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Tag: Stars to Steer By

  • #bsuenglish and the Snows of January
    January 18, 2019 by

    Welcome to the first “Retweet Rapport,” a weekly review of what #bsuenglish is talking about. Most English majors are introverts, and introverts hate small talk. We’d rather talk about more important things… Like the weather! Now that Muncie is a snow globe, tell us what you like to do on snow days! Do you get […]

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  • Cardinal Directions: Jerome Megna
    November 13, 2018 by

    Jerome Megna received his B.A. in English and Philosophy from St. Francis College in Brooklyn, and his M.A. in Linguistics and English and American Literature from New York University. In 1969, he was offered a doctoral fellowship in English here at Ball State University. While here, he taught and worked on his dissertation: The Poetry of Sylvia Plath. […]

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  • Christina Dionesotes: (Not) Lost in Translation
    October 21, 2018 by

    Christina Dionesotes graduated from Ball State with degrees in both English Studies and Spanish. She then went to New York University for her Masters in Spanish and Latin American Cultural, Literary, and Linguistic Studies. Since then, she has worked as a freelancer translator editor and proofreader, and is now the Associate Project Manager at RWS […]

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  • Gerry Cox: From the Peace Corps to the Classroom
    October 16, 2018 by

    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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