Alumni Connections
Whatever Happened To...?
On this page you can see what your old classmates are up to. We in the English Department are proud of the ongoing contributions of our alumni/ae. To add your name and current activities to this list please e-mail Professor Les Tannenbaum at tannenbaum.1@osu.edu. We will then edit the e-mailed information as needed and post it on this Web site. Let us hear from you!Jim Buckley (PhD, '93) The University community was saddened to learn of the passing of James "Jim" Buckley, 62, professor of English at the Mansfield Campus, who died Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008. Jim taught American literature, literary criticism, theory, and film at Ohio State's Mansfield campus since 1995.
Kristina Emick (MFA, '99) is currently working as the editor and writer in Undergraduate Admissions and First Year Experience here at Ohio State. She is married to fellow English department grad Keith Manecke (PhD, '03).
Bruce Epps (MA, '87) has been teaching and working at Capital University in Bexley since 1995, and for the last five years he has been the Academic Services Coordinator in Capital's Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching where he oversees the peer tutoring, academic coaching, and other academic support services.
Joyce Fee (MA, '88) has worked as a technical writer at IBM, Oracle and Cisco in all facets of technical writing-- technical lead, documentation manager, editor, usability/human factors and writing instruction. She recently transitioned into product marketing at a social gifting startup, Apprema, and is enjoying the new challenge. Joyce lives in San Jose, CA with her partner and 4 1/2 year-old son, William Dennis.
Rebecca Flowers (MFA, '90) lives in western Massachusetts with her husband and three children, and will see her first novel, Nice to Come Home To, published by Riverhead Books/Penguin in April of 2008. She is an occasional commentator and satirist on National Public Radio's All Things Considered, Day to Day, and other programs. You can check out her Web site and blog at http://www.rebeccaflowers.com.
Doug Haneline (PhD, '78) has been teaching American literature and writing courses at Ferris State University in Big Rapids, MI since 1984. He has developed a specialty in biomedical communication and is active in the American Medical Writers Association, of which he is a Fellow, and for whom he teaches workshops. Prior to this, he taught at Dakota State University for five years. There, he met his wife Ellen, with whom he has two grown daughters. Doug tells us, "I have had a rewarding career and feel that Ohio State prepared me very well."
Martha E. Klironomos (PhD, '93) currently teaches courses in Modern Greek, Comparative Literature and English Literatures at San Francisco State University, where she was recently promoted to Full Professor. As Nikos Kanzantzakis Chair, she also directed the Center for Modern Greek Studies. Prior to her affiliation with San Francisco State, she did research in Hellenism and modernism on a postdoctoral fellowship from the Canada Council at Harvard University and was Assistant Professor of Modern Greek at McGill University. She is currently working on two book projects: one on memory, Greek and Anglo-American modernism and a co-edited volume of essays on memory and Greek diaspora. She is also currently Associate Editor of the Arts and Humanities of the Journal of Modern Greek Studies.
Betsy Wheeler, (MFA, '05) 2006-2007 poet-in-residence at Bucknell University and co-editor of Pilot and Pilot Press, has recently begun work at Wondertime Magazine, a new, slick, soon-to-be monthly Disney publication on parenting young children that Betsy calls "yogi and even a little hip."
