The Department of English and Linguistics congratulates several graduates and alumni, who have shared graduate school acceptances and plans: Congratulations to Elizabeth “Beth” Kelly! A May 2021 graduate with a special major in Psycholinguistics, she has been accepted into the University of Colorado Boulder's Speech-Language Pathology Prerequisite Program (SLPP). This one-year program offers eight different courses that will allow her to finish all of the requirements for her anticipated SLP graduate program. Starting this June and running through the summer, she will be taking a phonetics class and a speech science class. She also received acceptances from programs including NYU and Northwestern. Congratulations to Mackenzie King! A December 2020 graduate with a special major in Linguistics and a minor in English Literature as well as a member of the Honors Program, she will be attending the Master of Science degree program in Communication Sciences and Disorders at Longwood … [Read more...]
McClure ’96 Featured in CAS Newsletter
Mark McClure of Brooklyn, NY, a '96 English major, was recently featured in the College of Arts and Sciences newsletter: Mark spends every day using what he learned at Mary Washington trying to make the internet a more humane and productive place (especially for soccer fans). He is currently the Director of Content and User Experience for Major League Soccer. Prior to joining MLS, he was a digital media consultant for news companies like The Washington Post, Charlotte Observer, and Sacramento Bee and for places like the National Education Association and U.S. Dept of State. Before all of the digital media work, he was an Assistant Dean of Admissions at Mary Washington from 1990 to 2002 and an Admissions Counselor from 1996 to 1997. But his very first job at MWC was as a student manager of food services at Seacobeck Hall (#indigestion). … [Read more...]
Datner ’20 Selected as Assistant in the Meddeas program
Chloe Datner, a December 2020 grad with a major in English: Creative Writing and a minor in Linguistics, has been selected as a Language and Culture Assistant in the Meddeas program. As such, she will be teaching English language and grammar and the basics of US culture to elementary school children in Spain for the next year while completing her TEFL certificate. … [Read more...]
Krista Beucler ’20 Wins Flash Fiction Award
Krista Beucler ’20 recently won the 2020 Julia Peterkin Award for flash fiction from South 85 Journal, run by Converse College’s MFA program. Her story will appear in their fall/winter 2020 issue. Details are available on their blog and Facebook page. Krista completed her degree this spring with a major in English: Creative Writing and minors in Spanish and Museum Studies. While at UMW, Krista was the recipient of the Laurie Mansell Reich ’79 and Henry E. Reich Jr. Scholarship and was a finalist for the Barbara Thomas Phillips Creative Writing Scholarship. … [Read more...]
Alum, Professor Emeritus Publish Book Reviews
Sunday's Free Lance-Star featured book reviews by Ashley Riggleson, UMW '18 with a major in English, and Dan Dervin, Professor Emeritus of English. Riggleson's review of Finna by Nate Marshall is available online. Dervin's review of Things in Jars by Jess Kidd is also available online. … [Read more...]
Joey LoMonaco ’13 Wins Outstanding Young Journalist of the Year
Joey LoMonaco '13 has been named 2019 Outstanding Young Journalist of the Year by the Virginia Press Association for his work at the Free Lance-Star. Joey was an English: Creative Writing major at UMW and graduated cum laude in 2013. The press release for LoMonaco's award reads: In nominating LoMonaco for Outstanding Young Journalist of the Year, his editor said “Joey has a knack for finding and telling stories that appeal to all readers, regardless of their interest in the sport itself … Joey’s storytelling skill shines.” LoMonaco has been a sports reporter at The Free Lance-Star since 2016, and has worked at several other news outlets since graduating from the University of Mary Washington with a bachelor’s degree in English in 2013. Articles in LoMonaco’s portfolio covered brothers who were born in a refugee camp and who became soccer standouts at their high school, a swimmer who refused to let being born with essentially one leg stop him from … [Read more...]
Casey Pherson ’08 Alum Graduates with Doctor of Physical Therapy
Casey Pherson, a class of 2008 UMW graduate with a BA in English, earned a Doctor of Physical Therapy degree from Emory & Henry in August 2020. After UMW, Casey earned an MA in Applied Linguistics: Sociolinguistics from Old Dominion University in 2010 and worked for several years as a physical therapy technician. The Department of English & Linguistics congratulates Casey on her achievements and wishes her well. … [Read more...]
Creative Writing Graduate Alexandria Riker Publishes First Short Story
Alexandria Riker just published her first short story "Coming Home" in the online magazine The Literary Garden, Issue 4 and can be read online. A December 2018 magna cum laude graduate, Alexandria was an English: Creative Major who worked with Professor Warren Rochelle and was part of the study abroad program that he led in the summer of 2018 at Bangor University in Wales, UK. … [Read more...]
2020 Graduate Krista Beucler Publishes First Short Story
Krista Beucler '20 recently published her first short story, a piece that originated in her first creative writing class at the University of Mary Washington with Professor Warren Rochelle. Krista completed her degree this spring with a major in English: Creative Writing and minors in Spanish and Museum Studies. While at UMW, Krista was the recipient of the Laurie Mansell Reich '79 and Henry E. Reich Jr. Scholarship and was a finalist for the Barbara Thomas Phillips Creative Writing Scholarship. Krista was the Editor-in-Chief for Issue 7.2 of the Rappahannock Review, the literary journal published by the University of Mary Washington. Working with Professor Rochelle as her advisor, Beucler's graduated in Spring 2020 with departmental Honors by completing the Honors project "Introduction to the Publishing Industry." Krista's story "Rooks Mate for Life" is available online in From Whispers to Roars: An Arts & Literary Magazine, Vol. 3, Issue 1. … [Read more...]
Schultz Accepted into MFA Program
Jordan Schultz, a May 2017 graduate with a major in English: Creative Writing, has been accepted into the M.F.A. program at the University of South Florida, starting in the fall of 2020 with full funding. … [Read more...]