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Classics Alumni News

August 31, 2019 Classics

Ann Sneesby-Koch (M.A. 2001) writes:

Ann Sneesby-Koch (M.A. 2001) writes:

“After graduating in 2001, I was the Managing Editor for Ad Fontes, a publisher of digital libraries of rare, historical documents from the European Reformation period, most of which were written in Latin. I returned to graduate school in 2009 to earn my M.S. in Information Science at the University of Tennessee, during which I interned at the Folger Shakespeare Library and the National Endowment for the Humanities.  I was hired by the NEH Office of Digital Humanities after graduating and among other things, completed a project to digitize the grant records of the agency dating back to 1969.  In 2016, I took a job at History Colorado as the project manager for an NEH-Library of Congress National Digital Newspaper Program grant to digitize historic Colorado newspapers to be included in the Chronicling America database.  My husband, Aaron, and I, along with our two kids, Beatrix (14) and Roger (10) are living in Denver, hiking a little, skiing a lot, and enjoying being back home close to family and friends.  Occasionally I break out the Latin, but mostly importantly, the critical thinking, research, and writing skills I developed as a graduate student in the Classics department at University of Maryland have served me in good stead in all areas of my winding career path.” 

Kevin Frank (B.A. 2013) writes that he just got a new job, starting August 12th, in State College, Pennsylviania. He will be a Reverse Engineer there for Raytheon doing cyber security research. This builds on his former job but still involves programming. He adds,“Funnily enough my Latin and Greek actually came up when I was interviewing. Part of what I'll be doing is taking machine language and translating it into something a little more English so it's readable, and it has always felt very akin to what it was like to translate texts, just more math-y. And in some ways that makes it easier. No artistic liberties or idioms here; things are very literal.”

Jessica Anderson (B.A. 2009) writes, “I am about to return to the Latin classroom after a wonderful four year maternity leave. I will be starting a new position as the sole Latin teacher at Mineola High School on Long Island. After graduating from UMD, I got my MAT from Hunter College, taught Latin for two years in Brooklyn at the Williamsburg Charter High School, and for four years in Queens at Maspeth High School. Then, in 2015 I had my daughter Paige, and in 2018, my son Lucas.”

Diana Jensen (M.A. 2004) has just retired from teaching Latin at the Maret School in the District. She writes, “I intend to read some Greek this summer (I haven’t had a Greek student for two years, and I really miss it).  My other activities include gardening (viciously!), working to get my “Weed Warrior” certification (to remove invasive weeds in Montgomery Co.,) and taking piano lessons (which I did many, many years ago, so this will be a great challenge…but I’m enjoying it immensely!)”

Stephen Rojcewicz (M.A. 2012)

In the past year, Stephen Rojcewicz, a 2012 M.A. alumnus and a Maryland Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, has published the following:

“Our Tears: Lacrimae Rerum and Thornton Wilder, in Thornton Wilder in Collaboration: Collected Essays on His Drama and Fiction, pp. 151-171. Edited by Jackson Bryer, Judith P. Hallett, and Edyta Oczkowicz. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.

“Erwin Straus: Suggestion and Hypnosis.” Journal of Phenomenological Psychology 49: 197-213, 2018.

“How to Kill a Sphinx.” Delos: A Journal of Translation and World Literature 33(2): 116-134, 2018.

Translation: “Two Passages from Oedipus Tyrranus.” Delos: A Journal of Translation and World Literature 33 (2): 109-115, 2018.

“Review of Tacitus by Victoria Emma Pagán.” Delos: A Journal of Translation and World Literature34(1): 127-132, 2019.

Steve has also made these presentations:

“ ‘George Antrobus’: Genius in a Name.” Third International Thornton Wilder Conference, Peterborough, NH, June 12, 2018.

“Thornton Wilder’s ‘George Antrobus.’ ” 113thAnnual Meeting, Classical Association of New England, Worcester, MA, March 9, 2019.

Gaius Stern (B.A., 1992) writes, “I have been going back and forth to Europe surprisingly often this year for conferences and then staying to tour the places.  I spent about 5 weeks in Belgium and am starting a museum guide to the Roman archaeological museums and sites with my younger brother.  We were inspired by the books of James Bromwich, which are great travel suggestions for people like me who like to see Roman ruins. If we finish the guide to Belgium, we will tackle Switzerland next.”

 

Allison Goldstein-Berger (M.A. 2019) will be teaching Latin at the Maret School in Washington, D.C.

Angela Gentile (B.A., History, 2010) graduated from Boston University School of Law in 2013 and is currently a Staff Attorney for the State of Maryland, Comptroller's Office.

Brendan Magee (M.A. 2008) is a software engineer at the Washington Post and lives in D.C.

Alun Walpole (B.A. 2013) was studying in Japan this summer, and is happy to report that upon his return, he has started a new job as the Latin teacher at Georgetown Visitation.