Dr. Trey Strecker
Assistant Professor of English
Editor, NINE: A Journal of Baseball History & Culture
(access through Project Muse; conference information)
Vice Chair (19th-Century Biography Initiative), The Baseball Biography Project, BioProject Subjects, Society for American Baseball Research
Address
Department of English
Ball State University
Muncie, IN 47306-0460
Contact
RB 383
Phone: (765) 285-8477
Fax: (765) 285-3765
Class Materials are posted on Blackboard.
Selected Vita
Teaching and Research Interests
sports literature, 19th and early 20th-century baseball history, contemporary American and world literature, innovative fiction, drama, composition, literary editing and publishing
Publications (Books)
With Geri Strecker. Edited with Introduction. The Great Match and Our Base Ball Club: Two Novels from the Early Days of Base Ball, by Anonymous and Noah Brooks. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010.
Editor with Introduction. Dead Balls and Double Curves: An Anthology of Early Baseball Fiction [1838-1923]. "Writing Baseball" series. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2004.
Editor with Introduction. The Collected Baseball Stories, by Charles Van Loan. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2004.
Publications (Articles)
“Powers World: Refuge and Reentry in Plowing the Dark.” Intersections: Essays on Richard Powers. Ed. Stephen Burn and Peter Dempsey. Champaign, IL: Dalkey Archive, 2008. 187-97.
"Thirteen Ways of Looking at Willie Mays: The Production of Presence in Paul Metcalf's 'Willie's Throw.'" Baseball/Literature/Culture: Essays 2006-2007. Ed. Ronald E. Kates and Warren Tormey. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008. 93-97.
"'Let Artifice Create an Elegant Surface: On Rick Moody's 'Demonology.'" The Golden Handcuffs Review 1.7 (2006).
"Narrative Ecology and Encyclopedic Narrative." AVANT POST: The Avant-Garde in the Era of Post-Ideology. Ed. Louis Armand. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2006.
"Detroit Team Introduction," "Frank Isbell," and "Billy Sullivan." Biographical Entries. Deadball Stars of the American League. Dulles, VA: Potomac, 2006.
“The Mind Fields of Joseph McElroy.” The Golden Handcuffs Review 1.4 (2004-2005): 173-75.
"'Global Pillage': Self-Organized Criticality and the Emergence of Complexity in Bob Shacochis's Swimming in the Volcano." ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 11.2 (Summer 2004): 133-159.
"Selection and Self-Organization in Richard Powers' The Gold-Bug Variations." Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 45.3 (Spring 2004): 227-245.
"Nine Assists and No Errors: Rediscovering the Baseball Fiction of Charles Van Loan." Baseball/Literature/Culture Essays 2002-2003. Ed. Peter Carino. Jefferson, NC: McFarland (May 2004): 83-89.
"'Failure. Building Embrace.': An Interview with Joseph McElroy." Rain Taxi Online (Fall 2003).<http://www.raintaxi.com/online/2003fall/mcelroy.shtml>
"'A World Without Grays': Innocence and Experience in Eric Rolfe Greenberg's The Celebrant." NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture 11.2 (Spring 2003):103-109.
"Jonathan Franzen: A Difficult Haven." Interview. Rain Taxi Review of Books (Fall 2003): 12-13.
"Dave Bancroft," "Arthur Hofman," "George Gibson," and "Fred Merkle." Biographical Entries. Deadball Stars of the National League. New York: Brassey's, 2003.
"An Interview with Bob Shacochis." The Bob Shacochis Webpage. Ed. James Plath. 1999. <http://titan.iwu.edu/%7Ejplath/strecker.html> Reprinted at Peace Corps Online.
"Ecologies of Knowledge: The Encyclopedic Narratives of Richard Powers and His Contemporaries." The Review of Contemporary Fiction 28.3 (Fall 1998): 67-71.
“Zip Your Suits and Take Your Pills: White Noise and the Death of the Social; Or, How I Learned to Enjoy Postmodern Sunsets and Not Worry About Apocalypse.” disClosure 2 (Autumn 1992): 68-75.
