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Category: Alumni News

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Jenny Mundell ’11 MA Thinks English Majors will Save the World – and So Can You.

From English graduate student to Bloomfield Township’s first female mayor, Jenny Mundell ’11 MA proves that the power to create meaningful change starts with the opportunities you embrace and the relationships you build along the way.

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Montclair’s English Prof. Lee Behlman Co-Hosts Podcast on Teaching with Alum Nick Hernandez

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Alumni Career Talk: A Conversation with Mary Halliwell ’78

Leon Zimmerman, Class of 1959 speaks to audience about the first-half of his career.

Oh, The Places You Will Go!

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A Reading by Horror Author Casey Masterson ’21

"David Galef, with his lesson projected onto his face and the screen behind him, talks to students."

How Montclair’s Creative Writing Program Nurtures Aspiring Authors’ Dreams

Workshops in poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction and memoir bring out the best in students, giving them the “write stuff” for future literary success

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Janelle Guevarra ’16 (English) Thriving at Condé Nast

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Reading by Montclair State alum Priyanka Taslim

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Montclair State graduate Davon Loeb reading from memoir

photo of alumna and author Priyanka Taslim on left holding a tea cup. a graphic of the cover of her debut novel, The Love Game is on the right

Alumna’s Debut Novel Published by Simon & Schuster

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Alumna Publishes Short Story

Graduate Students Awarded Literary Agents of Change Fellowships