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Master a Beast in 4 Short Weeks
January 31, 2020
Charlotte Maskelony '21
Students devote winter term to mounting an opera premiere.
A Conversation with Geoff Pingree, Professor of Cinema Studies and English
December 17, 2019
Amanda Nagy
Professor of Cinema Studies and English Geoff Pingree recently released an autobiographical documentary, The Return of Elder Pingree—Memoir of a Departed Mormon.
Crafting Strategies To Aid Health Care Reform: Emma Eisenberg ’17
June 4, 2019
Jane Hobson ’22
As an assistant account executive at GMMB, a communications agency in Washington, D.C., Emma Eisenberg ’17 creates strategies to aid the progress of health care reform.
BorderLight Transcends Geographic Divides, Promises to Put Cleveland On the Map
May 30, 2019
Erin Ulrich ’18
BorderLight is bringing international theater to Cleveland through collaboration and an innovative approach to showcasing new writing. Four alumni will participate in this year's festival.
A Career Composing Music: Griffin Jennings ’18
May 13, 2019
Jane Hobson ’22
Freelance composer Griffin Jennings ’18 is discovering creative ways to write music and push the boundaries of film and podcast music composition.
Julia Berrebi ’19 Awarded Visiting English Teaching Post at Lingnan University in Hong Kong
May 8, 2019
Erin Ulrich ’18
An English major, Julia Berrebi ’19 will embark on a yearlong teaching position at Lingnan University in Hong Kong after graduation.
Workshops, Writing, and Words: ‘‘The Two Groves Review’’
April 3, 2019
Phoebe Pan ’20
A new student-run literary review puts down its roots at Oberlin.
A Creative Approach to Journalism: Luke Fortney ’18
January 30, 2019
Jane Hobson ’22
Luke Fortney ’18 has landed a prestigious year-long fellowship at the Atlantic. Now, he is working his way toward a career in journalism with a fresh perspective.
An Obie Teaching English: Sam Bernhard ’16
November 26, 2018
Jane Hobson ’22
Sam Bernhard’s passion for literature and social justice has landed him a job as a high school English teacher at Charles E. Jordan High School in Durham, North Carolina.
Books at Work, In Oberlin
August 13, 2018
Erin Ulrich ’18
A longtime professor of English and now associate dean of the college of arts and sciences at Oberlin, Laura Baudot has long studied how people read, but now she’s asking a different question: why?