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BRIDGES TO MEMORY Maria Rice Bellamy ’85 Bridges to Memory is Maria Rice Bellamy’s first book which was published in 2015. It is the culmination of many years of personal and intellectual curiosity. “I was delighted when I found a word and a theory to describe something I'd been trying to understand since I was a child,” Maria said. “Postmemory describes the relationship a person has to his or her parents’ or ancestors’ traumatic experiences. It does not describe an experience a person has had directly but something he or she experiences vicariously through interactions with the survivors of that trauma.” She continued, “Postmemory is about the generational consequences of painful histories. Although the paradigm was created in relation to the Holocaust and the experience of the descendants of Holocaust survivors, I have found it resonant in so many cultural and historical contexts.” Maria’s book applies this concept to many other contexts, maintaining that this paradigm serves as a useful approach to analyzing a great deal of contemporary literature and to understanding some of the complexity of contemporary experience.
Shane S. Neibart ssneibart@gmail.com Carissa E. Szlosek szlosek@wisc.edu
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SaVonne Anderson savonneanderson@gmail.com
William Pheloung is enjoying much career success. He just published his first professional game, “Super Boxforts VR.” Last spring, his game “Keyboard Kommander Apokeylypse” won best in show at Gamefest (an intercollegiate game design exhibition).
Matt Cowen mcowen95@gmail.com
Carissa Szlosek is a cycologist at Cyc Fitness. She is completing her senior year at the University of WisconsinMadison.
Annabel Sharahy is a junior at the New School in New York majoring in business and food studies and minoring in media. She has been working for more than a year at Manzo Restaurante in New York as a “tourant” – a swing person who knows every station in the kitchen and creates dishes for special events.
Ian Ravin wrote and published a paper titled “Review of the genus Urgleptes Dillon (1956) of Hispaniola (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Acanthocinini): descriptions of five new species and one new synonymy.”
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SaVonne Anderson published The Womanifesto, a book of short personal essays in which she comments on the experience of discovering womanhood by telling the story of her own journey.
Troy Sutton is a student at Northeastern University and has accepted his first co-op position at KGS Buildings, LLC, a cloud software based engineering company that uses state-of-the art software to analyze building data, increase overall efficiency, and save money and energy. Last summer, Troy traveled to Reykjavik, Iceland, where he studied different types of renewable energies, from geothermal and hydro power plants to wind farms and sustainable water systems.
2014 CONTACT:
Jai Ghose jghose@andrew.cmu.edu Thomas Pan tpan14@gmail.com Lauren Whelan lmw025@bucknell.edu Jacob Wieseneck jwieseneck@gmail.com
2015 CONTACT:
Madeline DeLamielleure maddydelamielleure15 @gmail.com Jasmine Gamboa jgamboa19@amherst.edu Nicholas Murray nsm407@gmail.com Zachary Persing zcpersing@gmail.com Matthew Thekkethala matt@learnforlife foundation.org