Molly Valentine – President
Molly (she/her) is the President of the Alpha Omega Psi chapter. Her love of reading and her desire to meet like-minded English majors brought her to Sigma Tau Delta, along with the goal of promoting literacy in and around Temple’s campus. Some of her favorite books are The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt, My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante, and Orlando by Virginia Woolf. She plans to stay in Philly after graduation.
Emily Zucker – Vice President
Emily is the Vice President of the Alpha Omega Psi chapter. She joined Sigma Tau Delta in hopes of providing more professional development opportunities for English majors and advocate to expand more academic opportunities for prelaw, professional writing, digital humanities, and other areas that English can be used for. Her favorite books are The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde and The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. After undergrad, she plans to get her English MA and pursue a career in technical and professional communications.
Cat Crutchfield – Secretary
Cat (she/her) is the Secretary of the Alpha Omega Psi chapter. She joined Sigma Tau Delta to meet fellow English majors and to share her love of books and writing with others. Some books she’s enjoyed recently include Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab and The Lover by Marguerite Duras. After she finishes her undergraduate degree, she plans to continue her education in graduate school.
Dena Stiles-Lawson – Historian
Dena (she/her) is the Historian of the Alpha Omega Psi chapter. A North Philly native, she has her hands in a little bit of everything—to poetry, short fiction, playwriting, songwriting, along with a trilogy of novels she hopes to publish one day soon. She loves writing fantasy and reading historical fiction, and her favorite books on her shelf today are A Mercy by Toni Morrison and Watership Down by Richard Adams.
Emilie Eisenhard – Public Relations Officer
Emilie (she/her) is the Public Relations Officer of the Alpha Omega Psi chapter. She hopes to utilize Sigma Tau Delta to spread creative writing opportunities to underserved communities. Her favorite novels are the Bloom Town duology by Ally North. After graduation, she wishes to pursue editorial opportunities and publish sapphic novels.
Casarae Abdul-Ghani – Faculty Advisor
Dr. Abdul-Ghani (she/her) is the inaugural faculty advisor of the Alpha Omega Psi chapter of Sigma Tau Delta International English Honor Society, chartered in 2025. She is a Sigma Tau Delta alumna, initiated into the Xi Lambda chapter at Johnson C. Smith University (HBCU). Thereafter, she received her graduate degrees in English from Purdue University. Prior to becoming part of the English faculty at Temple University she was an assistant professor of African American Studies at Syracuse University. She served as the inaugural Lender Center for Social Justice Faculty Fellow in the School of Education at Syracuse University from 2019 to 2021.
Dr. Casarae Abdul-Ghani is an associate professor of African American Literature and Studies at Temple University. She is the author of Start a Riot: Civil Unrest in Black Arts Movement Drama, Fiction, and Poetry (UP of Mississippi 2022). Currently, she is working on a co-edited anthology with Dr. Marlo D. David titled African American Literature in Transition1970-1980 with Cambridge UP and a scholarly essay examining Ryan Coogler’s recent film Sinners (2025) with TheLangston Hughes Review. At Temple, Abdul-Ghani teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in African American Literature and American Literary Cultural Studies. Her scholarly essays appear in Black Camera, The Midwest Quarterly, and Modern Language Studies.