Deputy Director of Publicity, Penguin Press at Penguin Random House<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n I have always loved to read fiction. In college, I wanted to understand both how books worked and how to become a better writer of fiction myself, and I couldn\u2019t think of a better way to spend four years than studying other people\u2019s work. It felt like a gift to have that time and close focus with books. Within a few weeks of starting classes, I was talking with friends in and out of classes regularly \u2013 about our own writing, the books we loved, poets we were discovering.\u00a0 I hadn\u2019t considered how it would help me professionally yet. It was really more about being compelled to read more widely and how I wanted to fill my days on campus.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The English building was its own world; I loved the small classes and my professors, who created an atmosphere where books and writing felt important. I studied with Fred Pfeil, still the best writing teacher I\u2019ve ever had (including graduate school) and Hugh Ogden and Jim Miller, both of whom were so inspiring.\u00a0 I think of them and their classes all the time.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Those conversations I had at Trinity — the way we thought about books, wrote about them, and talked about them \u2013 it gave me the language and many of the skills I use daily in my job as a book publicist, where I help to edit opinion pieces, write press materials, and persuade media to cover books that start wider cultural conversations. We publish many different kinds of authors: novelists, historians, journalists, Senators, music producers, economists, philosophers. Being an English major taught me how to locate the most compelling ideas in any text and communicate them to an audience. At Trinity I was also an editor of the literary magazine, and I helped run the reading series sponsored by the English Department. Both of those experiences helped to prepare me for my current role where I work so closely with authors.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Current occupation: Deputy Director of Publicity, Penguin Press at Penguin Random House Why did you choose to Major in English Literature?\u00a0 I have always loved to read fiction. In college, I wanted to understand both how books worked and how to become a better writer of fiction myself, and I couldn\u2019t think of a better […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":156,"featured_media":0,"parent":326,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1119","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nWhy did you choose to Major in English Literature?<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n
What did you enjoy about Majoring in English at Trinity? <\/span><\/h3>\n
How did an English Major prepare you for your career?<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n