Senior English majors and English faculty pose for a photo at the fall 2023 Senior English Capstone presentations. Left to right: Associate Professor of German, English, and Comparative Literature Jutta Gsoels-Lorensen; student Aidan Pellegrino; Associate Professor of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Megan Simpson; Associate Professor of English Laura Rotunno; Distinguished Professor of English and American Studies Sandra Petrulionis; Assistant Professor of English Jeffery Stoyanoff; student Ella Gable; Associate Professor Emeritus of English Tom Liszka; and student Brian Burkhardt. Credit: Penn State Expand New members of the Penn State Altoona chapter of the Sigma Tau Delta English Honor Society were inducted on Thursday, Dec. 7. Left to right: Kathryn Maille, Megan Simpson (Associate Professor of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies), Eve Ergler, Hollie Keller, Emera Gregor, Rebecca Reeder, Aidan Pellegrino, Ella Gable, and James Miller. Credit: Penn State Expand Penn State Altoona English student Aidan Pellegrino offers his senior presentation “The Neverending Nightmare of the American Dream: A Rhetorical Analysis of Antislavery Speech from the Early Republic to Black Lives Matter.” Credit: Penn State Expand Penn State Altoona English student Brian Burkhardt offers a senior presentation titled "Dead Letter Office Rendered in Glass: A Story of How Drugs Usurp the American Dream." Credit: Penn State Expand Penn State Altoona English student Ella Gable offers her senior presentation "The Horatio Alger Myth: The Truth Behind His Heroes.” Credit: Penn State Expand