Graduate Student Placement

In the following records, "Assistant Professor" indicates a tenure-track position unless otherwise noted. We include students who took degrees in Comparative Literature but whose dissertations were directed by English Department faculty; all such students are identified by asterisks.

2015-2016

	Dissertation Title	Field	Current Position
Anna Jones Abramson	The Age of Atmosphere: Air, Affect, and Technology in Modernist Literature	20th-Century British	Postdoctoral Fellow (2016-17), Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University
Ashley Barnes	American Love Stories: Narrative Ethics and the Novel from Stowe to James	19th-Century American	Assistant Professor, University of Texas, Dallas
Lynn Huang	Contrived Conversions: The Master Narrative of Educational Uplift	20th-Century Multi-Ethnic	Assistant Professor, Diablo Valley College, San Ramon
Monica Huerta	The Evidence of Things Unseen: Law, Photography, and Expression	19th-Century American; American Studies	Postdoctoral Fellow (2016-19), Princeton Society of Fellows, Princeton
Sarah Mangin	The Skeptical Pilgrims of Spiritual Autobiography	17th- and 18th-Century British	Assistant Professor, College of San Mateo
Rosa Angelica Martinez			Assistant Professor, Sacramento State University
Ella Mershon	Passing Forms: Decay and the Making of Victorian Culture	Victorian	Postdoctoral Fellow (2016-18), Center for the Humanities and Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Samia Shabnam Rahimtoola	Disturbance Poetics: American Postmodernity and the Ecology of Disaster	20th-century American; Environmental Literature	Assistant Professor, Bowdoin College
Benjamin A. Saltzman	Secrecy and Concealment in Anglo-Saxon England “(600-1100)	Medieval/Old English	Assistant Professor, University of Chicago
Michelle Ty	On Self-Forgetting: Receptivity and the Inhuman Encounter in the Modernist Moment	Modernism; Critical Theory	Assistant Professor, Clemson University

2014-15

	Dissertation Title	Field	Current Position
Juliana H. Chow	“Literature of Diminishment: American Regionalism and the Writing of Nature.”	19th-Century American; Literature and the Environment	Assistant Professor, St. Louis University
Nilofar Gardezi		African American	ACLS Public Fellows Program (2015-2017)
Alvin Henry	“Through the Second Looking Glass: Inventing the Minority Bildungsroman.”	African American	Assistant Professor, St. Lawrence University
Jessie Hoch*	“Bodies Atomic: Lucretius and Renaissance Poetry.”	Early Modern	Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University
Joseph P Jordan	“Dickens Novels as Verse.”	Victorian	Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Nicholas Junkerman	“Visible Deliverances: The Fact and Figure of Miracle in Eighteenth Century America.”	Early American	Assistant Professor, Skidmore College
Marisa Palacios Knox	“Identification Crises: Victorian Women and Wayward Reading.”	19th-Century British	Assistant Professor, University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley
Sookyoung (Soo) Lee	“The Prosaics of Weak Modernism.”	Modernism	Postdoctoral Fellow (2015-17), Connecticut College
Manya Lempert	“Tragedy after Darwin.”	Modernism	Assistant Professor, University of Arizona
Rosa Angelica Martinez	“Extravagant Passing: Masquerade in the American Literary Imagination.”	American	Postdoctoral Fellow (2015-16), MIT
Christopher Mead	“Mass Communication: The Eucharist and Authorship in Early Modern England”	Early Modern; History of the Book	Assistant Professor (renewable three-year contract), University of Utah - Honors College
Rebecca Munson	“Shakespeare Offstage: Drama and Cultural Currency, 1603-1660.”	Early Modern	Postdoctoral Fellow (2015-16), Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Emory University
Gillian K. Osborne	“Bad Seeds: Inhuman poetics in Nineteenth-century America.” Nineteenth-	19th-Century American; Literature and the Environment.	Environmental Fellow (2015-17), Harvard University. Declined tenure-track Lectureship at Bristol Unversity (England).
Rasheed Tazudeen	“Animal Metaphor and the Unmaking of the Human: Darwin, Modernism, and Contemporary Environmental Ethics.”	Modernism	Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Jasckon Humanities Institute (2015-17), University of Toronto
Ian M. Thomas-Bignami	“Pale Light: Natural Difficulties and Poetic Epistemology in the Enlightenment.”	18th-Century British	Instructor (tenure-track), Diablo Valley College
Sunny Xiang	Voicing Asia: Literary Character and Human Rights	Asian American; Contemporary; Global Anglophone	Assistant Professor, Yale University

2013-14

	Dissertation Title	Field	Current Position
Alex Benson	Culture as Talk: American Literature and the Ethnography of Utterance, 1880–1945	19th; 20th-Century American	Assistant Professor, Bard College
Natalia Cecire	A Sense of the Real: Experimental Writing and the Sciences, 1879-1946	American; Poetry; Digital Humanities	Permanent Lecturer, University of Sussex
Alvin Henry	Through the Second Looking Glass: Inventing the Minority Bildungsroman	African American	Postdoc, Middlebury College
Monica Huerta	The Evidence of Things Unseen: Law, Photography, and Expression	African American; 19th-Century American	Postdoc, Duke University
Nicholas Junkerman	Visible Deliverances: The Fact and Figure of Miracle in Eighteenth-Century America	Early American	Visitng Assistant Professor, Skidmore College
Seulghee Lee	"Other Lovings": Abjection, Love Bonds, and the Queering of Race	African American; Asian American, 20th-Century American, Critical Theory	Postdoc, Williams College
Rebecca Munson	Shakespeare Offstage: Drama and Cultural Currency, 1603-1660	Early Modern	Postdoc, UCLA
Sangina Patnaik	The Wake of War: Reparation in Law and Literature	The Novel; 20th & 21st-Century British	Assistant Professor, Swarthmore College
Jill Richards	Fire-Starters: Women’s Rights, Human Rights, and the International Avant-Gardes	Modernism	Assistant Professor, Yale University
Benjamin A. Saltzman	Holding the Sacred: Discourses of Secrecy and Concealment in Early Medieval England (600-1100)	Old English; Medieval	Postdoc, Cal Tech

2012-13

	Dissertation Title	Field	Current Position
Aaron J. Bady	White Men's Country: The Image of Africa in the American Century	African; 20th & 21st-Century American	Postdoc, University of Texas, Austin
Jasper Bernes	The Work of Art in the Age of Deindustrialization	20th; 21st-Century American; Poetry	Berkeley Lecturer
Catherine Cronquist Browning	Bower of Books: Reading Children in Nineteenth-Century British Literature	Romantic; Victorian; Children's Literature	Berkeley Lecturer
Daniel Clinton	Mechanical Reproduction in the Age of Immediacy	19th; 20th-Century American	Postdoc, Rutgers
Jesse Costantino	Fighting Form: Boxing and the Aesthetic Containment of Violence	American	Assistant Professor, Notre Dame
Marta Figlerowicz	Eyebread: Making Feelings Matter	Narrative and the Novel	Society of Fellows, Harvard (2013-2014) Assistant Professor, Yale University (2014)
Jessica Fisher	Lyric Subjectivities	Poetry	Assistant Professor, Williams College
Marisa Palacios Knox	Identification Crises: Victorian Women and Wayward Reading	19th-Century British	Berkeley Lecturer
Marcelle Maese-Cohen	Labor, Love, and Murder in the Americas: Decolonizing the Human in Chicana/o Literature	Chicano/a	Assistant Professor, University of San Diego

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; 20th-Century American	Visiting Assistant Professor, Bard College
Zachary Gordon	History's Unmentionables: References and Interiority in the Contemporary American Historical Novel	20th-Century British; 20th-Century 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
Brendan Prawdzik	Milton on Stage: Drama, Sin, and the Holy Script	Early Modern Literature and Culture	Assistant Professor, Christian Brothers University
Megan Pugh	American Movement: Dance and the Formation of a National Style	19th; 20th-Century 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
Margaret Ronda	Disenchanted Georgics: The Aesthetics of Labor in American Poetry	20th-Century Poetry	Assistant Professor, Rutgers University
Margaret Ronda	Disenchanted Georgics: The Aesthtics of Labor in American Poetry	20th-Century Poetry	Assistant Professor, Rutgers University
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-Century; Poetry	Berkeley Lecturer
Natalia Cecire	A Sense of the Real: Experimental Writing and the Sciences, 1879-1946	American	Postdoc, Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Emory University
Christopher Chen	Not to Repeat History: Racialization and Combinatory Textuality in Contemporary Asian American and African American Experimental Writing	20th-Century; Poetry	Assistant Professor, UC Santa Cruz
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; 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-Century British	Assistant Professor, Tufts University
Theodore Martin	Contemporary Drift: The Tenses of the Present and the Afterlives of Genre	20th-Century American	Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Marques Jerard Redd	Ancient Egypt, Sacred Science, and Transatlantic Romanticism	Romanticism	Assistant Professor, Marquette University
Patrick Jose Schwieterman	Fairies, Kingship, and the British Past in Walter Map's De Nugis Curialium and Sir Orfeo	Medieval	Adjunct Professor, University of San Francisco
Matthew Sergi	Play Texts and Public Practice in the Chester Cycle, 1422-1607	Medieval	Assistant Professor, Wellesley College
Janice Tanemura	Ethnic Vistas: Minorities, the Environment, and the Welfare State	20th-Century American	Berkeley Lecturer
Sarah Townsend	Celtic Arrivals: Globalization and Irish Literature, 1907-2007	20th-Century British and Irish	Assistant Professor, University of South Dakota
Tiffany Tsao	Mutations of Progress: Evolution and Civilisation in Indonesian Archipelago	Postcolonial	Lecturer, Universtiy of Newcastle
Timothy Clayton Wood	No American Miltons: Melville, Zukofsky, and America's Lost Epic Tradition	20th-Century American; Poetry	Assistant Professor, SUNY Nassau Community College

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-Century Transatlantic	Assistant Professor, Hunter College, CUNY
Audrey S. Clark	The Asian American Avant-Garde: Universalist Aspirations in Early Asian American Literature	Ethnic and Minority Literatures	Assistant Professor, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis
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-Century American	Assistant Professor, Miami University, Ohio
Kristin Fujie		Modernist Literature	Assistant Professor, Ripon College, Wisconsin,
Peter Goodwin	Styling Manhood: Literary Language and Theatrical Masculinity in American Fiction, 1799-1860	19th-Century American	Berkeley Lectureship
Hillary Gravendyk	Experimental Embodiments: Poetry, Subjectivity, and the Phenomenology of the Body	19th & 20th-Century American Poetry	Assistant Professor, Pomona College
Joseph P Jordan	Dickens Novels as Verse	19th-Century British	Berkeley Lectureship
Cody Marrs	Wayward Poets: Whitman, Melville, Douglass, and the Politics of Time	19th-Century American	Assistant Professor, University of Georgia
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-Century British	Visiting Professor, SUNY Binghamton
Joseph Ring	Wonderstruck: Early Modern Aesthetics of Astonishment in Spenserian and Shakespearean Romance	Renaissance	Berkeley Lecturer
Snehal Shingavi	The Mahatma Misunderstood: the politics and forms of South Asian literary nationalism	Postcolonial	Assistant Professor, University of Texas
Vlasta Vranjes	Marriage and National Identity in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture	19th-Century British	Assistant Professor, Fordham University

2008-09

	Dissertation Title	Field	Current Position
Jami L Bartlett	The Novel as Theory of Reference	19th-Century British	Assistant Professor, UC Irvine
Christopher Eagle	Cratylism and Its Discontents: Modernist Theories of the Perfect Language	20th-Century	Visiting Professor, University of West Sydney
Erin E Edwards	Aesthetics of Uncertainty: U.S. Investigative Narratives of Fraudulent Embodiment, 1900-1920	20th-Century American	Visiting Assistant Professor
Blaine Greteman	Problem Children: Concepts of Childhood in Early Modern Politics and Culture	Renaissance	Assistant Professor, University of Iowa
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	Assistant Professor, University of Arizona
Eleanor Johnson	Sensible Prose and the Sense of Meter: Boethian Prosimetrics in Fourteenth-Century England	Medieval	Assistant Professor, Columbia University
Karen D. Leibowitz	The Reticence Effect: Narrative Interiority in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel	20th-Century 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-Century British	Assistant Professor, University of the Ozarks
Marguerite Nguyen	Vietnamese-American Encounters: Race, Power, and Literary Innovation	Asian American	Assistant Professor, Wesleyan University
Christopher Weinberger		Comparative Literature, English & Japanese	Assistant Professor, San Francisco State University

2007-08

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

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

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