Anne Donlon is a doctoral candidate in the English Program and a student in the American Studies certificate program. She has taught composition and American Literature at John Jay College, and is a Writing Fellow at Brooklyn College for 2011-2012. Her dissertation considers the networks that brought African-American writers and women activists and writers in Britain into contact in the first half of the twentieth-century, and the formal and aesthetic strategies these writers shared. She has previously served on the DSC as an at-large representative, and as a member of the Grants Committee and Media Board. This year she serves as an English Program representative and the UFS liaison.