Say hi to our department mascot, Virginia Woof. We’re #bsuenglish, a community of staff, students, teachers, writers, linguists, scholars, and all-around lovers of English (and dogs!). We make things, analyze things, do things, all with critical and imaginative minds.
We cover a lot of ground here in the English Department, from a new Writer-in-Residence program to literary festivals to career readiness to hosting graduate student conferences to working with community schools to tutoring BSU students in writing--on and on! With major concentrations in creative writing, literature, teaching, linguistics, and professional writing, and graduate programs in most of these areas, we’re sort of like our own little college over here:
· Applied Linguistics and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
· Creative Writing
· Teaching major in English/Language Arts
· Literature
· Professional Writing
Please help us make possible all we do. Example: The Lynn Jeffers Memorial Scholarship is awarded to incoming freshman accepted to Ball State University with a major in the English Department. Student must be an English major studying English Literature, English Education, Creative Writing, English Studies, or other English emphasis and must have and maintain a 3.5 or higher GPA on a 4.0 scale. What a great opportunity to make a difference in an English major's life!
At BSU English, we are proud of all we do, but especially when it impacts the Muncie community in a positive way. One example (of many!) is English 409, Creative Writing in the Community. This course is an immersive, service-learning opportunity. Ball State students meet with young writers in the community—Boys & Girls Club, Motivate our Minds, and local schools, for example—to teach creative writing techniques and to write a text collaboratively. This class concludes with a print anthology of community member writing, and a public reading and celebration! Please help support our efforts to link the classroom with the community to create poetry, stories, and kinship.
Dedicated teacher and accomplished scholar Dr. Elizabeth Riddle retired last year from Ball State after 40 years. In that time, Dr. Riddle worked with hundreds of students, taught dozens of classes, and guided more research projects than we can count. Her passion for her field inspires her students and colleagues alike. She truly cares about her students, supporting their research, expanding their knowledge, and following their careers. If you worked with her, you know that she always put her students first, and you know how much she loved her work. This scholarship will support promising undergraduate and graduate scholars in Linguistics.
So that’s it. That’s us. Help us keep making cool things happen for our students, our community, our Ball State. Whether you donate $10 or $1000, know that it’ll go to support the people and projects that make Ball State English such a great place!
Thanks!
