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  • Meet Professor Rani Crowe!
    October 14, 2016 by

    Assistant Professor Rani Crowe has been making and performing her own work for over twenty years, from stand-up comedy and solo performance art, to multimedia installations and filmmaking. This semester, she is teaching one section of ENG 310: Screenwriting and two sections of ENG 425: Film Studies. How would you describe your perspective on teaching? […]

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  • Meet Dr. Rebecca Manery!
    October 7, 2016 by

    Dr. Rebecca Manery received her MFA in Creative Writing at Bennington College, as well as her MA in Literacy Education from Northeastern Illinois University. Dr. Manery has recently earned her doctorate in English and Education from the University of Michigan. This semester, she is teaching four sections of ENG 103: Rhetoric and Writing. How would […]

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  • Meet Dr. Jeff Spanke!
    September 30, 2016 by

    The English Department would like to introduce you to Dr. Jeff Spanke: How would you describe your perspective on teaching? I think that teaching is first of all a reciprocal enterprise. So I don’t like the idea that there’s a person with knowledge that gives that knowledge or gifts that knowledge to students who are […]

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  • Jeremy M. Carnes
    September 27, 2016 by

    Jeremy M. Carnes is a Ph.D. student at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He received his B.A. and M.A. degrees at Ball State. He will be starting his dissertation in the fall, where he plans to research early 20th Century American imperialism in print culture artifacts, including modernist little magazines and periodicals as well as early […]

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  • Now Hiring! Come Join Our Department!
    September 26, 2016 by

    The English Department is currently hiring for two new positions. They are as listed: Assistant Professor for Early and 19th Century American Literature in the College of Science and Humanities Assistant Professor for Film and and Global Literatures in the Department of English For more information, check out the flyers!

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  • Meet Professor Allison Layfield!
    September 23, 2016 by

    The English Department would like to introduce you to Professor Allison Layfield!   Professor Layfield sees the classroom as a time for brainstorming and collaboration. Her goal in the classroom is to get students to think and actively participate in class discussion. She also wants her students to think about the discussions at home and then write about […]

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