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  • Matt Balk
    April 8, 2016 by

    Matt Balk is a PhD candidate in Rhetoric and Composition at Ball State University. He graduated Ball State with an MA in Creative Writing in 2010. My big piece of advice about grad school is this: be open to new opportunities. I’m currently a PhD candidate in Rhetoric and Composition, but when I started my […]

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  • Internships for English Majors
    April 1, 2016 by

    Hopefully you’ve been checking our internships page regularly to see all of the new and exciting internships we post on a weekly basis. As an English major, internships are a great way to gain experience and show employers all of the applicable skills your education has taught you, such as how to communicate effectively, think well, […]

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  • Alliance of Black Teachers Meetings
    February 19, 2016 by

    The Alliance of Black Teachers Club (ABT) was founded in 2015 in the Department of English by students studying English Education. Their mission is to connect students to peers, professionals, organizations, institutions, and resources that support black students in the field of education and broaden the development, retention, and recruitment of black teachers. The ABT provides a safe space […]

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  • Guest Post: Mamadou Djiguimde Presents “Bargaining in Bobo-Dioulasso”
    December 1, 2015 by

    Communities across the world have different norms and rituals. In this 36-minute documentary film, Ritassida Mamadou Djiguimde, a doctoral student in the Applied Linguistics program of Ball State University, offers a linguistic perspective on the cultural practice that is “bargaining.” Bargaining, in the context of Bobo-Dioulasso, the second largest city of Burkina Faso, West Africa, […]

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  • Guest Post: Isaha Cook on The Infinite Museum
    October 14, 2015 by

    “Where can’t an English major take you?” This is a question that many English graduates have been hard pressed to answer, considering how versatile the degree really is. Last year, senior Amory Orchard’s journey with three other English majors took her to a special experience at the Virginia Ball Center, where she and her team […]

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  • Career Week 2015
    September 22, 2015 by

    Next Monday (9/28) is the start of our annual Career Week, five days of informative sessions, visiting stars to steer by, and future-altering talks that are sure to boost your confidence and further prepare you for the real world. There’s something for everyone, from day one’s session with Professor Day, where she’ll offer an overview of […]

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  • 5 Things You Should Know about In-Print Author Tyler Gobble
    March 16, 2015 by

    1. He graduated from Ball State in 2011. 2. In the words of Lisa Olstein, his debut book, MORE WRECK MORE WRECK, contains “poems compelled by crosscurrents of hope and fear, sadness and joy, confusion and clarity.” 3. He’s the editor-in-chief of NOÖ Journal, chapbook editor at Magic Helicopter Press, and host of the Everything is Bigger Reading Series. […]

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  • 5 Things You Should Know About In Print Author Kerry Howley
    March 13, 2015 by

    1. Thrown, her book-length essay, is an account of three years spent in the company of mixed martial artists. It is narrated from the perspective of an excitable, semi-fictionalized graduate student named Kit. 2. Howley teaches creative writing at the University of Tennessee in Chattanooga. 3. Jennifer Latson of the Boston Globe has called Thrown “a fresh, funny, […]

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