President - Holly Batty
Holly Batty is starting her third year as a grad student in the English Department at CSUN with an emphasis in Rhetoric and Composition. She is a second-year TA at CSUN and has been the Coordinator for the LA Valley College Writing Center for six years. Holly is interested in Critical Animal Studies and is an advocate for the ethical treatment of animals.
Vice President - Susana Marcelo
Susana Marcelo is a known insomniac, coffee addict, and tsundoku bibliophile who switches unexpectedly to the second person, especially when overworked, which is most days when you’re a grad student, a mother, and have two jobs (among other odd jobs) but you still make time to write prose because that’s your passion (laundry be damned); consequently, sometimes you wonder if your dreams are unattainable, such as reading every book you have, because responsibilities will pile up and you have to make sacrifices—tearing bread with one hand, typing with a sick child on your lap, reading while keeping an eye on dinner—that will make you doubt if it’s all worth it because you always burn the beans. Yet, one look of admiration from your children and you know it will be okay, you just have to make it through one day at a time.
Treasurer - Vana Derohanessian
Vana Derohanessian has her bachelor's degree in English literature in 2007 and is currently an English graduate student at CSUN. Vana is interested in the history of children's literature as a reflection of social and cultural values regarding children. Her incessant fascination with Lewis Carroll's classic "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" may be referred to by some as obsession.
Recording Secretary - Wafa Azeem
After waiting for 12 years, Wafa is pretty sure she is not going to receive an owl from Hogwarts. So in the meantime, she moonlights as a second year English graduate student. Not wanting to be outdone by Professor McGonagoll, she will be teaching her first English Composition class this year. With an emphasis in Literature, she enjoys spending time in different worlds and looking at her world with different perceptions.
Press Secretary - Stephanie Lim
Stephanie is an English graduate student at CSUN, where she also works as a Teaching Associate and Supplemental Instruction leader. She enjoys new media, pop culture, critical theory -- Marxist, Post-Modern, and Post-Structural ones, to be exact -- and reading American Literature from the Great Depression on. Although her program emphasis is on Literature, her true passion is musical theatre and, yes, she absolutely loves listening to show tunes!
Historian - Steve Florian
Steve Florian is a graduate student at Cal State Northridge, where he is a member of the Associated Graduate Students of English, the Eighteenth Century Literature Club, and will soon be a Teaching Associate, as well. He was raised in Nebraska and Michigan and now lives with his wife in Los Angeles. Ah, the sunshine!
From Lorie, Megan, Gina, Melissa, Holly, and Johnny - the best of luck to the new board and to all our English MA students!
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