English M.A. Alumni - NMU English

Thesis: "The Social Construction of Language: Identity, Reality, and Trauma in American Composition Courses"

Update: Josie is a Subject Matter Field Consultant at the Institute on Digital Health and Innovation at Florida State University.

Practicum: Summer Language Institute at LCC International University, Lithuania

Update: Rachel was the Outstanding M.A. Graduate for 2022!

Capstone: Creative Writing Portfolio

Thesis: "'What If We're on the Wrong Side?': Police Brutality, Protest, and Player Culpability in Heavy Rain and Detroit: Become Human"

Update: Karmann is a Digital Content Producer at WTOL 11, a CBS affiliate in Toledo, Ohio. Her play, The Forecast, debuted as a staged reading at Bowling Gr...

Concentration: Literature

Thesis: "Human As We All Are: Posthuman Subjectivity in The Paper Menagerie and The Three-Body Problem"

Update: Jennie is pursuing a PhD in English at the University of Washington.

Concentration: Literature

Thesis: "Engaging Secondary Students: The Beneficial Intersection of Young Adult and Classic Literature"

Concentration: Literature and Writing

Thesis: "The Gender Epidemic: Intersecting Disease, Gender, and Sexuality in a Graphic Novel"

Update: Autumn recently worked as an adjunct instructor in English at the University of Pittsburgh and is now pursuing a PhD in literature at Kent State University.

Concentration: Literature and Pedagogy 

Capstone: Portfolio

Update: Mallory is a Youth Services & Collection Development Assistant at Hamilton East Public Library in Indiana and is working on a master's degree in Library and Information Science at Indiana University-Purdue University Indiana.

Concentration: Literature

Thesis: "Chameleon Boy: An Autobiographical Literary Critique of Biracial Subjects in a Racialized Society"

Update: David was the Outstanding English M.A. Graduate in 2021 and will begin PhD studies in English at Howard University in 2024.

Concentration: Pedagogy with TESOL Certificate

Capstone: Portfolio of critical and pedagogical projects

Update: Tiffany is an Assessment Specialist at Michigan Language Assessment, a non-profit EFL/ESL testing organization jointly owned by UM and Cambridge.

Thesis: "The Catastrophic Open Wound: The Application of Complex Post-traumatic Stress Disorder in Linda Hogan's Solar Storms and Eden Robinson's Monkey Beach"

Update: Kawther is a Writing Instructor at Baghdad Business School, where she helps to empower Iraqi youth by addressing employment and skills gap...

Capstone: "Gaming Without a System: A Practicum Seeks More"

Capstone: "Where is My Mind? Hijacked Thoughts of a Lost Girl"

Thesis: "Touching the Center that Burns: An Exorcism"

Thesis: "Queering the Curriculum: Establishing Equity for LGBTQIA Students and Educators in Michigan"

Update: Miranda is pursuing a Ph.D. in Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies at Oregon State Univ. She is also the Managing Editor of Feminist Formations.

Thesis: "Almost Trued: An Urban Exploration"

Update: Maddie is an instructional designer, accessibility coordinator, and course instructor for Mary Lou Fulton Teacher's College at Arizona State University. She is also earning a Master's of Education in Learning Design and Technology.

Capstone: Porfolio Project

Thesis: "T.Hanks for Everything"

Thesis: "Crossroads"

Thesis: "Survivor's Guilt and the Ethics of Remembering in Isaac Bashevis Singer's The Slave and Cynthia Ozick's 'The Shawl'"

Update: Ryne is a Senior Editor at Ellis Porter, PLC, working in immigration law. In 2023 he will complete his goal of visiting all 48 of the contiguous U.S. states!

Thesis: "Snow Ghost"

Capstone: TESOL Internship

Thesis: "'Devoted to Influenza': An Analysis of English and Nigerian Archival and Literary Depictions of the 1918-1919 Influenza Pandemic"

Update: Kendra earned a Graduate Certificate in High Impact On-Demand Learning Solutions at Colorado State University and is the LMS Support Technician at the University of Northern Colorado. 

Thesis: "Parts Tethered Elsewhere"

Thesis: "From River Road Plantations to The Underground Railroad: Bringing the True Story of American Slavery to the Present Racial Divide"

Thesis: "Secret Wars"

Thesis: "In Color"

Concentration: Writing

Thesis: "I Was Thinking Something in the Car, But Now I Forgot"

Concentration: Writing

Thesis: "The Wrong Side of Yesterday"

Concentration: Writing

Thesis: "The Immortal Jellyfish and Other Things That Don't Know About Love"

Concentration: Literature

Thesis: "Healing Through Humility: An Examination of Augustine's Confessions"

Concentration: Pedagogy and Literature

Capstone: TESOL Internship

Concentration: Writing

Capstone: TESOL Internship

Concentration: Literature

Thesis: "Presume Not That I am the Thing I Was: Altering Perceptions of the Disabled via the Staging of Disability in Early Modern England"

Concentration: Writing

Thesis: "Lonely This Side of Nowhere"

Concentration: Literature

Thesis: "Close Reading and Critical Theory"

Update: Kim is pursuing a PhD in Rhetoric, Theory, and Culture at Michigan Technological University.

Concentration: Literature and Pedagogy

Thesis: "Exploring Empathy in Medical Narratives"

Concentration: Literature

Thesis: "Claiming Primordial Landscapes: Science and Imperialism in Turn-of-the-Century Science Fiction Novels"

Concentration: Pedagogy

Thesis: "Authorship in Cinema: Observations on Film Pedagogy and Critique of Polish National Cinema"

Concentration: Writing and Literature

Thesis: "The Saleing Subculture"

Update: Hayli is a PhD candidate in Creative Writing and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

Concentration: Writing and Pedagogy

Thesis: "Walking in Waves"

Concentration: Writing and Literature

Thesis: "Gaming For Meaning: Video Games and Evolving Reader Response"

Concentration: Writing

Thesis: "A Walk Through Trauma"

Thesis: "In Post Memoriam: An Exploration of Family and Grieving"

Update: Courtney earned a PhD in Rhetoric & Composition, and a certificate in Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, from Ohio U. in 2022 and is an Assistant Professor of English and Director of Writing Across the Curriculum at Hiram College. 

Concentration: Pedagogy and Writing

Thesis: "Examining How Novices, Apprenticing Experts, and Disciplinary Experts Approach Reading Academic Texts"

Thesis: "The Trash Birder's Guide"

Capstone: TESOL Internship

Capstone: Portfolio Project

Thesis: "Check the Box Marked Other: Exploring Gender in Family Life"

Update: Serenity earned an MFA in Fiction from the University of Missouri-St. Louis in 2020, with certificates in women and gender studies and university teaching. She is currently working on a PhD in Rhetoric and Composition at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.&nbsp...

Thesis: "That Hateful Prairie Wind: Violence and Ecophobia in Twentieth Century American Gothic"

Capstone: TESOL Internship

Thesis: "Dredge"

Thesis: "Remain"

Capstone: "Writing Center Practicum: Annual Report"

Capstone: Portfolio Project

Thesis: "The Inversion Layer: Essays"

Thesis: "An Unstable Container"

Update: John worked as a full-time instructor at Butte College in California for three years and is now an MFA candidate at the University of Minnesota. He has interned at Graywolf Press and will soon teach poetry classes for the Loft, a non-profit group in Minneapolis.

Thesis: "Expatriates of 'Good' Motherhood: Bearing Witness, Guilt, and Burdens of Transgressive Motherhood"

Update: Kelsey is the Corporate Relations Specialist for the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. 

Capstone: Portfolio Project

Capstone: TESOL Internship

Capstone: Portfolio 

Update: Lucy is Communications Director for Calhoun County Government. 

Thesis: "Return and Recovery: The Influence of Place on Blues Murder Ballads and Laguna Ceremony Cycles"

Update: Tyler is an Assistant Professor at Lake Superior State University, teaching composition and Native American literature. His chapbook, Belly-Up Rosehip, appeared in 2019, and his album, Dynamite Honey, was released in 2020.

Thesis: "Dog-faced Deflores: Disability in Early Modern Literature"

Update: Rebecca is a Contingent Instructor of English at Northern Michigan University and co-chair of the Two Books Two Communities Committee. She is also a freelance writer and an avid cross-stitcher.

Thesis: "Bridging the Gap: Transcending Multimodal Pedagogies Used in Composition Courses to Teach Literature"

Update: Lucy earned a PhD in Rhetoric & Composition from Washington State U. and was a professor of Digital Literacies at the U. of Wisconsin-Eau Claire before returning to NMU as Global Campus Operations Coordinator.

Thesis: Divergent Patterns: Re-written Maps, Myths, and Mr(s) in Sarah Kemble Knight and Elizabeth House Trist's Travel Narratives"

Update: Ash earned an MFA in poetry at the University of Idaho and teaches at Nicholls State University in Louisiana. She is an assistant poetry editor at Narrative and is widely published...

Update: Jodi is the first person in the world to hold a Ph.D. in Developmental Education with a focus on literacy. She earned that degree from Texas State U. in 2014 and is now an Associate Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at Northern Illinois U.

Update: Jeff is an Audiovisual Technology Coordinator at NMU, where he supports AV event services, videoconferencing and streaming, webinars, and digital signage. 

Update: Steve worked in health care communication for several years, then taught full-time for ten years at Mid-State Technical College in Wisconsin. Since his retirement from full-time work, he has been teaching as an adjunct instructor at Tarleton State University in Texas.