Ph.D. Alumni

Name Graduation Year Dissertation Title Initial Placement Current Placement
Elda Maria Roman Symbolic Wages and Identity Taxes: Upward Mobility and Middle Class Narratives in Chicana/o and Black Cultural Production Associate Professor of English, University of Southern California
Bridget Whearty For All is Good That Hath Good End: Narrative Structures and the Art of Dying in Late Medieval English Literature Digital Medieval Manuscripts Fellow, Stanford Associate Professor of English, Binghamton University
Ryan Zurowski To the Gentle Reader: Prefaces and Books in Early Modern England
Sarah Allison Moral Style in Victorian Fiction Hutchinson Distinguished Professor of English, Loyola University New Orleans
Michael Benveniste The American Ideology: Plot and Culture Since 1945 Assistant Professor of English, University of Puget Sound COO, MoRE Ventures
Brianne Bilsky The Page Redux: American Literature in the Information Age Assistant Professor of English, United States Military Academy in West Point Dean of Berkeley College, Lecturer in English, Yale University
Steffi Dippold Plain as in Primitive: The Figure of the Native in Colonial America Associate Professor of English, Kansas State University
Justin Eichenlaub The Suburban Imagination: Aesthetics, Desire, and Space in Nineteenth-Century Britain Lecturer, University of California - Berkeley Teacher and Writing Program Director, Springfield Honors Academy
Marissa Gemma Exceedingly Correct: Stylistic Polemics in Nineteenth-Century American Literature Associate Director at The Hume Center for Writing and Speaking at Stanford University Product and Content Design Lead, Gusto
Kenny Ligda Serious Comedy: British Modernist Humor and Political Crisis Course Coordinator for Literary History, Stanford University Associate Director of Faculty and Lecturer Programs/Center for Teaching and Learning, Stanford University
Kenneth Maynor Pagan Nation: Constitutional Characters and the Fiction of American Faith Professor of English, Central Piedmont Community College
Anton Vander Zee 'The Final Lilt of Songs': Late Whitman and the Long American Century Visiting Assistant Professor, College of Charleston Associate Processor and M.A. Program Director, College of Charleston
James Wood Anecdote and Enlightenment, 1710-1790 Postdoctoral Fellow, Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences Associate Professor of English Literature, University of East Anglia
Edward Finn The Social Lives of Books: Literary Networks in Contemporary American Fiction University Innovation Fellow, Arizona State University Associate Professor of English and Arts, Media and Engineering, Founding Director of the Center for Science and the Imagination, Arizona State University
Jennifer Harford Vargas Dictating Forms: Authoritarian Power in the Latina/o American Novel Assistant Professor of English, Bryn Mawr College
Ruth Kaplan Fashioning the Reader: Forms of Engagement in British Poetry of the Long Sixteenth Century Assistant Professor of English, Quinnipiac University Associate Professor of English, Quinnipiac University
Joseph Shapiro Beyond Early American Exceptionalism: Class and The Rise of the U.S. Novel, 1789-1846 Assistant Professor of English, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale Associate Professor of English, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Jessica Weare Competing Narratives: British Memoirs and Fictions of the First World War Philanthropy & Civic Engagement Manager, Microsoft
Claire Bowen Between Pole and Tropic: Writing Suspension, 1945-1955 Dickinson College Associate Professor of English, Dickinson College
Allison Carruth Global Appetites: Literary Form and Food Politics from World War I to the World Trade Organization Arnhold Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Santa Barbara Professor of American Studies and the High Meadows Environmental Institute, Princeton University
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