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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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  • 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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  • New Faculty Bio: Rodney Taylor
    September 18, 2023 by

    Before joining the faculty at BSU, Rod was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of African American Studies and an affiliate faculty member in the Institute for Southern Studies at the University of South Carolina. Rod’s interdisciplinary research and teaching focus on African-American literature and culture, with an emphasis on literary recovery and archival research. […]

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  • New Faculty Bio: Rita Faulkner
    August 29, 2023 by

    Rita Faulkner has a B.A. in French with a German minor, an M.A. in Applied Linguistics and an M.A. in Comparative Literature as well as a Ph.D. in Comp Lit. She wrote her dissertation, National Allegory: Land and Body in Nawal El Saadawi and Assia Djebar about the works of an Egyptian feminist writer who […]

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  • New Faculty Profile: Dr. Suban Nur Cooley
    October 8, 2020 by

    Suban Nur Cooley received her PhD in Rhetoric and Composition from Michigan State University in June 2020. She joins Ball State University to teach courses in the Departments of both English and Women’s and Gender Studies. Her dissertation research was a multi-location geographic comparative study which focused on elder women of the Somali diaspora and […]

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  • Welcome Our New Career Coach Emily Karas
    October 3, 2019 by

    Emily Karas is the new career coach for the College of Sciences and Humanities. The Career Center is found in LU 220, and their career coaches can help both students and alumni with career-related services, such as developing professional skills, building connections, and choosing majors and minors. What are your office hours? We are in […]

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