RECENT MA GRAD NEWS:
Anthony Box BA and MA in English from CSUB in 2017:
Anthony has recently been admitted ot the PhD in English Program at the University of Houston.
Rachel Tatro-Duarte, BA in English 2013, MA in English 2015:
Rachel has been hired as a tenure-track assistant professor to teach composition and literature at Porterville College beginning August 2017. While a graduate student in English at CSUB, Rachel won three Betty Writing Awards, a Graduate School Mentee grant which allowed her to study Ancient Greek language and literature for a summer in Athens. After graduating with her MA she enrolled with a full scholarship and TAship at the University of North Dakota and won a place on a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar on the Etruscans and Romans, which took place in Switzerland and Italy. She is currently preparing a conference paper, which will be published, for the first International Filipino Literature Conference to take place October 2017 in Hilo, Hawaii.
Alan Noble BA and MA in English from CSUB-AV in 2010:
Alan was admitted to a full scholarship for a PhD in English from Baylor University. Alan is currently assistant professor of English at Oklahoma Baptist University. In 2013 he published Manifestations of transcendence in twentieth-century American Fiction. The Third Policeman in Flann O’Briens Third Policeman. A Question of Titles. ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews Alan is also the co-founder and editor in chief of the Online Journal Christ and Pop Culture.
Noah Phillips an MA in English graduate from CSUB-AV in 2012:
Noah operates his own legal practice in Oakland, California. He recently represented a student plaintive against the University of Phoenix Inc, in United States district court. Noah is an especially conscious litigator who wrote his MA thesis "Imperialism, Neo-Colonialism, and International Politics in Aldous Huxley's Island." Upon completing his MA in English at the CSUB-AV, he won a full scholarship to UC Hastings College of Law, one of the University of California's most prestigious law schools. He recently published "Mercrosur: Venezuela's New Vehicle for Resistance to American Political and Economic Hegemony" for the Hastings International and Comparative Law Review.
