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Ph.D. Alumni

Name Graduation Year Dissertation Title Initial Placement Current Placement

Abigail Droge

Reading skills: the politics of literacy in the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California Santa Barbara ACLS Emerging Voices Fellowship, Emory University

Anastasia Eccles

Perverse attachments: reading fiction around 1800 Assistant Professor of English, Yale University

Erik Johnson

Theatrical Realism: Staging Reality in French Theory and British Fiction, 1670-1764 Senior Research Assistant, Stanford University Librarian’s Office Lecturer in English and Comparative Literature, San Jose State University

Daeyeong Kim

Comedies of Tribalism in Early Modern English Drama

Amanda Licato

"Out from behind this mask": persona in African American poetry, 1830-1930 Teacher, St. Albans School

Tanya Llewellyn

Shaking the whole system of things: catastrophe and continuity in romantic narrative

Justin Tackett

Listening Between the Lines: Poetry and Sound Technology, 1816-1914 Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University Lecturer in Thinking Matters Program; Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship, University of Warwick

Dalglish Chew

Feeling Critical: Literary Practices of Postwar Critique

Morgan Day Frank

American Literature and the Progressive Education Movement, 1880-1920 Visiting Assistant Professor of English, Wesleyan University Postdoctoral Lectureship in the History and Literature Program, Harvard

Sylvan Goldberg

A Natural History of Literary Time Associate Professor of English, Colorado College

J.D. Porter

The Fact of Fiction: Race, Money, Gender, and Nation in American Modernism Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University DH Project Specialist, Price Lab, University of Pennsylvania

Lindsey Felt

"Plugging In": Disability and the Body Electric in Contemporary American Literature PWR Lecturer, Stanford

Ryan Haas

Sound and Vision: Sonic Experience in Wordsworth, Blake, and Clare Fellowship Program Coordinator, CASBS, Stanford University

Joshua Mann

Creative Destruction: Disaster Studies, Late Naturalism, and the American Novel

Derek Mong

The Marriage of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson: An Inquiry into Spousal Poetics Byron K. Trippet Assistant Professor of English, Wabash College Associate Professor of English and Department Chair, Wabash College

Amir Tevel

Counter-Didactic Victorians: The Problems of Education in the Novel

Hannah Walser

Mind-Reading in the Dark: Social Cognition in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction Junior Fellow, Harvard University Furman Academic Scholar, New York University School of Law

Allen Frost

Where It's At: The Making of Setting in American Fiction from Mississippi to Mars Director of the Innovative Teacher Program, The Nueva School

Garth Kimbrell

Theater and Prestige: The Development of the Playhouse in Shakespeare's Time

Long Le-Khac

Transnarrative: Giving Form to Diversity, Community, and Migration in Asian American and Latina/o Literature Assistant Professor of English, and, by courtesy, of Comparative Literature, Washington University in St. Louis Assistant Professor of English, Loyola University Chicago