Officers 2013-14
President \ Hunter Gilson
Email: jhgilson @ ksu dot edu
Hometown: Overland Park, KS
Other activities: Ambling through Suburbia, impersonating John Wayne, raising Bonsai trees, and a proud member of English Ambassadors.
Favorite book(s): The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Moby-Dick, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Ballistics, Great Expectations, and, forever and always, all things Cormac McCarthy
Future plans: Finding the perfect cup of coffee, visiting every national park, backpacking across Europe, seeing Vampire Weekend in concert, employment at a fun company, and, with any luck, a low-residency MFA program.
Vice President \
Email:
Hometown:
Other activities:
Favorite book(s):
Future plans:
Treasurer \ Kristin Selby
Email: keselby at ksu dot edu
Hometown: Overland Park
Other activities: I love spending time outside (whenever the Kansas weather allows for it), reading, cooking, and just hanging out with friends.
Favorite book(s): Gilead by Marilynne Robinson, anything that David Sedaris writes, and everything I've ever
read by Virginia Woolf.
Future plans: Teaching! (in whatever form that happens to be)
Secretary \ Laura Sommers
Email: lsommers at ksu dot edu
Hometown: Hiawatha, KS
Other activities: Alpha Xi Delta Sorority, Kappa Delta Pi, Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, Order of Omega, Golden Key International Honor Society, freelance writer for The Collegian.
Favorite book(s): It's always so hard for me to pinpoint a single book or even a few as favorites, but I love The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck and anything by Kristin Hannah and Anita Shreve.
Future plans: I will graduate from Kansas State University with degrees in both English and secondary education in the Spring of 2015. I hope to teach English at the high school level and write freelance on the side.
Faculty Sponsor \ Dr. Naomi Wood
Email: njwood at ksu dot edu
Hometown: Chicago, IL and Kinshasa, Congo.
Other activities: Kayaking, Hiking, Reading, Music, Baking.
Favorite book(s): I love anything by Charles Dickens, most of William Makepeace Thackeray, Wilkie Collins, Oscar Wilde. More contemporary writers I love include Margaret Atwood, Barbara Kingsolver, Ursula K. LeGuin, Terry Pratchett, Philip Pullman, Joan Aiken . . . and more.
Future plans: Continue to build the chapter, see English majors find their vocation, perfect homemade sourdough technique.
Questions? Check out the Sigma Tau Delta International Constitution.