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English and Creative Writing

Career Center Coaching Helps Olivia Reiss ’26 Land Theatre Job

Reiss, an English and theatre double major, has a contract with Surflight Theatre in New Jersey after graduation.

Lauren Dennelly ’06 Writes Book on Parentification

The psychology major with minors in English and women’s and gender studies was approached by a top publisher to write “Why You Never Got to Be a Kid: How to Heal When Your Parents Didn’t Parent.”

Theatre and English Professor Featured on Philadelphia’s NPR Affiliate

WHYY highlighted Gabriel Jason Dean’s play “Rift, or White Lies,” which tells the story of two brothers, one of whom is incarcerated. The actors playing the brothers switch roles each time the show is performed.

How The Muhlenberg Weekly Helped Me Find My Voice

The student newspaper has introduced me to new people and experiences that have changed the way I look at writing, journalism, and myself.

Creative Writing Students Converse With Author Mohsin Hamid

The novelist, on campus for a public lecture, fielded questions from and made connections with a small group of students, faculty and staff.

Love for Dance Grown Exponentially

The courses, faculty and performance opportunities here have helped me overcome my belief that dance at the college level was only for those who grew up dancing in studios.

Essayist and Journalist Jia Tolentino Visits Campus

The staff writer for “The New Yorker” and author of the acclaimed essay collection “Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion” was the sixth and final guest in this year’s Living Writers course and reading series.

ProPublica’s 2022 Class of Emerging Reporters

Alex Caban-Echevarria ’23, a double major in media & communication and English, is receiving guidance from one of the outlet’s investigative journalists, plus her team of Muhlenberg mentors, as she applies to graduate school.

Exhibiting Leadership

As president and executive director of the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., Aileen Chumard Fuchs ’01 tells the stories of the spaces people design, construct and inhabit.

Horror and History

Two alumni serve as communications professionals at Eastern State Penitentiary, a former prison known for its seasonal haunted attractions that has a year-round mission to interpret the legacy of American criminal justice reform.