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Welcome to the University of Nebraska Lincoln and the Department of EnglishThe English Department’s freshmen mentoring program is a jointeffort between the English Undergraduate Advising Office staff andthe English Student Advisory Board. All first-year English and FilmStudies majors are eligible and encouraged to enroll by completingthe email entry form in July after the conclusion of New StudentEnrollment: stration-form.This undergraduate mentoring program centers on thephilosophy that peer mentoring for first-year English and FilmStudies majors promotes success in college by encouragingparticipation in academic activities and engagement inthe department’s mission of imaginative reasoning.Imaginative reasoning is the ability to use the imagination tothink hypothetically about the world in all its diversity—the past,present, and future, the local and the global. Such an ability, webelieve, enables all of us to engage critically with social andpolitical phenomena because it allows us to re-envision whatis possible and to dream up audacious solutions to seeminglyinsoluble problems, solutions that might at first seem implausiblebut, once dreamt up—once imagined—suddenly seem possible.By being part of our peer mentoring program in the first yearat UNL, students will have the opportunity to build strongrelationships with faculty and with their fellow English & Film Studiesstudents. As well, students will learn about ways to contribute tothe intellectual life and creative activities of the nefitsObtain advice on recommended courses for the spring semesterLearn about faculty research interests and publicationsin order to identify potential future mentorsHave fun participating in department eventsRequirementsFirst-year students enrolled in the UNL English Freshmenmentoring program are required to:Attend three fall events:1. Freshmen Welcome - August 251:30-2:45pm, 229 Andrews, Bailey Library2. Freshmen Advising for Spring - October 253:30-6:30pm, 229 Andrews, Bailey Library3. End-of-Semester Celebration - December 11:30-2:45pm, 229 Andrews, Bailey LibraryCommunicate with assigned mentorMeet with the English UndergraduateAdvising Office staffIMAGINATIVE REASONING INTHE ENGLISH DEPARTMENTImaginative reasoning feedsinto and supports a numberof core values our departmentaffirms, including:Mentors are “themagnets in themany compassesan artist wears outover a lifetime.”— Deborah Diggespursing social justiceUpon successful completion of the freshmen mentoring program,first-year English and Film Studies majors will:Get to know successful peers in the English and FilmStudies programsAttend events to help crystalize goals related to departmentalscholarships, internships, research, & professional development1affirming diversityengaging with a broad array of real and imaginedcommunities based on empathetic understandingfostering a sense of belonginginstilling a desire for civic engagement2
Meet the English Advising TeamKELLY PAYNEkpayne2@unl.eduIn addition to serving as the English & Film Studiesmajor advisor, I teach courses in American literature,professional practices, and mentoring in English. Ireceived my bachelors degree from Saint Mary’sCollege (Notre Dame, Indiana) and my masters degreefrom the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. In my timeaway from campus, I enjoy reading novels, walking myboxer puppy, reading Roald Dahl’s books to my son, andtraveling to Belgium and other locations in Europe.Meet the Mentors: 2017–2018ANNE ABERLEAnne is a senior this year and she comes to UNL fromFranklin, Nebraska but after spending a semester ofher junior year studying abroad, she’s decided thatFrance is her true home! As a double major in Englishand French with a minor in Women & Gender Studies,she approaches her English studies with one phrasein mind from the department’s mission statement:“the ‘world’ is not just ‘out there’—elsewhere; it is infact right here in Lincoln, Nebraska.” After graduating,Anne plans on pursuing a career in the publishingindustry and nothing could better prepare her for thatthan her experiences at UNL. She spent a summeras an editorial assistant at Prairie Schooner and isthrilled to be spending this fall semester interningwith a literary agent based in New York City. Shelooks forward to helping new English majors makethe department their home in the same way that she’sbeen able to. In her free time, you can find herre-reading her favorite books and consuming copiousamounts of caffeine.3DANIELLE BISCHOFFBorn and raised in Omaha, Nebraska, Dani is a juniorEnglish and Communication Studies double major. Sheis involved in the club Young Democrats on campus,and enjoys volunteering at Planned Parenthood. In herfree time, she likes to binge watch the latest Netflixshows with her dogs. Dani has always been passionateabout reading and writing, and looks forward toincorporating her passion into her future career. Shecan’t wait to work closely with first-year students thatshare her love for literature and film.GABRIELLE STROUPI’m from Lincoln, Nebraska, and I’m currently a juniorFilm Studies major with a triple minor in Theatre,Dance and English. I play soccer three to four daysout of the week, and I’m a die hard USA Soccer fan.I’m a master at watching Netflix, with Bob’s Burgersand One Tree Hill being my absolute favorite series.I’m also a writer for the Real Nebraska Girls website. Ilook forward to working with students who are just aspassionate about what they’re studying, just like I am.XINYUE WANGI come from Beijing, China. I’m interested in variousthings. Some of my favorites are dancing, writing,traveling, painting. Other than these, just name itbecause I’d like to try different things! Life is just like awonderful adventure, so why don’t we enjoy it!I’m a senior Communication Studies and English major,with a psychology minor. Helping others is always onething that I enjoy, particularly, when someone achieveshis/ her goal because of my help. During more thanthree years’ studying at UNL, I found that what I’mstudying helps me become a competent person,allowing me to help others better. The courseworksuch as interpersonal communication, conflictresolution, and intercultural communication allow meto acquire skills to communicate with different peoplein a proper way, which are really important in our dailylife. English study allows me to think critically, which4
I think is also an ability that most of people need.Additionally, studying English help me to realize whatI want to do for my life. Because I like helping others,I’m thinking to be an advisor or life coach in the future,helping students find their loves and achieve theirgoals. I think that when I help others become better,I’m also developing myself. What I’m studying couldassist me in being an advisor or life coach.JERICA BURGESSI am a senior double majoring in English andCommunication Studies, with a minor in Leadership. Iam very passionate about education, and my declaredacademic program will serve me well as I pursuegraduate school for Educational AdministrationStudent Affairs. My dream is to work with collegestudents one day, either as an academic advisor orprofessor (or both!). My hobbies include reading,watching Harry Potter, and doing yoga. I am fromLincoln, Nebraska (Go Big Red!). The faculty at theUniversity, especially in the English department, haveinfluenced my college career in so many positive ways.Kelly Payne, the English & Film Studies AcademicAdvisor, has given me the opportunity to serve asthe English Advising Intern for Fall 2017, and I am soexcited to mentor students in English & Film Studies.I am very passionate about working with students. Ienjoy encouraging others to get involved at UNL andin their area of study. There are so many amazingopportunities at UNL, and I can’t wait to serve as arole model for the English department. When I was afreshman, I had an English major mentor named Dani.She met with me throughout the year to see howmy classes were going, and helped me develop myresume. It was awesome to have a role model to lookup to in my major during my freshman year!BERKLEY FIERROMy name is Berkley Fierro and I am a Senior fromRapid City, SD majoring in English and minoring inCriminal Justice and Women’s & Gender Studies. Aftergraduating in December of 2017, I plan to attendlaw school in the Fall of 2018 and pursue a career in5corporate/ industry law. In addition to being a secondyear ESAB peer mentor, here at UNL I serve as thePresident of my sorority, am an active IntramuralSports employee, help lead the Pre-Law Club, anddo work with the transfer-student honor society. Ialso enjoying paging for the Nebraska Legislaturelast spring. From these experiences, I have developedmy leadership abilities, my public speaking skills,and have learned how to better work in a teamwith peers. I love that our Department focuses onImaginative Reasoning because I personally value thatI have gained this perspective when writing papers,conducting research, and just viewing the world, inand outside of English classes. I’m looking forward tomentoring again this semester because I feel it is mycivic duty to facilitate the success and accomplishmentof others; the world is not functioning at its fullestcapacity until all of it’s citizens are! This is why I domy best to ensure everyone has what they needto succeed. My biggest mentor in life has been mymother, who always told me to never settle for goodenough, that self-empowerment is the biggest key toone’s happiness, and “what do you have to lose?”.JADE ZUEHLKEI was born in Daegu, South Korea. I was adopted atsix-months-old and have lived in Omaha, Nebraskaever since. I am a huge Duke Basketball fan andenjoy traveling, running, and good eats. I ammajoring in English and philosophy, minoring incommunications studies, and am pursuing a PublicPolicy Analysis Certificate. Within my English major, Iam concentrating in composition and rhetoric. Upongraduation, I hope to further my education by in lawschool or in a Master’s program studying public policy.Ultimately, I would like to utilize my writing and criticalthinking skills from my coursework as a member ofthe FBI or CIA as a communications liaison or publicaffairs specialist. I am looking forward to mentoringbecause I remember how desperately I neededsomeone to look up to beginning my major in English.I had no idea what I wanted to do with my Englishmajor up until the summer of 2016 and I owe it to mymentor as well as my advisors for granting me endless6
opportunities until I found my niche in compositionand rhetoric. Through ESAB, I hope to have that sameimpact on my mentees and to be there every step ofthe way through both the brilliant and confusing timesduring their undergraduate careers.JENNA BRENDEJenna is a senior English major and business minorfrom Renner, South Dakota graduating in December.She served as the Undergraduate Advising Internin the English Advising Office for Spring 2017 andis currently continuing work with Career Servicesas a Peer Career Guide while working on her thesis:Imaginative Mentoring through Literature: Readingto Overcome Obstacles in College. With ambitions topursue graduate school in Educational Administration/Student Affairs in the future, Jenna thrives on helpingstudents through their college experiences. Jenna’sdesire to help students know they deserve to takeup space is emphasized in our department’s missionof imaginative reasoning, where we acquire skillsthat “connects us to others, leads us to look andwork across boundaries, including, importantly, theboundary of our own selves and most immediatecommunities.” Because Kelly and the English StudentAdvisory Board have helped her find a home at UNL,Jenna is looking forward to making her own menteesfeel welcome in our department. When not founddoing homework or studying, Jenna is most likelywatching Harry Potter or The Office, doing yoga, orhanging out with her cat, Rue (and sometimes, all ofthe above).LEE KENNYLee is a junior English and Psychology major with aminor in Math. She hopes to pursue a career in helpingdisadvantaged youth, whether through teaching,writing, or social work. She stays busy serving asthe Vice President of Operations for Kappa Delta,working at the Writing Center, copyediting at theDaily Nebraskan, volunteering with the Writers LincolnInitiative with Mark of Honor, and loving leadershipas a senior counselor for NHRI. In her free time, she7loves to watch Parks and Recreation. Her friendsdescribe her as “a weird combination between LeslieKnope and April Ludgate.” Her favorite classes havebeen Composition & Rhetoric classes taught by KatieMcWain and Dr. Shari Stenberg. She encourages allstudents to get to know their professors, because herprofessors have given her many opportunities andtaught her to love fields of English she had not evenconsidered! As a peer mentor, she is excited to formrelationships with students in the department andencourage learning to accomplish her favorite part ofthe English department’s mission statement — “wehelp students develop their capacities in imaginativereasoning so that in their lives as citizens of the worldand members of their local communities they candiscern connections and synthesize across seeminglyincommensurable ideas or beliefs.HAILEY FISCHERHailey is a 3rd year English and Film Studies doublemajor and Business minor from Loveland, Colorado.She loves to read, write, watch movies, and hike.After her time at the university, she hopes to pursuea career in publishing or writing for film, and wouldlike to publish her own work someday. If none of thisworks out, she plans on becoming Batman. This willbe Hailey’s second year being part of the EnglishStudent Advisory Board, and she has been greatlyinspired by the fellow mentors and students shehas gotten to meet being part of the program. Shehas enjoyed many of the film studies classes offeredthrough the department, and was inspired to adda Film Studies major after taking English 239 FilmDirectors. She would encourage every student totake a film or creative writing class during theirtime at UNL. Hailey loves getting to know fellowEnglish and Film Studies majors through mentoring,as well as getting to share common interestsand learn new things through the experience.8
ARAYA SANTOI have lived in several areas, but I graduated highschool in Omaha, which is the biggest city in Nebraska.I love to immerse myself in books (preferably fantasyand paranormal, with some romance and a kick-buttheroine). I am currently trying to publish one of mybooks, and I also write poetry. My hobbies includephotography and obsessing over dogs. I’m an Englishand history double major with a minor in Women andGender Studies and a concentration in creative writing.Basically, I want to help people, but my English degreehelps me a lot with interacting and communicatingwith other people, including when I travel to differentareas, because I know different cultures’ literature andtheir history. I use my education to write realistic andfeminist characters and stories that reflect what ourworld is like (mixed with angels and Greek gods anddifferent Trickster figures). My academic programs willhelp me be a Fulbright Scholar, or enroll in the UrbanTeachers or Teach For America programs before Iapply for grad school. This summer, I traveled with theEnglish department to the Netherlands and Belgium,and I would love to talk more about that experience!I’m really looking forward to helping incomingfreshmen with the writing process, discussing classes,and about UNL and Lincoln in general! There was anEnglish Advisory Board mentor, Dani, who not onlyimpacted me my freshman year, but has impacted mesince then. I think of her nearly every time I write aserious paper or apply for scholarships. She pushedme to make sure I was expressing myself in the way Iwanted, but also in a formal or rhetorical tone, whichare two tones I have a huge problem with.MICHAELA LUCKEYbusiness. I plan to work in publishing post-grad andI knew I needed to not only continue fostering mylove of literature, but I also needed to have somebusiness background in terms of learning how tosell and market books you believe in to publishinghouses and the public! In terms of internships, mypositions as the Editorial, Design, and ProductionIntern at the University of Nebraska Press and as theLiterary Agency Intern at Curtis Brown, Ltd. have givenme some amazing hands-on publishing experiencethat’s not always readily available to undergrads inthe Midwest. The English Department has so manygreat opportunities for us as students and throughthese programs I’ve learned that I do have a passionand drive to work in trade publishing. When I was afreshman, I felt lost and confused with no idea what todo with an English degree. As a mentor I can’t wait tobe able to work with my mentees and show them that,while it can be intimidating, there’s so many promisingavenues to take within Andrews Hall. We’ve all beenthere and you will be okay—especially if you use all thefantastic resources Andrews has to offer.MITCHELL SELDALMitch Seldal is a senior studying Political Scienceand English at the University of Nebraska. He hopesto utilize his education in Nebraska in order to enrollin Law School upon graduation. Originally fromthe Chicagoland area of Illinois, Mitch has adjustedto Lincoln by getting involved in both on- andoff- campus organizations, including the Tau KappaEpsilon fraternity. He has also worked for the NebraskaDemocratic Party and is a member of the Pi SigmaAlpha Honor Society. At any given moment, Mitch canbe found supporting his hometown Chicago sportsteams and tweaking this week’s fantasy football lineup.I’m from Elmhurst, Illinois which is a suburb rightoutside Chicago. I love reading (of course!) andwriting. I write short stories and my favorite genresto read are nonfiction, essay collections, and novelsabout film. I’m a huge cinephile and X-Files fanatic,but I also love swimming, biking nature trails, andfishing. I’m a senior English major with a minor in910
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