Student Achievements and Alumni News

Student News - 2025

Six English majors were named to Phi Betta Kappa:

This year’s Carrell Medal was awarded to CJ Laux '25 and Caroline Kunz '25.

CJ Laux '25 - Shame, Truth, and the Monster in the Mirror: A Queer Reading of Stephen King's It

Evelyn Ryan '25 - Barbies and Bratz: The Idealized Feminine in Bleak House, Little Dorrit, and Our Mutual Friend

Elizabeth Thompson '25 - "I Was a Colored Woman and Proud of It" Subversion in Gendered and Racialized Spaces in the Literature of A. E. Johnson

Kathleen Baumer
Vice President Operations, Lippe Taylor NYC

Mary Cronin
Candidate Experience Specialist, Toast, Inc.

Nadia Firozvi
Chief of Staff, Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, Department of Homeland Security

Jenn Ladd
Food Writer, The Philadelphia Inquirer

Emma Schiller
Brand Lead U.S., Mauna Kea Technologies

Daniel Procaccini
Attorney/Shareholder, Adler, Pollock, Sheehan, P.C.

Andrew Zaleski
Writer, Bloomberg City Lab, GQ, Wired, The Washington Post Magazine, Men's Health