Graduates of the Kenyon English Department go on to a wide variety of professional and creative careers. Many enter publishing and communications, working for magazines and publishing houses in New York. Other recent graduates are literary agents and news reporters for network affiliates. Many are successful stockbrokers, doctors, lawyers, teachers, and librarians. Several have gone into the more glamorous world of film and theater. A few have gone on to prestigious graduate programs in English literature, creative writing, film, or journalism. Kenyon graduates are notable for their exciting and successful careers, and we are confident that the English major at Kenyon College prepares students for a variety of career opportunities.

Some former Kenyon English Majors include:

Jay Cocks '66: Academy Award nominated screenwriter (Gangs of New York, The Age of Innocence) and Film Critic (Time Magazine)

Douglas Fleming '70: managing director, J.P. Morgan Fleming Asset Management

Jonathan Sehring '78: president, Independent Film Channel

James Rossman '85: head of U.S. Equity Capital Markets and senior managing director at Macquarie Bank

Christopher Hammett '88: managing director of Falconworks Artists Group, former vice president of Citibank

Dr. Richard Ginsburg '89: co-director of MGH Sports Psychology, Harvard Medical School

Laura Hillenbrand '89: author of Seabiscuit

Brendan Keefe '90: correspondent, WCPO-TV9, New York

Anne Berube '90: attorney, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C.

Kris Osborn '92: anchor, Defense News, Springfield, VA

Dr. Leigh Straus Walsh '92: resident physician, Obstetrics/Gynecology, Advocates for Women's Health, Louisville, KY

Ian Rowan '94: vice president, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney

Megan Wolpert '95: co-producer, The Recruit (2003), former Senior Vice President, Spyglass Entertainment Television Group

Samie Falvey (nee Kim) '96: senior vice president of comedy development at ABC Entertainment

Sarah Weyland Ellis '97: assistant district attorney, Middlesex County, Cambridge, MA

Elizabeth Lonky '98: freelance photojournalist, owner of Studio SLB Photography, a successful company devoted to photographing newborns, toddlers, and families in Los Angeles

Daniel Torday '00: creative writing lecturer, Bryn Mawr College; published in Esquire, The Kenyon Review, The New York Times, and Interview Magazine

Andrew Grace '01: poet, winner of the Southern Poetry Review's Guy Owen Prize in 2003, and an Academy of American Poets Prize; currently a Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University.

Molly Farrell '02: doctoral candidate in English, Yale University, formerly production assistant, capitol hill unit at the News Hour with Jim Lehrer

Jessica Freeman-Slade '06: assistant managing editor, Alfred A. Knopf Publishing Co.

Alizabeth A. Lopatto '06: Reporter, Bloomberg News

Heather H. McMillan '06: Program Director, Teach for America

Andrew H. Foley '07: law student, University of Michigan Law School

Emma V. Haberl '07: associate producer, Fox News Channel

Katherine S. Hickey '08: English teacher, Dunman High School in Singapore

Emily J. Kliever '08: graduate admissions coordinator, George Washington University School of Business

Kate W. Aufses '08: graduate student, Cambridge University in England

Phil Edmunds '09: analyst with Deloitte Consulting LLP, New York, NY

Cooper C. A. Fleishman '09: assistant, Charlotte Sheedy Literary Agency

Johanna Ralsten '09: Teach for America in Miami, Florida

Janae A. Peters '10: English Teacher, Northfield Mount Hermon, MA