Emily Hoeven

About

I am an award-winning writer, reporter, and editor who sees storytelling — whether through journalism, fiction, or other narrative forms — as a way to better understand and appreciate, as well as change, the world in which we live. I have over five years of writing experience, and my cultural criticism, opinion columns, news features, investigative reporting, and essays have been published in The Deseret News, The San Francisco Business Times, The Flathead Beacon, The Daily Pennsylvanian, and The Mercury News. In addition, my reporting and projects have been featured in The Washington Post, The New York Times, and Philadelphia Magazine, among other outlets. My writing and research often deal with cultural politics, the internet, gender, the process of growing up, and power. I also blog at emilyhoeven.wordpress.com. I graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania in three years, where I studied English and French & Francophone Studies and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. I spent a summer conducting independent literary research at the University of Cambridge as a Thouron Summer Prize fellow (often considered the undergraduate version of the Rhodes). I was also awarded the Philip E. Goldfein Class of 1934 Shakespearean Prize and the College Alumni Society Henry Reed Prize, for the best undergraduate essay on Shakespeare and the literature of the English Renaissance, respectively. My 2017 investigative column, "It's time to end Penn's century-long fraternity subsidization," won the Columbia Scholastic Press Association's Gold Circle Award in the Personal Opinion: On-Campus Issues category. I am fluent in French and spent a year living in Châteauroux, France, where I taught English in two public middle schools. I have since worked as a translator, transcribing and translating sensitive interviews conducted in French into English. My experiences in France continue to inform and inspire my writing, journalism, and research.