Department of English Events

Indiana native and Ball State graduate Lori Rader-Day will be visiting campus on February 25, 2019 to talk about writing and quitting your day job.

Many humanities majors express a desire to “get into publishing,” but it’s hard to know how. 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 third works in New York and will be attending via Skype.

Take 3 is designed to showcase faculty from various subareas of the Department of English in presentations all can attend. Both tenure line and contract faculty are always represented. This semester the presenters are Angela Jackson-Brown, Brianna Mauk, and Jeff Spanke.

Dr. Sharon Lynette Jones will deliver a talk entitled, "Angela Davis and The Power of Protest: Exploring the Dynamics of Resistance and Agency in Interviews and Autobiography"

The fourteenth annual In Print Festival of First Books is a two day event featuring a multi-author reading on Day 1 and a panel discussion on the writing life and literary editing and publishing on Day 2. This year In Print welcomes poet Chen Chen, fiction writer Maria Romasco Moore, creative nonfiction writer Dustin Parsons and editor/poet Allison Joseph.

The fourteenth annual In Print Festival of First Books is a two day event featuring a multi-author reading on Day 1 and a panel discussion on the writing life and literary editing and publishing on Day 2. This year In Print welcomes poet Chen Chen, fiction writer Maria Romasco Moore, creative nonfiction writer Dustin Parsons and editor/poet Allison Joseph.

Making connections is an essential life skill at which introverts can excel. Discover the strengths of introverts in an extroverted world. Reframe what “networking” means, and how to successfully build relationships. Extroverts are welcome, too!