What is AngeLingo?

AngeLingo is an entirely student-created and run journal out of the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences. We hold a mirror up to Los Angeles, and look at the rest of the world through a distinctly L.A. prism. AngeLingo reflects the diversity of intellectual culture here at USC. Hence, the journal covers a wide variety of subjects and perspectives. To paraphrase Matthew Arnold, it represents the best that has been thought and said in our classes here at USC.

The six AngeLingo editors are USC undergraduates in different school within USC. Most of the articles were generated in Writing 340, a general education class that satisfies the second half of the USC undergraduate writing requirement.

How are articles selected for publication?

Most of the articles were generated in Writing 340, a course that satisfies the upper-division writing requirement here at USC. We thank College faculty for sending great writing our way. You are also welcome to submit other writings for consideration. A team of student editors cull through the submissions. Every article is reviewed and evaluated by two editors, each of whom makes a recommendation either for or against publication. All the editors participate in the selection process. After selections are made, editors are assigned to work with each writer on editing the article for publication.

Meet The Editors

Ryan Furlong | POLITICS

Ryan Furlong is a junior at the University of Southern California, majoring in print journalism. In his free time, he enjoys playing homerun derby with friends, eating too much food, and watching too much television. Ryan is a news guru who plans to live out his life in the media and pop culture industry. Although he grew up in Chicago, he has come to realize there is no better place to live than Los Angeles.

Jasmine Elist | ABROAD

Jasmine Elist is a junior majoring in English (Creative Writing) and minoring in Psychology. A native Angelino, she loves spending her college years going on more adventures in this eclectic city. In a desperate plea to avoid the harsh reality that she, too, must grow up, Jasmine spends much of her time writing children's stories... and lots of them. Although she loves writing, her real talent lies in her ability to attend more than one Persian party in a single night--she is now struggling to learn how to dance, eat, and drink like they do (she's such an amateur).

Andrew Emmons | WEB DESIGN

Andrew Emmons is a senior studying Digital Media in the School of Fine Arts at USC. A self proclaimed computer geek, he also lives to escape his technology and urban sprawl, getting out for a few adventures. Earth or sea, Andrew loves exploring new terrain.

Gary Chou | HEALTH

Gary Chou is pursuing Mechanical Engineering in his journey to discover the meaning of life. Hopefully the meaning of life involves less math than his current concentration. In his spare time (what spare time!?), he daydreams of being an artist and musician. His great love in life is food.

Kai Miller | MULTIMEDIA

Kai is a senior majoring in cinema critical studies and minoring in history. Kai enjoys football, running, and camping, but perhaps most of all, he enjoys movies. Aside from its top-notch professors, and its stellar reputation, Kai thinks the greatest perk of majoring in critical studies is the chance to see so many classic movies on the big screen, in crisp 35 millimeter. Although a Minnesotan at heart, Kai admits that Los Angeles is starting to grow on him.

Leigh Cooper | GRAPHICS

On paper, Leigh is a junior majoring in film studies at USC. In reality, Leigh is a partially broke, but wholeheartedly optimistic food enthusiast who came to Los Angeles in 2005 with high hopes of finding her own brand of adventure. She sleeps like Garfield the cat, daydreams voraciously, and spends most of her time making lists about the infinite number of interesting things she hopes to one day do. Her future plans include finishing Infinite Jest and traveling abroad to Australia.

Sam Oltman | CULTURE

Sam Oltman is a sophomore majoring in Print Journalism and minoring in French. On those rare occasions when she's not perfecting the fine art of procrastination, she writes, listens to music, follows the 2008 presidential election, runs circles around campus, cooks food of a vegetarian nature, and goes on L.A. adventures in her old school Mercury Cougar. If the local smog ever starts getting to her, she heads 60 miles south to her old home in Orange County, a land of expensive shopping malls and gated communities where everything closes after 10 P.M., but whose magically sunny beaches make it all kind of worthwhile.

Nicole Sult | CREATIVEWORKS

Nicole Sult is a sophomore majoring in cinema-television production and international relations. She enjoys cycling, scones, dirty synth lines, and geeking out in its various forms. Her family moves about as often as she changes hair colors (read: a lot), so she is still not sure what this "home" thing is - but for the moment Los Angeles will do.

Sean Berens | LIFE

Sean is a junior studying religion and comparative literature. He enjoys running, music and reading Gabriel Garcia Marquez. He coaches a high school football team in the fall and loves Cameron Crowe movies, except Elizabethtown...and not really Vanilla Sky either, but all the other ones are great.

Norah Ashe-McNalley | FACULTY MENTOR

Norah Ashe-McNalley is a senior lecturer in the College Writing Program. For the past four years, she and her colleague Dr. Inman Berens have worked as the advisors to AngeLingo, seeing it through several different incarnations. A native Angelino herself, Dr. Ashe-McNalley has firmly planted herself in Los Angeles. She teaches at the school where her parents fell in love and lives in the home where she was raised, with her husband, two children, and a white picket fence.

Kathi Inman Barens | FACULTY MENTOR

Kathi Inman Berens, a senior lecturer in the College's Writing Program, founded AngeLingo four years ago with Dr. Norah Ashe-McNalley and a team of students. She continues as AngeLingo's co-advisor. She directs USC's Undergraduate Writers' Conference. She is a Fellow at USC's Center for Excellence in Teaching www.usc.edu/programs/cet/. A Valley girl, she commutes from Encino, where she lives with her husband, two kids, and a Welsh Corgi.