Student Achievements and Alumni News
Student News - 2024
Carrell English Medal Winner
This year’s Carrell Medal was awarded to Liliana Norris '24.
Honors Theses 2024:
Liliana Norris '24 - Deconstructing and Reimagining Gender, Sexuality, and the Feminine: Examining the Worlds of Ursula K. LeGuin, James Tiptree Jr., and Joanna Russ
Grace Perry '24 - The outsider Vision of Emily µþ°ù´Ç²Ô³Ùë
Emma Straus '24 - Defamiliarizing Gender: Gothic Laughter and Radical Joy in The Addams Family
Maggie Sullivan '24 - 'This is a Female Text': Translation, Keening, and A Ghost in the Throat
Zoe Thomas '24 - Color Can't Change: An Examination of Colorism and Racial Performance in Wallace Thurman's The Blacker the Berry
Lily Tiger '24 - Love to Love You: Disco and Black Feminism
Fall 2023
Hunter Flynn '18 won a Japanese Govt. MEXT scholarship to pursue an MA in International Relations at Waseda University in Tokyo. Over the next two years he is going to be continuing work he began while at Loyola on Faulkner’s post-war reception in Japan.
Katie West '22 is starting an MA in Education Policy at the University of Pennsylvania this fall.
Isis Santoni Morro '23 has won a Fulbright to Peru and is being inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. She also got a full ride to Boston College for an M.A. in Latin/Latin American studies but will defer to go to Peru.
Grace Murry '23 is going to Cornell University to pursue her Ph.D. in English.
Sophie Spedden '23 has won a Center for the Humanities summer research grant, has been admitted to an
M.A. program in Theology at the University of Edinburgh and has been named to Phi
Beta Kappa.
Samantha Peacock '23 will be getting her MAT (Master of Teaching Arts) at Loyola.
Victoria Sabatino '23 is going to graduate school at Gallaudet University.
Erin Cunningham '23 is going to graduate school at the University of Georgia.
Lauren Williamson '23 is going to law school at University of Illinois.
Three of our English majors were named to Phi Beta Kappa:
- Grace Murray '23
- Erin Cunningham '23
- Liliana Norris '24 (as a junior!)
Honors Theses 2023:
Scott Clifford '23 - Visible from a Distance: Jon Bois’s Examination of Humanity’s Need for Struggle
in 17776 through Immortal Players and Games
Grace Murry '23 - Bending to the Beat: The Hybrid Poetry of Rap
Samantha Peacock '23 - The Society of Friendship: Lesbian Existence in the Writing of Katherine Philips,
Sarah Scott, and Jane Austen
Lauren Williamson '23 - Intertextuality in Shakespeare and its Adaptations: An examination of Taming of the Shrew & Vinegar Girl
Alumni News:
Kathleen Baumer
Vice President Operations, Lippe Taylor NYC
Mary Cronin
Candidate Experience Specialist, Toast, Inc.
Nadia Firozvi
Chief of Staff, Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, Department of Homeland
Security
Jenn Ladd
Food Writer, The Philadelphia Inquirer
Emma Schiller
Brand Lead U.S., Mauna Kea Technologies
Daniel Procaccini
Attorney/Shareholder, Adler, Pollock, Sheehan, P.C.
Andrew Zaleski
Writer, Bloomberg City Lab, GQ, Wired, The Washington Post Magazine, Men's Health