ALUMNI SHOWCASE
Mary BaglivoMARY BAGLIVO BA 1979
Junot DiazJUNOT DÍAZ BA 1992

Chief Executive Officer
Saatchi & Saatchi Americas

named Advertising Woman of the Year
by Advertising Women of New York

received Hall of Distinguished Alumni Award
from Rutgers University Alumni Federation

Author

Associate Professor of Creative Writing
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Riverhead (2007)

awarded Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2008)

awarded National Book Critics Circle
Award for Best Novel (2007)

Marilee Lindemann

MARILEE LINDEMANN PhD 1991

Associate Professor of English
Director of LGBT Studies Program
University of Maryland, College Park

received Michael Lynch Service Award
from Modern Language Association Gay, Lesbian, Queer Caucus

Peggy Phelan

PEGGY PHELAN PhD 1987

Ann O’Day Maples Chair in the Arts
Professor of Drama and English
Stanford University

received Distinguished Alumni Award
from Graduate School–New Brunswick

Carrie J. Preston

CARRIE J. PRESTON PhD 2006

Assistant Professor of English and Women’s Studies
Boston University

named Peter Paul Career Development Professor
by Boston University

Andrew P. Scheil

ANDREW P. SCHEIL BA 1990

Associate Professor of English
University of Minnesota

The Footsteps of Israel: Understanding Jews in Anglo-Saxon England
University of Michigan Press (2004)

awarded John Nicholas Brown Prize (2008)
by Medieval Academy of America

awarded Best First Book Prize (2005)
by International Society of Anglo-Saxonists

Ken Urban

KEN URBAN PhD 2006

Playwright

Preceptor in Expository Writing
Harvard Univerity

named Person of the Year (2007)
by nytheatre.com

Alexander G. Weheliye

ALEXANDER G. WEHELYE PhD 1999

Associate Professor of English and African American Studies
Northwestern University

Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity
Duke University Press (2004)

awarded William Sander Scarborough Prize (2005)
by Modern Language Association