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English Major News
The Sixth Annual English Undergraduate Conference will take place April 16-17 at Walter Library. Students will present creative writing and scholarly work, and there will be two career panels: one featuring English alumnae/i and the other focusing on the publishing industry (with English alums represented). Alumnae/i and friends are welcome to attend. A schedule will be posted by April 9.Autumn Burggraff is the current intern at Wits, a radio show at American Public Media co-produced by English alumna Larissa Anderson.
Tiffany Trawick won a Bronze award for her magazine, InCOLOR, at the 2015 Acara Challenge, a competition held by the University of Minnesota's Institute on the Environment in partnership with the College of Science and Engineering and the Carlson School of Management. The online multimedia magazine is designed to serve as a voice for various multicultural and inner-city communities. Trawick is editor-in-chief.
BA Alumnae/i
Scott Z. Burns (BA 1985) and Oscar-winning filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow collaborated on a new short film about elephant poaching and terrorism. They are video interviewed by Vice. Burns also will write, direct, and executive produce a movie adaptation of the story of how psychologists helped pioneer the C.I.A.'s post-9/11 program of aggressive interrogation techniques.Mark Derks (BA 1992) is director of global marketing for C.H. Robinson, one of the world's largest third party logistics providers, where he leads their marketing communications and brand management initiatives. His leadership responsibilities include marketing strategy, execution, and operations oversight for North America, South America, Europe, Asia, India and Australia.
Johannes Göransson (BA 1996) published a poetry collection, The Sugar Book, with Tarpaulin Sky Press.
Kathleen Jesme (BA 1975) published the poetry collection Albedo, which is a finalist for the 2015 Minnesota Book Award in poetry.
Jeff Lindgren (BA 1991) is the acting director of the Center for Educational Innovation at the University of Minnesota. CEI is now the umbrella organization for the Center for Teaching and Learning and the Office of eLearning.
Jamie Millard (BA 2009) was named a "40 under 40" by Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal. With BA alumna Meghan Murphy, she directs Pollen, a major Twin Cities networking nonprofit.
Joyce Sutphen (BA 1982, MA 1993, PhD 1996) will serve as the Commencement Speaker at the University of Minnesota at Morris' 52nd commencement May 9. Sutphen was appointed as Minnesota's second poet laureate by Governor Mark Dayton in August 2011. As poet laureate, she is the state's primary spokesperson, supporter, and promoter of poetry. Sutphen also is a professor of English at Gustavus Adolphus College.
May Lee-Yang (BA 2006) won one of six 2015 Intermedia Arts' Beyond the Pure Fellowships for Writers, a fellowship program that awards grants of up to $4,000 each year.
In Memoriam:
Lucille Broderson (BA 1937), who took many graduate level Creative Writing Professors classes in her later years with professors including Michael Dennis Browne, Patricia Hampl, and Madelon Sprengnether, sadly passed away on February 7. Read her Star Tribune obituary. A video of her reading, with introduction by Browne, is here.We'd love to hear from you. Please share your own news.
