By Tara Stanzione | Co-Editor-In-Chief
Lauren Kane ’15, editor-in-chief of the Mosaic newspaper last year, has been accepted into a unique master’s program that combines literature and religious studies at the Yale Divinity School and hired as a paid editorial assistant at the Yale University Press. Kane plans to pursue her interest in the English Renaissance poet John Milton, while taking on the challenge of learning Latin.
“One of the most striking things about Lauren is her sense of focus. At the end of her freshman year she went on the month-long Oxford trip, and determined on the spot that she would return for a full semester,” Dr. Trainor says. While abroad her junior year, Kane began research on what ended up being her senior thesis on George Eliot’s Middlemarch.
Kane attributes the Mosaic with playing a large role in who she is today. She was able to gain experience “in many different aspects of news publication, from the administration, to the on-the-ground reporting and writing, to page layout,” Kane says. She continues her devotion to English at her internship in the Acquisitions Department working with new book projects, and loves it so far. When she isn’t at school or work, Kane is balancing studying for classes and enjoying the stimulating culture and buoyant nightlife of New Haven.
“Something Mosaic gave me that I know I wouldn’t be here without is confidence, in so many ways. Journalism demands that you go for the story no matter what your hang-ups or anxieties are. You have no time to over-analyze when you’re on deadline, so you have to just trust your gut. That skill has been an absolute game-changer. On the technical level, working now in book publishing, I find that I have to access skills and terminology from Communications classes (which I mastered in the setting of Mosaic) almost daily.” Kane says.
Besides being (a phenomenal) editor-in-chief of the Mosaic, Kane obtained a B.A. in English Lit while minoring in Philosophy and English Communications at Salve Regina University. She was also a member of the Pell Honors society, a writing consultant, and achieved the English Department Literature award before graduation.
“I find myself missing Salve terribly – I can genuinely say, I don’t think a day goes by that I don’t have to call upon something that I learned during my time at Salve, and I believe that will be true on into the foreseeable future,” Kane says.
