News from English majors and BA alumnae/i.
English Major Scholarships and Awards
CLA Selmer Birkelo Scholarship: Scott Seres
Talle Family Scholarship: Isaac Wicker
Beverly Atkinson Scholarship for Outstanding Non-Traditional English Majors: Samuel Anderson
Sharon Borine Scholarship: Aaron Abelleira and Ryan Pauly
Mark David Clawson Award: Cecilia Klueh and Lucky Omaar
Jessie M. Comstock Scholarship: Ian Taylor, Jr.
Joan C. Forester Scholarship: Ellen Duren and Courtney Fields
Donald V. Hawkins Scholarship: Maria Brekke, Laura Burnes, Delaney Churchwell, Lauryn Heineman, Cassandra Hendricks, Carissa Johnson, David Jones, Christina Leighton
Captain Dewitt Jennings Payne Memorial Scholarship: Kelsey Gierach and Colleen Kim
Anna August Von Helmholtz Phelan Scholarship: Sierra DeMulder
University of Minnesota Press 2013-14 Interns: Rachel Hauser and Patrick Maloney
BA Alumnae/i News
Larissa Anderson (BA 1999) is Senior Producer of American Public Media's WITS series.
Jerr Boschee (BA English, 1966; MA, Comparative Literature, 1974) has been an adviser to social entrepreneurs in the United States and elsewhere for more than 30 years. He is the author or editor of six books, including Boschee on Marketing, The Social Enterprise Sourcebook and the award-winning Migrating from Innovation to Entrepreneurship: How Nonprofits are Moving toward Sustainability and Self-Sufficiency. He is the former President and CEO of The National Center for Social Entrepreneurs and is one of the six co-founders of the Social Enterprise Alliance (North America's largest membership organization for social entrepreneurs). See our interview here.
Kai Carlson-Wee (BA 2006) finished his second year as a Stanford University Stegner Fellow in Poetry and now is a lecturer there in poetry. He holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Scott Dominic Carpenter (BA 1980) this year published a collection of short stories, This Jealous Earth (MG Press), and a novel, Theory of Remainders (Winter Goose Publishing). He received a PhD from Wisconsin-Madison in French Studies and has been teaching at Carleton College since 1990.
Reina del Cid (BA 2010) is the stage name of an English alumna who leads a folk rock band in the Twin Cities; the band's debut album, blueprints, plans, made local radio station the Current's "Top 20 Local Releases of 2012." See our interview here.
Nicole Groessel (BA 1994) has been a copyeditor at CMD Agency, a direct marketing/advertising firm in Portland, Oregon, for the past five years. Prior to that, she was a proofreader at Wieden + Kennedy, one of the top ad agencies in the world.
Claire Joseph (BA 2007; JD 2010) is an attorney at Briggs and Morgan. This past spring she was honored with the Ramsey County Bar Association's Excellence in Diversity Award for her work with Minnesotans United for All Families, the coalition that worked to defeat the proposed constitutional amendment that would have limited marriage to opposite sex couples.
Kevin Karch (BA 2011) was accepted into the MFA screenwriting program of the UCLA Graduate School of Theater, Film, and Television, considered the top international screenwriting program.
Meredith Kessler (BA 2005), since graduation a book publicist in New York and Minneapolis, is Assistant Director of Public Relations at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
Mike Trost (BA 2011) works at the Learning Abroad Center of the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. Trost writes: "The work includes writing, researching, and traveling--all the things I was looking for in a career!"
