French & Francophone Major Jobs and Graduate School Acceptances 2022

Hometown: Cary, North Carolina

Majors: English, French & Francophone studies

Empoyer: Dickinson College:

Job title: Friends of the Library intern 

 

 

I will be working at the Waidner-Spahr Library during the 2022-23 academic year under Associate Director Information Literacy & Research Services Christine Bombaro and other librarians. While learning from them how the library runs behind the scenes, I will help teach research strategies to incoming first years, update how-to modules on the Waidner-Spahr website, and provide other support to the operation of the library. 

 

 

The Career Center has been an incredibly helpful resource for me as I have applied for jobs for the first time. Workshops and one-on-one appointments have prepared me to write resumes and cover letters, network, and interview. I've also met and built a supportive network of faculty and other students who have provided me with advice and intellectual stimulation which should serve me well in the future. 

 

 

I do plan to return to school at some point for a graduate degree, but not until I take some time to determine what my long term goals are. I'm looking forward to my work at Waidner-Spahr, and I hope that it will provide me with some clarity in terms of whether I want to pursue a library career further.

 

 

There have been many defining moments for me, in multiple aspects of my Dickinson experience. Studying abroad in Oxford has been a phenomenal cap to my undergraduate years, and I've greatly enjoyed pursuing interests sparked at Dickinson at a university where some of the professors are scholars I've cited in past essays and in the country where several of my literary interests originated. I'm grateful for the encouragement and support of Professor of English; John J. Curley '60 and Ann Conser Curley '63 Faculty Chair in Global Education Wendy Moffat, both while I applied and now that I'm here. I'm also fortunate to have been able to go abroad as a senior at all, overcoming the disruption of COVID. I finished my graduation requirements as a junior, writing my English thesis a year early (with a wonderfully supportive group of peers led by Associate Professor of English Siobhan Phillips) and simultaneously completing my second major in French (with great support from Associte Professor of French Adeline Soldin and Associate Professor of French Lucile Duperron). Junior year bolstered my confidence in my own academic abilities, as well as my gratitude for the amazing people at Dickinson helping me succeed. I also define my time at Dickinson with my participation in the arts. The College Choir (led with zeal by Professor of Music; Charles A. Dana Chair Amy Wlodarski) and the Mermaid Players mean the world to me, and I gleaned a great deal of joy from practicing and performing within both. I can't name every person or event that shaped my time at Dickinson, but I can emphasize to the best of my ability that I had a wonderful experience.
 

Hometown: Cleveland, Ohio

Majors: French & Francophone studies, Latin American, Latinx & Caribbean studies

Graduate School: Seton Hall

Field of study: School of Diplomacy and International Relations

 

Margaret Gerlach