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Ph.D. Alumni

Name Graduation Year Dissertation Title Initial Placement Current Placement
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
Rhiannon Lewis Writing in Time: Labor and Work in English Poetry, 1557-1674