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Kennedy Hamblen

Class of 2024
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Bio 

I'm Kennedy, a literature nerd and creative writer from the outskirts of Memphis. I'm also a senior here at Dartmouth. When I'm not working in admissions as a senior fellow, I'm a student employee at the library and a research assistant with an English professor. I love music and analyzing teen drama TV (think Riverdale and Pretty Little Liars). I'm thinking about going to law school after my time here. I've had such a great time at Dartmouth and am excited to share that with you!

Academic Program 

English

Favorite Thing Right Now 

City simulator video games

Hometown 

Eads, TN

Pronouns 

she/her

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Kennedy's D-Plan

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    • FallHanover, NH

      Favorite Class: Decadence, Degeneracy, and the Fin de Siecle

      Professor McCann is my advisor, but that's not the only reason I took this class. Since it was a senior seminar with only 9 students, we got to dive deep into the fascinating material, including with Victorian-era pulp fiction books, advertisements, and psychological treatises, plus some good old fashioned canonical works like The Picture of Dorian Gray and Dracula. [Fun fact: I've read Dracula three times at Dartmouth... it's an English department favorite!]

    • WinterHanover, NH

      This was an off term for me, but I love Hanover so much I hung around anyways! I worked for admissions and Baker-Berry Library, read a ton of J.G. Ballard, and stared out the window at the snow for an embarrassingly long amount of time. I also visited my parents in Tennessee during Christmas.

    • SpringHanover, NH

      Favorite Class: Law, Courts, and Judges

      Professor Nachlis went out of his way to act as an unofficial pre-law advisor for all of us in this class, not only by introducing us to some of the most pressing issues in American government, but also by dedicating the final two weeks of class to a module called "Should you go to law school?" A question I was asking myself!

    • SummerHanover, NH

      Another off term again, and this time I'm working full-time for admissions as a senior fellow! Besides that, though, I'm part of the 'Meme Working Group,' led by Professor Tanoukhi—we aim to present a paper in the winter at a Dartmouth-hosted conference. I'm also doing a lot of preliminary reading for my honors thesis. Anyone heard of Friedrich Kittler's Discourse Networks? Well, I'll have read it twice by the time this term is over.