Alumni Profiles

Graduates of the Department of English pursue a wide variety of fields after Brandeis — our alumni are professors, professionals, and more. Below are profiles from our BA program alumni.
Elisa Albert

Author of the novels Human Blues, After Birth, The Book of Dahlia, and the short story collection How This Night is Different.

Anti-trust and litigation attorney.

Esther Bley with panda statues

Reference librarian, founder of Queer Animation, archivist, historian, and researcher.

cayouette

Author, viral video creator, and cinematographer. Founder of @bettysbooklist.

Peter Diamond

An English PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania.

Ben Fong
A PhD student in comparative literature at UC Davis.
Abigail Gardener

Content marketing specialist.

Matan Gold
Works for local government in Portland, Oregon where he does community engagement for the Parks and Nature department.
Caroline Greaney

Associate digital marketing manager at National Geographic ELT.

Jackson Holbert

Stegner Fellow, Stanford University.

Angela Howes

Editor and co-founder of Bass River Press; Owner of freelance editing business, Fine Tuned Editing; Young Adult librarian; and author.

Rebecca Kahn

Director of Teen Leadership for JCC of Greater Pittsburgh.

Literacy teacher.

Ethan Miller

English teacher.

Rachel Moore

Acquisitions editor at Bloomsbury USA.

Prudence Ross

English PhD Student at Brown University.

Julia Tejblum
Faculty member in the Harvard Writing Program and the Writing Director for Humanities 10: A Humanities Colloquium.
Dan Truong
SVP for content strategy at RCM Entertainment.
Victoria Wiet
Assistant professor of English at DePauw University.
Julie Zong
Associate in the San Francisco, California office of Jackson Lewis P.C.