News and Events
7th Annual Undergraduate Shakespeare Conference of New England
Saturday, April 19, 2008
The Central Massachusetts Undergraduate Shakespeare Conference, convened this year at Worcester State College, in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Students from various consortium institutions presented research projects and papers on the writings of William Shakespeare. The theme for this year's conference was "Shakespeare: The Natural, The Unnatural, The Supernatural."
Two Clark students presented their work, and one was chosen as an alternate:
Samantha Keefe '08, read her paper, "Boy, is that Unnatural!: Male actors, boy actors, and the female characters of Twelfth Night."
Chanchala Gunewardena '11, read her paper on "The Physics of King Lear."
Daniel Menard '09, was alternate with his paper, "What hast thou done, unnatural? The natural informed by the Supernatural within Titus Andronicus."
2007 Annual Alum Day & Chowder Fest
This year's Alum Day & Chowder Fest, open to English majors, minors, and other
interested students, was held on October 19, 2007, at Anderson House.
The Fest was co-sponsored by Career Services, the Alumni Affairs Office and the Bernard Cotton Fund.
Every year the English Department, in conjunction with Clark's
Alumni-In-Residence event, serves up hearty soups and clam chowder as part of an
evening discussion with distinguished alumni who once studied English in our
department.
This year's speakers discussed the ways in which Clark University prepared them for
their careers:
Betsy Hopkins, B.A. ’97
Betsy Hopkins currently lives in North Andover, MA, where she has recently
started working at a small software company as Business Systems Analyst.
She has worked in the field of Information Technology for the past seven years,
starting with application support on help desks and including assisting in
Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning.
Jennifer Smith, B.A.’95
After working for several years as a Community Program Coordinator in Emergency
Medicine at Rhode Island Hospital, Jennifer Smith has taken a new job as
Education Programs Manager at Planned Parenthood of Rhode Island, where she will
run a pregnancy prevention program for youth and adults in the Latino
community.
Heidi Gitelman, B.A. ’80
Heidi Gitelman is an interactive online producer, designer, and writer.
Her eclectic career experience has included work on interactive television
documentaries, an interval as a social historian, and work as a museum exhibit
curator. She was part of the team that developed the original Boston.com
for The Boston Globe, one for the first online newspapers. Since
leaving Clark she has earned an Ed.M. From Harvard University and a Masters
degree in American Social History from M.I.T., as well as work toward the Ph.D.
At the university level she has taught interactive design, content development,
and formative evaluation for new media, as well as script writing and directing
for film and video.