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  • Dr. Lyn Jones: Teaching Well is Thrilling
    November 21, 2019 by

    By: Dr. Darolyn “Lyn” Jones Dr. Lyn Jones is an assistant teaching professor in the Ball State English Department and currently teaches in the areas of English education, creative writing, and rhetoric and composition. She also serves as the Education Outreach Director of the Public Memoir Project at the Indiana Writers Center and is the editor for the […]

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  • Dr. Jeff Spanke at Be a Teacher Day
    November 19, 2019 by

    Dr. Jeff Spanke is an assistant professor of English at Ball State University. He teaches courses about Young Adult Literature, Rhetoric and Composition, and English teaching methods. Dr. Spanke delivered the following keynote speech on November 8th during the Be a Teacher Day event in Indianapolis. So, let’s do this. If you would, go ahead […]

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  • Roy Weaver: A Life of Leadership
    November 27, 2018 by

    Interim Dean Roy Weaver has spent nearly 28 years in the Office of the Dean of Teachers College. He was associate dean for 10 years, dean for 16 years, and is currently in his second year as interim dean. He earned a B.S. in English from Ball State in 1968 before earning a M.A.E. in 1971 from […]

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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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  • August Good News
    September 2, 2018 by

    We were really busy over the summer, writing and researching and submitting and job hunting. So we’ve got a lot of good news to share this month! Faculty News Prof. Michael Begnal   His article “‘Bullets for Hands’: Witter Bynner, Arthur Davison Ficke, and the Spectra Poems of World War I” was published in Twentieth-Century Literature, […]

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