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This site is waiting for your comments! Please send an e-mail to English@williams.edu with any news on what you are doing with (or in spite of) your English major and any advice you'd like to share with current English Majors.
Alumni Speak . . .
about graduate school . . .
about career choices . . .
about the English major at Williams . . .
"I've said it before, and I'll say it again: doing a thesis--and, of course, doing a [medieval] thesis ["The Otherworld of Chretien de Troyes"] with [Professor Sherron Knopp]--changed the way I write, my ability to edit, my ability to give and receive criticism, and the clarity of my thought. All good things that have served my exceedingly well since then. It's worth pointing out that my bosses before, during, and after grad school told me they gave me jobs because I can put a sentence together." --Brian Slattery '97
"I didn’t arrive at Williams knowing I would be an English major. But, after a couple of wonderful and eye-opening courses, I knew that I could choose no other path. The study of English, as it was conducted in those courses, seemed to get at the very crux of the thinking person’s mission: to discover meaning where it may be found, and then to question its ramifications, its permutations, even its validity. Indeed, I found that the collegiate academic practice of reading literature--the search for meaning in words, the continual exercise of creative critical thinking--is truly and unimaginably rewarding."
--Gus Howard '03.I am teaching English to elementary school students at a cram school in Taipei, where I've been working for two years. I've traveled inside Taiwan, and in mainland China, where I visited Angela Lankford '00 at her Peace Corps assignment in Chongqing. I am also continuing, at National Taiwan Normal University, the Chinese studies I began at Williams. There's a high demand for English-speaking college graduates in many capacities in Taiwan, and in addition to teaching I am occasionally employed as a freelance editor and technical writer.
--Jonathan Plowman '00
Click for a photo of Jonathan with his students in Taipei
