Vassar College Department of English

Where are they now?

• Writings that make a difference in people’s lives — Marian Yim ‘79
• Just a phone call away: “Without Vassar, and specifically the English department, I might never have found my way into the music business.” — Ron Shapiro ‘86
• Two years out and a world away: looking toward a future as a healer in the developing world — Delia French ‘06
• “Perhaps the fact that I have begun, at age 78, to write a blog about sex education would make an interesting story for present English majors” — Susan Wilson ‘51
• From Portrait of a Lady to Law & Order: Special Victims Unit via Beowulf and The Faerie Queene — Ken Storer ‘92
• Night(s) at the opera for an old China hand: from one international stage to another — Caroline Cooper ‘99
• A Junior Year Abroad at Trinity College, Dublin becomes a life as a poet and scholar in Ireland — Richard Barakat ‘81
• A “words and ideas” person now building a future for Harvard in Allston — Peggy Hayes ‘83
• The Writers — The Writers

Occupations

• Major gifts fundraiser
• Museum curator
• Bank vice president
• Vice President and General Counsel
• Blog editor
• Vice president of market leadership
• Neurologist
• Television archivist
• Working on a musical
• Stay-at-home working mom running marketing/public relations business
• Director, Human Rights and National Security Law Program
• Feminist scholar specializing in educational studies
• Director of Communications for health insurance company
• Banker
• President MSNBC
• Transcribing my great grandmother’s diary from Italy, 1914
• 80 year old active writer, workshop participant, and scholar
• Mystery writer just published third book
• BBC reporter
• Technologist and author of 14 books
• Physician, Cleveland Clinic
• Otolaryngologist
• First year of study at Harvard School of Dental Medicine
• Run a small software company for nonprofits
• Communications specialist, Oracle Corporation
• Media Cloisters manager, Vassar
• Raising two kids and working from home as a fiction writer
• Reproductive Health Program with the NGO, BRAC in Dhaka, Bangladesh
• Financial Planner
• Auditor and accountant
• PhD program in U.S. History, Columbia
• Boeing Communications team
• PhD program in sociology, CUNY
• Work with my mother at a small, family owned real estate firm
• Edit curators’ exhibition scripts and lavishly illustrated art books
• Fashion magazine writer and arts and entertainment publicist
• Faculty member and Director of Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry
• Social worker
• Work with Free the Slaves, a Washington DC-based non profit
• Music publishing and independent musician, released first CD
• Vice president of top-five biotech company
• Writer of Red Sox fictions, computer guru, humorist
• Foundation Relations Manager, The Wilderness Society
• Publisher, not-for-profit literary press
• Managing Director, Operations
• Change Management Analyst
• Director of Pre-K through 12 Curriculum
• Director of Professional Development
• Master's of Divinity degree program, Union Theological Seminary
• Editor and writer for nonprofits
• Managing Director, mutual fund
• Publisher’s Weekly reviewer and researcher
• Speech writer
• Huffington Post editor and contributor
• Author of three books and radio cohost, "A Way with Words," NPR
• Development director
• Senior Manager of Post Production for media company
• Direct mail specialist for investment company
• Corporate manager, manufacturing
• Restaurant owner and writer
• Director of Admissions for a K-9 independent school
• Keyboardist and Choral Conductor
• Clinical social worker and career counselor
• Assistant Director of Development and a Major Gifts Officer
• Stay-at-home mom after 14 years as English teacher
• Eighty year old writer working on a memoir
• Developer of documentaries and non-fiction television
• Associate Professor, Cinema, Photography, and Media Arts, Ithaca College
• 50 years as internationally known puppeteer
• Cruise line humorist/speaker
• Lutheran parish pastor and writer
• Executive worldwide corporate litigation matters, IBM
• Professor of Law, University of Maryland School of Law
• Voice Over & Branding Coach, Demo Producer, e-Casting Director
• Health Sciences Fellow, Lainya County, South Sudan
• Graphic designer, Cartoon Network
• Member ACLU National Advisory Council
• Puppeteer, created "Quirky Circus" for families and "Prnch" for adults
• Sex educator, blogger