Alumni – The Ellen Reeder

December 1, 2021

PSU English Alum’s Research

Check out this fantastic piece by PSU English major alum and former “American Food Issues” student, Jared Gendron. The piece is published in the The Columbia Missourian, a community newspaper staffed by Missouri School of Journalism students. Jared is working on his graduate degree in journalism, and he continues his important research on food insecurity in college students. “Students are...

Alumni/Submissions

November 4, 2021

Share a Memory

Message from Professor, Paul Rogalus Dear Plymouth State English Alumni and Friends:(really, anyone who’s taken an English class here over the past 30 years) I am writing to invite you all to reconnect with us, and to help us celebrate the teaching careers of three of our most dedicated and popular professors, all of whom retired earlier this year: Joe...

Alumni/Faculty/Plymouth State University/Submissions

May 6, 2021

A Digital Rhetoric Analysis of QAnon

As student editor of The Ellen Reeder this semester — a role she’s been fantastic in! — Asia Merrill has also been tasked with studying Digital Rhetoric, a field of inquiry best theorized by Douglas Eyman. Her semester-long project has been choosing and analyzing a digital text for a final 3000 word essay to be published to this site. What follows is her...

Alumni/News/PSU Student Works

March 9, 2021

English Alum Find Exciting Careers in Library Science

Many English majors struggle with what to do with their lucrative degrees. While the program has many benefits- effective communication, writing, and critical thinking skills, to name a few- it can be difficult for undergrads to choose a direction for their careers if education or academia aren’t necessarily appealing. With this in mind, Dr. Liz Ahl recently reached out to...

Alumni/Employment

March 1, 2021

English Alum Talk: Making Waves

Plymouth State’s University Honors Program has brought an alumni talk series to school, and an English graduate is up next on the list. Bryan Funk has been working in activism globally to promote number of causes, including peace, human rights, and mental health. While he currently works for Virtuous, he launched his career at Invisible Children and was a member...

Alumni

November 12, 2020

The Pumpkins of Rounds Hall

Today we have a timely poem from Caitlin Andreasen, PSU class of 2018: I graduated in 2018. My English degree has taken me to unexpected places as I now work in the insurance industry as an underwriting assistant. Autumn in Plymouth was always my favorite time of year, with the changing foliage, the poetry reading at First Fire, and of...

Alumni/Plymouth State University/Poetry/PSU Student Works

October 30, 2020

NaNoWriGo!

Writers! November is NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month! Several PSU English alumni have participated, sometimes numerous years, in NaNoWriMo, and one of them, Nikole Breault, keeps a blog about her work as a writer. Nikole earned her BA in English Education at PSU and taught for eight years. She also earned her Master of Education degree in the Teaching...

Alumni/Literature

October 14, 2020

COVID Spring: Granite State Pandemic Poems

PSU English alumni Cara Cristina Chanoine and Josh Nicolaisen, as well as PSU just-about-to-be-alumnus Griffin Nyhan, and PSU English faculty member Liz Ahl all have poems in a new anthology, COVID Spring: Granite State Pandemic Poems, edited by NH poet laureate Alexandria Peary. $2 from each copy sold will be donated to the New Hampshire Food Bank.

Alumni/Poetry/PSU Student Works/Students/Teachers

October 12, 2020

Alumni Updates: Six Years in China

In 2014, Keith R. Bouchard arrived in China one week after graduating from PSU to teach English in Beijing. He worked for two years in an English training center before opening his own private classroom, Keith’s Happy English Classes, which has been in operation since 2016. In 2018 he was also invited to be the guest lecturer on early childhood...

Alumni/Employment/Videos

February 20, 2017

PSU Alumni Spotlight: Cassie Viau, Class of 2008

For this post, we are shining our alumni spotlight on none other than Cassie Viau! Cassie received her English degree with a writing option (and a minor in Business Administration) in 2008. English, you ask? Cassie said that choosing to become an English major was sort of a no-brainer for her. From the time she was a little kid, she...

Alumni/Plymouth State University

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