Ph.D. Alumni

Name Graduation Year Dissertation Title Initial Placement Current Placement

Erik Fredner

Averaging Americans: Literature, Statistics, and Inequality Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer, University of Virginia College of Arts & Sciences Engagements Program

Matthew Redmond

Living Too Long: The Extant Figure in American Literature PWR Lecturer, Stanford Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Lille

Mai Wang

The Nonaligned Self: Asian Redeployments of the American Renaissance COLLEGE Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford Assistant Professor of Literature, The University of Texas at Dallas

Jean Abbott

Naming and Un-Naming in Old English Literature

Juan Lamata

Masterless Renaissance: Rogue Form from Lazarillo to Cutpurse Assistant Professor in Literary Studies, California State University- Los Angeles

Julia Noble

“Dark Inscrutable Workmanship”: Rereading Mystery through Riddle in the Visionary Poetry of Wordsworth, Shelley, and Keats

Vanessa Seals

Representations of Multiracial Families in American Literature Director of McNair Scholars Program, Westminster College Assistant Dean of Organizational Development & Inclusive Practice, University of Colorado Boulder

Nathan Wainstein

Unformed Art: Bad Writing in the Modernist Novel Stanford Dean's Fellow, Comparative Literature Assistant Professor of English, The University of Utah

Elizabeth Wilder

Domestic Formalism: Comfort, Narrative, and the Victorian Imaginary

Aku Ammah-Tagoe

Urban form: narrative in an age of urbanization

Annie Atura

Jewish-American Feminists and the Construction of Whiteness Lecturer in English, Stanford University Lecturer in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Stanford University

Chelsea Davis

“Lurid interiors”: the anti-Gothic impulse in early American war literature

Victoria Googasian

The character of animality: species difference and narrative form in American fiction, 1890-1970 Assistant Professor of American Literature, Georgetown University in Qatar

Ryan Heuser

Abstraction: a literary history Junior Research Fellow, King’s College, University of Cambridge Research Software Engineer, Center of Digital Humanities, Princeton University

Alexander Manshel

Writing backwards: American fiction and the historical turn Assistant Professor of English, McGill University

Jesse Nathan

Poets’ Poets: Rethinking Influence in Victorian and Modernist Poetry Lecturer in English, UC Berkeley

Andrew Shephard

“Temples for tomorrow”: African American speculative fiction and historical narrative Assistant Professor of African American Literature and Culture, University of Utah

Mark Taylor

The Gospel of Freedom: Agency, Idealism, and the Forms of Victorian Fiction Lecturer in English, Stanford Visiting Assistant Professor of English, Vassar College

Luke Barnhart

On the early modern plain: poems against poetry Postdoctoral Fellow Lecturer in English, Sonoma State University

Jessica Beckman

Moveable types: shaping the text in early modern England Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing, Dartmouth
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