Alumni News
Allen Mendenhall, who graduated in December 2009 with an MA, reports that his article on Jefferson and natural law has been accepted for publication by the Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence. Allen wrote the paper in my seminar this fall.
Monica Brooks, BA in English 1988, is Assistant Vice President for Information Technology at Marshall University.
Suzanne Cook (M.A., WVU, now pursuing her PhD at Duquesne) presented “Macheath at the Scaffold: Fetishization of the Criminal Body in John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera” at the East-Central American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies conference in October 2009.
Crystal Lake, who received her BA and MA in English at WVU, successfully defended her dissertation, “Ruin Nation: Antiquarian Objects and Political Narratives in the Long Eighteenth Century” in September 2008 at the University of Missouri. She is currently a Marion Brittain postdoctoral fellow at the Georgia Institute of Techology.
William “Matt” Haas (MFA 2005) has accepted a teaching position at Western Oregon University and has published essays and stories recently in publications such as River Teeth and Main Street Rag.
Lawrence A. Levendosky (BA 2002) completed his JD at The Yale Law School in 2008 and is currently working as an attorney specializing in corporate taxation in the Los Angeles office of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker.
Wenying Xu (MA 1989) is now chairing the Department of English at Florida Atlantic University and has just published her second book, Eating Identities: Reading Food in Asian American Literature (U of Hawaii Press, 2008).
Nicole Sheets, BA 1999: Ph.D. candidate in creative nonfiction, University of Utah, and the nonfiction editor of Quarterly West.
Jessica (Harriman) van Eerden, BA 2001: MFA in nonfiction, University of Iowa, 2007; 2007-2008 Milton Center Fellow in Seattle, a position that includes teaching creative writing at Seattle Pacific University.
Katie Fallon, MFA 2003: Lecturer at Virginia Tech in composition and nonfiction.
Emily Moore, MFA 2004: PhD student in art history at the University of California, Berkeley.
Jillian Schedneck, MFA 2006: Assistant Professor of English at the American University in Dubai.
Amy Colombo, MFA 2007: Assistant Professor of English at Tusculum College.
Erin Tocknell, MFA 2007: Teacher, The McCallie School, Chattanooga, TN.
Tara Eaton, MFA 2007, teaches at Hudson Valley Community College
Helen Burgess (PhD 2003) accepted a tenure-track position at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Thomas Kinnahan (PhD 2003) accepted a tenure-track position at Duquesne University.
Susan Jennings Lantz (MA 1994) is now the Associate Director of the WVU Career Services Center.
Crystal Lake (BA 2001 and MA 2003) had an article entitled “Redecorating the Ruin: Women and Antiquarianism in Sarah Scott’s Millenium Hall” accepted by the journal English Literary History (ELH).
Maria Coole (BA 1982), is a copy editor and reporter for the Sunday News in Lancaster, Pa., and was awarded first place in the 2007 National Federation of Press Women communications contest.
Jay Marinelli (MFA 2005) is teaching at California University of Pennsylvania.
Laura Morris (MFA 2005) has accepted a three year appointment at Francis Marion University in Florence, South Carolina.
Cynthia Klekar (PhD 2005) has accepted a position as an Assistant Professor of English at Western Michigan Univerisity.
Wayne Thomas (MFA 2005) is an Assistant Professor of English in Journalism and Composition at Tusculum College in Tennessee.
Konni Huber (M.A. 2004), now Konni Huber Jacobs, has accepted an adjunct position at Blue Ridge Community College.
Sandi Ward (MFA 2004) has accepted a position at Ivy Collegiate Academy in Taichung, Taiwan where she teaches writing workshops, reading, and English.
Sarah Gould, MA with creative writing thesis and former writer/editor at WVU News Services, has recently been named Content Writer for WVU’s Web Services.
Eddie Christie (PhD 2003) accepted a tenure-track position Georgia State University.
Alan Swaney (M.A. 2003) is teaching high school English at Crespi Carmelite Academy in Encino, CA.
Greg McNamara (PhD 2000) has accepted a tenure-track position at Clayton State University in suburban Atlanta.
Ben Doyle (BA 1998) received the Walt Whitman Award for his first collection of poems, Radio, Radio. Doyle gave a poetry reading at WVU on Monday, April 16, 2001.
Charles Hannon (PhD 1994) has been appointed Associate Professor and Chair of Information Technology Leadership at Washington and Jefferson College in Washington, Pennsylvania.
William L. Turner, Jr. (PhD 1984) was appointed assistant dean of the School of Library and Information Science at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, effective July 2000, after receiving an MS in Library Science from the school in 1995 and serving for 5 years in public services at the U.S. Census Bureau Library. He is a former writer/editor (1988-1993) and a former assistant professor of English (1983-1987).
Ann Pancake (BA 1985) is a previous recipient of the Bakeless Prize in Creative Fiction.