News from BA alumnae/i.
Larissa Anderson (BA 1999), Senior Producer for the Wits radio comedy show on American Public Media, is interviewed in the latest University of Minnesota alumni magazine, Minnesota.
Scott Z. Burns (BA 1985) was on NPR's Science Friday August 29 with other Hollywood screenwriters for Science in the Writers' Room, talking about scientific accuracy & storytelling.
Scott Carlson (BA 1998), Senior Writer at The Chronicle of Higher Education, wrote a pertinent article this summer about liberal arts degrees and practical experience for The Chronicle, entitled "Want a College Experience That Matters? Get to Work."
Clay Jenkinson (BA 1977) was featured prominently on Ken Burns' The Roosevelts series on PBS in September. Jenkinson is Theodore Roosevelt Humanities Scholar at the Theodore Roosevelt Center at Dickinson State University. He's also a re-enactor of Roosevelt (among other historical figures), most recently at Rapid City, SD.
John Jodzio (BA 1999) won The Rusty Toque chapbook contest for "You Cannot Give Yourself a Nickname," which they'll publish.
Danielle M. Kasprzak (BA 2007) has been named Humanities Editor at the University of Minnesota Press. She will be acquiring titles in cultural and literary studies, gender studies, ethnic studies, disability studies, queer studies, and cinema and media studies. Danielle joined the Press in 2008 as an Editorial Assistant and, in 2012, became Associate Editor with responsibility for cinema and media studies; she is also the editor for Minnesota's Forerunners: Ideas First ebook initiative.
Mary Nyquist (BA) is Professor of English at the University of Toronto, where she also teaches at the Women and Gender Studies Institute. Her latest book is Arbitrary Rule: Slavery, Tyranny, and the Power of Life and Death (University of Chicago Press, 2013). Read our interview.
Jason Weidemann (BA 2001) has been named Editorial Director at the University of Minnesota Press. He was Senior Acquisitions Editor.
