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Hannah Phillips Quote

I also continue to look back on the amazing professors and instructors I had at MSU. I still mimic some of their lessons and practices in my classroom: good teachers make good teachers.

Hannah Phillips

Dual Credit English Teacher

Josh Doty Quote

Nurture your intellectual life. If a research topic interests you, ask your professors to recommend a few good books or articles on the subject. Read, annotate, and re-read them until you understand their methods and arguments inside-out.

Josh Doty

Associate Professor & Department Chair

Ed Dechert Quote

I’ve experienced ways that the skills I learned in English have helped me work in areas that I wouldn’t have expected as an undergraduate.

Ed Dechert

Technical Writer