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Category: Regular Features

  • March
    April 5, 2016 by

    In the latest installment of the “Good News” series, the Ball State English Department highlights the accomplishments of our faculty and students.  BSU media’s article “Parents learning English benefit from class offered by Ball State, Muncie Schools” is based on a partnership between BSU ESL licensure students in Prof. Lynn Stalling‘s Methods and Practicum courses and the Muncie […]

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  • Lauren Lutz: Content Strategist in Marketing
    March 15, 2016 by

    Lauren Lutz is a content strategist for Cleriti, an inbound marketing agency in Cincinnati. She graduated in 2014 from Ball State with a degree in English Studies. She’s passionate about her career, national parks, traveling, and food. How would you describe your job? I’m a content strategist for an inbound marketing agency, so I’m responsible for […]

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  • February
    March 4, 2016 by

    Profs. Mark Neely and Sean Lovelace are proud editors of Nice Things by James Franco, and yes, we mean the real-life movie star legend James Franco. Mark and Sean were recruited through a publishing connection and the rest, as they say, is history. This chapbook of Franco’s musings has been published through New Michigan Press. Sean Lovelace also published two […]

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  • Jeremy Flick
    March 1, 2016 by

    Jeremy Flick is native of Indianapolis, IN. He currently holds a B.A. in English with a concentration in Creative Writing and is studying for his Master’s in Creative Writing at Ball State University. In his free time he writes poetry and prose, gets into shenanigans with his dog, Fenway, and occasionally performs music. He recently released […]

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  • Alyssa Allyn: Student Affairs at Interlochen
    February 12, 2016 by

    Alyssa Allyn is originally from Culver, Indiana, but is now a resident of Michigan. During her time at Ball State she majored in English with a concentration in Creative Writing and a minor in Graphic Arts. She graduated in May 2014. Since graduating, she’s moved to Interlochen, Michigan and is now in her second year […]

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  • January
    February 5, 2016 by

    In the latest installment of the “Good News” series, the Ball State English Department highlights the accomplishments of our faculty and students. Prof. Lyn Jones and her teaching students recently published the second issue of “Rethinking Children’s and Young Adult Literature.” The interactive magazine features dialogue with authors, original and rewritten stories, and teacher resources for the […]

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  • An Interview with Elisabeth Buck
    January 26, 2016 by

    Elisabeth Buck is a Teaching Assistant and PhD Candidate in Rhetoric and Composition. She was selected to receive the Doctoral Level Excellence in Teaching Award for 2015-2016 from Ball State. She has also been nominated for the Midwest Association of Graduate Schools (MAGS) Excellence in Teaching award. What classes have you taught? I’ve taught several […]

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  • Diana Pharaoh Francis: Fantasy Novelist
    January 22, 2016 by

    Diana Pharaoh Francis (Ph.D. 1999) is a successful fiction writer who taught for 14 years at the University of Montana-Western. She now lives and writes in Oregon, and is the author of over a dozen novels in the fantasy genre. http://www.dianapfrancis.com/about/. You earned your PhD in 1999, correct? What was the title? Did you get […]

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  • December 2015 Good News
    January 15, 2016 by

    In the latest installment of the “Good News” series, the Ball State English department highlights the accomplishments of our faculty and students. Prof. Jackie Grutsch McKinney delivered the keynote address at the National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing in Salt Lake City. Jackie is the current director of the Ball State Writing Center and has […]

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  • November
    December 11, 2015 by

    In the latest installment of our “Good News” series, the Ball State English Department highlights the accomplishments of our faculty and students. Elisabeth Buck, a Teaching Assistant and PhD Candidate in Rhetoric and Composition, has been selected to receive the Doctoral Level Excellence in Teaching Award for 2015-2016 from Ball State. She has also been nominated for the […]

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