"I love to do collaborative research," he says. "I wanted an
ongoing collaboration with professionals from different countries,
and that's the goal of Fulbright, too-to promote the exchange of ideas."
Since his return from Zimbabwe in 2000, Bagga has focused his research on
formal methods in software development. He also has continued his mission
to promote international exchange of knowledge, adding Macau, Denmark,
and Hong Kong to the list of countries he has visited for conferences and
research presentations. During spring 2003, he acted as program chair for
an international information technology conference in Nepal, where he
organized workshops and arranged for international experts from Nepal
and India to make presentations on formal methods.
Bagga is working to establish an exchange program with the United Nations
University's International Institute for Software. As a part of the program,
computer science teachers from developing nations would visit Ball State
University for training in computer science teaching and research.
Now chairperson of the Department of Computer Science, Bagga still finds
time to pursue his research agenda and to maintain his advisory relationship
with the University of Zimbabwe. He also serves as an external reviewer for
the Fulbright program in Zimbabwe, evaluati
feedback for
potential scholars to follow.
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Short-story authors carefully choose their words in telling stories, but
Kurt Bullock believes it may be the words not selected that control the
rhetorical effect of a story.
Between the Lines
Distinguished Dissertation
Kurt Bullock
In his award-winning doctoral dissertation, Narrative Space and Time:
The Rhetoric of Disruption in the Short-Story Form, Bullock explores
the ways in which short story writers, because of the characteristics and
constraints of their genre, leave gaps in their storytelling and how readers
interpret and fill those gaps. A short-story writer himself, Bullock developed
his own theoretical perspective on the topic.
"Writing a story becomes a sort of game in which the author, by disrupting
the temporal and spatial qualities of the story, tries to control the effect the
suspension of continuity will have on the reader," Bullock says. "The attempt
at control remains an imperfect endeavor, however, as writers can only lead
and guide a reader's perception."
The short story is not a commonly researched genre, and Bullock's focus
developed after studying the narrative theory of Edgar Allen Poe and the
work of rhetorician Kenneth Burke. Bullock used their perspectives on
storytelling to form the basis of his research. He then drew on the works
of several other theorists to inform his ideas on the disruption of time and
space in short stories.
Examples from short stories commonly found in college literature curricula
provide a familiar framework for comprehending his theories.
Bullock, who currently teaches literary theory, world literature, and writing
courses at Grand Valley State University in Michigan, continues to study
the short story, exploring how the principles discussed in his dissertation
can be applied to collections of short stories by world authors.
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Sponsors of Ball State University Research 2002-2003
Business
Ball State Federal Credit Union
BitWise Solutions, Inc.
Cinergy Corporation
Cinergy Corporation/Eli Lilly and Company
Collegiate Funding Services
Glencoe/McGraw-Hili
College/University
Intelligraph Mapping and GIS Solutions
KOS Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Rational Software Corporation
St. Vincent Hospital, Winchester
Sun Microsystems
Butler University
Center for Asia-Pacific Area Studies
Indiana University
Japanese Institute of Eastern Cultures
Marquette University
Federal
,j..
Purdue University
Rutgers University
University of Illinois
West Virginia University
National Endowment for the Humanities
National Science Foundation
National Writing Project
U.S. Department of Education
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
U.S. Department of State
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Foundation
AT&T Foundation
Benjamin V. Cohen Memorial Fund
Caylor-Nickel Foundation
Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation
Christel DeHaan Family Foundation, Inc.
Community Foundation of Muncie & Delaware County, Inc.
Efroymson Fund
John W. Anderson Foundation
Knight Foundation
Quaker Oats Foundation
Radio and Television News Directors Foundation
Local
Adams County
Board of School Commissioners of the City of Indianapolis
Cultural Tourism Initiative
Delaware County Coordinating Council , Inc.
Delaware County Soil and Water Conservation District
Greater Indianapolis Progress Committee
Muncie Center for the Arts
Muncie Community School Corporation
Randolph County Solid Waste Management District
The Optimists of Hagerstown
Tobacco Free Coalition of Delaware County
External dollars received (in millions)
Nonprofit
American Chemical Society
American Physical Society
American String Teachers Association
Association of American Colleges and Universities
Ball Memorial Hospital
Cardinal Health System, Inc.
Center for Mental Health
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership
Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Council on Social Work Education
Discovery Group
Diversity Roundtable of Central Indiana
Eta Sigma Gamma
Goethe Institute
Great Lakes Athletic Trainers' Association
Hagerstown Rotary Club
Head Start Action , Inc.
Indiana Academy of Science
Indiana Athletic Trainers' Association
Indiana Campus Compact
Indiana Council for Economics Education
Indiana Humanities Council
Indiana Vector Control Association
Lions Club of Hagerstown
Mid-America Orchid Congress
Motivate Our Minds, Inc.
National Athletic Trainers' Association Research
and Education Foundation
National Center for Outreach
Outreach Extensions
Planned Parenthood of Indiana
Psi Chi
Psi Iota Xi
Public Broadcasting Service
Society of Manufacturing Engineers
Supporting the Emotional Needs of the Gifted (SENG)
The Indiana Center for Family, School and Community
Partnerships, Inc.
WNETTV
State
Governor's Council on Impaired and Dangerous Driving
Indiana Arts Commission
Indiana Criminal Justice Institute
Indiana Department of Commerce
Indiana Department of Education
Indiana Higher Education Telecommunication System
Indiana State Department of Health
New Hampshire Academy of Applied Science
State of Indiana
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30
13.9
19.9
25.2
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Funding sources for 2002-2003
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Non-Profit 6%
Foundation 25%
Type of funded activity
20%
Higher Education 2%
Institutional Support 1%
Local 3%
Business 24 %
Academic Support 31 %
Instruction 35%
Public Service 18%