Never fear, below is a brief synopsis of what you my have missed. All of out panelists expressed a willingness for students to contact them with further more in-depth questions. So, if you have a burning question, contact Larisa G. gars0020@umn.edu and she’ll pass on the contact info. for any and all of our fabulist panelists.
Morgan Kingsted, a former English undergraduate Peer Advisor and English major who graduated in May 2005, is currently a high school English teacher at Sage Academy, a charter school in the Twin Cities. She spoke about the differences that she has experienced first-hand between public schools (more money for basic class room items like staplers and pencil sharpeners) and charter schools (less red tap, more freedom to tailor the curriculum to students’ needs). She discussed the importance of internship opportunities at the U of MN and how much receiving an internship scholarship from CCLC (the Career and Community Learning Center) helped her finance her unpaid internship. Ms. Kingsted recommended taking a service-learning course, such as Engl 3741, if you think you might have an interest in teaching. She would be happy to talk with any interested students.
Academic background: English BA May 2005, 5-8,9-12 Communication Arts and Literature Teaching License (2006), Masters in English Education (2007) K-12 Reading License (to be completed Fall 2009), just started 9-12 Biological Sciences License (to be completed a few years down the road)
Chris Sullivan, a former English and Computer Science major who graduated in 1993, began his career in the non-profit sector, which eventually led him to pursue a law degree. After graduating from the William Mitchell College of Law in 2005, Mr. Sullivan joined the firm of Lindquist & Vennum PLLP where he handles patent, trademark, and copyright issues. One of his recent cases involved a copy write dispute over an elk sculpture (no, we’re not kidding). He would be happy to talk with any interested students.
Academic background: Education: William Mitchell College of Law (J.D., cum laude, 2005); assistant editor, William Mitchell Law Review, University of Oxford, England (International and Comparative Intellectual Property Program, 2003), University of Minnesota (B.A., Computer Science, English, 1993); Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society
Danielle Kasprzak, a Spring 2007 English major graduate, is an Editorial Assistant at the University of Minnesota Press. Editorial assistants provide support to the acquisitions editors in developing and acquiring scholarly titles. This includes a variety of activities, such as heading the external review process, which involves researching and contacting potential external reviewers and drafting project summaries for internal and faculty board meetings; working closely with authors to secure permissions for illustration and previously published materials, which is often a time-consuming and complex process; and reviewing and preparing manuscripts to assure stylistic consistencies before sending to production. She strongly suggested that any and all students interested in the publishing field should find an internship – paid or unpaid – at a publishing house before they graduate from the U of MN and start trying to get a job in the publishing field. She mentioned several presses in the Twin Cities that are open to hiring interns: Graywolf Press, Coffee House Press, Milkweed Press, and the University of Minnesota Press. She also encouraged students to contact professionals in the publishing field to meet and discuss opportunities, which she would be more than happy to do with any and all interested students.
Academic background: B.A. (summa cum laude) in English and American Studies from the University of Minnesota Spring 2007
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The Department of English is proud to host poet, scholar and teacher Steven Winduo in 2007-08. Winduo lectures in literature and language at the University of Papua New Guinea. He has published two poetry collections: Lomo'ha I am, in Spirit's Voice I Call (1991) and Hembemba: Rivers of the Forest (2000). Windou is the founding editor of Savanna Flames: A Papua New Guinea Journal of Literature, Language, and Culture. For fall, he will teach the undergraduate classes Analysis of the English Language and Literacy and American Cultural Diversity.
The Department of English undergraduate literary magazine Ivory Tower launched its