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Alison Hassman, TCNJ and WLC’s alumna (Spanish), is taking one more step in her successful theater/stage managing career.

Alison Hassman, TCNJ and WLC’s alumna (Spanish), is taking one more step in her successful theater/stage managing career. She is now directly involved in Los monólogos de la vagina, a Spanish version of Eve Ensler’s piece. The show will open on May 18 at the Westside Theater in Manhattan (the same off-Broadway stage where the… Continue Reading

TCNJ students named “Teacher of the Year” by the Chinese American Cultural Association and Edison Chinese School

Tara Pretty (Class of 2013) and Patricia Lin (Class of 2014) taught Chinese to students–kindergarten up to 12th grade–at Edison Chinese School on weekends from September 2012 to June 2013. Pretty and Lin were honored for their dedication and commitment to teaching Chinese language and culture with “Teacher of the Year” awards from the Chinese… Continue Reading

Alumni Letter: Brittany Oldewurtel

May 22nd, 2013 It’s official. After navigating my way through a complicated visa process and landing the job after two successful interviews, I have finally completed my first year within the FIAT Group working on the central HR team for Automotive Lighting-Magneti Marelli. As with any new challenge, I made plenty of naive assumptions as… Continue Reading

Graduating Senior receiving Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award from Chinese American Cultural Association

Graduating senior Tara Pretty is receiving this award from the Chinese American Cultural Association, CACA. Tara has been teaching a Chinese class every Saturday in the past year at Edison Chinese School and been doing a tremendous job. Edison Chinese school nominated her to this Chinese American Association in New Jersey. It has a long… Continue Reading

Maryan Escarfullett: “Learning Chinese Has Transformed Me”

The past year I’ve been living and studying for a master degree in International Studies at the Johns Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies. But, my motivation and my decision to live in China went back to my time at TCNJ. At TCNJ, enrolled as a freshman in Dr. Mi’s Chinese 101 class I… Continue Reading

Alumni Letter: Erin Hardy

It was over a year ago that I began the adventure of a lifetime; an adventure that became the life I’d always dreamt of having. After graduation I interviewed at several schools, but was unsuccessful in finding a job as a high school Italian teacher. One day while searching for an Italian Master’s program I… Continue Reading

Alumni Update: Corina Mavrodin

Corina is currently completing her PhD at the London School of Economics (LSE) in London, UK. After completing a year abroad in Seville and graduating TCNJ in 2002, Corina worked with NGOs (Frankfurt, Germany) the United Nations (New York) and the Romanian Senate (Bucharest), where she was foreign affairs counselor to the President of the… Continue Reading

A note from Jeremy Frusco, minor in Italian

My name is Jeremy Frusco. I am a graduate student in musicology at the University of Florida with an interest in Italian social songs and la Resistenza who is looking for opportunities to conduct archival research throughout Italy this summer. My primary archive of interest is the Istituto Ernesto de Martino in Sesto Fiorentino. Founded… Continue Reading