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Ph.D. Alumni

Name Graduation Year Dissertation Title Initial Placement Current Placement

Alan Burnett Valverde

Children of the Revolution: Mexican-American Modernisms in the 1930s

Christopher Cappello

Unfamiliar Essayism: Walter Scott, Marry Shelley, Lord Byron

Benjamin Gee

The Missing Monarch on England's Republican Stage Affiliate Assistant Professor of English, University of Dallas

Jesuseyi Osundeko

Tears Still Fall: Contours of Feminine Self-Mourning in Contemporary African and Black Diasporic Literature Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of English at Vanderbilt University

Carmen Thong

Technologies of Discovery in Global Literature Presidential Young Professor at the National University of Singapore

Andrew Touma

Short Stories Against Speed: Mass Circulation Media and Low-Resolution Narrative in the 1890s

Christine Xiong

Waterways: Oceanic Emplotments of Asian American Literature Assistant Professor of English, Texas A&M

Emma Brush

Read It Plain: American Abolition and the Ordinary Meaning of Constitutional Law, 1773–1896 Assistant Professor of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought at Amherst College

Steele Alexandra Douris

Benjamin Libman

“The Nouveau Roman in America" Stanford COLLEGE

Alexander Sherman

Dangers Near and Far: Narrative Positions in Science, Seafaring, and the Novel, 1660-1860 Assistant Professor of English, University of Texas at Austin

Claire Grossman

Uncertain Work: Wagelessness and Post-1965 Multiethnic Literary Form Assistant Professor of English, Occidental College

Jessica Jordan

Anxieties of Abundance: Book and Body in America's Gilded Age

Joseph Kidney

Stages of Survival: Rhetoric, Death, and Comedy Between Renaissance and Reformation Stanford COLLEGE

Charlotte Lindemann

Imaginary Transcripts: Dialogue in Nineteenth Century American Fiction Instructor, The College Core Curriculum at NYU

Timothy Kennett

An Empire of Clocks in Disarray: Time Coordination and Adventure Fiction in the British Empire, 1880-1890 Technical Writer, Atea

Trenton Leinenbach

Histories in Solution: Atmosphere, Prosody, and Attitude as Modes of Encountering the Past in British Literature, 1760-1830 Visiting Professor, BYU

Ezra Olson

Antho-Logic: The Anthology and 20th Century U.S. Literature Summer Lecturer for the Dept. of English, Stanford

Casey Patterson

A Darker Form of Discipline: The Institutional Character of Black Literary Studies, 1969-1999 Assistant Professor of English, Louisiana State University

Jonathan Quick

Translation Matters: Tracing the Transmission of Medieval Texts from Manuscripts to MOOCs English Teacher, The Nueva School