Ph.D. Alumni

Name Graduation Year Dissertation Title Initial Placement Current Placement

Rebecca Richardson

Narrative Ambition: Victorian Self-Help and Competition Course Coordinator, Stanford PWR Lecturer, Stanford

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
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