Placement and Outcomes

Sheila Coursey: Assistant Professor, Saint Louis University, MO
Dissertation: "Crime, Community, and Audience Engagement in Late Medieval and Early Modern Theater."

Maia Farrar-Wellman: Lecturer I, English Dept., University of Michigan
Dissertation: "Desiring Discord: Political Conflict in Medieval Romance."

Amanda Greene: Research Specialist Intermediate, University of Michigan Medical School
Dissertation: "Modern Feels: Interwar Britain and the Bodily Politics of Visual Social Media."

Rebecca Huffman: Technical Editor at Quinn Evans Architects, MI
Dissertation: "Ye that heres and sees this vision: Imagined Readers, Imagined Reading in Late Medieval English Devotional Writing."

Crystal Lie: Assistant Professor, California State University, Long Beach
Dissertation: "Entangled Stories: Reimagining Dementia, History, and Narrative in Contemporary Literature and Life Writing."

Valentina Montero-Roman: Assistant Professor of English, UC-Irvine
Dissertation: "Interrogating the Mind of Modernism: Gender, Race, and Modern Cognitive Citizenship."

Megan Torti: Vendor Outreach Coordinator, Great Lakes Water Authority, Michigan
Dissertation: 

Gregory Ariail: Instructor, English Department, University of AL
Dissertation: "Kafka's Copycats: Imitation, Fabulism, and Late Modernism."

Matthew Bellamy: Development Director, Enterprise Community Partners
Dissertation: "Spy Culture and the Making of the Modern Intelligence Agency: From Richard Hannay to James Bond to Drone Warfare."

Amrita Dhar: Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University, Newark
Dissertation: "Writing Sight and Blindness in Early Modern England."

Lauren Eriks Cline: Assistant Professor of English, St. Norbert College, WI
Dissertation: "Spectator Narratives: Print Representations of Performance and Nineteenth-Century Audiences."

Aran Ruth: Musician (singer and composer), Detroit, Michigan
Dissertation: "Aeolian Resonance: Acousmatic Sound and the Nineteenth-Century Imagination."

Emily Shearer: Video Game Designer, California
Dissertation: "Multilingualism, Language Trouble, and Linguistic Infelicity in Early Modern English Writing, 1550-1642."

Adam Sneed: Assistant Professor of Teaching, The University of Memphis
Dissertation: "Misreading Skepticism in the Long Eighteenth Century: Studies in the Rhetoric of Assent."

Malcolm Tariq: Senior Manager, Editorial Projects (Prison and Justice Writing), PEN America
Dissertation: "Versing the Ghetto: African American Writers and the Urban Crisis."

Cassius Adair: Assistant Professor of Media Studies, The New School, NY
Dissertation: "The Misrecognition You Can Bear."

Gregory Dandeles: Senior Program Manager, Amazon, WA
Dissertation: "Avant-Gardes at the Iron Curtain: A Transnational Reading of Allen Ginsberg and the Soviet Estradny Movement."

Kyle Grady: Assistant Professor, University of California, Irvine, CA
Dissertation: "Moors, Mulattos, and Post-Racial Problems: Rethinking Racialization in Early Modern England."

John Hampstead: Associate Editor, FreightWaves
Dissertation: "Telos and Philology in the Early Modern English Epic."

Julia Hansen: English Faculty, Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School, MO
Dissertation: "Transatlantic Vividness: Imagining at a Distance in Nineteenth-Century Poetry."

Elizabeth Mathie: Postdoctoral Fellow, Tsinghua University, China
Dissertation: "Reinventing Mastery: Training and Mutuality on the Early Modern English Stage."

Logan Scherer: Consultant, AdmissionWise
Dissertation: "Beyond Curiosity: Late-Nineteenth-Century American Women's Narratives of Obsession."

Alice Tsay: Director of Special Projects, The Huntington Library, CA
Dissertation: "Absorbing Fare: Food, Bodies, and Social Attention in Modern Britain."

Christie Allen: Writer, Brigham Young University, UT
Dissertation: "The Informed Victorian Reader."

Kathryne Bevilacqua: Regional Business Analyst, Elsevier, NY
Dissertation: "Making U.S. Readers in the Early Twentieth Century."

Alistair Chetwynd: Associate Professor, American University of Iraq, Sulaimani
Dissertation: "Recuperating Deliberation in Early-Postmodern US Fiction."

Joshua Kupetz: Lecturer II, University of Michigan
Dissertation: "Disability Ecology: Re-Materializing U.S. Fiction from 1890-1940."

Elizabeth McAdams: Curriculum Developer, Art of Problem Solving, Detroit, MI
Dissertation: "Turning Japanese: Japonisme in Victorian Literature and Culture."

Emily Waples: Assistant Professor, Hiram College,OH
Dissertation: "Self-Health: The Politics of Care in American Literature, 1793-1873."

Patrick Barry: Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Michigan Law School
Dissertation: "Confirmation Bias: Staged Storytelling in Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings."

Nicolette Bruner: Assistant Professor of Instruction at the Center for Legal Studies and the Program in American Studies, Northwestern University, IL
Dissertation: "Corporate Impersonation: The Possibilities of Personhood in American Literature, 1886-1917."

Andromeda Hartwick: Self-employed
Dissertation: "Serial Selves: Identity, Genre, and Form in the Eighteenth Century."

Emily Howard: Library Technician, Ann Arbor District Library
Dissertation: "Grounds of Knowledge: Unofficial Epistemologies of British Environmental Writing, 1745-1835."

Konstantina Karageorgos: Associate Director of Instruction of the Comprehensive Studies Program, University of Michigan
Dissertation: "Beyond the Blueprint: African-American Literary Marxism in the Period of the Cold War, 1946-1969."

Ruth McAdams: Senior Teaching Professor, Skidmore College, NY
Dissertation: "How the Victorians Invented the Regency: Historicizing the Recent Past."

Matt Oches: Lecturer, University of Michigan, Michigan
Dissertation: "The Skin of Modernity: Primitivism and Tattooing in Literature."

Elizabeth Rodrigues: Associate Professor, Grinnell College, Iowa
Dissertation: "Data-Driven Modernism: Collecting Lives and Narrating Selves in Early 20th Century U.S. Literature."

Cordelia Zukerman: Teacher, The Brearley School, NY
Dissertation: "The Status of Reading in Early Modern English Literature."

Christopher Barnes: Digital Publishing Librarian, Adelphi University, NY
Dissertation: "Reading Methodist Characters the Figure and Politics of Popular Evangelicalism in American Fiction, 1790-1860."

Nan Zhang Da: Associate Professor, University of Notre Dame, IN
Dissertation: "Occasionality: A Theory of Literary Exchange between US and China in the Nineteenth Century."

Carolyn Dekker: Associate Professor, Finlandia University, MI
Dissertation: "Placing the Bomb: the Pastoral and the Sublime in the Nuclear Age."

Katherine Fisher: Head of Digital Archives, Emory University, GA
Dissertation: "Writing (in) the Spaces of the Blitz: Spatial Myths and Memory in Wartime British Literature."

Angela Heetderks: Lecturer, University of Michigan, MI
Dissertation: "Witty Fools and Foolish Wits: Performing Cognitive Disability in English Literature, c. 1380-c. 1602."

Alice Keane: Adjunct Assistant Professor, City University of New York, Queens, NY
Dissertation: "Full of Experiments and Reforms: Bloomsbury's Literature and Economics."

David Lucas: Lecturer, Case Western Reserve University, OH
Dissertation: "The Self in the Song: Identity and Authority in Contemporary American Poetry."

Khaliah Mangrum: Assistant Professor, Westmont College, CA
Dissertation: "Picturing Slavery: Photography and the U.S. Slave Narrative, 1831-1920."

Adam Mazel: Digital Publishing Librarian, Indiana University
Dissertation: "The Work and Play of Rhyme in Victorian Verse Cultures, 1850-1900."

Asynith Palmer: SeniorTechnical Writer in Business Communications and Developer Relations at Google, CA
Dissertation: "Re-Constructing the Rust Belt: An Exploration of Industrial Ruin in Blogs, Fiction, and Poetry."

Benjamin Pollak: Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Bureau, NY
Dissertation: "Plotting Gotham: Interwar Jewish Writers and the Politics of Place."

Rebecca Porte: Community Initiative and Podcast Program Head, The Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, NY
Dissertation: "An Agreement with Reality: The Poetry of Logical Modernism."

Leila Watkins: Director of Development at CASA of San Mateo County, CA
Dissertation: "Forms of Consolation in Early Modern English Poetry."

Kathryn Will: Teaching and Learning Developer, UW-Madison
Dissertation: "Cultivating Heraldic Histories in Early Modern English Literature."

Andrew Bozio: Associate Professor, Skidmore College, NY
Dissertation: "Ecologies of Thought in Early Modern English Drama."

Chung-Hao Ku: Associate Professor, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Dissertation: "Boyish Narratives: The Art of Not Acting Your Age." 

Brian Matzke: Digital Humanities Librarian, Central Connecticut State University
Dissertation: "All Scientific Stuff: Science, Expertise, and Everyday Reality in 1926."

Daniel Mintz: Associate Policy Director for Safety Net, Code for America, CA
Dissertation: "Crafting the Jewish Writer: Jewish Writing, Professionalism, and the Short Story in Post-War America."

Stephen Spiess: Assistant Professor, Babson College, MA
Dissertation: "Shakespeare's Whore: Language, Prostitution, and Knowledge in Early Modern England."

Angela Berkley: Lecturer, University of Michigan
Dissertation: "Show and Tell: Photography, Film and Literary Naturalism in Late Nineteenth Century America."

Olivia Bustion: Martin Marty Center Fellow, Theology, University of Chicago
Dissertation: "Queering the City of God: W. H. Auden's Later Poetry and the Ethics of Friendship."

Geremy Carnes: Associate Professor, Lindenwood University, MO
Dissertation: "The Persistence of Catholicism: How Eighteenth-Century English Writers Imagined a Minority Religious Community."

Sarah Ehlers: Assistant Professor, University of Houston, TX
Dissertation: "Red or Dead: States of Poetry in Depression America."

Rachel Feder: Associate Professor, University of Denver, CO
Dissertation: "The Crisis of Infinity: Mathematics, Philosophy, and Nineteenth-Century Poetry."

Kumiko Kobayashi: Associate Professor, Kyoto University, Japan
Dissertation: "Wondrous Detritus: Thingness and Alternative Spirituality in American Modernist Fiction."

Christa Vogelius: Assistant Professor, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Dissertation: "The Culture of Ekphrasis in America's Age of Print, 1830-1880."

Alexander Beringer: Associate Professor, University of Montevallo, AL
Dissertation: "The Pleasures of Conspiracy: American Literature 1870-1910."

Katherine Brokaw: Associate Professor, University of California, Merced, CA
Dissertation: "Tudor Musical Theater: Staging Religious Difference From Wisdom to The Winter's Tale."

John Cords: Senior Editing Manager, National Foreign Language Center at the University of Maryland, College Park
Dissertation: "Word, Work, & Wish: Labor and Productivity in William Blake."

Manan Desai: Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
Dissertation: "The United States of India South Asian Translations of America, 1905-1974."

Joanne Freed: Associate Professor, Oakland University, CA
Dissertation: "Haunting Encounters: The Ethics of Global Reading."

Robert Friedlander: Assistant Professor, University of Mississippi, MS
Dissertation: "Promiscuous Generation: Rogue Sexuality and Social Reproduction in Early Modern England."

Roxana Galusca: Senior User Researcher, LLamasoft
Dissertation: "Projects of Humanitarianism: Sex Trafficking and Migration in the Twenty-First Century United States."

Toshiaki Komura: Associate Professor, Kobe College, WA
Dissertation: "Poetry of Lost Loss: a Study of the Modern Anti-Consolatory Elegy."

Caroline Miller: English Department Chair, National Cathedral School, Washington DC
Dissertation: "Abstract Concrete: Experimental Poetry in Post-WWII New York City."

Nathaniel Mills: Associate Professor, University of Minnesota, MN
Dissertation: "Ragged Figures: The Lumpenproletariat in Nelson Algren and Ralph Ellison."

Ori Weisberg: Writer, Editor, Translator, The Times of Israel
Dissertation: "The City and the Word: London, 'Jerusalem,' and the Early Modern English Nation."

Rebecca Wiseman: Humanities Teacher, The Athenian School, CA
Dissertation: "Reading and Reception in Early Modern England: Aesthetics, Judgment, and Selfhood from Sidney to Milton."

Taryn Hakala: Assistant Professor, California State University, Channel Islands, CA
Dissertation: "Working Dialect: Nonstandard Voices in Victorian Literature."

Korey Jackson: Community Manager, Ubiquity Press, OR
Dissertation: "Literatures of Language: A Literary History of Linguistics in Nineteenth-Century America."

Casie LeGette: Associate Professor, University of Georgia, GA
Dissertation: "The Past Jumps Up: British Radicals and the Remaking of Literary History, 1790-1870."

Xiwen Mai: Associate Faculty, Cascadia College, WA
Dissertation: "Transcultural Intertextuality: Reading Asian North American Poetry."

Jonathan Smith: Associate Professor of Practice, Washington University of St. Louis School of Law, MO
Dissertation: "England's 'Best Birthright': Inheritance as Law and Theology in Early Modern English Literature."

Michael Tondre: Associate Professor, Stony Brook University, NY

Stephanie Batkie: Associate Professor, Sewanee University of the South, TN
Dissertation: "Sentenced to Hard Labor: Vernacular Transformations in the Late Fourteenth Century."

LaMont Egle: Senior Lecturer II in English, University of Massachusetts Boston, MA
Dissertation: "Plotting Friendship: Male Bonds in Early Nineteenth-Century British Fiction."

Grace Glass: Associate Vice President and Dean of the School of Arts and Humanities, American Public University System

Lauren LaFauci: Assistant Professor and Research Fellow, Linkoping University, Sweden

Joshua Lambert: Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and English, Wellesley College, MA

David Lavinsky: Associate Professor, Yeshiva University, NY

Chris Palmer: Associate Professor, Kennesaw State University, GA

Amy Rodgers: Associate Professor, Mount Holyoke College, MA

Rebecca Smith: Adjunct Instructor, Gonzaga University, WA

Jennifer Sorenson: Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University, TX

Benjamin Stroud: Professor, University of Toledo, OH

Chad Thomas: Associate Professor, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, AL

Laura Ambrose: Associate Professor, Saint Mary's College, IN

Tamara Bhalla: Associate Professor, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD

Caroline Giordano: Associate Lawyer, Miller Canfield Law Firm

Catherine Harrison: Associate Professor and Dept. Chair, University of Detroit Mercy, MI

Elspeth Healey: Special Collections Curator, The University of Kansas, KS

Gavin Hollis: Associate Professor, Hunter College, The City University of New York, NY

Olivera Jokic: Associate Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justic, The City University of New York, NY

Emily Lutenski: Associate Professor, Saint Louis University, MO

Jamie Olson: Professor, Saint Martin’s University, WA

Ji-Hyae Park: Associate Professor of English, Oakton College, Des Plaines, IL

Sheshalatha Reddy: Associate Professor, Howard University, Washington DC

David Ruderman: Associate Professor, The Ohio State University, OH