Beyond the Classroom

Take your Mount English major beyond the classroom!

On Campus

• English Club

• Lambda Iota Tau, honor society for literature, Alpha Rho chapter

• Lighted Corners literary and arts magazine

• Theater trips

• SPARC Festival: Scholarship, Performance, Art, Research, and Creativity

Recent Internships

• Potomac Review

• Maryland Life magazine

• 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

• Gettysburg/Adams County Chamber of Commerce, Public Relations Intern

• Frederick County Public Schools, Student Teacher

Recent Honors Projects

• "Life: Creatively—An Exploration in the Creative Nonfiction Genre"

• "Finding the Art in Truth: An Exploration in Creative Nonfiction”

• "Keep on Smiling, Sister Sunshine"

• "The Mouth of God"

• "The Last Enemy: Harry Potter and the Problem of Evil"

• "Approaches to Teaching the Classics: A Study of the Importance of High School Literature"

• "Invisible Circuses, Shadow Selves, and Gothic Castles:  Desire, Identity, and Time in the Novels of Jennifer Egan"

• "The State of Affairs: Contracts, Betrothals, and Marriages in Shakespeare's Plays"

• "Exploring Forms of Female Enthrallment: Constance Fenimore Woolson’s Subtle Feminism"

• "A Love 'Universally Acknowledged:' Models of Virtue and Christian Romance in Jane Austen’s Novels"

• "The Child Characters of Charles Dickens"

• “Two Decades of Mount Fiction: A Review and Critique (Lighted Corners)”

• "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”