Tag: Ball State English Department

Gerry Cox: From the Peace Corps to the Classroom

October 16, 2018 by mjsutton2

Gerry R. Cox is a Professor Emeritus of Sociology at University of Wisconsin- La Crosse. He was the Director of the Center for Death Education & Bioethics. His teaching focused upon Theory/Theory Construction, Deviance and Criminology, Death and Dying, Social Psychology, and Minority Peoples. Cox graduated with a B.A. in sociology with a minor in […]

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Publishing + Law: Sarah Roth

October 14, 2018 by mjsutton2

Sarah Roth is a 2003 graduate of Ball State University, where she earned a B.A. in English, and a 2007 graduate of Thomas M. Cooley Law School. She currently works as Publications Manager of Michigan Judicial Institute (MIJI), and prior to this was a research attorney with MIJI and a law clerk with the Friend […]

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Marianne Boruch: Visiting Poet at Ball State University

October 9, 2018 by recarmichael

Poet and author Marianne Boruch will be visiting Ball State University on Wednesday, October 17th, 2018 from 7:30-9:30 p.m. in the Arts and Journalism Building (AJ) 225. This event is free and open to the public. Boruch will also be making one classroom visit to discuss her poetry on Thursday, October 18th: Boruch will visit ENG […]

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Welcome Prof. John Carter

October 4, 2018 by Grace Goze

John Carter is a 2018 graduate of Ball State University, where he earned his Master of Arts in Creative Writing and where he also holds a B.A. in English—Creative Writing with a Professional Writing Minor. He’s interested in using description and lyricism to bring a love of nature, farming, and the rural American Midwest to […]

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Jaelyn Winkle on the “electricity” of teaching

April 12, 2016 by tnwicker

Jaelyn (Saulmon) Winkle is a Fall 2013 graduate of Ball State University. She graduated Summa Cum Laude with a degree in English Education and an Honors College certification. Currently, she is a 7th grade English Language Arts teacher in Piqua, Ohio and resides in Vandalia, Ohio with her husband, a law student at the University […]

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Elizabeth Palmer: Marketing at Coldwell Banker

February 25, 2015 by amisare1

She graduated from Ball State in 2014. She majored in English Studies, with a minor in digital media. She worked as one of the English Department‘s PR Interns, producing content for this very blog. Today, Elizabeth Palmer tells us how she used her skills as an English major to secure a position at Coldwell Banker, a real estate company. […]

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Undergraduate Student Morgan Aprill Discusses Her Writing Fellowship and Her Research Project on Tutoring

June 5, 2014 by bsuenglish

Morgan Aprill is an English literature student at Ball State University with minors in Spanish and professional writing. She is entering her senior year as an undergraduate at the university in the fall. In addition to her work on the “Digital Literature Review,” she currently works as a tutor at the English Department Writing Center. She […]

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Alumna Dr. Jenny Smith on Her Journey Through English at BSU

April 25, 2014 by bsuenglish

As an English professor, I am often given to hyperbole. But, it is not an overstatement to say that Ball State’s English department changed my life. Before enrolling in 1999, I was a good student, not a great one. I’d always had a passion for books, but I did not use or cultivate it. I […]

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English Undergrad Brittany Means: “My First Publication Made Me Feel Like Brad Pitt”

April 8, 2014 by bsuenglish

Last year I took Pete Davis’ poetry class, and for my final packet I decided to experiment a little bit. While I was at work, I wrote something that was kind of flow-of-consciousness, played around with the format a little bit, and titled it “Books About.” After I turned it in, I abandoned it in […]

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Interview with Recent Alum Tyler Gobble on Living the Writer’s Life and Winning a Book Award

March 21, 2014 by bsuenglish

Tyler Gobble graduated from Ball State University in May 2011. He is a multi-hat wearer for Magic Helicopter Press and host of the Everything Is Bigger reading series at Malvern Books in Austin, TX. He has plopped out four chapbooks, with two others called Other People’s Poems (Radioactive Moat) and Collected Feelings with Layne Ransom […]

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