Graduate Student Placement

2012-13

Dissertation Title Field Current Position
Aaron J. Bady White Men's Country: The Image of Africa in the American Century African; 20th and 21st Century American University of Texas, Ausitn, Postdoc (starting in 2013-14)
Daniel Clinton Mechanical Resproduction in the Age of Immediacy 19th and 20th Century American Rutgers - Postdoc (starting in 2013-2014)
Marta Figlerowicz Eyebread: Making Feelings Matter Narrative and the Novel Harvard, Society of Fellows (2013-2014) Yale University, Assistant Professor (2014)
Jessica Fisher Lyric Subjectivities Poetry Assistant Professor, Williams College
Marcelle Maese-Cohen Labor, Love, and Murder in the Americas: Decolonizing the Human in Chicana/o Literature Chicano/a University of San Diego, Assistant Professor (starting in 2013-2014)

2011-12

Dissertation Title Field Current Position
Ashley Barnes American Love Stories: Narrative Ethics and the Novel from Stowe to James American Visiting Assistant Professor, Williams College
Alex Benson Culture as Talk: American Literature and the Ethnography of Utterance, 1880-1945 19th-c American, 20th-c American Visiting Assistant Professor, Bard College
Zachary Gordon History's Unmentionables: References and Interiority in the Contemporary American Historical Novel 20th-c British; 20th-c American; Fiction and History Berkeley Lecturer
James J Lee Irrational Sense in Renaissance England Early Modern Assistant Professor, Grinnell College
Charles Legere Reading Close Reading: Twentieth-Century Criticism, Twenty-First-Century Poetry Poetry University of Pittsburgh, Postdoctoral Fellow at Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Megan Pugh American Movement: Dance and the Formation of a National Style 19th-c American; 20th-c American; American Movement: Dance History and its Backgrounds Berkeley Lecturer
Swati Rana Brownness: Mixed Identifications in Minority Immigrant Literature, 1900-1960 Postcolonial Assistant Professor, UC Santa Barbara
David Simon Renaissance Assistant Professor, University of Chicago

2010-11

Dissertation Title Field Current Position
Dominika Bednarska Ability Underneath: Bodies in the Literary Imagination 20th-C; Poetry Berkeley Lecturer
Natalia Cecire A Sense of the Real: Experimental Writing and the Sciences, 1879-1946 American Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Emory University, Postdoctoral Fellow
Christopher Chen Not to Repeat History: Racialization and Combinatory Textuality in Contemporary Asian American and African American Experimental Writing 20th-C; Poetry Assistant Professor, UC Santa Cruz
Jesse Costantino Fighting Form: Boxing and the Aesthetic Containment of Violence American University of Notre Dame, Postdoctoral Fellowship
Kristin Fujie Ties of Blood: Gender, Race, and Faulkner American Assistant Professor, Lewis & Clark College
Amanda Goldstein Romanticism Assistant Professor, Cornell
Blake M. Hausman Becoming Joaquin Murrieta: John Rollin Ridge and the Making of an Icon American; Native American Assistant Professor, Portland Community College
Andrea A Lankin Shaping the World: The Geographies of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 108 Medieval Berkeley Lecturer
Andrew Leong Asian American and 20th-Century Comparative Literature Assistant Professor, Northwestern University
Marisa Libbon Cultural Nostalgia and the Production of Collective Identity in Medieval England Medieval Bard College: Schallek Fellowship, Medieval Academy of America
John Lurz Reading Volumes: The Book, the Body and the Mediation of Modernism 20th-C British Tufts University, Assistant Professor
Theodore Martin Contemporary Drift: The Tenses of the Present and the Afterlives of Genre 20th-C American University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Assistant Professor
Marques Jerard Redd Ancient Egypt, Sacred Science, and Transatlantic Romanticism Romanticism Marquette University, Assistant Professor
Patrick Jose Schwieterman Fairies, Kingship, and the British Past in Walter Map's De Nugis Curialium and Sir Orfeo Medieval University of San Francisco, Adjunct Professor
Matthew Sergi Play Texts and Public Practice in the Chester Cycle, 1422-1607 Medieval Wellesley College, Assistant Professor
Janice Tanemura Ethnic Vistas: Minorities, the Environment, and the Welfare State 20th-C Berkeley Lecturer
Sarah Townsend Celtic Arrivals: Globalization and Irish Literature, 1907-2007 20th-C British and Irish University of South Dakota, Assistant Professor
Tiffany Tsao Mutations of Progress: Evolution and Civilisation in Indonesian Archipelago Postcolonial Universtiy of Newcastle, Lecturer
Timothy Clayton Wood No American Miltons: Melville, Zukofsky, and America's Lost Epic Tradition 20th-C American; Poetry SUNY Nassau Community College, Assistant Professor

2009-10

Dissertation Title Field Current Position
Kelvin Black Thinking at the Limit: The Origins and Effects of Modern Revolutionary Thought in Britain and the U.S. 18th-19th-c Transatlantic Hunter College, CUNY, Assistant Professor
Audrey S. Clark The Asian American Avant-Garde: Universalist Aspirations in Early Asian American Literature Ethnic and Minority Literatures U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Assistant Professor
Jeremy S Ecke The Metrical Imagination: Middle English Metrics and Alliterative Standardization Medieval and Linguistics Assistant Professor of English and Linguistics, University of Arkansas, Little Rock
Erin E Edwards Corpse and Character: Body as Trope in the Modern American Novel and Film 20th-c American Assistant Professor, Miami University, Ohio
Kristin Fujie Modernist Literature Ripon College, Wisconsin, Assistant Professor
Peter Goodwin Styling Manhood: Literary Language and Theatrical Masculinity in American Fiction, 1799-1860 19th-c American Berkeley Lectureship
Hillary Gravendyk Experimental Embodiments: Poetry, Subjectivity, and the Phenomenology of the Body American Poetry (19th & 20th-c) Pomona College, Assistant Professor
Joseph P Jordan Dickens Novels as Verse 19th-c British Berkeley Lectureship
Cody Marrs Wayward Poets: Whitman, Melville, Douglass, and the Politics of Time 19th-C American University of Georgia, Assistant Professor
Annie McClanahan Salto Mortale: Narrative, Speculation, and the Chance of the Future American Literature; Marxist Theory Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Benjamin Morgan Modernism Assistant Professor, University of Chicago
Nicholas Nace The Critical Baroque in English Literature, 1650-1750 17th-18th-c British SUNY Binghamton, Visiting Professor
Brendan Prawdzik Milton on Stage: Drama, Sin, and the Holy Script Early Modern Literature and Culture Assistant Professor, Christian Brothers University
Joseph Ring Wonderstruck: Early Modern Aesthetics of Astonishment in Spenserian and Shakespearean Romance Renaissance Berkeley Lecturer
Margaret Ronda Disenchanted Georgics: The Aesthetics of Labor in American Poetry 20th-c Poetry Assistant Professor, Rutgers University
Snehal Shingavi The Mahatma Misunderstood: the politics and forms of South Asian literary nationalism Postcolonial University of Texas, Assistant Professor
Vlasta Vranjes Marriage and National Identity in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture 19th-c British Fordham University, Assistant Professor

2008-09

Dissertation Title Field Current Position
Jami L Bartlett The Novel as Theory of Reference 19th-c British UC Irvine, Assistant Professor
Christopher Eagle Cratylism and Its Discontents: Modernist Theories of the Perfect Language 20th-c University of West Sydney Visiting Professor
Erin E Edwards Aesthetics of Uncertainty: U.S. Investigative Narratives of Fraudulent Embodiment, 1900-1920 20th-c American Visiting Assistant Professor
Blaine Greteman Problem Children: Concepts of Childhood in Early Modern Politics and Culture Renaissance University of Iowa, Assistant Professor
Becky Hsu (Un)Settling Suburbia: Asian American Suburban Narraties in the Nineties Asian American Teach for America
Paul Hurh Epistemology and Terror in Early American Literature: Edwards, Poe, Melville Early American University of Arizona, Assistant Professor
Eleanor Johnson Sensible Prose and the Sense of Meter: Boethian Prosimetrics in Fourteenth-Century England Medieval Columbia University, Assistant Professor
Karen D. Leibowitz The Reticence Effect: Narrative Interiority in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel 20th-c British Lit (Modern emphasis) Berkeley Lectureship
Ryan McDermott The Gay Hermeneutic: Victorian Genealogies of Homosexuality and the Practice of Reading Victorian Goodby, Silverstein & Partners (advertising)
Fiona Murphy Authorship Delayed: Strategies of Deferral in British Women's Writing 17th-18th-c British Assistant Professor, University of the Ozarks
Marguerite Nguyen Vietnamese-American Encounters: Race, Power, and Literary Innovation Asian American Wesleyan University, Asst. Prof.
Christopher Weinberger Comparative Literature, English & Japanese San Francisco State University, Assistant Professor

2007-08

Dissertation Title Field Current Position
Mark Allison Wandering Between Two Worlds: Middleness in Victorian Literature and Culture 19th-c British Ohio Wesleyan, Assistant Professor
Penelope Anderson Friendship's Shadows: Women's Ethical Friendship and Political Identity in the English Civil Wars 16th-17th-c British Indiana University, Assistant Professor
Erika Clowes The Anal Aesthetic: Regressive Narrative Strategies in Modernism 20th-c British & American UC Berkeley, Lecturer
Talissa Ford Prophets and Pirates: The Space of Empire in British Romantic Literature Romanticism Temple University, Assistant Professor
Monika Gehlawat Boom: The New York City Flaneur in Postwar American Literature and Art 20th-c American University of Southern Mississppi, Asst Professor
Luciana Herman American Race, Republicanism and Transnational Revolution Early American Harvard's Kennedy School, Lecturer in Public Policy
Christine Hong Legal Fictions: Human Rights Cultural Production and The Pax Americana in the Pacific Rim American Studies/Asian American UC Santa Cruz, Assistant Professor
Victor Mendoza The Erotics of "White Love"; or, Queering Philippine-US Relations Postcolonial University of Michigan, Assistant Professor
James Murphy Revision and the Making of Modernism 20th-c British & American Havard (History & Literature Program, Lecturer)
Alia Yap Pan Remembering Bodies: Subject Formation in the Neo-Plantation Narrative Postcolonial Center for Race & Gender, UC Berkeley, Scholar in Residence
Darryl Stephens Imaginary Gardens with Real Toads: How Ink Marks on a Page Become Neural Images and Emotions in a Brain 19th-20th-c American US Government
Charles Sumner The Aesthetics of Failure in Anglo-American Modernist Literature 20th-c British/American University of Southern Mississippi, Asst Professor

2006-07

Dissertation Title Field Current Position
Arthur Bahr Convocational and Compilational Play in Medieval London Literary Culture Medieval MIT, Assistant Professor
Julie Carr Surface Tension: Affect, Time, and Critique in Late-Victorian Poetry Victorian & Creative Writing University of Colorado, Boulder, Assistant Professor;
Andrew Daniel I Know Not Why I Am So Sad: Melancholy and Knowledge in Early Modern English Painting, Drama and Prose Renaissance Johns Hopkins University, Assistant Professor
Sharon Goetz Textual Portability and Its Uses in England, ca. 1250-1330 Medieval UC Berkeley, Mark Twain Project, Assoc. Editor
D. Rae Greiner Sympathetic Realism and the Nineteenth-Century Novel 19th-c British Indiana University, Assistant Professor
Joel Nickels Modernism Beyond the Subject: Literature, Spontaneity and the Social Body 20th-c American University of Miami, Florida, Assistant Professor
Ellen Samuels Fingerprinting the Nation: Identifying Race and Disability in America 19th-c American & Disability Studies University of Wisconsin, Assistant Professor
Paul Stasi Cosmopolitan Primitivism: Modernism, Imperialism and the Historical Sense 20th-c British & American SUNY Albany, Assistant Professor
Leonard Von Morze One of the one, many: Republicanism and social unity in American writing of the 1790s Early American University of Massachusetts, Boston, Assistant Professor

2005-06

Dissertation Title Field Current Position
Adrienne Williams Boyarin Miracles of the Virgin in England: Origins, Development, Contexts Medieval University of Victoria, British Colombia, Assistant Professor
Mai-Lin Cheng Marginal Stories: British Romanticism and the Genres of Human Interest Romanticism University of Oregon, Assistant Professor
Dennis Childs Formations of Neoslavery: The Culture and Politics of the American Carceral State African American UC San Diego, Assistant Professor
Avilah Getzler First Person Multiplied: Plotting Narration in Victorian Multi-Narrator Novels 19th-c British Grand View College, Assistant Professor
Anthony Hale Performing Beyond the Pale: The Harlem and Irish Renaissance in Comparison 20th-c British & American Information Systems Technology, Mills College, Department Director
Marissa Lopez Nationalism, Narrative, and History: The Formal Case for Chicana/o Literature 19th-20th-c American & Chicana/o Studies UCLA, Assistant Professor
Padma Rangarajan Imperial Babel: Translation, Colonialism, and The Long Nineteenth Century Victorian & Postcolonial Colorado University, Boulder, Assistant Professor
Gary Schmidt Mungrell Forms: Cultural and Generic Hybridity in the English Renaissance Renaissance Boston University Academy, Faculty
Travis Williams Ethos and Enargeia: Literary and Rhetorical Strategies of Early Modern Mathematics Renaissance University of Rhode Island, Assistant Professor