| Phi Beta Kappa, Class of 2008 We are pleased to congratulate four English students who recently graduated and have been named to Phi Beta Kappa. Sarah Downey Christina Delcher Alison Koentje (EN/WR major) Daniel Procaccini
Law School Bound: Class of 2008 Michelle Bruck Brittany Ellwanger Dan Procaccini Mike Sullivan
Graduate School Bound: Class of 2008 Barry Dima Joe LaBella Timothy Jerome Julia Sherrier
Employment Bound: Class of 2008 Emily Oswald, is accepted into Harvard Graduate School of Design Career Discovery Program in Urban Planning, a summer program. James Minichiello, has accepted a sales position with the Washington Capitals, an NHL hockey franchise. The title of the position is Inside Sales Representative. Phi Beta Kappa, Class of 2007 In 2007 four English majors and one minor have been inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, continuing the tradition of rigorous scholarship in the English department. Jessica Taylor Calderone Colleen Depman Kara Knieriem (English minor) Anthony Minervini Jessica Rokosz
| Law School Bound: Class of 2007 Anthony Minervini, 2007, has decided to attend law school at the University of Pennsylvania. After mulling several acceptances, Anthony decided Penn was the place for him. He attends on a full scholarship. Lauren O'Connell, 2007, has been accepted to Widener University School of Law and will be starting there in the fall of 2007. Janene Oleaga, 2007, will be attending law school. Jessica Rokosz, 2007, will attend the University of Baltimore law school beginning in the fall of 2007. Jessica was awarded with the Medals for English and History Departments this year at the commencement. Kevin Tuliszewski, 2007, currently in law school at Syracuse, is the author of "Thom Gunn", electronically published on 16 October 2007 by the Literary Encyclopedia (U.K.), edited by Dr. Robert Clarke.
While researching his paper for PostModern Poetry in the spring of 2007, Kevin discovered that no developed biography of Gunn (1929-2004) exists. After reading his exemplary seminar paper, in which biographical section was based on original sources - autobiographical essays and interviews - Dr. Dougherty suggested that the paper could form the nucleus of a biographical piece for general readers. Over the summer Kevin researched the primary sources exhaustively and re-crafted his paper as a biographical rather than analytical piece. It has received very positive reviews from the British publishers, and is available onlilne at www.litencyc.com/people.
For further information, contact Dr. David Dougherty, ddougherty@loyola.edu. Kevin checks his Loyola email when law school gives him a moment's leisure: ktuliszewski@loyola.edu. |
Graduate School Bound: Class of 2007
Jessica Taylor Calderone, 2007, has accepted an assistantship at Lehigh University, where she'll begin her M.A., Studies in the fall of 2007.
Joellen Swiantek, 2007, has decided to attend Thomas Jefferson University for her Graduate studies.
Lisa Ronco, 2007, will be taking Graduate School Classes at Montclair State University, studying English. |
Employment Bound: Class of 2007
Colleen Depman, 2007, has accepted a position with the FBI Counter terrorism Division. Colleen begins working at FBI headquarters in Washington D.C. this fall.
Lisa Ronco, 2007, has also accepted a job offer with Chubb and Son Insurance Company, in Human Resources Department.
Emily Rosen, 2007, has received an advanced contract with Baltimore County Public Schools where she will be teaching secondary English. During summer she will be working at Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth at the Sandy Spring Campus. Emily will be working with second and third graders as an instructor's assistant in a poetry and short stories class for first session. For the second session, she will be working with fifth and sixth graders in the same position in a forensic science class. | Emily Oswald, 2006, had an article on Paul Laurence Dunbar's illustrated poetry collections published in the summer 2006 issue of Book History . The article was the final result of a Summer Research Fellowship in 2005. She received another Summer Research Fellowship in 2006, where she will be working on a project about the Belgian Congo museum in Leuven. | Sara Brady, 2006, is teaching in Thailand. | Colleen Hayden, 2006, is now an account coordinator at the PR firm of Shift Communications in Watertown, MA. Colleen prepared for her job by interning in PR at Weinberg Harris and Associates during the fall of 2005. About her internship, Colleen says, "Securing this position would not have been possible without my internship experience last Fall." About her new job, she says "I love it." | Lauren Franson, 2006, began graduate study in College Administration at James Madison University, where she has received a graduate assistantship. She completed an internship in the Office of Student Life at Loyola in the Spring of 2006, and made a presentation at a regional conference on student government. She also attended a national conference before she reported to James Madison to begin graduate studies. | Brittany Kane, 2006, has begun a career change. Accepted into the BSN/MSN program at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, Brittany begins her work in health care in the fall of 2007. | Sean Mannion, 2005, is at Notre Dame University, in a six-year Ph.D. program in Irish Modernism. Sean was awarded a full tuition waiver and a stipend in South Bend. | Bryan Dewey, 2005, attends UNY Binghamton in its Comparative Literature Doctoral program in Philosophy, Literature, and the Theory of Criticism. He was also accepted at Loyola University of Chicago. | Kaitlyn McElhenny, 2005, has been living on the west coast but will be coming east to Fordham to begin study toward a Masters in Education next year | Anna Ritchie, 2005, has a teaching fellowship at Seton Hall University, where she teaches two sections of Freshman comp while pursuing her M.A. in English | Markella (Kelli) Roussos, 2005, finished her first year of law school at University of Baltimore. During the summer she I interned the Baltimore City Circuit Court. She plans to graduate in 2008 and to clerk for a judge for a year. Eventually, she hopes to land a job with the State's Attorney's Office: “I love the legal field and can't begin to tell you how helpful the English degree I earned at Loyola has helped me in law school. |
| Grace Wetzel, 2004 is studying English at the University of South Carolina, while Joan Romano, 2004 is in the English program at Catholic University.
Cristina Dacchille 2003 studies law at Northeastern University.
Alyssa Preston 2004, an English minor, is attending New York Law School, living in Brooklyn Heights, and happily reviewing case law on the subway. | Erin Casey '04 is teaching English and theatre at St. John's Preparatory School in Frederick, Maryland, where she teaches 10th and 11th grade. "I love my job and the students are incredibly gifted," she writes. | For two consecutive years, Kate Barker '03 was awarded the Kinnaird Prize, given to the best paper by an MA student in the University of Maryland graduate program in English. Most recently, her paper was titled "''Where your judgment or pen fayld you, I have made boulde to use mine': Versioning John Fletcher's The Woman Prize (1611)." She was also recognized by the University of Maryland's Center for Teaching Excellence and the Graduate School as a Distinguished Teaching Assistant. Kudos to Kate! | Margaret Bristol '03 completed her master's degree in journalism at New York university in January 2006. She is now Assistant to the Technical Director of The Good Housekeeping Institute, where products are tested and investigated for editorial projects. Besides the administrative work that comes with the job, she researches editorial projects for the Institute and writes some of the stories that appear in the magazine. Margaret recommends internships enthusiastically: "All of my career goals are beginning to come true and I would have never been able to do it without the foundations I learned through my internship experience and course work at Loyola."
Mike Sullivan, 2003 working at the law firm Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP in New York City and attending Fordham Law School. | Laurie Bartell Behringer ’98 completed a master of arts degree in English and American Literature at New York University, with a thesis that examines the rise of the African American novel in the 19th century. She is currently in a Ph.D. program in Higher Education Administration at NYU in the fall. | Kevin Harttrup, 2003, is in the Notre Dame University Writing program. This is a two-year MFA program, with a concentration in writing poetry. His acceptance includes a full tuition waiver. Since graduation from Loyola, Kevin has been in retail, as a supervisor and manager; he also served as an interpreter at the opening of the National Convention Center in 2003-2004. | Katrina Righter, 2002, has been accepted at University of Maryland's College of Library and Information Systems. Since 2002, Katie has taught at high schools in Maryland and in Bangkok, Thailand. She was also head coach of a high school volleyball team, building on her four-year varsity career (team captain, 2001) at Loyola.
Timothy Jecman, 2001, received his Ph.D in English from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in Fall 2007. Tim has been teaching at Southwestern University in Texas since Fall 2006. | Jessica Behrens, 1998, welcomes her daughter Taylor Jane Warthen (6 pounds, 15 oz. 20 inches long). Taylor was born February 21st, 2007 at 9:34 am. Mother and baby are doing fine. | Jenn Plum Auvil, 1998, as reported by Jessica Behrens, had a baby girl, in February of 2007, who weighed in at over 9 pounds. Jenn and her husband have named their daughter Olive. | Mary K. Zajac, 1990, is a regular columnist for Style magazine. She has an article on root beer in the
August/September 2007 issue of Saveur. |
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