2000-present
Vanessa Graniello (2007) is studying for an M.A. in English Literature at Queens College, CUNY.
Miranda Selover (2007) is a Client Services Representative in Customer Support at the Grow Network/McGraw Hill, Inc. in New York City. The company publishes study guides and printed reports for students taking standardized tests across the United States.
Brandi Remington (2006) is finishing a stint with AmeriCorps in Rochester, NY. In Fall 2008 she will begin master's degree studies in the Department of International Development, Community, and Environment at Clark University, Worcester, MA. At the conclusion of her time with AmeriCorps, Brandi was awarded the 2008 Willie J. Lightfoot Youth Advocate of the Year Award, presented yearly in Monroe County, NY.
Jennifer Cronenberg (2005) has just concluded her third year at Catholic University of America Law School.
Jenny Fine (2005, English and Drama) is in the graduate program in law at the University of the District of Columbia School of Law.
Meghan Walsh (2005) received an M.A. in Irish literature at Trinity College, Dublin.
Neal Brodsky (2004) received an M.A. in medieval English language and literature at University College, Dublin, Ireland.
Jennifer Doherty (2004) writes that after abandoning M.A. studies not once but twice, she "began moonlighting as a copywriter at a small (but mighty!) advertising agency," where she parlayed her writing skills into a "full-time copywriting gig at a major advertising firm in the Detroit Metro area."
Matt Godzieba (2003) is now Business Analyst at the American Society for Mechanical Engineers, creating documentation and training materials for web-based applications, as well as running training programs. Matt says, "I'll get to do some international travel too. I do not know exactly where just yet (it will be as the situation allows), but China is almost certain." After graduation at IC, Matt completed the M.S. Publishing program at New York University. Prior to his current position, he was Online Marketing Coordinator at Holtzbrinck Publishers (which includes Tor; Farrar, Straus, and Giroux; St. Martin's Press; and Henry Holt, as well as several smaller publishers).
Maggie Coleman (2003, English-Drama) has completed the Graduate Musical Theater Writing Program at New York University, where she studied script- and songwriting. In November 2008 she staged her first full-scale production.
Rebecca Symes (2003) is preparing for a career as a lawyer at the Catholic University of America School of Law, Washington, D.C.
Kim Huth (2003) is a Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Amanda Lewis (2002) teaches English at Mt. Ararat High School, Topsham, Maine.
Levi Mumma (2002) teaches speech, creative writing, and American literature at his alma mater, Mechanicsburg High School, in Pennsylvania.
Ashley Shelden (2002) is a Ph.D candidate in English at Tufts University. She teaches writing and is working on her dissertation, "Making Love: Sexuality and the Construction of Modernism." Last year, she had an essay published in a collection called Straight Writ Queer: Literary Representations of Queer Heterosexuality. She also gave talks at the Los Angeles Queer Studies Conference and at the Modern Language Association convention, and in March she will be giving another talk, entitled "Disfiguring Love."
Zack Howard (2001) has been into the Evans School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington, where he will start work on an MPA in 2007. After a year of classes, he plans to apply to work for an additional master's degree in urban planning.
Lauren Byler (2001) is a Ph.D. candidate in English at Tufts University.
Jennifer Russell (2001) is an administrator in the Office of Programs for International Students, School of Visual Arts, New York City.
Melissa Littlefield (2000) will be a visiting assistant professor in the Women's Studies department at the University of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana) beginning in fall 2005.
Bob Oswald (2000) is studying Information Science at the University of Washington in Seattle and writing for the Belltown Messenger, a local newspaper. In 11/08 he wrote to Prof. Claire Gleitman, "I also have my own little publishing company and have put out a few books by local poets and writers... but in my humble opinion the standout piece among them is my own little vanity project, Haunted Planet (http://www.plateausigmapress.com/HP), which, if it's not too crassly commercial, would be swell to mention numerous times in letters as large and colorful as possible." About his education in English at IC, Bob wrote, "I feel very lucky to have landed in a place where professors who demonstrated such intellectual rigor and passion for literature that I couldn't help but trying, in my own way, to emulate those qualities. And who took an interest in me as an individual, suggesting books and offering thoughtful advice when I painted myself into a corner intellectually. I think the education I received and the entire experience I had as a student at IC were the best I could have hoped for, and I feel indebted to all of you for not only exposing me to all of those great plays and books and stories, but slowly and surely, and mostly by example, teaching... why thinking seriously about literature is so important." The link to his recently published story: http://42opus.com/v8n3/bob-oswald-stages
1990-1999
Pavitra Sundar (1999) is a Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of Michigan.
Maria Voulgaris (1999) is communications coordinator at the national headquarters of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, White Plains, New York, from which she administers the society's 60 nationwide chapters.
Stacy DeBuhr (1998) teaches a bilingual first grade in Oakland, California.
Emily Franzosa (1996, English and drama) is the administrative assistant for the Arts and Business Council, New York City.
Petrina Keddell (1995) is Director of Licensing at the Investors Title Insurance Company, Chapel Hill, NC.
Matt Greaves (1994) began as an acquisitions assistant at Taylor and Francis Publishers, then "crossed to the other side" and went into information technology at Resources for the Future, a non-profit think-tank. He is now a network engineer for Dataprise, an IT services company that assistas small companies in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area.
Traci Scott Jerson (1994) is Director of Marketing for 6N Systems in upstate New York.
Azhar Tyabji (1993) has published a book titled Bhuj (Usmanpura, India: Mapin Publishing, 2006), a study of the artistic, architectural, historical, and civic-planning issues involved in rebuilding the city of Bhuj, India, after it was destroyed by an earthquake in 2001. Reviewer Rahul Mehrotra wrote that Bhuj "celebrates collaboration and demonstrates how ethnography and advocacy planning can be intertwined to engage people in the making and remaking of a place.... The book will serve as an important precedent for all those interested in urban scholarship and design." Bhuj is available internationally: see www.mapinpub.com.
Anna Lechleiter Waldron (1993) is co-founder of Main Street Science, a provider of educational programs in science for public schools and the general public.
Jennifer Hoofard (1992) completed the Ph.D. program at the University of California, Davis in 2004.
Scott MacIver (1991) has recently lauched a Web-based marketing consulting business, Walk Sign Consulting.
Stephanie Overcash Morrison (1991) teaches Plus Phase (12th grade) English at the E3 Academy in Providence, Rhode Island, as well as introductory-level college classes in the City Campus Program at CCRI.
Kristin Wald (1991; M.S. in Teaching, SUNY Binghamton 1992) teaches English in the New York City public school system.
1980-1989
Steven Hartman (1987; M.F.A. American University 1991; Ph.D. SUNY Albany 2003) is Senior Lecturer in American Literature and Culture in the English Department of Växjö University, Sweden. In 2008 he received a five-year grant from the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet) for a project titled "Pathways to Sustainability: Mapping Environmental Consciousness and Agency in Modern American Literature," which he will pursue as a Research Fellow in American Literature at Uppsala University in Sweden. Also in 2008, he discovered a letter by Henry David Thoreau to Ralph Waldo Emerson that was previously believed to be lost. Read the announcement in English by the National Library of Sweden. and read the story by English major Meredith Farley in IC Fuse. Hartman has published articles on Thoreau, Kurt Vonnegut, Michael Ondaatje, Annie Proulx, Derek Walcott and other writers. Before getting his Ph.D., he published a number of short stories, and he has translated short stories by the Swedish author Stig Dagerman. Currently he writes song lyrics, some of which have been recorded by the Real Group on the CD In the Middle of Life (Virgin Records/EMI). He has studied screenwriting and poetry at the University of Southern California at Los Angeles, and has also studied writing at programs in London and Prague.
Marta Werner (1985; Ph.D. 1993 SUNY Buffalo) is Assistant Professor of English at D'Youville College, Buffalo, NY, where she teaches American literature. A recipient of the Fredson Bowers Prize and the JoAnn Boydson Prize for her scholarship, as well as the 2001 D'Youville College Faculty-Scholar Award, Werner is the author of Emily Dickinson's Open Folios: Scenes of Reading, Surfaces of Writing (U of Michigan P, 1995), Radical Scatters: An Electronic Archive of Emily Dickinson's Late Fragments and Related Texts (U of Michigan P, 1999), as well as numerous articles on 19th- and 20th-century literature. Her newest book, co-authored with Nicholas Lawrence, Warwick University, is called Ordinary Mysteries: The Common Journal of Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne, and is due out from the American Philosophical Society in January 2006. She was a member of The Classroom Electric: Dickinson, Whitman and American Culture, a project on the use of technology in the humanities, for which she composed "'The Soul's Distinct Connection': Emily Dickinson, Photography, and 19th-Century American Culture," a Web teaching component. She serves on the executive board of the Society for Textual Scholarship.
Jane Larkworthy (1984) is beauty director at W magazine; previously she was beauty director at Jane magazine and senior beauty editor at Mademoiselle. She has recently published a book, Smile: The Ultimate Guide to Achieving Smile Beauty, written with cosmetic dentist Jonathan Levine.
