Kyle Schlabach

As an academic coach and the Coordinator of Writing Support, I am currently working on teaching and learning research and developing a corequisite composition model for the Goshen College Core.

My research interests include: Student reading and writing, literacy and democracy, Irish Studies, nationalist movements, and post-colonial literature.  Also the history of Victorian theatre  and popular entertainment and the cultural history of travel and travel literature.

• CORE 110: Academic Voice
• DCS 110: Academic Success
• ENGL 310: Linguistics
• ENGL 315: Global English
• ENGL 319: English Grammar

• “‘Sweet to She Who Tries and Tastes Them’: Cosmopolitanism and National Identity in Sydney Owenson’s The Wild Irish Girl.”  Midwest Conference of British Studies, September 23-35 2005.
• “Brian Friel’s Bipolar Disorder in Translations.”  Midwest Modern Language Association Annual Conference, November 7-10, 2002.
• With Jessica Baldanzi.  “What Remains?: (De)composing and (Re)covering American Identity in As I Lay Dying and the Georgia Crematory Scandal.”  Midwest Modern Language Association Annual Conference, November 7-10, 2002.
• “Ireland’s Other Islands.”  American Conference of Irish Studies.  June 30-July 1, 2001.
• “Mr. Arnold Goes to Washington.” Midwest Modern Language Association Annual Conference, November 2-5, 2000.

• With Jessica Baldanzi.  “What Remains?: (De)composing and (Re)covering American Identity in As I Lay Dying and the Georgia Crematory Scandal.”  Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association. Special Issue on Post-Identity. 36.1 (Spring 2003): 38-55.

• Culbertson Award for outstanding teaching, Indiana University Bloomington. 2003.
• Culbertson Award nominee for outstanding teaching, Indiana University Bloomington. 2006.
• Culbertson Award nominee for outstanding teaching, Indiana University Bloomington. 2002.
• Culbertson Award nominee for outstanding teaching, Indiana University Bloomington. 2001.
• Andrew H. Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities Finalist, 1997.

Student Academic Services

GC Retention Team

Assembly Mennonite Church Christian Education Committee member

WVPE Advisory Board member