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The Department of English Moves to
Five College Way
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Alumni Notes, 2011-12
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Alumni Notes
been seen in New York, on Broadway and off-Broadway, and
in WNET’s Theater-in-America series. He guest-directed in
major regional theaters including Arena Stage, Asolo Rep,
Denver Theater Center, Trinity Rep, Williamstown Festival,
and Seattle Rep, as well as abroad in Haiti, Estonia, and New
Zealand.
1948-1960
Fran Heinsohn (Frances) Lyons ‘48
earned a BS in Fine Arts with a major in sculpture in 1984 and
is enjoying life -- playing bridge, playing golf, reading books,
and viewing the arts. She is about to try her hand again in
some art work for her own pleasure. She enjoys living again
in Charleston and also plans to go around the world again: the
last time the Somalia pirates caused her to go only two-thirds
of the way!
He served as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Ivory Coast and
Zaire, 1980-82. For five years he worked as a tutor in an adult
literacy program in Harlem. In July ’09 he did volunteer work
with primary school children in Uganda.
William D. “Bud” Hilton ‘51 reports that
A BA graduate at the College, he earned a Fulbright
majoring in English and minoring in History were “the best
Scholarship to study for a year in France. Paul also holds an
choices [he] could have ever made” because “a liberal arts
MFA from Yale University (Drama), where he also taught
education with emphasis on comprehension and public
in the French department and later led a seminar in theater
speaking is paramount to a business career.” After serving
directing. He taught in New York University’s graduate Acting
two years in the army, he began work at American Mutual
and Directing programs and has been a member of the board
Fire Insurance Company and became
of directors of the Stage Directors and
Senior Vice President for Sales and
Choreographers professional union.
a member of the Board of Directors.
Paul’s novel, Memoirs of a Dwarf at
Bud retired after 39 years with many
the Sun King’s Court, was published by
business honors and many public
Terrace Books in 2004 and his “A Tale
speaking engagements, both regional
Told by an Idiot” appeared in The Long
and national. After retiring, he became
Story literary journal in 2012.
active at the college in many ways.
He served on the Foundation board
1961-1960
for eight years and was Chairman of
the Finance Committee for a period
Stephen Langton Thomas of time, during which he wrote the
‘62, who earned a BS in English at the
first draft of investment policy the
College
(in “the old days,” he notes, the
foundation had ever had. He also
BA
required
Latin and Greek; he took
became President after heading an
French
and
German),
after graduation
auction which became the largest fund
entered
Navy
Officer
Candidate
School
raiser up to that time. Additionally, he
and
earned
his
commission
as
Ensign,
spent two years on the alumni board
USNR in December. Between then
and wrote their investment policy.
and his discharge as Lieutenant, USN
He was honored several years ago by
in June 1972, he served in various
receiving the Alumni Award of Honor
capacities afloat and ashore (primarily
from the alumni association. Bud has
in operations and special warfare),
donated many first edition books to the
Staircase in 5 College Way
including
four deployments to Vietnam.
library, some of which are in the special
His
final
assignment
was
as
an
engineering inspector with
collections area. He hopes to make further contributions.
Military Sealift Command Pacific.
Now 82, Bud is still a steadfast supporter of the college. His wife,
He received a number of special recognitions for his service: the
who has been a paraplegic for 12 years, attended the college
Navy Commendation Medal with Combat V, Combat Action
for two years before going to nursing school, played basketball
Ribbon, National Defense Service Medal, Armed Forces
for two years, and, Bud notes, “still holds the record for most
Expeditionary Medal, Presidential Unit Citation (Army),
points scored in a single game.” Bud encourages the college
Vietnam Service Medal with two silver campaign stars, RVN
to “keep up the good work in English and the importance of
Technical Service Medal (1st class), RVN Meritorious Unit
reading, comprehension, and learning to speak well, even with
Citation, RVN Campaign Medal, and Small Craft Officer
a Charleston accent.”
Badge.
Paul Weidner ‘55 has retired but is working as a
After his military service, he was employed by the Veteran’s
volunteer docent at the Museum for African Art in New
Administrative (VA) Regional Office in Columbia from
York City with ARTWORKS, a program for third-graders
March 1974 until his retirement in September 1994, starting as
with the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and with ACTNOW, a
a claims examiner and ending as a disability rating specialist.
political action committee working for progressive causes and
While with the VA, he received a few awards, including a
candidates. For twelve years he was the Producing Director
certificate in recognition for his work as one of the team
of the Hartford Stage Company (CT). His stage work has also
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that designed the VA’s Automated Medical Information
Exchange System, or AMIES. After retiring, he volunteered as
a department service officer with DAV until his own medical
problems forced him to stop.
Trudy (Taul) Harris ‘75 works as a consultant with
Carlisle & Gallagher Consulting Group, where she is a report
and database developer. She builds applications in Access
that create reports for clients. Currently, she is working on a
contract with Bank of America. She graduated from Webster
University in 1996 with a Master of Arts degree in Computer
Technology and MIS and moved to Chicago in 1998. She was
married in 2004 to Bradley Harris, a native of Illinois, and they
moved to Fort Worth, Texas in 2008. She traveled to Europe
on a Mediterranean cruise and saw parts of France and Italy
in 2008 and has traveled to Arizona, Colorado, and Nevada
on vacation.
“In all honesty,” he says, “I must admit that I have made no
direct use of my degree (although a BS in English is always an
attention-getter during an interview), but without my degree
I might never have had the opportunity to accomplish what I
did.”
Frances (Wilder) Townsend ’64 retired from
teaching at Summerville High School after 27 years and for
AmeriCorps NCCC after ten years of service. She is presently
Chair of the Board of Trustees for Dorchester School District
2 in Summerville. Her husband (H. Evans Townsend), also
class of 1964, and she have spent most of their married years
in Summerville, where they raised their two children. Their
son, Evans, graduated from the College in 1992. They have
two granddaughters who live with their
family next door to them. Her passion is
public education, and she has spent her
time as a CofC graduate either teaching
or on the local school board.
Eileen Susan Harris ‘78 spent 20 years working as
a technical writer, both contract and full time. Since then she
has been concentrating on writing a novel.
1981-1990
Sandra Leigh (Jones) Handal ’81 began a new chapter
in her career this past January, when
she accepted a position as Director of
Philanthropy & Partnerships at Pet
Helpers Inc., a nonprofit organization
dedicated to ending the needless
euthanasia of adoptable pets in the
Lowcountry. In addition to its rescue
and adoption center on James Island, Pet
Helpers offers low-cost (and free to those
who qualify) spay/neuter surgeries at its
clinic. Leigh would love to connect with
any alums or businesses who would like to
become a part of making Charleston the
ultimate model of a humane community
in America.
Mary Louise Beshere ‘69
retired three years ago from the Maricopa
County Library District. Her husband,
Richard Powell, and she are now both
enjoying retirement. They reside in
Fountain Hills, AZ.
1971-1980
Diana Kaczor ‘71, after
graduating (with an unusual Bachelor
of Science degree with an English
major) went to the Radcliffe Publishing
Mark Hunter ‘82 offers this
Procedures program in Cambridge,
note: “What people say about an English
MA. She spent a few years in New York
degree? It’s true. You don’t have a trade
City working for Women’s Day magazine
with your BA, but you have a profound
and later for Mother Earth News in
ability in what [Alfred North] Whitehead
Hendersonville, NC. In 1979, she earned
called ‘the acquisition of the art of the
an MA in Philosophy from the University
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utilisation of knowledge.’ It sounds a bit
of North Carolina. She worked at General
much, but for my whole career in media
Electric Aircraft Engines in Massachusetts
production, politics, and higher education I have been the
for 10 years as an analyst, then completed a program at the
person my colleagues have turned to when it came time
New England School of Photography. In 1991, she relocated to
to conceive, write, and promote the ideas and actions of
Chapel Hill, NC, where she worked as a research programmer
the groups to which I belonged. I thank Prof. Bishop Hunt
for 19 years. She has had a few photography exhibits through
and Prof. Jeffrey Johnson for that. I had the best of ‘trades’
the years. Now happily retired, she is volunteering to assist a
coming out of the College of Charleston.” Mark is currently
professional photographer in digitizing the entire collection of
the Doctoral Program Coordinator in his department at
art at the University’s Ackland Art Museum.
Tennessee State University: “it is a career culmination that the
Joseph Eugene Stevenson ‘73 is married and
CofC started me on 30 years ago.”
has two sons (both recent College of Charleston graduates).
Mark earned an MMA at the University of South Carolina in
He earned a Masters in Business Management from Central
1983 and an EdD at Virginia Tech in 1991.
Michigan University and worked in a variety of business
disciplines including Marketing and Advertising, where he
Joy Simpson ‘83 serves as an instructor in the
found his English background served him well. He also coMaster of Public Administration Program at the College of
owned and managed a manufacturing company, as well as a
Charleston.
small internet retail business.
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Clemson University. He spent the years between USC and
Clemson working as a computer programmer and project
manager.
Rob Droste ‘84 is now in his 13th year of ordained
ministry, serving as rector of All Saints Episcopal Church in
San Leandro, California (San Francisco Bay area). He and his
wife, Karla, celebrated their 17th wedding anniversary this
year with trips to Paris and Yosemite. Recently, when cleaning
out a storage locker, he found his honors thesis on John
Milton, a copy of the 1984 Miscellany, with his favorite essay
from college: “Ozymandias: Shelley and the Impermanence of
Man.” He’s still proud of the A’s he earned from Nan Morrison
and Bishop Hunt.
He reports, “so far, things are going well for me here at
Clemson. This year, I won the university-wide graduate
student teaching award, and I’m only slightly behind on my
dissertation work. By the time I graduate next year, I should
have six journal articles either under review or in print, so I’m
optimistic about my job prospects.”
My CofC education has helped me in numerous ways and
continues to do so as I teach management, even though I
graduated over 20 years ago. I still read Shakespeare and Milton
often and read at least some fiction every day. I like to refer
back to my class notes from the
CofC and use classic literature and
history to make my management
lectures more memorable for my
students.”
Sonja Houston ‘86 says “every day is an adventure”
in her business. Last month she was promoted to Senior
Producer of CNN NewsRoom. She has been working for
CNN and based in Atlanta for 15
years. “I love my job,” she says.
“It’s something that my years at
the College definitely prepared
me for. The broad-based liberal
arts education taught me how to
express myself well, to nurture
my curiosity about the world and
to think critically. Those all serve
me well as I produce newscasts and
segments at CNN.”
1991-2000
Robin Jennifer (Gross) LaSure ‘91
works for Leading Real Estate
Companies of the World, a
Chicago-based network of 550
real estate firms in the U.S. and 30
countries around the world. After
college, she returned to Atlanta,
where she grew up, before moving
to Chicago and then Denver. Nine
years ago, she returned to Atlanta,
where she lives with her husband
and two boys, ages 8 and 6.
Natalie (Parker) Bluestein ‘87 graduated with
a Masters of Public Administration
from the University of South
Carolina (USC) in 1990 and a law
degree from USC in 1993. She is
a partner at Bluestein & Douglas
and says that she uses the skills
learned in the English program
every day in her profession and
reports that, in fact, several judges
have commented that her orders
are some of the best they see, and
she is sure it is due to the rigorous
standards of the Department of
English.
She has worked for the
same
company
(through
multiple mergers) in various
communications, marketing, and
public relations roles for 17 years,
currently serving as Vice President
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of corporate marketing. She notes,
Elizabeth (Holland) McDowell ‘88 works as
“When I was at CofC, I remember wishing there had been
Account Executive at WCSC Television, Charleston.
a communications major, but at the time there was only an
informal minor in communications. As it turns out, in my job,
Mary (Askins) Schweers ‘89 is Director
I use many of the writing, editing, and proof-reading skills I
(principal) of Upper School (grades 7-12) at Ashley Hall. She
learned as an English major. (And now I am paranoid I won’t
finished her Master of Arts in Teaching at the Citadel in 1993.
catch my own typos in this submission!) I visit Charleston
Several of her former students attend CofC. She says “I had a
whenever I can and just this past weekend joined 12 of my
wonderful college experience there, and I encourage all who
CofC friends for an annual weekend getaway.”
are interested to visit and check it out. I am impressed and
pleased at the positive growth and excellent, well-deserved
Hope (Norment) Murphy ‘91 has been married
reputation the College has gained. The English department
to Michael Murphy since 1995, and they have two sons: Sam,
was my haven, and Bret Lott was my favorite teacher of all
who was born in 1997, and Andrew, who was born in 2000.
time. Much like Ashley Hall, the College of Charleston is a
She taught high school English in the Charleston County
historic, educational gem in the heart of a beautiful city.”
School District for ten years before taking a job as Director
Kevin Craig ‘90 earned a Master of International
Business (Chinese Track) degree from University of South
Carolina. Now, he is a PhD candidate in Management at
Alumni Notes continued on p. 13
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leave.
of Children’s Ministries at John Wesley United Methodist
Church, where she will mark her tenth year this summer. She
also works as an instructor and facilitator with Darkness to
Light’s Stewards of Children and has been involved with that
organization for the past six years. She enjoys watching her
boys play sports, volunteering at their school and at church,
reading, and going to the beach.
Magdalen Anne (Cocke) Caraway ‘93 lives
in Memphis, her hometown. She is married to Kirk Caraway,
also of Memphis, and they have two sons, Caleb (7) and Lucas
(6). Their favorite thing to do as a family is to travel: “We
plan to make a BIG trip to Charleston next year for my 20th
reunion! I can’t wait to see what all has changed and what I
hope has stayed the same!!”
Rhonda Rutland Spell ‘91 worked with the
Joseph Steven Renau ‘93, after 15 years in New
York City, returned to South Carolina in May 2012. He is a
marketing and communications consultant to corporations
and professional services firms and also works as a freelance
writer and editor.
College of Charleston College Relations Office after graduation
and worked for 15 years in public relations and marketing. She
has lived in South Carolina, Tennessee, and now Louisiana.
Her husband is from Lousiana, and they moved there to raise
their children around an extended family. She teaches English
and reading to 8th graders at Northlake Christian School in
Covington, Louisiana, while continuing to research learning
differences. She also works in her school’s Discovery Center,
where children with learning differences are helped to achieve
their maximum potential.
Brooke (Egerton) Holt ‘94 lives in Lake Mary,
Florida with her family: Chase, Ashton, and Saxon (children)
and husband Charlie. Charlie serves as rector of St. Peter’s
Episcopal Church. She runs her own company, Cross Train,
LLC, which focuses on
the development of spirit,
mind, and body of women.
They train for triathlons
and running races. In Take
Shape for Life, she serves as
a health coach, a role that
allows her to teach people
how to develop optimal
health in their lives. This
summer she will finish
her last class in a Master
of Arts in Biblical Studies
at Reformed Theological
Seminary.
She made the career change
from
public
relations
to teaching to help her
daughter and notes that it
was the best decision she
ever made. Her son, Tyler,
graduates this month from
Northlake Christian School.
He is attending Southeastern
Lousiana
Univeristy
in
the fall pursuing a degree
in Criminal Justice. Her
daughter, Alexandra, also
attends Northlake Christian
School and is in the fourth
grade.
Jada (Owen) Rampey ‘92 worked in
Porters Lodge
Liz Clarke Robbins ‘94 is Associate Professor
of Creative Writing at
Flagler College. Her newest
full collection of poems, Play Button, won the 2010 Cider
Press Review Book Award, judged by Patricia Smith. Liz’s
chapbook, Girls Turned Like Dials, won the 2012 YellowJacket
Press Award and will be published in May 2012. Her poems
are forthcoming or in the current issues of Cimarron Review,
The Journal, and New York Quarterly.
several fields after graduation, including retail management,
events planning, property administration, and, as a brief foray,
education. She married Dr. Alvin H. Rampey, Jr. in March
of 2010 and moved to Atlanta, GA. They are avid travelers,
exploring the USA on a monthly basis, especially the American
West and any region where they can hike. They count Ireland,
France, Canada, and Japan among their favorites and are
currently planning a trip for May 2012 to Greece and Turkey.
At present, she is studying aviation and pursuing her private
pilot certificate.
Kenneth “Kenny” Inman ‘95 is a lawyer with
his own practice in Mount Pleasant, SC.
Robin (Porter) Thompson ‘95 taught English
at Richmond Hill High School (Richmond Hill, GA) from
1997-2003 and 2006-2011 and moved to the media center this
school year at the same school. She is pursuing a Masters in
Instructional Technology from Georgia Southern University.
She was awarded Teacher of the Year for the Bryan Co. school
system in 2003. She has two children, Jed, age 6, and Charlotte,
age 3. They have lived for 15 years in Savannah, GA, where
she volunteers her time with Wesley Monumental United
Methodist Church and the Junior League. “In any spare time,”
she says, “I dig in the dirt, plant flowers, craft, and sew.”
Steven Busch ‘93 has been working in the real estate
industry for 15 years and recently moved from Atlanta to
Savannah to run the largest real estate company in the Coastal
Empire. With four offices and 200 associates, Keller Williams
Realty Coastal Area Partners currently have approximately
20% market share in the Savannah area. His passions include
recruiting, training, and developing real estate agents to build
careers worth having, businesses worth owning, and lives
worth living while leading a very productive and profitable
organization with a culture that no one would ever want to
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with the proposal lead to ensure that every deliverable that
leaves the department is well written and error free. Lee has
two poems in The Citadel’s The Shako, 2012 and just submitted
two poems to Pluff Mud.
Tina Marie Cundari ‘96 is an attorney in
Columbia. In January 2012, she became a member (which is
the equivalent of partner) of her law firm, Sowell Gray Stepp
& Laffitte, LLC. She has been very involved in the community,
presently serving as Chair of the Board of Directors of Big
Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Columbia.
Derrick Le’Van Williams ‘99 has been serving
on the S.C. Workers’ Compensation Commission as a
Commissioner since 2007. He has 2 children, Valerie Regan (5
years old) and Deana Grace (1 year old). His wife is a partner
at Nelson Mullins in Columbia. “I am happy to have attended
CofC,” he says, “and majoring in English has enhanced my life
and helped shape my career.”
Katherine Dillard Mitchell ‘96 graduated with
an MA in Literature from the University of Mississippi and an
MFA in Fiction from University of Montana. She is a Writing
Expert at Ruamrudee International School, Bangkok,Thailand.
Melissa (Mehl) Turner ‘97 graduated with
a Master of Arts in Teaching from Charleston Southern
University in 2006 and taught 9th grade English for five
years, one year in South Carolina and four years in Maryland.
Currently, she is a stay-at-home Mom.
Mahwish Fathima (Alikhan) McIntosh ‘00 is currently a Freedom Writer Teacher (she trained
with Erin Gruwell in Long Beach, CA in 2007). She has
published in Teaching Hope (as part of a project with the
Freedom Writers Foundation); created school partnerships
with local non-profits such as Lowcountry Earth Force,
Charleston HALOS, and Liza’s Lifeline;
and was awarded over $8,000 in grants
for Service Learning class project
initiatives at Goose Creek High School.
She is currently working on a Masters
of Education degree in Secondary
Administration at the Citadel with
the Berkeley County School District’s
LEAD cohort program. She is also
mother of Mira Aliya McIntosh, 8
1/2 months, and married to Matt
McIntosh, co-owner of EVO Pizzeria
in North Charleston.
Ray Edward Tanner ‘97 taught high school for six
years in Berkeley County, which was an
enriching experience. He left the school
system to become a recruiter for the
military in ‘05 and has been working
and living in Summerville since then.
His wife, Dawn, and he have two
amazing sons. Ret is 9, and Reed is 7,
and they both love seeing the Cougars
in action on the baseball diamond.
Denise (White) Johnson ‘98, MA ‘00 completed a PhD in
Medieval and Renaissance literature at
Georgia State University. She has been
teaching at Kennesaw State University
for 12 years and has recently begun
to teach upper division courses such
as the early British Literature survey,
Chaucer, and Medieval Literature. She
spends most of her time teaching and
mentoring Composition and World
Literature students. She says, “I would
not be doing this job had Dr. Carlson
not assigned me to work with the
Writer’s Group while I was a grad student at CofC. I did not
want to teach, but once I started, I found that it was my true
calling in life.”
Adam Ellwanger ‘00, MA ‘03 is Assistant Professor of English at
the University of Houston - Downtown,
where he teaches courses in writing and
rhetorical theory. His essay entitled
“On the Possibility of the Aesthetic Life:
Terry Eagleton, Cather’s Tom Outland,
and the Experience of Loss” appeared
in the most recent issue of the Journal of
Modern Literature. In April, his wife, Ellie Smith (CofC, Class
of 2002), gave birth to their first son, Peter Wyndham.
2001-2011
Emelie (Kent) Agosto ‘99 is a paralegal with
Robert Wade Bowser ‘01 worked after graduation
Krawcheck & Davidson, LLC.
for Mark Sloan, Director of the Halsey Institute, as researcher
on a book project about the photography of Frederick Whitman
Glasier. Upon completion of the project, he enrolled in the
University of Florida College of Law, where he earned his Juris
Doctorate and a Certificate in Environmental and Land Use
Law. That was followed by a year at the University of Miami
School of Law, where he earned his Master of Laws in Real
Property Development. He has been practicing real estate law
since graduation in 2006 and is currently living in Orlando,
Florida with his amazing wife and daughter.
Lee Robinson ‘99, MA ‘06 left Charleston, SC,
in September 2010 and now lives in Fairfax, VA, a suburb of
Washington DC. He started with The SI, as Senior Technical
Writer and Editor, several months ago and finds it to be a pretty
interesting job. The SI (SI stands for systems integration) is one
of the lead systems integrators for the Intelligence Community
and whose customers range from NGA to NSA to NRO.
He is part of a dynamic proposal team who plan and craft
large proposal submissions that sometimes take months to
complete. His role is to work with subject matter experts, write
content, proof and edit content by other writers, and work
Katherine (Walker) Sullivan ‘01 earned a
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Masters of Library and Information Science at the University
of South Carolina (USC) and Juris Doctorate at USC’s School
of Law. She works as an attorney with Carlock, Copeland &
Stair.
made some strides in the fundraising department, but is
sharpening those tools for her upcoming project.
Elaine M. Robbins ‘04 graduated with an Master
of Library and Information Science from the University of
South Carolina in 2007 and works at the Daniel Library at the
Citadel as a Reference/Instruction Librarian and as a liaison
to the English and History Departments. She also contributes
the Citadel’s material to the Lowcountry Digital Library and to
Digital Collections @ The Citadel.
Kenneth Gregory Wooten III ‘02 after
graduation went to law school at the University of South
Carolina and graduated in 2005. After passing the Bar and
moving back to Charleston in 2006, he worked at South
Carolina Legal Services on Carner Avenue in North Charleston
for three years. His wife and he moved to Glasgow, Scotland in
2009 to attend Masters programs at the University of Glasgow.
On their return to the US, he enlisted the U.S. Army in 2011
as a Paralegal Specialist, and he and his wife are currently
living at Fort Riley, Kansas. He will be deploying to Forward
Operating Base Andar in Paktika Province, Afghanistan for a
nine-month rotation in May 2012.
Edward Benjamin Baldwin ‘05 is a copywriter
with Elevation, an advertising agency in Richmond, VA.
Meghan Leah Brinson ‘05 earned an MA
in Literature at Georgetown University. Her poem “Sarah
Bernhardt Plays Hamlet” was included in A Face to Meet the
Faces: An Anthology of Persona Poetry from University of
Akron Press. She recently read from her poetry at the East Bay
Meeting House.
Emily (Cunningham) Dalton ‘03 graduated
from the Citadel with a Masters in Business Administration
in 2011 and is a Product
Manager for Blackbaud in
Charleston. (See a feature on
Emily in Folio 2009.)
Megan Prewitt Koon, MA ‘05 teaches
American Literature, AP
Language and Composition,
Creative
Writing,
and
Film Analysis for 11th and
12th graders at St. Joseph’s
Catholic School in Greenville,
SC. She has a five-year old
daughter who loves reading,
playing soccer, and Minnie
Mouse. In her spare time, she
enjoys hanging out with her
husband and daughter.
Katherine Scott Crawford, MA ’04,
will have her debut historical
novel,
Keowee
Valley,
published in September
2012 by Bell Bridge Books.
Set in the Revolutionaryera Carolinas (including
Charleston) and in the
Cherokee country, it’s the
story of one woman’s journey
Kara Logan Meyer into the wild Appalachian
‘05 is Director of External
frontier, determined to save
Relations for Storefront for
her beloved cousin from
Fence bounding the yard of the Sotille House.
Art and Architecture in New
certain death and to build a
York City.
community of her own. Keowee Valley has received advance
praise from writers like Philip Lee Williams, Beverly Swerling,
Emily (Oye) Sealy ‘05 moved to Richmond, VA
and Ron Rash, who writes that “Crawford is a fresh and
after graduation to pursue an MFA in theatre pedagogy at
valuable new voice in Southern literature.”
Virginia Commonwealth University. She graduated with an
She began research for the novel not long after she completed
MFA, married Jon Sealy (‘05) in 2009, and just graduated from
her MA. Additionally, she spent hours hiking, backpacking,
the University of Richmond’s T. C. Williams School of Law.
and river paddling throughout the Southern Appalachians,
Katie Riddle ‘05 moved to Eugene, Oregon in 2006
and walking the streets of Charleston. As a nod to her
to begin work on her MA (and then PhD) in English at the
graduate school experience, Crawford made her heroine,
University of Oregon. She expects to defend her dissertation
Quinn, a bookworm, and has her familiar with several of the
and earn her PhD by June of 2013. In the past seven years, she
works Crawford studied at CofC. Visit her web site for more
has done a lot of traveling. Most notably, she spent the 2009information: www.katherinescottcrawford.com.
10 academic year living and writing in Toronto and Montréal,
where she was married. She and her husband currently live in
Thea Star Gaillard ‘04 has a new addition to her
Denver, Colorado, here she works part-time as an instructor
family and her name is Lexi, a 5 lb, 1 year old peek-a-pom
of writing and endeavors to write her dissertation full-time.
puppy who is lovable, huggable and causes a lot of mischief.
After losing her sister to Non-Hodgkins lymphoma and her
Adam Joseph Russo ‘05 works as a DUI
grandmother to lung cancer, her family is a huge advocate for
Prosecutor in Beaufort County for the 14th Judicial Circuit
patients with cancer. So, they are geering up for their next
contribution to the MUSC Hollings Cancer Society. She has
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say that today I am a viable member of the community, helping
others, and enjoying the benefits of a position made possible
by my experience at CofC.”
Solicitor’s Office. Mr. Russo married the former Ms. Sarah
Elaine Brice on April 14, 2012, and they live together in
Summerville with their son, Benjamin Thomas Brice.
Maria Caruso ‘07 earned an MFA in Poetry Writing
from The Ohio State University and subsequently taught
English courses at a technical college. She is now a Life
Skills tutor on an AmeriCorps team at Youth Villages Inner
Harbour Campus in Douglasville, Georgia. Youth Villages is
a residential psychiatric treatment facility, home, and school
for youth with severe emotional and behavioral challenges.
As a Life Skills tutor, she helps older youth learn independent
living skills like job searching, money management, and
interpersonal communication skills.
Jon Sealy ‘05 still lives in Richmond, Va., with his wife,
Emily (nee Oye), also a 2005 English department graduate.
“I’m still plugging away at my fiction,” he says, and had
stories published last year in The Normal School, The Sun, and
PANK. He also recently started a freelance writing business,
Sealy Communications. He writes marketing and corporate
communications materials for various companies.
Kirstin Marie Bunton ‘06 is working in New
York City as a real estate sales associate.
Nathaniel James Cochran ‘07 earned an MA
in Great Books at St. John’s College, Annapolis ‘09 and an MA
in Political Theory at the University of Dallas ‘12. He currently
works as a Projects Coordinator for Enterisk Global Advisors
in Dallas, Texas and will be getting married August 11, 2012 to
Lisa Renz in Dallas.
James L. McCutchen ‘06 recently graduated
from the Charleston School of Law and began working as
an attorney with the South Carolina Department of Revenue
in Columbia, SC. While in law school, he was a member of
the Charleston Law Review, Associate
Justice of the Moot Court Board,
Captain of the Advanced Mock Trial
Team, and member of the Honor
Council. During the evenings, he
spends his time working towards
an advanced legal degree (LL.M) in
taxation from Georgetown University.
His wife, Allison, is a registered
respiratory therapist.
They enjoy
spending time with friends, family,
and their golden retriever (Belle) and
miniature dachshund (Boone).
Renee Lee (Greenan) Gardner, MA’07, and Jax
Lee Gardner (‘08) welcomed their
son, Abram Adrien Gardner, into the
world on January 19th, 2012.Renee
is currently on two dissertation
completion fellowships: one, internal,
from Western Michigan University
and one, external, through the
American Association of University
Women (AAUW). She anticipates
completing her PhD in Spring 2013.
Christopher Hampton Yount ‘06 is a software
Melissa Michele (Glasscock) Meverden ‘07 taught high school English for
development engineer for Hawkes
Learning Systems, where he is a web
developer and documentation writer
for their projects and products. He
married in the summer of ‘09, has
two dogs, and has traveled to the Caribbean as well as Brazil
recently.
several years before getting married
in 2011 and beginning work on an
Master of Education in Curriculum
and Instruction with a concentration in Literacy. While
in school, she is working as a part-time teacher at a private
elementary/middle school and as a private English/SAT tutor.
Sarah Elizabeth Bumgarner ‘07 is currently
working as a claims representative with the Social Security
Administration. “My experience as an undergraduate was
markedly different than that of the usual student,” she says. “I
left my studies and returned after the birth of my son, who is
now ten years old. At the time I graduated, he was six. Since
then, I have held three professional positions, first at a local
school district working with at-risk students under a temporary
grant program, next as a Client Service Coordinator with the
South Carolina Department of Vocational Rehabilitation, and
now as a Social Insurance Specialist with the Social Security
Administration. I can only say that having that degree,
pushing through with my studies, and dedicating myself to
the combined needs of work, motherhood, and education, has
made a huge impact on the financial health of my family. With
the support of my professors and the encouragement of my
family, I left the college with great expectations. I can honestly
Erika Blythe Lund ‘07 is working as a freelance
writer. She finished a MA degree in Literature at the University
of Colorado in 2010, married in 2011, and is looking forward
to completing a PhD in the future.
Krystle Danielle Singleton ‘07 is currently
teaching Creative Writing and Pre-AP English at Osceola
High School in Kissimmee, Florida. Her freshman just wrote
their first novels and are now diving into the art of poetry and
screenwriting. In addition to that she is in her third year as
head coach of the swim team, and her girls are back-to-back
Conference Champions!
Megan (Smith) Goettsches ‘07 moved to West
Africa after graduation to work with an non-governmental
organization. She returned to America in 2009 and promptly
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moved to Germany to be with her fiancee, who is also a
College of Charleston Alum (2008). She enrolled at the
University of Cologne in 2010 to pursue an MA in Cultural
and Social Anthropology (Culture and Environment in
Africa). She recently returned from a fieldwork expedition in
Uganda, where she is currently conducting research on the
renegotiation of gender roles and accessing livelihoods for
widows in post-conflict Northern Uganda. She will complete
the MA thesis and program in September 2012 and hopefully
continue into a PhD program with the university. “Needless
to say,” she says, “life has been fast and furious since my CofC
days.”
University of South Carolina School of Law and was admitted
to the South Carolina Bar in 2011. She is currently an attorney
with the Floyd Law Firm, PC.
Zachary James Turpin, MA ‘07, after
graduating moved to Austin, Texas (and taught there), to New
Zealand (and volunteered there), and to Boston, where he
worked for a statistical almanac before finding a job as a health
news writer. His girlfriend and he were both recently accepted
to PhD programs at the University of
Houston, and they are expecting their
first baby any day now. In their free
time, they dogsit a very special furry
friend, do competitive speedcubing,
and watch trashy TV.
Audra (Hammons) Turkus ‘08, after
completing her MA in secondary education at The Citadel,
moved to Denver, Colorado and began work as a language arts
teacher at Littleton Academy, a charter school in Littleton, CO,
where she is about to begin her second year.
Jax Lee Gardner ‘08 and Renee Lee Gardner
(MA ‘07) welcomed their son, Abram Adrien Gardner, into
the world on January 19th, 2012. She finished her MA in
English Literature (with honors) in May 2011 at University
of Michigan, Kalamazoo. She also has an article, “One Where
the Kid Really is All Right: The Queering of Iva in Marilyn
Hacker’s Love, Death and the Changing of the Seasons,” coming
out soon in The Journal of Lesbian Studies.
Joseph Alan Hasinger ‘08 earned an MFA in Creative
Writing (mixed thesis of fiction and
creative non-fiction) from Hollins
University in Roanoke, VA. He then
relocated back to Charleston to begin
teaching English Composition at
Trident Technical College. He has
since begun working at CommIT
Enterprises, Inc. as Senior Technical
Writer for various contracted projects
for the Department of Defense. He is
also working on a book of short stories
as well as a novel and has had several
publications in various journals.
Danielle Lhiannan Callesen ‘08 is working as a
writer and editor. She writes and edits
film and television content for various
clientele, mainly on web and mobile
platforms in the form of reviews and
informative descriptions.
Celeste Star DeVera ‘08 is an ESOL Teacher at Charleston
Bridget Marie Herman County School District and Spanish
Teacher at Porter Gaud and is
‘08 moved to Chicago after
currently pursuing an MEd in
graduation to pursue a career in the
Languages and Language Teaching at
writing/editing field. She published
the College. She says, “I spent a lovely
freelance pieces in Chicago-based
and fulfilling summer as an ESOL Towell Library, seen from the courtyard between magazines including Time Out
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teacher for Charleston County School
Chicago and Chicago Home and Garden
District’s Migrant Education Program.
before accepting a full-time job as an
With the farms, fields, plantations, and the open air (and
editor at Groupon. She works on local Groupon write-ups for
heat) our classroom, I taught English to migrant workers on
markets across North America, as well as specialty write-ups
Edisto, John’s, and Wadmalaw islands, garnering a profound
such as Groupon Getaways. She is also working toward an MA
appreciation for the migrant population and their hard labor
in Writing at DePaul University.
that brings local produce right to our tables.”
Laura T. LeaMond ‘08 is Outreach Coordinator
Sharon Marie Emery ‘08 has worn many hats
with The Neighborhood House, located at 77 America Street in
since graduation: “my current hat,” she says “is at Blackbaud,
Charleston. Neighborhood House offers daily lunch, clothing,
where I work with the Support Operations team to keep the
a food pantry, and endless life enrichment and skills classes.
300 person Support department running on all cylinders. I
To any alumni interested in volunteering, The Neighborhood
still live Downtown, I volunteer with local organizations and
House is always open and happy to have you!
have managed to keep my dog and a plant I got in college still
Hannah (Metivier) Gompers ‘08 will be
alive. I recently took my first ever cross country road trip and
leaving the EMS field in June and beginning a new career path
have recently traveled to Boston. In the next year, I will be
with the Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department as a Police
going back to school and planning a multi-week excursion to
Telecommunicator. Her husband and she plan on expanding
Europe.”
Brittney Farish ‘08 earned a Juris Doctorate at the
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Jessica M. Harrigan ‘09 is an account manager
with ISF Group, Inc., working closely with Not for Profit
Organizations, both local and nationwide, to help raise funds
through grants, monthly mailings, and event marketing.
their family within the coming year.
Anthony Joseph Lauricella ‘08 is a PhD
student at the University of Chicago.
Kimberly Parkhill ‘09 spent a year after
graduation as an AmeriCorp VISTA volunteer in Charleston,
SC. Upon the completion of her term, she chose to use her
scholarship towards the program Outward Bound, where she
spent 22 days out in the Sierra Nevada wilderness. After an
offer from Jersey Mike’s Franchise Systems, she moved to NJ
to work as a Real Estate Manager for Jersey Mike’s Subs. She
traveled across the United States for a year and, she says, has
“almost stepped foot on all 50 states.” She began an MBA at
the Citadel in 2011, but is transferring to a different program
in DC. She has completed two marathons
since graduation, the Marine Corps and
Charlottesville marathons, and she will
be running the Philadelphia Marathon in
November. For now her plan is stay in one
place and continue her MBA in DC.
Jennifer Olivia Pringle, MA ‘08, is an English
teacher with the Charleston Collegiate School.
Gale Marie Thompson ‘08, having completed
an MFA in poetry (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), is
going to be moving with her cat, Petey, to Athens, GA, to work
on a PhD in English Literature and Creative Writing at the
University of Georgia. Her manuscript, Soldier On, has been
selected by Tupelo Press for publication, and most recently, a
poem of hers was selected by Eileen Myles
as the winner of Columbia: A Journal of
Literature and Art’s 2012 Poetry Contest.
She also has published work in the Denver
Quarterly, Bateau, Salt Hill, Volt, and
elsewhere. She is assistant editor at jubilat,
promotions editor at Slope Editions,
and creator/editor at Jellyfish Magazine
(jellyfishmagazine.org).
Chris Willoughby ‘09 is
currently pursuing his PhD in history
at Tulane University and living in New
Orleans. Last spring he defended his
Master’s Thesis, entitled “Infecting the Black
Body: Slavery and Medicine in Samuel
Cartwright’s South,” presented a paper at
Southern Association for the History of
Medicine and Science, and also managed
to survive his last semester of coursework.
He is tentatively planning to do his
dissertation on the construction of race
through medical practice in the nineteenth
century Southern culture. This upcoming
year, he will be teaching two classes while
preparing his dissertation prospectus and
doing all other things necessary to go ABD
(“All But Dissertation”) and start doing
some dissertation research.
Braden Tennesen Trainor ‘08 is currently deployed to Helmand
Province, Afghanistan as the Antiterrorism
Officer for 3rd Marine Air Wing (Forward).
He lives in Oceanside, CA, with his wife
and daughter, Monica, who is 11 years
old. He is currently pursuing an MA in
Criminal Justice.
Joseph Bowling ‘09 has
just completed the first year of a PhD
program at the CUNY Graduate Center.
He is currently running the Early
Modern Interdisciplinary Group and
won the Graduate Student Essay Prize in
Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
in the spring. He also teaches at Queens
College in Flushing, Queens.
Ryan Graudin ‘09, after graduating
Joseph Garrett Brown ‘10
lives in his hometown of Myrtle Beach, SC,
serves as a board member for a non-profit
organization called the Christian Haitian
American Partnership (CHAP) www.chaphaiti.org, and has
traveled twice to Port au Prince, Haiti since graduation and
continually makes efforts to support CHAP’s four schools,
nutrition program, and medical clinic in Haiti. He is also
currently pursuing an MA in Writing at Coastal Carolina
University.
Randolph Hall
from the Creative Writing Concentration
in English, managed to secure a literary agent who sold her
first two young-adult novels to HarperCollins. LUMINANCE
HOUR, a novel about a Fae who’s forced to guard the Prince
of England, is due out in January 2014 through HarperTeen.
Ryan also loves traveling and photographing weddings with
her husband, David.
You can follow Ryan at http://ryangraudin.blogspot.com.
Jose Robert Gonzalez III ‘10 is pursuing a JD at
the Charleston School of Law.
Mary Emma “Emmy” (Gray) Hart ‘09
graduated from the University of Rochester’s Accelerated BS
in Nursing program in December 2011 and was accepted
into the Nurse Residency program at Georgetown University
Hospital for February 2012. She is working in the Emergency
Department. This program is six months long and is combined
with clinical experience and classroom work.
Kathleen “Katie” Halley, MA ‘10 moved to
Atlanta after graduation to work as a campaign coordinator
with the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s School and
Youth Program. In April 2011, she began a new position in
the Office of the Vice President for Research at Kennesaw
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State University, where she is now the Director of Research
Communications.
A month after she graduated she traveled to Haiti as a volunteer
with the disaster relief efforts and helped to build permanent
housing for amputee victims living in tent cities.
Molly Lewis ‘10 took a year off from school after
graduation to apply to PhD programs in English and ended
up working as a community manager for the American
Cancer Society, where she helped to organize four events in
different communities on the South Carolina coast. She was
then admitted with a teaching assistantship into the George
Washington University PhD program with a concentration in
Medieval and Early Modern literature. As her second semester
of coursework is winding down, she says, “I am so thankful for
all of my wonderful CofC English professors who taught me so
much and encouraged me to follow this career path!”
Six months ago, she was accepted into WorldTeach’s Micronesia
Program. In July she will depart for Kosrae, Micronesia, where
she will spend the 2012-2013 school year teaching English and
writing at local high schools. Her main objective is to hone the
writing skills of young Kosraens to prepare them for college
entrance essays.
Erin Laray Stubbs ‘10 reports that she has mostly
been spending her time off from school improving her
relationships, as well as catching up on all the reading she
did not have a chance to do in law school. She has also been
doing preliminary research/reading/writing on her proposed
thesis topic. Aside from these things, she has been doing
freelance work from home as well as
editing articles, essays, and letters for
her mother, who works as a writer.
Jenna Lyles ‘10 is working in Charleston for a Southern
regional queer liberation organization and also organizes with
Girls Rock Charleston.
Cassandre Ann “Cassie” Mandel ‘10 went to the NYU
Naomi R. Benjamin ‘11,
Summer Publishing Institute after
graduation, where she obtained a
certificate in publishing. She interned
at HarperCollins and Bloomsbury USA
before getting a job at Penguin Group.
She is working in New York City as
a publicity assistant for the Penguin
imprint Dutton. She says, “living here is
wonderful, but I would be lying if I said
I didn’t miss Charleston.”
in August of 2011, moved across the
country to Orange County, California,
starting off as an assistant teacher at
LePort until December, when she was
promoted to an official position. “And
let me tell you,” she exclaims, “this job
is AMAZING! The school’s motto is
‘knowledge for life’; in other words, they
encourage the students to be led by their
teachers to conclusions but to learn how
to find out information for themselves.”
One of her favorite aspects of teaching is
the time spent making knowledge relate
to the kids’ lives, which in turn motivates
them to learn and enjoy the process. “It’s
been such a great opportunity!”
Alexa Moyer ‘10 spent the
summer of 2010 working for the Provost
at CofC and was hired by W. W. Norton
in September of that year. She moved
to New York and began in the editorial
department and is now managing and
designing print ads, writing web ads,
Ashley Michelle Blair, MA and coordinating all of the college
Joshua Haffner ‘11 (right) engaged in mock
‘07, is an Adjunct English Instructor at
marketing conferences Norton attends
(one hopes) combat with author Jonathan
throughout the year. She says “It’s really Safran Foer (who will speak at the College in Central Piedmont Community College.
fascinating to work on the ‘other side’ of October on his latest book, Eating Animals) Tiffany Faith Cartee ‘11 the books I loved in college, especially
moved to Richmond, Virginia soon after
now that I’ve experienced both the editorial and marketing
graduation to live with her long-time boyfriend, Alex, and her
aspects of publishing. If you had told me in college that I’d one
pet bird, Francisco. After a couple of months, she landed a job
day be working in marketing, I would have laughed…I had
at a law firm doing paralegal work, office management tasks,
no idea back then how many doors an English degree truly
and marketing. Recently, she has been focused on sending in
opens.”
some new work to poetry websites and fiction competitions.
She is also currently working on a blog about her writing
Rachel Anne Reinke ‘10 is pursuing a PhD in
process and the looming possibility of “maybe (hopefully)”
Women and Gender Studies at Arizona State University.
being published. She is planning a trip to Costa Rica and is
also “playing around” with the idea of taking the LSATs this
Diana Rene Rowe ‘10 has held an assortment of
year and possibly going to law school in the very near future.
full time, part time, and volunteer positions. She currently
She says, “I miss Charleston, and all of my professors and
volunteers as an ESL teacher at St. Matthews Outreach
friends, quite horribly! Also, for the record, I can easily be
center and is a Spanish teacher with Lango Kids. She has
found on Facebook.”
also volunteered as a creative writing teacher at Mitchell
Elementary, and for a brief time she was a part-time Public
Joshua Elias Haffner ‘11 moved to Washington,
Relations employee with TouchPoint Communications.
DC after graduation to work at Sixth & I, a concert and book
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tour venue and part-time synagogue. As an Event Assistant,
he helped put on shows featuring Jonathan Safran Foer,
Rachel Maddow, and his personal favorite, Diane Keaton. He
is presenting a paper adapted from his bachelor’s thesis at a
graduate conference at the University of Western Ontario this
summer, and he plans to begin an MA in English at McGill
University in the fall (though he is entertaining the idea of
doing a post-baccalaureate pre-med program at Georgetown
instead).
with Minnesotans United for All Families to help defeat the
upcoming Minnesota Marriage Protection Amendment,
which would create a Constitutional amendment that defines
marriage as between one man and one woman. They are also
working with Planned Parenthood to protect women’s health
care programs across the nation. She will be volunteering at
the Democratic National Convention in September.
Jessica Marie Riggs ‘11 “sent out 60 plus
applications and got two interviews” after graduation, but
“luckily, the first call back offered [her] a job as a ‘junior’
technical writer.” She works at Savvee, who is hiring a senior
technical writer to mentor and teach her more about technical
writing. She is still living at home in Goose Creek but plans to
move out within the next year.
Aurora E. Harris ‘11 is working as Diversity
Programs Manager at the Preservation Society of Charleston.
Suzanne Rogers Lynch ‘11 now works as a sales
and marketing specialist with Arcadia Publishing, a position
she secured after many months stringing together various
kinds of work and, very significantly, serving as an editorial
intern for a children’s book publisher, a private author, and,
finally, Arcadia, where she filled in for a person on maternity
leave. Her work led to a full-time position. Of her job search
experience, she says that the internships, which she highly
recommends to all English majors, “definitely helped my
resume and own search. I also think it’s important to remember
that you really do learn from each interview. I knew that I
could prove myself as a valuable employee--it’s just difficult to
demonstrate that before you’re hired.”
Kristen Eden Simon ‘11 is working full-time as
a leasing consultant for a company that takes old buildings
that used to be warehouses, factories, or mills, and turns them
into loft-style apartments, complete with exposed brick and
sky-high ceilings. She is living just outside the perimeter of
Atlanta, in Marietta. It was named one of the twenty-five best
places in the country to retire,....but, she notes, “that’s not really
applicable for me yet.” In her spare time, she’s been writing a
vegan food blog, “it’s something [she is] passionate about....
Who knows?,” she says, “maybe it’ll lead to a cookbook!” She
has plans to eventually enroll in graduate school but is unsure
as to whether to continue pursuing creative writing or start a
new path, perhaps in law. She is also looking to move toward
the west coast within the next year, “even,” she says, “if I have
to go one baby step at a time.”
Stephen Meyerink ‘11 attended Ohio State
University’s SPEAC program in Japanese this past summer and
will be pursuing a PhD in Japanese Language and Literature at
Washington University in St. Louis this fall, with an emphasis
in the modern period and translation theory. In his spare
time he has been living out a childhood dream writing for
RPGFan.com, which has been a fantastic opportunity to
meet wonderful, passionate people, travel around the US and
abroad, and improve his writing and public relations skills.
Samantha Rae Verlotta ‘11 works at BoomTown!,
a software company in downtown Charleston on Rutledge Ave
that creates websites and provides leads management tools to
real estate agents and brokers all over the US (and in Canada.
She says, “I absolutely love BoomTown!’s company focus on
culture and values--they emphasize a healthy balance of work
and play and provide an environment that allows me to really
learn and grow however I want. For example, when I told them
I’d be interested in helping out with press releases, they jumped
right on it and allowed me to experiment outside of my ‘job
description’.” She is also helping to organize her company’s new
volunteer efforts.
Sharon Alexandria “Alex” Percival ‘11 moved to Washington, DC after graduation to pursue a
Masters in Political Management at George Washington
University. She is also interning with a media consulting
firm that focuses on progressive politics, whose clients
include Planned Parenthood, the Democratic Governors
Association, and EMILY’s List. They are currently working
Faculty Notes, 2011-2012
Tim Carens, last fall, attended a conference organized
to celebrate the bicentennial of the birth of Charles Dickens,
delivering a paper entitled “Dickensian Melodrama and
Working-Class Political Agency.” In response to the conference
theme – Charles Dickens, Past, Present, and Future – this
essay discussed how Dickens’s works continue to influence
our understanding of urban industrial poverty and how their
melodramatic resolutions limit our ability to conceive of
meaningful social change.
John Bruns spent yet another year hunkered down
in the basement of RSS with several of his colleagues. He
managed to escape from time to time; once he visited the
Margaret Herrick Library at the Academy of Motion Picture
Arts & Sciences to continue research on his Hitchcock book,
and he also visited Boston where, at the Society for Cinema
and Media Studies annual conference, he gave a paper on
Hitchcock’s adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s “The Birds.”
The paper was revised and expanded and will be featured in
a special issue on Hitchcock in Clues: A Journal of Detection
early next year. John also did some much needed nipping and
tucking to the Film Studies program’s curriculum.
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In the spring, Carens attended an institute held by the Council
on Undergraduate Research in Michigan. Representing the
College with three other members of the Undergraduate
Research and Creative Activities program, he participated in
workshops with other teams from across the country. The
group from the College of Charleston developed a plan to
increase the participation of arts and humanities faculty in
URCA grant programs.
South Carolina Writing Center Association” at the meeting
of Palmetto State Writing Center Association, Columbia, SC
April 2012.
Speaking of which, Carens and student Victor Imko received
one of those grants to support Victor’s summer research
project: “Locating ‘Queer Street’ in Late-Victorian Gothic
Fiction.”
Mike Duvall spent last spring on a sabbatical, doing
research on late 19th and turn of the century fiction that he
loosely calls “novels of socialism,” fiction whose main purpose
is either to endorse or go against “socialism” (a term that
means many different things to many different people). These
novels range from grubby realism to melodramatic romance
to fantastic utopia and dystopia, and the period saw hundreds
of them published. In April, he presented a paper arising from
this research in Berkeley, CA at the conference of C19: The
Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists: “Perversity and
the Novel of Socialism after Bellamy.” And, as always, with
colleagues and friends in and outside the department--known
collectively as The Hacks--last year he battled an assortment of
foes on the softball diamond and only lost a little dignity and
pride. He is looking forward to getting back in the classroom
in the fall, when he will be teaching a new first-year seminar,
“Mark Twain: The American.” In the spring he will offer
another new course on regionalism and local color writing for
upper-division English majors.
Carens spent the spring semester on sabbatical, a part of which
he used to conduct archival research in London at the British
Library. After that period of productive but lonely work, he is
looking forward to getting back into the classroom in the fall.
Marguerite (Meg) Scott Copses is off to
Greece! [or was at the time she submitted this update]. The
trip is mostly family oriented, but also part research for the
next volume of Illuminations, the literary mag she inherited
last summer from long-time editor Simon Lewis. The next
issue will be a Greek theme-based volume. The current issue,
#28, her first as Editor, has just been released.
When she’s not reading manuscripts or trying to write
one of her own, she’s likely teaching academic writing,
poetry workshops, or her step aerobics class over at MUSC.
(Seriously!) If not that, she’s chasing
her children in circles around her
house.
Julia Eichelberger
this
summer received a College grant (for
Innovative Teaching and Learning in
the Liberal Arts) to develop materials
for her courses that meet a new English
major requirement called “Literature
in History.” She has been developing
assignments that will engage students in
a deeper study of public events, daily life,
customs, and beliefs of a particular time
and place.
Bonnie Devet served as a
reviewer for the International Writing
Center Conference, San Diego,
2012. Her article, “Redefining the
Writing Center with Ecocomposition”
(Composition Forum 23 [Winter
2011]
<http://compositionforum.
com/issue/23/>) was nominated for
the International Writing Center
Association’s Outstanding Scholarship
This year she also completed an essay
The Hacks
(Article) for 2011. Another article,
for Eudora Welty, Whiteness, and Race
“What Teachers of Academic Writing
(forthcoming from U of GA Press). Her
Can Learn from a Writing Center,” was chosen for the
book Tell About Night Flowers: Eudora Welty’s Gardening
premiere issue of Journal of Academic Writing (The Journal
Letters, 1940-1949 is forthcoming from UP of Mississippi. She
of the European Association for the Teaching of Academic
bought a kayak and started taking short paddles around the
Writing), Autumn 2011.
area. Her daughter graduated from the College this May, and
she had the pleasure of seeing Commencement through the
She also published a number of other pieces: “Dear Labby:
eyes of a proud parent. (After years of disliking the white-dress
Stressing Interpersonal Relationships in a Writing Center,”
tradition, she found herself saying, “Oh, they look adorable!”
written with peer consultant Alison Barbiero, and appearing
as her daughter and her classmates walked across the stage.)
in Writing Lab Newsletter (Jan./Feb. 2012); “A Writing Lab
And she moved from 22A to 26 Glebe, partly to gain access to
in the Shadow of the Eiffel Tower” in Southern Discourse
her own upstairs porch, but also to force herself to clean out
(Publication of the Southeastern Writing Center Association)
her office and seriously winnow her file cabinets after 20 years
14.1 (2010); and “Bringing Grammar Back into the Writing
at the College.
Center” in Southern Discourse 16.1 (2011).
Susan Farrell’s book, Critical Companion to Tim
In addition, Dr. Devet made a number of presentations at
O’Brien: A Literary Reference to his Life and Work, was published
national and state conferences: “Ecocomposition as a Natural
in fall of 2011. Professor Farrell continues to be active in the
Fit for Writing in the Disciplines” at the International Writing
Kurt Vonnegut Society: she attended the American Literature
Across the Curriculum Conference, Savannah, GA., June
Association conference in San Francisco in May to participate
2012; “Grammatoons in the Classroom” at the Assembly for
in a round-table discussion of the controversial new Vonnegut
the Teaching of English Grammar (ATEG), July 2011, Largo,
biography by David Shields. She’s also writing an essay on
Maryland; “Reconceptualizing WID in order to Solve Its
Vonnegut and religion for a new volume on Vonnegut in the
Recurrent Problems” at the 2012 Research Network Forum
Critical Insights series published by Salem Press.
at CCCC, St. Louis, March 2012; and “Recovered History of
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express courses at the College, and then served as the Ferrol A.
Sams, Jr., Distinguished Chair in English at Mercer University,
serving as visiting writer for six weeks. In addition, he was a
faculty member of the Geneva Writers Conference in Geneva,
Switzerland; attended the National Council on the Arts awards
dinner for President Obama’s National Medal of
Arts recipients at the Smithsonian Institution;
was the keynote speaker at the Wedgwood Circle
annual meeting in Santa Monica, California;
and gave readings in Illinois, North Carolina,
Iowa, and Indiana. Finally, he and Scott Peeples
led the Spoleto Summer Study Abroad program
in May and June.
Conseula Francis, since our last issue, has had an
essay published in a collection on comics and the U.S. South.
The essay is titled “Drawing the Unspeakable: Kyle Baker’s
Slave Narrative.” She has also presented her research on
African American romance at the National Council of Black
Studies and conference, and she traveled to
Little Rock, AR to meet with black romance
writers and readers at their annual conference,
Romance Slam Jam. Most importantly, though,
she finally (finally!) managed to grow something
in her garden: five fat tomatoes and one glorious
sunflower.
Joe Kelly taught Honors 110 in the
Fall, using Charleston--history, politics,
Scott Peeples presented papers at
demographics, culture--as his text, sending
conferences in Savannah, GA; Berkeley, CA;
students out to explore on buses, to observe at
and Florence, Italy. But the highlights of his
city council meetings, to express their policy
academic year were teaching some new courses:
opinions in the Post and Courier. In addition to
American Literature of the 1850s (Fall 11); Poe,
his normal Modern British Literature offering,
Place, and History (Spring 12); and The Italian
he taught a new, large lecture class to humanities
Image in 19th-c American Literature, which he
students: Sex, God, and Guns: Irish Fiction,
had the opportunity to teach in Spoleto, Italy, as
Film, and Song in the 20th Century. Over
part of the English Department’s study-abroad
Conseula Francis’s One
Bloomsday, he attended the International James
program.
Glorious Sunflower
Joyce Symposium in Dublin, and a biographical
Alison Piepmeier continued with what’s become
article he wrote on Joyce was accepted by the James Joyce
a book project on prenatal testing and our cultural
Quarterly. He’s spending the summer finishing his book,
understanding of disability. She has interviewed more than
America’s Longest Siege: How Charleston Caused the Civil War,
30 parents of children with Down syndrome and seven
which will be published by Overlook Press in Spring 2013.
women who were pregnant at the time the interviews. She has
Simon Lewis has been busy with the CLAW program
discussed how they made their decisions about whether or not
commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. The
to have prenatal testing and how they made decisions about
conference entitled Civil War Global Conflict in March 2011
the pregnancy after the test results were returned. She had
featuring James McPherson has led to in-progress collection
an article featured in the New York Times’s “Motherlode” blog
of essays that should be out from USC Press in 2013. Before
in March that gives a sense of some of the work she’s doing
that, another collection of essays from the earlier CLAW
<http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/02/choosingconference (2008) on the banning of the
to-have-a-child-with-down-syndrome/>.
international slave trade, should be out from
She also had a piece published in Disability
USC Press this fall. He is also editing a special
Studies Quarterly <http://dsq-sds.org/article/
issue, “Something New Out of Africa,” for the
view/3031>.
Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial
Kathleen Beres Rogers found
Studies--working with Lindsey Green-Simms,
2012 to be an exceedingly busy year as she
who was with us for a year before going on
worked on the juggling act between teaching,
to American U in Washington DC. His
publication, and new parenthood! Most
main focus for 2012-13 year is coordinating
importantly, her daughter Julia turned one,
a state-wide Jubilee Project commemorating
and she seems like a happy child (so far!).
two resonantly coincident anniversaries: the
You can see a picture of her in Hungary,
150th of the Emancipation Proclamation and
(left) where Kathy’s family resides. While
the 50th of the desegregation of Clemson
on modified duties, she co-wrote an article
University, the University of South Carolina,
about Harriet Martineau as nineteenthand Charleston County Schools District. As
century cyborg, published in Prose Studies.
part of that project, he is hosting the 39th
In October, she managed to attend the
annual conference of the African Literature
Association on the theme Literature, Julia Rogers, playing with a fountain International Conference on Romanticism
Liberation, and the Law. Key-note speakers at on a street in Debrecen, Hungary in Montreal, and the paper she presented will
be published in Essays in Romanticism this
that will include Justice Albie Sachs, Njabulo
summer!
It’s
about
Keats’s Isabella, decapitated heads, and the
Ndebele, Binyavanga Wainaina, Leonora Miano, as well as
medical-ish
ideas
about
obsession in the Romantic era. She
local luminaries Cleveland Sellers and Emory Campbell.
actually became so obsessed with the topic that she has started
Bret Lott’s thirteenth book and eighth novel, Dead Low
working on another paper about monomania/obsession in
Tide, came out from Random House in January. He taught two
Frankenstein, which she’ll be presenting at the next ICR this
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upcoming fall. This might be a book in the making! She is
also in the process of editing a chapter about service learning
in literary studies, to be published in the upcoming MLA
volume by the same name. It’s about her First Year Experience
course, “Healing Narratives,” about which you can read in this
Folio volume. She also taught her second graduate course,
“Romanticism and Science,” which she enjoyed immensely.
Two marathons, also, were completed, in Portland and in
(insanely beautiful) Ogden.
Catherine Thomas taught her last year (for now) of
Honors Western Civ with Dr. Newell, during his next-to-last
last year at the College (“an honor and pleasure!,” she notes).
She also enjoyed teaching some new courses: Gender and
Sexuality in Early Modern Literature and Culture and a senior
seminar on Shakespeare and Popular Culture. Her survey
article on early modern poisoning, “Toxic Encounters,” was
published in Literature Compass, and she completed “(Un)
sexing Lady Macbeth: Gender, Power, and Visual Rhetoric in
Her Graphic Afterlives,” which has been accepted to Upstart
Crow: A Shakespeare Journal. She is currently co-editing an
essay collection called Violent Masculinities: Male Aggression
in Renaissance Texts with her friend and colleague, Dr. Jennifer
Feather (UNC-Greensboro). They are hoping to see that into
print in the next year or so.
Emily Rosko published two books this year. A Broken
Thing: Poets on the Line (University of Iowa Press), which
she edited with Anton Vander Zee, collects 70 microessays
on the line in poetry by a range of established and emerging
poets. Prop Rockery, her second book of poems, which won
the 2011 Akron Poetry Prize from the University of Akron
Press, was published in February. Rosko also won a Dorothy
Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Prize and presented a paper at
MLA 2012 on the rise and role
of creative writing programs
within the discipline of English.
In her personal life, the big
news is that she got married
William Russell
in between semesters, midpresented
a
paper
on
December 2011. Of which she
Elizabethan satirist Thomas
says, “You can imagine the
Nashe and the relationship
chaos of grading all the papers
between literary criticism and
and exams, turning grades in,
detraction at the Sixteenth
and immediately rushing off to
Century Society Conference
entertain guests! It was a lovely
in Ft. Worth, TX, in October.
event though, and we enjoyed
Meanwhile, he continued work
spending time with our friends
on his book project on the idea
and family.” This summer she is
of the literary critic in early
wrapping up her term as British
modern England, a chapter
of which will be published And they’re off!: Catherine Thomas and William Shelton de- Studies director and celebrating
that by taking students over to
part for their honeymoon. Photo courtesy of Alexa Moyer.
in Studies in Philology this fall.
London to study “Love, Sex, and
The highlight of his academic
Desire
in
Shakespeare.
”
year, however, may well have been the all-night group reading
of Paradise Lost cooked up (honestly!) and hosted by the
Literati Club (formerly the English Club), which he proudly
serves as faculty advisor.
Anton Vander Zee Anton Vander Zee earned his
Ph.D. from Stanford University this summer after completing
his dissertation, “’The Final Lilt of Songs’: Late Whitman
and the Long American Century.” The dissertation rescues
Whitman’s late work from critical neglect and demonstrates
how Whitman, precisely in the estranging forms his late work
takes, offers a charged poetic response to the post-Civil War
years, and also plays a critically overlooked role in conceptions
of subsequent poetries across the twentieth century and
beyond. Anton presented what became the conclusion to the
dissertation at a special session he put together for the 2012
MLA conference, where he also presented a paper on the New
Formalism in the context of twentieth-century American
literature. Last fall, the University of Iowa Press published a
collection of microessays--A Broken Thing: Poets on the Line-that he edited and introduced with Emily Rosko. During the
coming academic year, in addition to teaching in the English
Department, Anton will take on a new role as a part-time
Faculty Fellow in the Honors College, where he will work
with the Office of Nationally Competitive Awards and assist
in teaching the Honors first-year experience course, Beyond
George Street.
Myra Seaman taught two new classes that grew out
of her scholarship, “Making Matter Matter in Premodern
England” and “Future Perfect Human: Cyborg, Clone,
Werewolf, God.” In both cases medieval texts and
contemporary approaches and texts found themselves in
suggestive conversation, generating, for instance, student
presentations on “Lady Gaga as Object Oriented Ontologist”
(by Victor Imko) and essays on temporality, the Singularity,
hybridity, BSG, disability, and medieval culture. Co-editing
postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies continued
to be her primary scholarly activity, with the journal winning
the PROSE Award for ‘Best New Journal in Social Sciences and
Humanities’ from the Association of American Publishers. She
published an essay on “Conduct Literature” in The History of
British Women’s Writing, to 1500 and had two articles accepted
for publication, one of them a pedagogical essay on a course
she taught in Spring 2011, “Medieval Prime Time.” She gave
three talks at two conferences, the New Chaucer Society and
the International Medieval Congress, laying the theoretical
groundwork for her book on Objects of Affective Literacy:
Learning to Feel from the Medieval English Gentry Household.
Anthony Varallo’s third short story collection,
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Think of Me and I’ll Know, will be published by Northwestern
University Press/TriQuarterly Books in Fall 2013.
professor at UNC-Asheville), he published the essay “Proofs
and Persuasion: A Cross-Disciplinary Analysis of Math
Students’ Writing” in the journal Across the Disciplines. Last
spring, he taught the new course English 310: Theories of
Teaching Writing. This summer, he’s continued his research
on math students’ writing with other members of the research
team, presenting findings at the Conference on College
Composition and Communication in St. Louis and the
International Writing Across the Curriculum conference in
Savannah. Besides working on several faculty development
initiatives this summer, including a writing across the
curriculum workshop sponsored by the First-Year Experience
program, he’s rooted on his Pittsburgh Pirates, who (fingers
crossed) appear to be on the verge of their first winning season
in Dr. Warnick’s adulthood.
Trish Ward taught a new course in the fall, English
309: English Language: Grammar and History. The course is
a blend of the modern grammar and history of the language
courses required for teaching certification. She is looking
forward to teaching a senior seminar on Tolkien and Rowling
in Fall, along with a lower-level course on the Harry Potter
series. She is also continuing research projects on Old English
poetry and J.K. Rowling.
Chris Warnick was awarded tenure and promoted to
Associate Professor. Along with Dr. Mecklenburg-Faenger,
Dr. Scott-Copses, and Dr. Patrick Bahls (a mathematics
Thank you for your continued support of the
Department of English.
If you are interested in making a gift,
please send a check payable to the
College of Charleston Foundation
to
School of Humanitites and Social Sciences
66 George Street
Charleston, SC 29424
Please note “Department of English” on your check. If
you have any questions please contact The School of
Humanities and Social Sciences at 843.953.0766
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