Ph.D. Alumni

Name Graduation Year Dissertation Title Initial Placement Current Placement
Amir Tevel Counter-Didactic Victorians: The Problems of Education in the Novel Freelance Writer
Hannah Walser Mind-Reading in the Dark: Social Cognition in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction Junior Fellow - Harvard University
Allen Frost Where It's At: The Making of Setting in American Fiction from Mississippi to Mars 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 Washington University in St. Louis
Rhiannon Lewis Writing in Time: Labor and Work in English Poetry, 1557-1674 Planned Giving Associate, American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California Institutional Gifts Manager at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music
Talya Meyers Epic and Encounter: Form and Culture in Early Modern Narrative Poetry
Whitney Trump Always Another Edition: The Racial Politics of Rewriting in Nineteenth-Century American Literature Content Strategist, Palantir Technologies Content Strategist, Facebook
Ben Wiebracht Cousins and Lovers: The History of the English Love Plot, 1600-1895 PWR Lecturer, Stanford
Claude Willan The Seizure of Literary History in the Eighteenth Century Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton University Director of Digital Humanites Services, University of Houston Libraries
Irena Yamboliev Ornamental Formalism: The Victorian Anti-Novel
Jodie Archer Reading the Bestseller: An Analysis of 20,000 Novels Research and Development, Apple Inc. (iBooks) Author
Andrew Bricker Producing & Litigating Satire, 1670-1792 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, McGill University Assistant Professor, Ghent University
Guadalupe Carrillo Forms of Sentiment in the 21st Century U.S. Latina/o Novel Program Coordinator, Office of Multicultural Affairs, Stanford University
Hanna Janiszewska Romantic Lives of the Mind PWR Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University
Stephen Osadetz The Art of Principle: The Rhetorical Preoccupations of Eighteenth-Century Didactic Literature Harvard University
Sarah Perkins Dixie Bound: A Cultural Biography of an American Legend, 1860-1930 Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University
Allison Rung Conventions of the Railway in the British Novels, 1900-1950 Editorial Specialist, Google Content Strategist, Google
Nikil Saval The Problem of the White Collar Worker in Culture
Kathryn VanArendonk The Episode: Serial Storytelling in Television and the Nineteenth-Century Novel