Department Assistantships
This competitive position is reserved for five outstanding English majors. Departmental Assistants are available to aid professors with research, to proctor exams, to assist with classroom lessons, and manage the department website. DAs create and distribute Carpe Diem, help with Literary Society and Sigma Tau Delta (the International English Honor Society), and are available to students for any additional assistance they may need for their English classes.
Our Fall Schedule for DA Hours is:
Time |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
9:00 - 10:00 |
Christa |
Christa |
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10:00 - 11:00 |
Christa, Katie |
Jen |
Christa, Katie |
Jen |
Christa, Katie |
11:00 - 12:00 |
Christa, Katie |
Jen |
Christa |
Jen |
Christa |
12:00 - 1:00 |
Brigette, |
Brigette |
Maggie |
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1:00 - 2:00 |
Brigette, Jen @ 1:30 |
Jen |
Brigette, Katie |
Maggie |
Jen @ 1:30 |
2:00 - 3:00 |
Brigette, Maggie, Jen until 2:30 |
Maggie |
Brigette, Katie |
Maggie, Brigette |
Jen |
3:00 - 4:00 |
Maggie, Katie |
Maggie |
Katie |
Brigette |
Jen until 3:30 |
4:00 - 5:00 |
Maggie |
You can contact us at EnglishDA@clunet.edu or individually as listed below.
Meet our 2008-2009 DAs: Katie Bierach, Sara Burgess (Spring 2009), Christa Carlson, Maggie Melo, Brigette Stevenson and Jen Swanson!
Katie Bierach
I'm Katie B and I've loved poetry since I was a little girl. I love imagery and vowel music that come together in rhythm and rhyme (I like prose too, but poetry stole my heart first). Form excites me more than content. When I leave CLU I'd like to travel the world, writing, and teach after that. Until then, see me around campus with wide eyes on the treetops and rhymes in my mind.
bierach@clunet.edu
Christa Carlson
Hey there! I'm Christa, I'm a senior, english major, shorty, etc. I'm the DA who brings all the candy. I'm also the president of Literary Society, which you should join! I love to read and make terrible jokes. I also have hopes that my future will present itself faster than a piano falling from the top of the empire state building and be just as forceful. Or something. If you are such a piano, please email me.
cicarlso@clunet.edu
Maggie Melo
Hello you. Yes, you. The one with the eyes, and a tittle of desire to read about "Maggie Melo." As far as I (Maggie Melo) am concerned, I'm not so sure about myself. What I do know is that I fancy words; I love to manipulate them. I can string them into sentences, dissect them into morphemes, and have them capsulate my thoughts. They work for me, and I work for them.
mmelo@clunet.edu
Briget te Stevenson
Hello there, I'm Brigette. I really love all the "colors of the wind" when it comes to literature, but I'm a big sucker for children's lit and drama. I've always believed literature should help society, and what better mediums? I hope to become a writer and teacher. But if that doesn't pan out the circus has always been a back-up plan.
bstevens@clunet.edu
Jen Swanson
Hi! My name is Jen, and I am a book nerd. I'm a Senior English major with a Psych minor, and I am graduating Spring 09. My favorite author is Flannery O'Connor, and I love early British Literature (ie Chaucer). I plan to be an English teacher in high school and then later go back for my Ph.D. in Early British Literature. I love to talk lit, so feel free to stop by the DA desk or e-mail me!
jswanso@clunet.edu