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  • Jeff Spanke: Fulbright Scholar!
    April 9, 2024 by

    The Fulbright Program is devoted to increasing mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries. It is the world’s largest and most diverse international educational exchange program. As a Fulbrighter, one will join the ranks of many distinguished program participants. Alumni have become heads of state, judges, ambassadors, […]

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  • BSU English Three Minute Thesis Winners
    February 26, 2024 by

    The University of Queensland originally developed the Three Minute Thesis in 2008. While many theses can take hours to present, this competition calls upon contestants to deliver one in three minutes. It is not an exercise that aims to trivialize research, rather, it challenges students to consolidate their ideas and research discoveries so that a […]

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  • New Faculty Bio: Kelsey Timmerman
    November 16, 2023 by

    Kelsey Timmerman has reported from more than 60 countries on issues including globalization, modern-day slavery, poverty, philanthropy, and the global agriculture and garment industries. He’s the author of the “Where am I?” series, a forthcoming book on regenerative agriculture, and the co-founder of The Facing Project, a national storytelling initiative. What English classes do you […]

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  • New Faculty Bio: Charlotte Kupsh
    October 31, 2023 by

    Charlotte Kupsh is an Assistant Professor of English and the Director of the Writing Center. Her research focuses on ecocomposition or the relationship between place and writing. She’s also interested in place-conscious education, materiality, and first-year writing. What English classes do you teach? This semester, I’m teaching English 103: Rhetoric and Writing. I also teach […]

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  • New Faculty Bio: James Haston
    October 25, 2023 by

    James Haston is the English department’s new advisor! What attracted you to working at Ball State? Not only did both of my parents graduate from BSU, my mother 2 times, I also graduated from BSU 2 times. I was lucky enough to return to BSU to pass on my experiences and knowledge of BSU to […]

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  • New Faculty Bio: Chad Kebrdle
    October 18, 2023 by

    J. Chad Kebrdle received his MFA in Creative Writing from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University in Boulder, CO in 2020, his Master of Arts in Liberal Studies from Indiana University Kokomo that focuses on rhetoric and the teaching of college writing in 2011, and his Bachelor of Science in English […]

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  • Good News!
    October 12, 2023 by

    Faculty Professor Rani Deighe Crowe has been working on writing and producing her short film Safety State, where a gay and a lesbian couple form an unlikely friendship while fleeing the Midwest for safety in New England. She did principal photography with her collaborators in Athens, Ohio in April, and now they are in post-production, […]

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  • New Faculty Bio: Mary Lowry
    September 27, 2023 by

    Mary is a Ball State graduate (x2!) in Rhetoric and Composition. She is interested in the possibilities of bringing peace into the writing classroom as a way to restore justice in education. What English classes do you teach? I’m currently teaching 103: Rhetoric and Writing, but in the past, I’ve taught ENG 104: Composing Research. […]

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