By Sean Ryan '13

The Chuck Green Fellowship involves a seminar course this spring and a $4,000 stipend for an on-site volunteer position in the summer. It offers students the opportunity to engage with issues and support important work in a professional capacity. The class this spring has 11 students and we’ll be together throughout a six-month period.

The class component of the fellowship is wonderful. All of the members come from different places, with a huge variety of interests and experiences. Over the past few weeks, I've already learned so much from everyone in the group, and I'm excited for us all to push ourselves forward over the next few months. Paul Dosh, the fellowship faculty facilitator, has done an amazing job so far in creating a dynamic classroom environment.

I applied for the Chuck Green Fellowship because I was interested in pursuing a summer project in the Twin Cities beyond the normal parameters of an internship.       

I am specifically hoping to work with a non-profit arts organization. I am not entirely sure what form that work will take but  learning more about programming that can bring people together through various parts of the artistic process is my goal. I’m considering the Cedar Cultural Center, Intermedia Arts, and the Loft Literary Center.

These organizations offer accessible educational opportunities emblematic of the kind of society in which I want to live: one that values aesthetic appreciation and privileges the creative imagination of all people, that celebrates their abilities to express themselves and their own personal knowledge that cannot be replicated anywhere else. Working with them would be a great stepping-stone to the kind of work I’d love to do after Macalester.

I firmly believe in the value of the arts as a social space. Through art, questions can be asked and assumptions interrogated in a manner unlike any other form of engagement.

As an English major, I clearly recognize the role art plays in helping us to think through our experiences of the world by interrogating assumptions and articulating new insights. Literature, in particular, often critiques the status quo, just as it is also capable of imagining new worlds.

Whether through discussing personhood and legal liability in “18th Century British Novels,” representations of trauma in narratives surrounding human rights in “Justice,” or the effects of mass consumerism as a facet of American cultural history in “The American Novel,” many of the literature classes that I've taken here at Macalester have helped me to understand inequality and injustice more astutely.

The Chuck Green Fellowship involves a seminar course this spring and a $4,000 stipend for an on-site volunteer position in the summer. It offers students the opportunity to engage with issues and support important work in a professional capacity. The class this spring has 11 students and we’ll be together throughout a six-month period.

The class component of the fellowship is wonderful. All of the members come from different places, with a huge variety of interests and experiences. Over the past few weeks, I've already learned so much from everyone in the group, and I'm excited for us all to push ourselves forward over the next few months. Paul Dosh, the fellowship faculty facilitator, has done an amazing job so far in creating a dynamic classroom environment.

I applied for the Chuck Green Fellowship because I was interested in pursuing a summer project in the Twin Cities beyond the normal parameters of an internship.       

I am specifically hoping to work with a non-profit arts organization. I am not entirely sure what form that work will take but  learning more about programming that can bring people together through various parts of the artistic process is my goal. I’m considering the Cedar Cultural Center, Intermedia Arts, and the Loft Literary Center.

These organizations offer accessible educational opportunities emblematic of the kind of society in which I want to live: one that values aesthetic appreciation and privileges the creative imagination of all people, that celebrates their abilities to express themselves and their own personal knowledge that cannot be replicated anywhere else. Working with them would be a great stepping-stone to the kind of work I’d love to do after Macalester.

I firmly believe in the value of the arts as a social space. Through art, questions can be asked and assumptions interrogated in a manner unlike any other form of engagement.

As an English major, I clearly recognize the role art plays in helping us to think through our experiences of the world by interrogating assumptions and articulating new insights. Literature, in particular, often critiques the status quo, just as it is also capable of imagining new worlds.

Whether through discussing personhood and legal liability in “18th Century British Novels,” representations of trauma in narratives surrounding human rights in “Justice,” or the effects of mass consumerism as a facet of American cultural history in “The American Novel,” many of the literature classes that I've taken here at Macalester have helped me to understand inequality and injustice more astutely.