Melanie Magolan

Melanie is a full-time student, full-time writer, and full-time organizer. Obviously, there are not enough full times in her life. She is frequently called Tink, for some reason. She has a loving relationship with all office supplies. But not THAT kind of loving relationship.

2009F

 * Division III Seminar in Research in Creative Writing
 * Mentored Independent Study

2008S

 * Yiddish Music and Performance Traditions
 * Point of View in Fiction
 * Book Reading in Development

2008F

 * Animation I
 * Philosophy of Education
 * Sex, Death, and Teeth (Independent study TA)
 * Myth, Belief, and Reality in World Literature

2008S

 * Fictions of Childhood
 * Yiddish Literature and Culture
 * Science Education in Urban Schools
 * Making a Scene

2007F

 * Theatre in Education for Social Change
 * How People Learn
 * Digital Art
 * Using Suspense in Story

2007S

 * Introduction to Writing
 * Take the Show on the Road
 * Nuns, Saints, and Mystics in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
 * Science in Popular Culture
 * Chorus

2006F

 * Changing Languages
 * Puzzles and Paradoxes
 * Sex, Death, and Teeth
 * Chorus

Div III
Melanie's Div III has had many forms, each stranger than the last, but presently it appears as a novel, designed to make science more appealing and approachable to middle schoolers, and discuss issues of labeling in society. It uses her knowledge of and interest in education, literature, writing, and anthropology for its own, possibly nefarious, purposes. See it now before it evolves again, disappears entirely, or becomes extremely popular.

And now the thing is at least partially done, just before Melanie's brains liquified and oozed out of her ears. Great timing!

Where to Find Her Writing
Sometimes, Melanie writes things. Here's where you can find some of them:

ellie-sparks.livejournal.com

pulpexplosion.com

Notable contributions include the "cake post" http://ellie-sparks.livejournal.com/1535.html and the abandoned "Kids Show Logic" column http://www.pulpexplosion.com/columns/kids.shtml.

Other Things Melanie Does

 * Student member of IA
 * IA representative on EPC
 * Cheese club
 * Excalibur
 * Occasional stage managing
 * Graduate
 * Fall over