Past English majors include notable authors Tim O’Brien ’68, Charles Baxter ’69, and Mary Karr ’76.

Many English majors pursue careers in academia, teaching, publishing, marketing, law, non-profit administration, and social service.

Emily Howland ’09 (San Francisco) is a community organizer for Amazon Watch in Tena, Ecuador.

Katherine Levy ’09 (New York) is an editorial assistant at Harper Collins in New York City.

Marina Duvall ’09 (Tucson, Ariz.) is teaching English in Korea.

Tim Lehman ’09 (Mechanicsville, Va.) is a communications specialist for National Wind in Minneapolis.

Rachel Bunkers-Harmes ’08 (Mankato, Minn.) is a development assistant at the University of California–Berkeley School of Law.

William Clarke ’07 (Somerville, N.J.) is pursuing a PhD in English literature at the University of Chicago.

Ellen Fogelman (Glenview, Ill.) ’05 is a legal analyst at Mayer Brown in Chicago.

Christina Houghton ’06 (New York) is an account executive at Resnicow Schroeder, a PR firm in New York City.

Dani Heinemeyer ’06 (Madison, S.D.) is a grants writer at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in Brooklyn, New York.

Adi Heller ’05 (Amherst, Mass.) is the senior city coordinator for Greenpeace in Boston.

Jennifer Foughner ’05 (Highland Park, Ill.) is assistant director of development at the Court Theatre in Chicago.

Simon Morrison’04 (Kingston, Jamaica) is a policy and communications manager for Google UK in London.

Carley Bomstad ’04 (Apple Valley, Minn.) is an associate editor at EMC Publishing in St. Paul.

Junita Gustafson Bognanni ’03 (Duluth, Minn.) is the marketing manager at Consortium Book Sales in Minneapolis.

Peter Bognanni ’01 (Des Moines, Iowa) has just published his first novel, The House of Tomorrow (Putnam), and teaches creative writing at Macalester.