Department Assistantships
This competitive position is reserved for a select few 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 such as proof reading, MLA style citations, grammar, and essay composition.
2012-2013 English DA Application
Meet our 2011-2012 English Departmental Assistants: Melanie Cornejo, Carli Rudebusch, and Ashley Szanter! You can contact us at EnglishDA@clunet.edu or individually for appointments as listed below.
Each DA has certain areas of literature that they are best at. If you are looking for tutoring or content editing, please see the specialities listed so you can contact the right DA for your needs. The schedule of each DA's individual hours are also listed below.
Melanie Cornejo (mcornejo@clunet.edu)
- Creative Writing - fiction and poetry
- English Poetry
- American Poetry
Carli Rudebusch (crudebus@clunet.edu)
- Creative Writing
- Literary Criticism/Theory
- American Literature
Ashley Szanter (aszanter@clunet.edu)
- British Literature
- Classical Literature
- Chaucer
- English Poetry
Our Fall Schedule for DA Hours is:
Time |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
8:00 - 10:00 |
Ashley |
Carli |
Ashley |
Carli until 9:00 |
Melanie |
10:00 - 11:00 |
Ashley |
Carli |
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Carli |
Melanie until 10:30 |
11:00 - 12:00 |
Ashley |
Carli |
Melanie |
Carli untl 11:30 |
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12:00 - 1:00 |
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Melanie |
Ashley |
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1:00 - 2:00 |
|
Ashley |
Melanie until 1:20 |
Ashley |
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2:00 - 3:00 |
Melanie at 2:30 |
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Melanie |
Ashley at 2:45 |
3:00 - 4:00 |
Melanie |
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Melanie until 3:45 |
Ashley |
4:00 - 5:00 |
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Ashley until 4:30 |

