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Marci Janas (right) prior to taping WVIZ Applause's interview with Dave Brubeck (October 2003). Photo courtesy of WVIZ ideastream

E-mail:
Marci.Janas@oberlin.edu
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Conservatory Annex 218
Phone:

440-775-8328
Fax:

440-775-5457
Address:
39 West College Street
Oberlin, OH 44074-1576

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Faculty & Divison Information

Marci Janas
Director of Conservatory Media Relations
and Editor, Oberlin Conservatory Magazine

Education:
Bachelor of Arts, Oberlin College (1991)

  • Degree Awarded with Highest Honors in English (Creative Writing specialization)

Academic Honors and Awards:
Phi Beta Kappa, Zeta of Ohio, Oberlin Chapter
Margaret Goodwin Meacham Prize, Oberlin College

Administrative Experience at Oberlin:
Director of Conservatory Media Relations (2002-present)
Media Relations Associate (2001-2002)
Acting Director, Conservatory Public Relations (2000-2001)
Media Relations Associate, Office of College Relations (1999-2000)
Staff Writer, Office of College Relations (1993-1999)

Professional Awards and Honors:
Award of Achievement finalist (with Dean of the Conservatory David Stull, Associate Dean Marci Alegant, and John Gilliland) Northern Ohio Live magazine 2004

Silver Medal, International Gallery of Superb Printing (for Kay Africa Memorial Dedication program book) 2002

Invited PR Presentations:
“To TBA or Not to TBA: Public Relations and the Professional Musician”—
The Juilliard School and the Manhattan School of Music (2003)

Literary Awards and Honors:
Academy of American Poets Award, Oberlin College
Fourth Annual International Poetry Competition (The Abiko Quarterly, Japan), honorable mention

Selected Publications:
“Classical Prodigy,” Silver Kris (the in-flight magazine of Singapore Airlines), March 1999

“An Artiste Abroad,” Silver Kris, September 1995

Correlatives of Pain (poem), FIELD: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics (No. 45, Fall 1991)

“The Secret World of Charles Simic,” FIELD: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics (No. 44, Spring 1991)

“The Secret World of Charles Simic,” reprinted in Contemporary Literary Criticism, Tim White and
Jeff Hunter, eds. (2000)


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