JOB PLACEMENT RECORD
Over the past seven years, from 2000 through the present, the Penn English Department has placed 70% of the students who have graduated from our doctoral program in tenure-track positions. A total of 82 students have taken the Ph.D. in that period, and 57 of them have begun tenure-track employment.* Following is a list of the first-time, tenure-track jobs that our graduates have accepted since 2000, followed (parenthetically) by their current position, if different:
2007-2008 Joseph Drury Wesleyan U Catherine Nicholson Yale U Kurt Schreyer U of Missouri, St Louis Joshua Schuster U of Western Ontario 2006-2007 Rachel Buurma U of Toronto (Swarthmore College) Jennifer Higginbotham Ohio State U Jonathan Hsy George Washington U Cyrus Mulready SUNY-New Paltz Cynthia Port Coastal Carolina U Dahlia Porter Vanderbilt U Veronica Schanoes CUNY-Queen's College 2005-2006 Marissa Greenberg U of New Mexico Patricia Hopkins Christopher Newport U Stephanie G. Kamath U of Massachusetts, Boston John Lessard U of the Pacific Mark Miller CUNY-Hunter College Justine Murison U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Kathy Lou Schultz U of Memphis Stella Singer Cleveland State U Dillon Brown CUNY-Brooklyn College (Washington U, St Louis) 2004-2005 Jeffrey Allred CUNY-Hunter College Holly Barbaccia Georgetown College Jeremy Braddock Princeton U (Cornell U) Louis Cabri U of Windsor Clare Costley U of Connecticut Jane Degenhardt U of Massachusetts, Amherst Amina Gautier St. Joseph's U Miriam Jacobson Wake Forest Damien Keane SUNY-Buffalo Paul Kintzele U of Houston Bernie Rhie Williams College Mark Rifkin Skidmore College (U of North Carolina, Greensboro) Jessica Rosenfeld Washington U, St. Louis Martha Schoolman Miami U of Ohio Elizabeth Williamson Evergreen State College Brett Wilson College of William and Mary 2003-2004 Matthew Hart U of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana Juliet Shields Ohio State U, Marion (U of Washington) Shanyn Fiske Rutgers U, Camden Erika Lin U of Louisville (George Mason U) Michelle Karnes U of Missouri (Stanford U) Scott Krawczyk US Military Academy at West Point 2002-2003 Alice Brittan Dalhousie U Yoonmee Chang Indiana U Jean Feerick Brown U Lawrence Warner U of Adelaide (U of Sydney) David Golumbia U of Virginia 2001-2002 Hester Blum U of Tennessee (Penn State U) James Kearney Yale U (U of California, Santa Barbara) Lana Schwebel Yale U 2000-2001 Jennifer Jordan Baker Yale U (NYU) Rob Barrett U of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana Leigh Edwards Florida State U Melissa Homestead U of Oklahoma (U of Nebraska) Kendall Johnson Swarthmore College Erik Simpson Grinnell College Donald Zimmerman US Air Force Academy
Cumulative, last seven years:
Ph.D.s granted during calendar years 2000-2007: 82
First-time tenure-track jobs: 57
= 69.5% Placement
* For the purposes of documenting our Placement record, we only count first-time, tenure-track positions. Some of our students accept postdoctoral fellowships, one-year or three-year visiting appointments, or second tenure-track jobs at institutions more attractive or congenial than their first. Some institutions appear to count these sorts of career steps as "placements," but that is misleading and results in an overcount. A placement is a tenure-track assistant professorship, and a program should only count a student as having been placed once.
