Graduate and Professional School
Gustavus English majors have pursued a wide variety of graduate and professional school programs all over the country.
- Columbia University
- Cornell University
- Emory University (Religion)
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- Hamline University (Creative Writing)
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- Iowa State University (Geology)
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- Luther Seminary (M.Div.)
- Minnesota State University, Mankato (M.F.A., M.A.T)
- Minnesota State University, Moorhead (Education)
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- Princeton Theological Seminary
- John's University (Theology)
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- Stockholm University (English)
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- University of Arizona (Education)
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- University of Colorado (Classics)
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- University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Comp. Lit.)
- University of Hawaii (E.S.L.)
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- University of Illinois
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- University of Iowa (Rhetoric)
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- University of Kansas (English)
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- University of Michigan (Medicine)
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- Michigan State University (American Culture and Writing)
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- University of Minnesota (English, Environmental Education)
- University of Montana (Virology)
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- University of New Mexico (English)
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- University of Montana (English)
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- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (English)
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- University of St. Thomas (Learning Technology)
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- University of Southern California (Cinema/T.V.)
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- University of Texas at Austin (English)
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- University of Toronto (Comp. Lit.)
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- University of Washington, Seattle (English)
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- University of Wisconsin, Madison (English)
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- University of Wisconsin, Superior
Employment
1990s
- Senior Communications Designer, United Health Care
- English as a Second Language Coordinator
- Editor, Capstone Press, West Publishing
- Account Executive
- Technical Writers and Editors
- National Multimedia Producer
- Senior Editor, Outside Magazine
- Sales Manager, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, MN
- Public Relations Specialist, Best Buy Co., Inc.
- Major Gifts Specialist Catholic Charities
- Production Manager, CBS
- Executive Producer/Writer, "The District" TV series (CBS)
- Associate Art Director, Crain's New York Business
- Journalist for the South Whidbey Record, Langley, VA Writer for Motala Tidning, Sweden Reporter for The Mendota Recorder
1980s
- ESL Coordinator and teacher
- Teachers of English in Hong Kong, Istanbul, and the Marty Indian School
- Vice President, Sales/Marketing Young America
- Policy Analyst, E.P.A.
- Journalist, Des Moines Register
- Free-lance Writer
- Attorney, Assistant State Public Defender, MN
- Multumedia Designer and Instructional Consultant, University of Minnesota
- Faculty at Northland College, Normandale Community College, and Pomona College (Media Studies)
1970s
- Vice President for Resettlement, Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service
- Publications Coordinator, Gustavus Adolphus College
- Librarians
- Attorney
- Associate director, Graduate School Scholarship Office, University of Minnesota
- Vice President of Human Resources, Minnesota Vikings Food
- Services
- Film Director, Star Lake Productions, Inc., CA
- Coordinator of the Writing Center and Academic Resource Center, University of Minnesota
- Faculty Trinity University, TX (Chinese)
1950s and 1960s
- Director of Corporate Relations, American Medical Association
- Superior Court Judge, New Jersey
- Global missionary
- Librarian
- Sales, Marketing, and management at Green Giant and Pillsbury
- Social worker
- University lecturer, Sweden
- Executive Vice President, Citizens Scholarship Foundation of America, Inc.
Publications
- Undomesticated Ground: Recasting Nature as Feminist Space (Cornell 2000)
- China Memoir
- Facing Forward (history of the L.C.A.)
- Be Thou My Vision (50-year history of Normandale Church, Edina)
- Children's biography of Sacagawea
- Poetry collections and individual poems published in journals
- Uptimes: Pulp and Paper Process News/Fiberlines, Sweden (publications of Kvaerner Pulping Publications)
- The Physician Within
- Asserting Yourself
- Painless Public Speaking
- The Assertive Advantage
- The Growing Season
Various writing opportunities in grant writing, advertising copy, hometown newspaper columns, and newsletters on church history, emissions and environmental protection, and technical manuals.
Plus, a church cookbook that sold more than 2,500 copies
