Beyond the Classroom

Take your Mount English major beyond the classroom!

On Campus

• English Club
• Lambda Iota Tau, Chapter Alpha Rho (literary honor society)
• Lighted Corners (literary magazine)
• Theater trips
• Poetry Slams

Recent Internships

• Judge Advocate General Office, Fort Detrick, Md., Law Clerk
• Business Info Sources, Inc., Web Designer and Copywriter
• Smith Barney, Inc., Research Assistant
• Mount St. Mary’s Office of Communications, Editorial Intern
• Radio Station WMZQ 98.7, Broadcast Media Intern
• Center for Integrative Health Care, Research Intern
• Monocacy Valley Review (literary magazine), Editorial Staff
• Gettysburg/Adams County Chamber of Commerce, Public Relations Intern
• Frederick County Public Schools, Student Teacher

Recent Honors Projects

• "The Last Enemy: Harry Potter and the Problem of Evil"
• "Approaches to Teaching the Classics: A Study of the Importance of High School Literature"
• "The State of Affairs: Contracts, Betrothals, and Marriages in Shakespeare's Plays"
• “Two Decades of Mount Fiction: A Review and Critique”
• "The Most Happy?: Anne Boleyn in Twentieth-Century Historical Fiction"
• “Alice Munro Bridging the Gaps”
• “The World to One Person” (short story)
• “Parallel Study: The Aesthetics of Early Surrealist Paintings and T.S. Eliot’s ‘Waste Land’”
• “Quest for Integrity: Dorothy Sayers and Harriet Vane”
• “Basketball and Braves: Culture Making in the Works of Sherman Alexie”
• “Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Ambiguity in the Creation of his Female Characters”
• “Slavery at Mount St. Mary’s”
• “Jack Kerouac: Mystical Themes in his Literature”

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