalary Chapters in The Grapes of Wrath," appears in the 2008 edition of Steinbeck Studies.
Dr. John Han and Mary Ellen Fuquay served on a panel of judges for senior English presentations at John F. Hodge High School in St. James, MO., April 23, 2008. Student presentations were based on research essays completed in the EXCEL dual credit course, ENGL 123 English Composition II.
John Han won an Honorable Mention in the 2008 James H. Nash Members Only Contest-open to members of the St. Louis Poetry Center-for his poem "In the Yard: Senryu." Han's poem "Morning" was published in the March 2008 issue of the Mainichi Daily News: Haiku (Tokyo). A chapter of his memoir, "On the Green Hills of Kansas: Recollections of Life in ‘The Little Apple,'" also appears in the Spring 2008 issue of Kansas English: The Journal of the Kansas Association of Teachers of English. Han currently serves as a co-moderator of the monthly Writers' Workshop at St. Louis County Library's Grand Glaize Branch.
Mary Bagley, Jerry Deese, Carol Dolan, John Han, and Curtis McClain attended the Engaging Our World 2008 Conference, sponsored by the International Institute for Christian Studies and held in Kansas City, MO, July 17-19, 2008. Han and Bagley co-presented a paper, "Making a Difference: John Grisham as a Christian Novelist," at the conference.
Dr. John Han's six reference entries are forthcoming in the three-volume book The Encyclopedia of Africa and the Americas (eds. Richard M. Juang and Noelle Morrissette. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, Inc., 2008): "Black Arts Movement," "Catholicism," "W.E.B. Du Bois," "Uthman Dan Fodio," "Ukawsaw Gronniosaw," and "Harlem Renaissance." Han also presented a paper, "Departing the Corporeal World: O'Connor's Neoplatonic Idea of Redemption in ‘A Good Man Is Hard to Find,' ‘The River,' and ‘The Displaced Person,'" and chaired a session at the Stories of Flannery and Faulkner Conference, Georgia College & State University, Milledgeville, GA, 2-5 April 2008.

2006-07 Academic Year

Dr. John Han's review of Henk Maier's book We Are Playing Relatives: A Survey of Malay Writing (Leiden, The Netherlands: KITLV Press, 2004) appears in Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (Vol. 18, No. 2, 2007). Han's haiku collection, "Korea-A Land Far, Far Away," also appears in In Other Words: An American Poetry Anthology (Leslie James, ed., Denver, CO: October 2007). "The Days When We Lined Up for American Corn"-a chapter from his memoir in progress-has been accepted for publication in the Spring 2008 issue of Mid Rivers Review: A Literary Journal (St. Charles Community College). Han led two haiku & senryu workshops at E. H. Lyle Academy, St. Louis, February 27, 2008.
Dr. John Han's essay "Steinbeck and Cather: The Divergent Religious Visions" appears in the recently published volume John Steinbeck and His Contemporaries (Stephen K. George and Barbara A. Heavilin, eds. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press). Han also delivered a guest lecture on tanka and haiku and then read his own poems in Ms. Sharon Tausch's EXCEL English class at Morgan County High School, November 1, 2007.
Mary Ellen Fuquay attended the annual conference of the National Alliance of Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships (NACEP) held in Salt Lake City, UT, October 28-30, 2007.
Dr. John Han has published two book reviews in Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (vol. 18, no. 1 [2006]): Clearing a Space: Postcolonial Readings of Modern Indonesian Literature (Keith Foulcher and Tony Day, eds.) and Virtual Lotus: Modern Fiction of Southeast Asia (Teri Shaffer Yamada, ed.). Crossroads is a publication of Northern Illinois University's Center for Southeast Asian Studies.
Dr. John Han has published an essay, "‘The War Prayer' in U.S. Popular Culture," in Mark Twain Studies (Japan) and four entries in The Encyclopedia of American Race Riots (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press). He also delivered two conference papers in Fall 2006: "The Church Rules: The Christian Social Ideas of T. S. Eliot and Flannery O'Connor" at the Conference on Violence and Grace (Grand Valley State University, MI) and "Conflicting Images of Christ in Contemporary Fiction" at the Christ in Contemporary Cultures: A Cultural Studies Conference (Gordon College, MA). On November 28, 2006, Han presented a guest lecture, entitled "The Korean Lyric Tradition and Song Su-kwon's Poetry," to the faculty and graduate students in English at Winona State University, Winona, MN.
Dr. Mary Bagley attended the C.S. Lewis Summer Conference, entitled "Finding the Way: C.S. Lewis as Pilgrim Guide in a Pluralistic Age," San Diego, CA, June 28-July 1, 2007. The speakers included Armand Nicholi, Jr. (Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital) and Malcolm Guite (Chaplain and Fellow, Girton College, Cambridge, and teacher of Literature and Pastoral Theology for the Cambridge Federation of Theological Colleges).
Dr. John Han served as a Reader at the College Board's 2007 Advanced Placement (AP) English Language & Composition Reading, Daytona Beach, Florida, June 11-17, 2007.
Dr. John Han delivered a paper, "Steinbeck's Use of Intercalary Chapters in The Grapes of Wrath," at the 31st Conference of the John Steinbeck Society of Japan, held on the campus of Toyo University, Tokyo, Japan, May 20-21, 2007. During his stay in Japan, he also visited the Kamakura Museum of Japanese Literature.
Dr. John Marino moderated a discussion of William Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet at Borders, February 6, 2007. Approximately thirty people, including a Parkway South High School English class and MBU faculty and students in English, attended the event. This was the English Department's second venture into the community; the discussion was very lively and informative. The next book discussion (on a collection of poems, including Dr. John Han's haiku poems) will be held at the same place in early April, on Tuesday at 7:00 p.m.
Mrs. Joan Dudley, instructor of Spanish, attended the annual ACTFL (American Council of Teachers of Foreign Languages) Convention in Nashville November 23 - 25, 23, 2006. This convention draws educators from elementary through university levels as well as international representatives and government personnel (due to languages now being considered a security issue). The session on the AP Exam was solely applicable to my high school teaching. I did attend a session on comparing the ACTFL proficiency grading rubric with that of the European counterpart and one session on current qualitative research in the acquisition of foreign languages. The other sessions I attended are applicable to any level, including a one full day workshop on the OPI (the Oral Proficiency Interview), used as the standard to measure one's conversational fluency.
Dr. John Han has published two book reviews in Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (vol. 18, no. 1 (2006)): Clearing a Space: Postcolonial Readings of Modern Indonesian Literature (Keith Foulcher and Tony Day, eds.) and Virtual Lotus: Modern Fiction of Southeast Asia (Teri Shaffer Yamada, ed.). Crossroads is a publication of Northern Illinois University's Center for Southeast Asian Studies.
Dr. John Han has published an essay, "‘The War Prayer' in U.S. Popular Culture," in Mark Twain Studies (Japan) and four entries in The Encyclopedia of American Race Riots (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press). He also delivered two conference papers in Fall 2006: "The Church Rules: The Christian Social Ideas of T. S. Eliot and Flannery O'Connor" at the Conference on Violence and Grace (Grand Valley State University, MI) and "Conflicting Images of Christ in Contemporary Fiction" at the Christ in Contemporary Cultures: A Cultural Studies Conference (Gordon College, MA). On November 28, Han presented a guest lecture, entitled "The Korean Lyric Tradition and Song Su-kwon's Poetry," to the faculty and graduate students in English at Winona State University, Winona, MN.
The English Department publishes Cantos: A Literary and Arts Magazine, a collection of creative and art works, every year. This year's issue is scheduled for publication on March 15, 2007. MBU students, alumni, faculty, and staff are cordially invited to e-mail their poems, short stories, one-act dramas, works of nonfiction, book reviews, or works of visual art to the editor, Dr. John J. Han (hanjn@mobap.edu), for possible inclusion in the magazine. Submission deadline is March 1, 2007. Become famous by getting your work in print!
Dr. John Marino moderated a discussion of John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath at Borders, December 5, 2006. Forty-seven people, including a Parkway South High School English class and MBU faculty and students in English, attended the event. This was the English Department's first venture into the community, and it was well received by the participants. The Humanities Division Website has three photos from the event: http://www.mobap.edu/academics/divisions/humanities/eventphotos.asp. The second book discussion (on Shakespeare's Hamlet) will be held at the same place on Tuesday, February 6, at 7:00 p.m.
The English Department is planning to form a creative writing club on campus. The club is open to all majors-and to faculty/staff-and will meet regularly to share the works in progress. We will also hold marathon reading events on campus a couple of times each year. Dr. Bagley and Dr. Marino will be leading the club.
Jennifer Newcomb has accepted a position of Communications/PR Assistant at Children's Hope International, a Christian adoption agency located in Westport.
Dr. Mary Bagley was recently on the radio (MBU's station) talking about old theatres and modern grammar.
Dr. Andy Chambers recently published two essays: "Myths, Genealogies and Old Wives Tales" (in Biblical Illustrator, Fall 2006, pp. 50-54) and "DaVinci Code Fiction in a Post Truth Society" (in The Pathway, 19 May 2006, pp. 8-9).
Dr. John Han recently presented papers at two international conferences. He delivered "Conflicting Images of Christ in Contemporary Fiction" at the Christ in Contemporary Cultures Conference, held at Gordon College, Wenham, Massachusetts, September 28-30. He also presented "The Church Rules: The Christian Social Ideas of T. S. Eliot and Flannery O'Connor" at the Flannery O'Connor in the Age of Terrorism: An Academic Conference on Violence and Grace, held at Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, Michigan, October 5-7.
Dr. John Marino attended the Missouri Migrant Education and English Language Learning Conference, held in Chesterfield, MO, October 5-6, 2006. The conference was presented by Missouri Migrant Education and English Language Learning, and the Missouri Coalition for English Language Acquisition (MOCELA), with additional support/collaboration of DESE, Southeast Missouri State University, and the MU Conference Office. Informative sessions included "Embodied Grammar," "Back in Time: Teaching Past Tense," "Writing Across Proficiencies and Purposes," "Cultivating Brilliant Students in ESL Classrooms" and "Quick Activities to Help Correct Five Common Mistakes Using Prepositions, Past and Present Tenses."
Dr. Curtis McClain and five students- Scott Mitchell, Brook Miller, Kate Murphy, John Parker, and Joyce Parker-went on a mission survey trip to Carthage and Nauvoo, Illinois, on October 2, 2006.
This past year, Dr. Dale Allen visited nearly 100 churches in Missouri, Illinois, Florida, and Tennessee, representing Missouri Baptist University. These churches ranged from large metropolitan churches to small country churches.
Dr. Mary Bagley, Mr. Bill Combs, Ms. Mary Ellen Fuquay, Dr. John Han, and Dr. Curtis McClain were among MBU faculty who attended the faculty development workshop at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, September 15, 2006. The workshop focused on embedding assessment of student learning outcomes in regularly scheduled assignments and effectively reporting and tracking embedded assessment data. Dr. Larry Kelley facilitated the workshop.
Rhoda Bontrager, senior English and business double major, has been hired by Graphic World as Production Assistant. In her August 3, 2006, e-mail to the division chair, she wrote, "Honestly, I'm not exactly sure what I'll be doing yet, but my title is Production Assistant and it sounds like I'll be assisting a few other employees. I don't think I'll be doing much editing/proofreading yet, but I'm hoping it will lead to that in the future...."
Theresa Creel, senior English major, got the internship at the St. Louis Best Bridal and Savvy Family magazines. She will start August 6, 2006, when she will work at a Bridal show. She will be interviewing and writing various articles for both magazines. "It should be very good experience. I will be working at the internship three days a week," Creel said.

2005-06 Academic Year

Dr. Andy Chambers was one of a select group of academic scholars who attended the Young Scholars in the Baptist Academy Seminar at Regent's Park College in Oxford, England, July 24-28, 2006.
Dr. John Han's essay, "Promoting Korean Literature in the United States: The Accomplishments, Myths, and Challenges," was included in Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on the Asian Humanities (Cheongju, South Korea: Chungbuk National University's Institute of Humanities, 2006), pp. 20-39.
Dr. John Han recently delivered two papers in East Asia. In South Korea, he presented "Promoting Korean Literature in the United States: The Accomplishments, Myths, and Challenges" at the "Quest and Encounter: The Asian Humanities in a Global Context" conference, hosted by Chungbuk National University's (CBNU) Institute of Humanities, June 14. The other paper, "The Analects and the Tao Te Ching as Tools for Understanding the Chinese Mind," was delivered at the Consortium for Global Education conference on the internalization of higher education, Qingdao University, China, June 21-23. During his trip, Han visited Handong Global University, an evangelical Christian school in the city of Pohang, Korea, to discuss the possibility of establishing academic exchanges between HGU and MBU. MBU's Humanities Division and CBNU's Institute of Humanities have also agreed to cooperate in teaching, research, and other scholarly areas.
Ms. Mary Ellen Fuquay, Dr. Doug Morris, and Ms. Julia Pitts planned and hosted the 2006 EXCEL Summer Workshop held on campus June 21. Over 50 high school teachers attended sessions led by MBU faculty discussing the content of general education courses offered for dual credit in the high schools.
Dr. John J. Han attended the 2006 Workshop for Department and Division Chairs, St. Louis, MO, May 23-25, 2006. The event was hosted by the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC).
MBU's Chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, the international English honor society, has published the 2006 issue of Cantos: Literary Magazine. It includes many poems, short stories, and essays submitted by MBU students, faculty, and staff. A group of English majors served on the editorial staff under the faculty supervision of Dr. Mary Bagley.
Dr. Mary Bagley and Dr. John Han co-published the essay "Patterns of Essay Organization" in The Curious Writer, MBU's new composition textbook.
Dr. John Marino, professor of English at MBU, presented a paper, "The Tale of Sir Gareth: The Proving or the Making of a Hero?," in a session about philosophical themes and issues in Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur at the 41st International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 2006.
Drs. Mary Bagley, John Han, and John Marino attended the Third Annual Spring Colloquium presented by the Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville College of Arts and Sciences, March 30, 2006. The keynote speaker was Stanley Fish, a renowned literary critic.
President Alton Lacey and Vice Presidents Ken Revenaugh and Dr. Andy Chambers attended the International Forum on Christian Higher Education March 30-April 1, 2006, in Dallas, Texas. The Forum, sponsored by the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities, was entitled "Significant Conversations" and drew participants from all over the world. The speakers included screenwriter and author Craig Detweiler, pastor Tony Evans, pastor Rick Warren, and Oxford professor Alister McGrath.
Dr. John Han reviewed two books for the Spring 2006 issue of Intégrité: A Faith and Learning Journal: Rev. of John Piper's The Hidden Smile of God: The Fruit of Affliction in the Lives of John Bunyan, William Cowper, and David Brainerd (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2001) and Os Guinness's Time for Truth: Living Free in a World of Lies, Hype, & Spin (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2000).
Dr. John Han presented a paper, "Steinbeck and Cather: The Divergent Religious Visions," at the "Steinbeck and His Contemporaries" Conference, Sun Valley, Idaho, March 22-25, 2006. The conference was presented by the John Steinbeck Society of America and the Editorial Board of the Steinbeck Review and was attended by scholars from China, India, Japan, Sierra Leone, Portugal, Slovenia, South Korea, and the United States.
On January 24, 2006, Dr. John Marino delivered a lecture on C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia, entitled "Narnia: Is There Truth in Fiction?" at the Spring 2006 forum held at Bywaters Lounge. Mr. Fred Hampton, MBU's campus pastor and instructor of Bible, served as moderator.
Dr. John Han has published five reference entries: "Best-Sellers" and "Catholics" in American History through Literature, 1870-1920 (Eds. Tom Quirk and Gary Scharnhorst. Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2005); and "American Folklore Society," "Kumina," and "Smithsonian" in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Folklore (Ed. Anand Prahlad. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006).
Dr. John Han has published four reference entries: "Clare Boylan," "Ita Daly," "Mary Dorcey," and "Lady Morgan" in Irish Women Writers: An A-to-Z Guide (Ed. Alexander G. Gonzalez. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006).
Mr. Bill Combs was the guest speaker for both worship services at Prospect Baptist Church in Londell, Missouri, January 15, 2006.
Dr. John Han delivered a special lecture, entitled "Asian-American Literature: An Overview," at Chungbuk National University, South Korea, in November 2005. The event was sponsored by the Department of English Language and Literature and the Research Institute of Humanities at the university.
Dr. Alton Lacey and Dr. John Han were selected to participate in the ASBCS/Baylor University Conclave held in Birmingham, Alabama, October 9-11, 2005. Participants included presidents, chief academic officers, other administrators, faculty, and pastors/denominational leaders/board members. The attendants discussed the nature and future of Baptist higher education, faith and learning integration, and various challenges for Baptist institutions of higher learning, among other things. The results of the Conclave will be organized and disseminated in the near future and will provide some basis for planning on Baptist college and university campuses.
Dr. John Han attended the 18th Annual Meeting of the Consortium for Global Education, Missouri Baptist University, September 23-24, 2005.
Ms. Mary Ellen Fuquay, Dr.Doug Morris, and Ms. Julia Pitts joined representatives of the University of Missouri -St. Louis and Saint Louis University in planning and co-hosting the annual conference of the National Alliance of Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships in Saint Louis. The conference was held at the Hyatt-Union Station, September 29-October 1.
MBU employees recognized for five years of service in September 2005 included Ms. Mary Ellen Fuquay, director of EXCEL and instructor of English.
Ms. Mary Ellen Fuquay, Dr. Doug Morris and Ms. Julia Pitts hosted the 2005 EXCEL Summer Workshop for high school teachers. Held June 20 on the MBU campus, the workshop offered EXCEL teachers the opportunity to discuss their courses with MBU faculty and their counterparts in other high schools.
Dr. John Marino has recently published a book, The Grail Legend in Modern Arthurian Literature. His book shows how modern adaptations of the Holy Grail legend correspond to trends in the scholarly community and how the legend has been appropriated by various ideologies. The Grail Legend in Modern Arthurian Literature covers the evolution of the legend in medieval literature and its rediscovery and transformation in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. There are three parallel trends in Grail scholarship and modern adaptations of the legend: controversy over Christian or pagan origins, secularizing by way of humanism, and esoteric mysticism. The three reflect movements in popular culture. Relativism and multiculturalism influence Christian-pagan cultural conflict in the adaptation. Mythographers maintain the legend's appeal in modern culture by considering the Grail metaphor rather than material actuality; modern adaptations then transform the Grail from a particularly Christian symbol to one with universal application in an increasingly secular society. Modern and postmodern spiritualities appropriate the legend for esoteric ideologies. This study, then, demonstrates how the Grail legend is transformed and adapted to medieval and modern cultures. The Grail Legend in Modern Arthurian Literature is available for purchase through D. S. Brewer Publishing.
Dr. John Han has published four reference entries: "Afrocentricity," "Cecil Brown," "Civil Rights Movement," and "Martin Luther King, Jr." in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Literature (Eds. Hans Ostrom and J. David Macey, Jr. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005).
Dr. Curtis McClain, along with MBU student Eric Elvs, traveled to Africa, touring the continent for nearly a month during the summer of 2005 in an effort to spread God's love. McClain said, "We kind of went there knowing that the trip's purpose is not about us; it is about the mission of the missionaries. If we're not a blessing to them, who spent years in the mission field, we don't need to be there."

2004-05 Academic Year

Dr. John Han delivered two guest lectures at John F. Hodge High School, St. James, Missouri, April 20, 2006. He presented "Korean Poetry: A Brief Introduction" to the dual-enrollment students in ENGL 203: World Literary Types and "Common Problems with College Student Writing" the dual-enrollment students in ENGL 123: English Composition II.
Dr. Mary Bagley has published her review of Gordon and Diana Severance's book Against the Gates of Hell: The Life & Times of Henry Perry, a Christian Missionary in a Moslem World (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2003) in the Fall 2005 issue of Intégrité: A Faith and Learning Journal, pp. 64-67.
Dr. John Han has two recent articles published in Intégrité: A Faith and Learning Journal: "T. S. Eliot and Flannery O'Connor: The Use of Biblical Imagery" (Fall 2005, pp. 41-56) and "Alter Christus: The Minister in The Power and the Glory and Wise Blood" (Spring 2005, pp. 54-63). His review of Alister E. McGrath's book Christian Literature: An Anthology (Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 2001) was also included in the Spring 2005 issue of the journal.
Dr. John Han has an article, "Literature and Protestantism," in the book Ethics, Literature, and Theory: An Introductory Reader (2nd ed. Ed. Stephen K. George. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005).
Dr. John Han's article "‘I Want to Make 'Em Happy': Utilitarian Philosophy in Steinbeck's Fiction," which originally appeared in the Fall 2004 issue of The Steinbeck Review, was reprinted in Stephen K. George, ed., The Moral Philosophy of John Steinbeck (Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2005).
Dr. John Han's article "Jesus as a Cultural Hero: Steinbeck's Use of the Christ Figure in The Grapes of Wrath" was published in The Steinbeck Review 2.1 (Spring 2005): 25-36.
Dr. John Han attended the April 21, 2005, meeting of the Missouri Consortium for Measuring Value-Added Student Learning (MVASL), Jefferson City. In addition to his duties as English professor and Integrite editor, he has been appointed chair of the Humanities Division. Previous division chair Dr. Curtis McClain will continue working more directly with the Master of Arts in Christian Ministries program in his position of director of Religious Studies.
Dr. Andy Chambers, Dr. Mark Engelhardt, Ms. Kim Grey, Dr. John Han, Mrs. Janet Puls, Dr. Clark Triplett, Mr. Van Vaughn, with Dr. Don Robinson, represented MBU at the 110th Annual Meeting of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools/Higher Learning Commission, Hyatt Regency Chicago, April 8-12, 2005.
Dr. John Han served on the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) on-site visit team for William Woods University, Fulton, MO, February 26-March 2, 2005.
Ms. Mary Ellen Fuquay was awarded the Emerson Excellence in Teaching Award.
Ms. Mary Ellen Fuquay, Dr. Doug Morris, and Ms. Julia Pitts attended the annual conference of the National Alliance of Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships (NACEP) in Boise, Idaho. Ms. Fuquay serves on the communications committee and Dr. Morris serves on the research committee.
Ms. Mary Ellen Fuquay, Dr. Doug Morris, and Julia Pitts planned and hosted a dinner for EXCEL administrators, counselors, and teachers as well as MBU administrators and faculty. The evening also included a workshop for EXCEL teachers.
Dr. John Han delivered a paper at the 2004 International William Tyndale Society Conference, Regent University, Virginia, September 23-26, 2004: "The Impact of the Bible on Asian American Writing: The Cases of Richard E. Kim, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, and Li-Young Lee." He also has an essay, "Reflective Writing for Teaching Professionals," in Jim French and Sandra Evans, eds., Guide and Portfolio Manual for the Development, Licensure, and Employment of Teachers and Counselors.
Dr. John Marino joins the MBU faculty as Assistant Professor of English in the fall of 2004.
New faculty member Dr. Bill Combs conducted a martial/premarital counseling workshop to certify clergy and professional counselors in the use of PREPARE-ENRICH materials and inventories. The event was held at Canyon Ridge Christian Church in Las Vegas, Nevada. Twenty-Six area clergy and counselors attended.
Dr. John Han's article "‘I Want to Make 'Em Happy': Utilitarian Philosophy in Steinbeck's Fiction," which originally appeared in the Fall 2004 issue of The Steinbeck Review, was reprinted in Stephen K. George, ed., The Moral Philosophy of John Steinbeck (Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2005).
Dr. Mary Bagley and Dr. John J. Han compiled The Western World (443 pages), a literary textbook recently published by Pearson Custom Publishing in Boston, MA. It was created to meet the specific curricular needs of the English 203: World Literary Types course at MBU, this edition encompasses sixty-six major texts from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and the United States. It also includes two essays by Bagley, "Why Read Literature?" and "Literature of the Western World." Han contributed an essay, "Literature of the Non-Western World," and two chronologies-"Chronology of Western Masterpieces" and "Chronology of Non-Western Masterpieces."
Dr. John Han has an essay, "Reflective Writing for Teaching Professionals," included in Jim French and Sandra Evans, eds. Guide and Portfolio Manual for the Development, Licensure, and Employment of Teachers and Counselors (5th ed. Virginia Beach, VA: Teachers' Little Secrets, Inc., 2004), pp. 70-83.
Dr. John Han has published two reference entries, "Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop" and "James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man," in Encyclopedia of Catholic Literature (Ed. Mary R. Reichardt. Vol. 1. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2004).

2003-04 Academic Year

Dr. John Han has published five reference entries-"William Cullen Bryant," "William Ellery Channing," "Sylvester Judd," "Theodore Parker," and "Thomas Bangs Thorpe"-in Writers of the American Renaissance: An A-to-Z Guide (Ed. Denise D. Knight. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2003).
Dr. John Han recently published his review of two books in Intégrité: A Faith and Learning Journal: Philip Jenkins's The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity (New York: Oxford UP, 2002) and Arthur F. Holmes's Building the Christian Academy (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2001).
Dr. John Han delivered a paper, "Beyond Subjectivism: Reading in an Age of Hermeneutic Multiplicity," at the 3rd National Faculty Leadership Conference, Washington, D.C., June 24-27, 2004.
MBU English professors published three essays in a custom publication of The Mercury Reader, a new English composition textbook at MBU: Dr. John Han's "The Ten Uses of Reading," Dr. Mary Bagley's "Critical Thinking and Prewriting," and Ms. Mary Ellen Fuquay's "Why Do We Write?"
Dr. John J. Han attended the Seminar for Young Scholars in the Baptist Academy, hosted by Georgetown College, Kentucky, June 9-13, 2004. He also delivered a paper, "Beyond Subjectivism: Reading in an Age of Hermeneutic Multiplicity," at the National Faculty Leadership Conference, Washington, D.C., June 24-27, 2004.
Dr. John Han attended the Missouri Coordinating Board for Higher Education (CBHE) meeting at William Woods University, Fulton, on April 8, 2004.
Dr. John Han attended the MO Consortium on Measuring Value-Added Student Learning Organization Meeting in the MO Department of Higher Education, Jefferson City, April 2, 2004.
Dr. Dale Allen represented MBU at the inauguration of William Fox as twenty-fourth President of Culver-Stockton College on March 27, 2004.
On March 24-27, 2004, Mrs. Brenda Bradford, Dr. John Han, Mr. Cordell Schulten, and Dr. Clark Triplett delivered papers at Baylor University Conference on Christianity & the Soul of the University: Faith as a Foundation for Intellectual Community. Together they made a presentation on the development of MBU's new academic journal on faith and learning, Intégrité. Han's paper was entitled "Launching a Faith-Learning Journal: The Genesis, Procedure, Accomplishments, and Challenges." The conference was attended by over 400 faculty members from private and public colleges and universities throughout the United States and from several countries in Europe, Africa and Asia. Plenary sessions included addresses by Richard Hays of Duke University, Jean Bethke Elshtain of the University of Chicago, and John Polkinghorne of Queen's College, Cambridge University, as well as by President Robert Sloan and Provost David Jeffrey of Baylor University.
Dr. John Han attended the meeting on Measuring Value-Added Student Learning at the Missouri Department of Higher Education (DHE) offices in Jefferson City on February 11, 2004.
Dr. Andy Chambers has published an article, "The Promise and Peril of Postmodernism for Ministry Today," in the Fall 2003 issue of Intégrité: A Faith and Learning Journal.
Dr. Andy Chambers announced the success of an event recently held at his church, West County Community Church, where Albert Pujols and Herschel Walker were special guests. Seven hundred men filled the commons at Lafayette High School, half of which were guests. Twenty-eight responded to the call to come to Christ and many more asked for follow up with information about the ministries of the church.
Dr. John Han served on the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) accreditation team evaluating the education programs in the College of Education at the University of Missouri-Columbia, November 15-19, 2003.
On September 19-20, 2003, Dr. Mary Ann Conaway, Dr. John Han, Dr. Clark Triplett, and Mr. Cordell Schulten attended the Fourth Annual Christianity & Culture Conference on the campus of Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan. The conference is convened by the Center for the Study of Christianity and Culture. The Director of the Center, Malcolm Magee, has extended an invitation for MBU to serve as a host for a conference in the future, possibly in the spring of 2005. The principal paper presented at this year's conference was by Philip Jenkins of Penn State University. It addressed the growth of Christianity in the Global South.
Ms. Mary Ellen Fuquay and Dr. Doug Morris attended the annual conference of the National Alliance of Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships in Duluth, Minnesota, in October.
Ms. Mary Ellen Fuquay, Director of EXCEL, and other staff members hosted a dinner celebrating the 20th anniversary of EXCEL.
Dr. Curtis McClain, Dr. John Han, and twelve MBU students participated in the 16-hour Conversational English Ministries Training Workshop, held on main campus, April 28-29 and May 5-6. The workshop was sponsored by the Southern Baptist Convention's North American Mission Board and was facilitated by Mr. Jerry Kinsey, an NAMB-certified ESL workshop leader.
Dr. Dale Allen is overseeing the work at Harmony Baptist Church for their pastor, Nick Catrow ('80) who has been called up as a chaplain in the military. Presently Nick is stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas.
Dr. John Han has published his article "Love, Time, and Eternity: Teaching Andrew Marvell's ‘To His Coy Mistress'" in Intégrité: A Faith and Learning Journal 2.1 (Spring 2003): 39-52.

2002-03 Academic Year

Dr. John Han and Dr. Linda Sherrill and received MoSTEP (Missouri Standards for Teacher Education Programs) site visit team member training in Columbia, Missouri, March 10-12, 2003. The training was provided by the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.
Dr. John Han delivered a lecture, "Interracial Marriage: An Asian American Perspective," at MBU's "Conversation with a Scholar" Forum, March 26, 2003.
Dr. John Han has recently published two book reviews in Intégrité: A Faith and Learning Journal: V. James Mannoia, Jr.'s Christian Liberal Arts: An Education That Goes Beyond (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000) and Robert Benne's Quality with Soul: How Six Premier Colleges and Universities Keep Faith with Their Religious Traditions (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2001).
Dr. Mary Bagley has published her article, "Teaching Dramatic Works in a Christian Institution of Higher Learning," in the Spring 2003 issue of Intégrité: A Faith and Learning Journal, pp. 11-17.
Ms. Mary Ellen Fuquay has published her review of John Makujina's book, Measuring the Music: Another Look at the Contemporary Christian Music Debate (Willow Street, PA: Old Paths Publication, 2002), in the Spring 2003 issue of Intégrité: A Faith and Learning Journal, pp. 60-65.
Dr. Andy Chambers recently traveled to Montreat, North Carolina, for the annual Rhodes Consultation meeting where he had the privilege of being on a panel of five Rhodes members to discuss MBU's Faith & Learning journal as one of the "Institutional Renewal Grant Success Stories."
Dr. Andy Chambers published an article, "A View from the Other Side: Observations on the Work of the ‘Rhodes Consultation on the Future of the Church-Related College' with Suggestions for Evangelicals," in Intégrité: A Faith and Learning Journal 1.1 (Fall 2002): 4-19.
Dr. Curtis McClain published an article, "Forgetting the God We Confess: The Ever-Present Danger Each Christian Faces in This World," in Intégrité: A Faith and Learning Journal 1.1 (Fall 2002): 47-56.
Mr. Donald V. Patten, an instructor of interdisciplinary studies, published an article, "On the Reduction of the Arts to Theology: Integrating Faith and Learning," in Intégrité: A Faith and Learning Journal 1.1 (Fall 2002): 57-66.
Dr. John Han published an article, "The Uses of Reading Ethnic Minority Literature: The Case for Christian Multiculturalism," in Intégrité: A Faith and Learning Journal 1.1 (Fall 2002): 67-77.
Dr. Mary Bagley has a book review in the Fall 2002 issue of Intégrité: A Faith and Learning Journal: Robert P. Yagelski and Scott A. Leonard, eds., The Relevance of English: Teaching That Matters in Students' Lives (Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 2002), pp. 78-80.
Dr. John Han has a book review in the Fall 2002 issue of Intégrité: A Faith and Learning Journal: Steve Moore, ed., The University through the Eyes of Faith (Indianapolis: Light and Life Communications, 1998), pp. 82-86.
Dr. John Han published two reference entries-"Dwight Okita" and "Han Ong"-in Asian American Playwrights: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook (Ed. Miles Xian Liu. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002).

2001-02 Academic Year

Dr. Rick Maclin presented two workshops on "Managing Adjunct Faculty" at the National Conference on the Adult Learner. Maclin also gave the invocation and benediction with Ozzie Smith, former St. Louis Cardinals shortstop, at the Black MBA Association Annual Dinner on May 23, 2002.
Ms. Mary Ellen Fuquay attended the spring conference of the National Alliance of Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships (NACEP) in New Port, Rhode Island, April 7-9, 2002. At the meeting, the Alliance adopted the NACEP Statement of Standards, its By-laws, and Membership Policy and Procedures. Representing EXCEL at Missouri Baptist University, Fuquay is on the Communications Committee and on the editorial board of the online NACEP newsletter to be first published in August 2002.
Dr. John Han delivered an address, "The Christian Pursuit of Academic Excellence," at the Spring Academic Honors Convocation, Missouri Baptist University, March 5, 2002.
Dr. Curtis McClain served as the chairman for the Midwest Regional Founders Conference, held during March 12-14, 2002. He has been involved with the Southern Baptist Founders Conference for ten years and was elected to chairman of the regional conference in its inaugural year, 1995. The lead topic for the 2002 conference was "The Order of Salvation" featuring keynote speakers, Dr. Michael Haykin and Dr. Mark DeVine. Next year the conference will honor and study the life of Jonathan Edwards. The annual conference is held at First Baptist Church St. Peters.
Dr. John Han moderated the 2nd "Conversation with a Scholar" Forum held at MBU on November 15, 2001. The topic was "Cultures at War: Engagement or Retreat?"
Dr. John Han published two reference entries-"Julian of Norwich" and "Margery Kempe"-in Catholic Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook (Ed. Mary R. Reichardt. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001).
Dr. John Han published four reference entries-"Carlos Bulosan," "Han Suyin [Rosalie Chou]," "Daniel K. Inouye," & "No-Yong Park"-Asian American Autobiographers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook (Ed. Guiyou Huang. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001).
Dr. John Han has authored a number of writings in the past academic year. He has submitted ten reference articles that were accepted for publication in books such as Asian-American Playwrights: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook, Asian-American Autobiographers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook, and Catholic Women Writers. His English-to-Korean translations include Healing Prayer by Reginald Cherry and "A Hanging" by George Orwell.
Ms. Mary Ellen Fuquay, in her role as Director of EXCEL, created a strand of EXCEL sessions for the fifth annual MBC Education Conference held October 6, 2001.
Dr. John Han delivered the paper "Issues of Faith in Teaching Minority Literature" at the 5th Annual MBC Education Conference held at MBU, October 6, 2001.
Dr. John Han delivered his paper "The Use of Reading Ethnic Minority Literature: The Case for Christian Multiculturalism" at the 2nd National Faculty Leadership Conference, Chicago, Illinois, June 27-30, 2002.

2000-01 Academic Year

Dr. John Han has a reference entry, "Richard E. Kim," published in Asian American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook (Ed. Emmanuel S. Nelson. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000).
Dr. John Han delivered a lecture, "Shall We Have a Book-Burning?: The Use of Reading Non-Christian Books," at the "Conversation with a Scholar" Forum on textbook censorship, Missouri Baptist University, March 29, 2001.
Dr. John Han delivered a message, "Jesus Christ as the Liberator: How Christianity Has Transformed Korea," in DeLozier Chapel, Missouri Baptist University, February 22, 2001.
Dr. John Han received the 2001 Parkway Distinguished Teaching Award. Han was presented the award by College's President, Dr. Alton Lacey, on behalf of Parkway Baptist Church, St. Louis, during commencement ceremonies. The Distinguished Teaching Award is designed to annually recognize a professor with outstanding dedication and enthusiasm.
Dr. Andy Chambers, an assistant professor of religion, has been appointed as the acting dean of students.
Dr. John Han was honored with the Emerson Electric Award for his commitment to students and his dedication to Christian education.
Dr. John Han was also honored during the 2000/2001 academic year by Who's Who Among America's Teachers and recognized with the Emerson Electric Award for his commitment to students and Christian education.
Ms. Mary Ellen Fuquay and David Wilch attended a conference of dual credit (concurrent enrollment) providers meeting at Indiana University in November 2000. The conference addressed dual credit issues across the nation and served as a workshop for developing by-laws and standards for a new national association. Ms. Fuquay serves on the Communication Committee.
Dr. John Han delivered a lecture, "‘The Appalling Strangeness of the Mercy of God': The Christian Vision of Graham Greene," at the Friday Nights at the Francis A. Schaeffer Institute, Covenant Theological Seminary, St. Louis, October 13, 2000.
Dr. John Han delivered a paper, "Teaching Andrew Marvell's Poem "To His Coy Mistress (1681)," at the University's Fall 2000 Faculty Conference on Faith and Learning, August 17, 2000.

1999-2000 Academic Year

Ms. Mary Ellen Fuquay and Ms. Christy Allen attended a meeting of the Missouri Consortium of Dual Credit Providers held in conjunction with the Missouri Conference on Transfer and Articulation.
Dr. John Han served as a Resident Theologian for the Junior High Camp, Orchard Crest Camp, Missouri, June 29-30, 2000. He delivered a personal testimony entitled "Jesus Christ as the Liberator" and introduced Asian culture and languages to the youth.
Dr. John Han delivered a speech, "The Benefits of Attending a Christian College for International Students," at MBU chapel, April 4, 2000.

1998-99 Academic Year

Dr. John Han published a Korean translation of the article "WORLD's Partial Listing of the Best Titles Proclaiming or Applying a Biblical Worldview in a Hostile 20th Century" in the Fall 1999 issue of Koinonia.
Dr. Andrew Chambers received the "Governor's Award for Excellence in Teaching" at the 1998 Governor's Conference on Higher Education, December 10, 1998. In recognition of faculty commitment to excellence in education, the award was presented by Governor Mel Carnahan to 62 faculty members, each representing a Missouri college, university or technical/professional school.