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From New York to international book fairs, Simon & Schuster's Margaret Achey ’14 shares how networking, a love of books and her Professional Writing and Rhetoric education shaped her publishing career.

This speech was delivered on Oct. 8, 2026 at Numen Lumen, as part of Humanities Week at Elon.

An awards ceremony on Oct. 9 hosted by Elon College, the College of Arts and Sciences, recognized the professional achievements of three distinguished university graduates and past deans of the college.

A 2015 recipient of the Elon Medallion, the longtime faculty leader and exemplar of the Elon teacher-scholar-mentor model passed away on October 11, 2026.

Centering on the theme of “Adaptation/Nation,” the three-day interdisciplinary conference featured the scholarship of 70 presenters from 45 North American institutions.

What does care mean to you? A year-long event series kicks off a discussion about different types of community care.

What does a career in publishing actually look like? Margaret Achey ’14 brings more than a decade of industry experience to a conversation about books, global markets and breaking into the field.

Activities from Oct. 5-9, 2026, are being supported through the departments of Art History, English, History, Philosophy, Religious Studies and World Languages and Cultures.

Associate Professor of English Dan Burns recently published an article and a book chapter on film adaptations of novels by Franz Kafka and James Baldwin, examining the cognitive and phenomenological dimensions of the viewing experience.