Dorothy Smiljanich (BA 1969, MA 1972)
Dorothy Smiljanich is fond of the English program at UF for many reasons. For one, she met her husband, Terry, while both were undergrad English majors – and they’ve now […]
Chris Adrian (BA, 1993)
There was a time – not-so-long-ago – when pediatrician, novelist, and theologian, Chris Adrian roamed the halls of Turlington. As an undergraduate, Chris was already tending to his gift for […]
Marlene A. Tromp (PhD, 1995)
Dr. Marlene Tromp, now a member of the faculty at Denison University, remembers the English Department at UF as the “place where I learned what it was to be a […]
T. Capers Jones (BA, 1961)
Capers Jones is the current President and CEO of Capers Jones & Associates and Chief Scientist Emeritus of Software Productivity Research (SPR), the company he founded in 1984. Born in […]
C. Herbert Gilliland, Jr. (BA, 1964; PhD, 1976)
C. Herbert Gilliland, now a Professor of English at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, spent much of his youth in Gainesville living less than a mile from the […]
Bob Bowser (BA, 1961)
Originally from Illinois, Bob Bowser came to the University of Florida in 1952. Now retired after a lengthy career as an educator and founder of a transformative dropout recovery program […]
Chris Waldron (BA 1994, MA 1996)
As Vice President of Gaming Operations for Turner Broadcasting’s Cartoon Network, Chris Waldron oversees the network’s digital game development studio, game production, and overall games strategy. He is the executive producer of […]
Brian Rhinehart (PhD, 2002)
Brian Rhinehart is not exaggerating when he says that he owes his entire career to the first course he took at UF, Dr. Sidney Homan’s graduate Shakespeare class. Of Dr. […]
Gaspar González (BA, 1990)
Gaspar González is a documentary filmmaker and journalist. His first film, Muhammad Ali: Made in Miami, chronicled the years that Cassius Clay spent in Miami in the early 1960s, essentially transforming […]
Sarika Chandra (PhD, 2003)
Of her experience in the English Department at UF, Dr. Sarika Chandraenthusiastically notes that the “interdisciplinary nature of the department and the flexibility of study” were crucial to the trajectory of her research […]