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, Class of 1966, Academy Award Nominated Screenwriter (Gangs of New York, The Age of Innocence) and Film Critic (Time Magazine)

Douglas Fleming, Class of 1970, Managing Director, J.P. Morgan Fleming Asset Management

Jonathan Sehring, Class of 1978, President, Independent Film Channel

James Rossman, Class of 1985, Senior Vice President, Lehman Brothers

Christopher Hammett, Class of 1988, Former Vice President of Citibank

Dr. Richard Ginsburg, Class of 1989, Co-Director, MGH Sports Psychology, Harvard Medical School

Laura Hillenbrand, Class of 1989, author of Seabiscuit

Brendan Keefe, Class of 1990, Correspondent, WCPO-TV9, New York

Anne Berube, Class of 1990, Attorney, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C.

Kris Osborn, Class of 1992, Anchor, Defense News, Springfield, VA

Dr. Leigh Straus Walsh, Class of 1992, Resident Physician, Obstetrics/Gynecology, Advocates for Women's Health, Louisville, KY

Dr. Michael Baumholtz, Class of 1994, Plastic Surgery Resident, University of Texas San Antonio

Ian Rowan, Class of 1994, Vice President, Morgan-Stanley

Megan Wolpert, Class of 1995, Co-producer, The Recruit (2003), former Senior Vice President, Spyglass Entertainment Television Group

Samie Falvey (nee Kim), Class of 1996, Senior vice president of comedy development at ABC Entertainment

Sarah Weyland Ellis, Class of 1997, Assistant District Attorney, Middlesex County, Cambridge, MA

Deborah C. Watkins, Class of 1998, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, Wooster, OH

Elizabeth Lonky, Class of 1998, freelance photojournalist, owner of Studio SLB Photography, a successful company devoted to photographing newborns, toddlers, and families in Los Angeles

Daniel Torday, Class of 2000, creative writing lecturer, Bryn Mawr College; published in Esquire, The Kenyon Review, The New York Times, and Interview Magazine

Andrew Grace, Class of 2001, poet, whose volume of poems, A Belonging Field, was released by Salt Publishing in December of 2002.

Molly Farrell, Class of 2002, doctoral candidate in English, Yale University, formerly production assistant, capitol hill unit at the News Hour with Jim Lehrer

Heather McMillan, Class of 2005, Teach For America, Baltimore, Maryland

Jessica Freeman-Slade, Class of 2006, Editorial Assistant, Alfred A. Knopf Publishing Co.

Phil Edmunds, Class of 2009, analyst with Deloitte Consulting LLP, New York, NY

Emma Mueller, Class of 2009, 6-month internship with V!VA travel guides in Ecuador

Johanna Ralsten, Class of 2009, Teach for America in Miami, Florida

Stephanie Reiches, Class of 2009, pursuing master's degree in Library and Information Science with an Archives Management concentration at Simmons College