Right now Manuel works at Amazon doing technical writing for their internal project management software. This means he gets to write the ‘Help’ guides for the company and works to mainain the most current language and policy changes in their systems.
Mia Vance: Valedictorian, Poet Laureate 2022
MWF 12:00 pm - 12:50 pm | CRN 15671 | Instructor: José Cortez | Who are Chicana/os and Latina/os, and what have been their experiences in the United States? What histories and politics have shaped these categories, and how have they changed over time? What role do issues of gender, race, labor, migration, and national identity play in Chicana/o and Latina/o literature and culture?
Meet Our English Alumni: Olivia AtmoreAs a junior who was getting nervous about the fact that I have never had an official internship before and was interested in publishing, a field that notoriously requires internship experience, I came to Dr. Upton in a panic. Fortunately, he was able to connect me with Olivia Atmore, a relatiely recent UO English alum.
Meet Our English Alumni: Ulrick CasimirCasimir started his higher education journey at North Carolina State University and acquired an MFA in Creative Writing at University of North Carolina in Greensburo before coming to Eugene for a Ph.D. in English.
Meet Our English Alumni: Andréa GilroyWinter term of this year (2022), I had the immense pleasure of taking my frst Comics Studies class at UO with Dr. Kelp-Stebbins. Before then, I’d had very little experience with the comic form and wasn’t totally sure how it would ft in with the English classes I’d taken in the past.
Nathan Harris, newly beloved author of the publishing world, was unavaliable to chat with me due to his (I’m sure) hectic life as a bestselling author.
Meet Our English Alumni: Anna CarrolWhile getting your Ph.D. can look a bit different for everyone, and is not for everyone, for Dr. Carroll it took about fve years. Her focus was in British Romantic Poetry, 19th century works (think Shelley, Coleridge, Wordsworth, etc.). Towards the end of working on her dissertation, Dr.
MWF 2:00 pm - 2:50 pm | CRN 12081 | Instructor: Stephanie Clark | This course will also increase your under-standing of grammatical concepts helpful for any language, enrich your historical understanding of Modern English, and introduce you to the history and culture of Early Medieval England.
TR 10:00 - 11:50 am | CRN 12066 | Professor Ulrick Casimir | Students will learn about how literature from the Caribbean has been shaped by historical and cultural contexts, such as colonialism, slavery, and decolonization. The course will look at the intersection of cultural forms to consider how writing from the Caribbean has grown and shifted over the last hundred and fifty years.
