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April Herndon (BA 1994, MA 1997) finished her PhD in
American Studies at Michigan State University. She is
currently an Assistant Professor at Winona State
University in Winona, Minnesota. She has a joint
appointment in English and Women's and Gender Studies.
She also has a book under contract with Kansas
University Press that's due out in 2008.
Joyce M. Barry
just accepted a position as director of The Access
Project at Hamilton College in Clinton, NY. The Access
Project is an educational program that assists TANF
eligible students in their pursuit of higher education
degrees. Barry received an MA in English from Radford in
1995, and completed her PhD in American Culture Studies
at Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH in
2004.
Steve McConnell
was hired as a Staff Writer for Gulf Coast
Newspapers in Baldwin County, Alabama.
Jim Ruland,
who’s now living in California, has published a book of
short stories. He was a recipient of the National
Endowment for the Arts in 2004. Jolanta Wawzycka
reunited with him and his family in Dublin, Ireland. He
also attended the International James Joyce Symposium to
celebrate the 100 Bloomsday. Here is the picture taken
by Jim’s girlfriend at the Bloomsday Banquet, aka “Paddy
Dignam’s Wake.” In 1992, Jola sponsored Jim’s first
International James Joyce Symposium paper on
Finnegans Wake. The Symposium was held in Dublin.
In 1994 she met Jim again at the International James
Joyce Symposium in Seville. “Now, over a decade later I
can say, hey, I launched a Joycean! (Poor Jim, ha, ha).”
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