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Tag: Stars to Steer By

  • Ball State Alum Advocates for Career Discovery
    February 17, 2023 by

    Gina Klaff graduated from Ball State University in 2020 with a B.A. in Creative Writing and minors in Professional Writing & Emerging Media and Studio Art. She is currently located in the southwest suburbs of Chicago and works as a Communications Specialist for an art supply company. While at Ball State, she was involved with The Broken Plate, Compass Creative, Book Arts Collaborative, and found […]

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  • Cody DeHaven: Teaching Process, Not Just Content
    February 25, 2020 by

    Cody DeHaven graduated from Ball State’s English Department, where he majored in English Language and Literature. He now works for Western School Corporation as a high school English teacher. See how he used his English degree to go from teaching music to teaching junior high, to finally landing on teaching high school English.  What does […]

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  • Keli MacDonald: Teaching English in Japan
    February 19, 2020 by

    Keli MacDonald is a Ball State alum who majored in both English Studies and Japanese. She also minored in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)/TOEFL. MacDonald is currently teaching abroad in Japan through a teaching exchange program. She credits her study abroad experience in Ireland with inspiring and preparing her to teach and travel. […]

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  • Melissa Jones: From Creative Writing to Copy Writing
    January 14, 2020 by

    Melissa Jones graduated in May 2018 with a Bachelor of Arts inCreative Writing and minors inFrench andProfessional Writing & Emerging Media. While at Ball State, she was heavily involved with theDaily News, The Broken Plate,Jacket Copy Creative, andBook Arts Collaborative. She used experiences and expertise gained in these roles to secure an internship at Intersection […]

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  • Dr. Joseph Hurtgen: PHD and Published
    December 5, 2019 by

    Dr. Joseph Hurtgen is a Ball State alumnus with a Ph.D. in English Literature. He has published several articles and is an avid fan of sci-fi. Hurtgen currently teaches at Elizabethtown Community and Technical College. Read more to see how he published his dissertation and to get some advice about research assistantships. What made you […]

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  • Eric Wyman: Americorps to Fiction Editor
    October 10, 2019 by

    Eric Wyman is a Ball State alumni with a bachelor’s degree in English Language and Literature. He has worked several odd jobs since graduating from the English department and has now landed at The Writing Prompt Exchange where he works as a fiction editor. See what he learned after graduation as he worked his way […]

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  • Cardinal Directions: From #bsuenglish to Publishing
    March 12, 2019 by

    Many English majors express a desire to “get into publishing,” but it’s hard to know how. On March 14 at 6:30 PM in Bracken Library 104, three recent alumni who work in publishing will share their career journey.  Two of the panelists work in publishing in Indiana , and they’ll be attending in person. The […]

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