About Us

Aysu Suben Co-President

Aysu Suben is a senior at F&M from Istanbul, Turkey. She is a Scientific & Philosophical Studies of the Mind (Ed Reed prize winner) and Economics duoble-major. She served as the president of her class in the Student Senate during her sophomore year and co-founded the Liberal Arts Review with Rachel Feldman during the same year. Before that, her first substantial writing/editing experience took place in high school, when her research book, which she worked on for two years, was published her senior year at high school. She currently serves as the creative director of the LAR with Rachel, and strongly hopes to leave a legacy to passionate writers/editors.

Rachel Feldman Co-President

Rachel Feldman ('09) founded The Liberal Arts Review with Aysu Suben in 2006 and continues to function as co-director and writer for the publication. Technically, she is a pre-med Judiac Studies major but she prefers to think of herself as majoring in critical thinking as her academic interests extend to comparative literature, philosophy, history, biology, anthropology...well pretty much every area of the Liberal Arts. Her interest in connecting different schools of thought, of bridging the disciplines, was her main motivation for starting the Liberal Arts Review. She wanted to provide a forum on campus for writing essays where one could take a break from the (sometimes) excessive specialization that occurs when focusing on a major in college. Rachel is also a member of Franklin and Marshall's Dance Company, enjoys jamming on flute and guitar, and loves all forms of improvization.

Shigeki Miyake-Stoner - Writer and Web-Junkie
Shigeki Miyake-Stoner ('09, endearingly referred to as "Shig") is a senior Chemistry BMB double major at F&M. He tried to balance out his science with philosophical persuits, and realized that LAR was one vehicle to do so.

Sarah Coughlin

Sarah Coughlin likes to baffle you with philosophical concepts, as she is a senior Scientific and Philosophical Studies of the Mind major with a minor in Philosophy. In the summer, she likes to complain about the heat of Pennsylvania, calling it the Deep South. She spent most of her life in the frozen states of Massachusetts and Maine. She likes to tell people random facts, which led to the invention of the LAR trivia game, in which you can win fabulous prizes!!! She watches a lot of Star Trek, Farscape, and other sci-fi adventures, and she listens to really weird and face paced music, because she's a LOSER. She also likes being president of Philosophy Club, reading, and writing poetry. For LAR she is Publisher Liaison, which means she runs back and forth between our office in the Writer's House and the publisher... soon she'll be ready for that marathon. And sometime she writes for LAR, imparting yet more of her trivia and philosophical concepts upon an unsuspecting public.

Alyssa Catalano

Alyssa Catalano sits on the floor shoeless at LAR meetings. She is the Art Coordinator, meaning that she bugs the artists at F&M until they submit artwork. This is her job because she's an Art minor (and a Creative Writing major). She's obsessive about things like movies and TV shows, mostly Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Firefly. She also reads rather often, and not just for classes (lots of Gregory Maguire and Ted Dekker). She spends her fall weekends watching the love of her life in Susquehanna football games and spends her winter and spring weekends throwing heavy objects for the F&M track and field team. Otherwise, she sits in her living room and discusses random facts with her roommates, which led her to co-invent the LAR trivia game. Everyone loves fabulous prizes!