News from BA alumnae/i.
BA Alumnae/i News
Kevin Brazner (BA 1985) is Managing Partner of Avalon Companies, which develops, owns, and manages high profile shopping centers; he co-founded the firm. Brazner is featured in the new video promoting the Department of English.
W. Lawrence Hogue (BA 1973) published his fourth monograph, Postmodernism, Traditional Cultural Forms, and African American Narratives (SUNY Press, 2013). Among his other works is The African American Male, Writing, and Difference: A Polycentric Approach to African American Literature, Criticism, and History (SUNY Press, 2003). Hogue is John and Rebecca Moores Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Houston.
Alphonso Jones III (BA 2005) is Senior Operations Engineer at Mattersight Corporation, in Edina.
Becca Merton (BA 2008) is a special education teacher at Avalon School, a charter middle and high school in St. Paul. Merton is featured in the new video promoting the Department of English.
Jamie Millard (BA 2009) and Meghan Murphy (BA 2009) are 2013 recipients of a significant Bush Foundation grant to develop a leading physical and digital convening platform to educate, empower, and serve as a catalyst for community builders and creative change agents. Millard and Murphy are co-founders of the four-year-old literary magazine Paper Darts. They are featured in the new video promoting the Department of English.
Shaela Moloney (BA 2012) works at the Minnesota Zoo as a Human Resources Generalist, after stints at the Minnesota Department of Health and MN.IT Services.
Andrew Nath (BA 1991) is Executive Vice President of Premier Bank in Maplewood. Nath is featured in the new video promoting the Department of English.
Siobhan Tolar (BA 2005) received her JD from the William Mitchell College of Law and is Labor Compliance Officer for the City of St. Paul. Tolar is featured in the new video promoting the Department of English.
Lance Twitchell (BA 2007) is Associate Professor of Alaska Native Languages at the University of Alaska Southeast, in Juneau. He posts a lot of his work on the Tlingit language on a website, Lingít Yoo X̱ʼatángi. Twitchell has a column in the local newspaper, Juneau Empire, and has contributed to national news sources on indigenous language studies and Native American studies. He received his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Alaska Fairbanks in 2010, and this year received a 2013 Connie Boochever Fellowships in literary arts.
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