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2024
Alumnus	Director(s)	Title of Dissertation	Where they are now
Muriel Bernardi	Jed Esty Emily Steinlight	The Political Malady: Embodied Belonging in British Fiction, 1796-1860
Mark Firmani	Amy Kaplan Paul Saint-Amour
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Joseph Earl Thomas	Simone White	Black Affect and Ludonarrative Dissonance in the Present

2023
Alumnus	Director(s)	Title of Dissertation	Where they are now
Shoshana Adler	David Wallace	Tender Flesh: Race and Sensation in Late Medieval Literature	Assistant Professor of English, Vanderbilt University
Matthew Aiello	Emily Steiner David L. Eng	Writing Under Duress: Trauma and Repetition in Early England, 1065-1250	Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows
Mayowa Ajibade	Margo Natalie Crawford	Uses of the Eccentric: Reading the Political in African and African American Experimental Writing	Assistant Professor of Africana Studies, Brown University
David Buchanan	Ania Loomba	Global Domesticities: The Family Drama and the Capitalist World-Economy	Lecturer in English and Interdisciplinary Studies, Western Connecticut SU
Kenton Butcher	Herman Beavers Rita Barnard	Ain’t No Shame: Contemporary Passing Narratives in African American and South African Literature	Assistant Professor of English-Literary Studies, Bucknell University
Joseph Coppola	Karen Redrobe	Not Your Average Joe: Hollywood’s Data Wars	Lecturer in Film & Media Studies, UC Berkeley
Destiny Crockett	Margo Natalie Crawford	Womanish Girls and Black Girl Vulnerability in African American Women's Cultural Productions: 1970-2005	Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Rutgers University
Devin William Daniels	Josephine Park	Informatic States: Administration, Identity, and Surveillance in the U.S. Novel, 1940–1977	Visiting Assistant Professor of English, Bryn Mawr College
J. Felix Gallion	David Kazanjian	Camp Carcerality: On Abolition and Ethnic Mexican Agricultural Labor Migration	Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton University
Knar Gavin	Josephine Park	'Fend for Meaningful Speech:' Matters of Social Fact in Post-9/11 Documentary Poetry
Cassidy Holahan	Michael Gamer Chi-ming Yang	Dramatizing the Novel: Transmedial Exchange in the Long Eighteenth Century	Assistant Professor of English, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Amber Rose Johnson	Margo Natalie Crawford	Bad Mathematics: Black Experimental Poetry and Performance in 21st Century Diaspora	Assistant Professor of English, McGill University
Dahlia Menghui Li	Margo Natalie Crawford Karen Redrobe	Caress without Body: Stranded Affect, Queer Diasporic Dancing, and Questions Concerning Technology	Postdoctoral Fellow, The Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, Swarthmore College
jess lrh	Karen Redrobe Julia Alekseyeva	Psychologically Ultimate Background: the Environmental Politics of Ambient Media
A.V. Aylin Malcolm	David Wallace	Every Living Soul: Literature and Zoology in England, 1100–1400	Assistant Professor of English, University of Guelph
Alex Millen	Emily Steinlight	Novel Aspirations: Social Imperialism and the Remaking of the English Working Class, 1848-1914	Visiting Assistant Professor of English, Haverford College
Jane Robbins Mize	Nancy Bentley	Waterworks: Settler Industrialization and Literary Experimentation in Twentieth-Century North America	Assistant Professor of Liberal Arts, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

2022
Alumnus	Director(s)	Title of Dissertation	Where they are now
Melanie Abeygunawardana	David L. Eng	Dissenting Flesh: Racial Feeling in an Age of Colorblindness	Assistant Professor of American Studies, University of Minnesota
Aaron Bartels-Swindells	Rita Barnard	Impossible Realisms: Genre and Apartheid, 1902-1973	Postdoctoral Associate, Cornell University
Astride Veronique Charles (COML)	David Kazanjian	Writing Atlantic–African Slavery The Middle Passage in Continental Terms	Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Society of Fellows in the Humanities, Columbia University
Sherif H. Ismail (COML)	James English	Time is Many: The Anthropocene, Literary Form, and the New Contemporary	Teacher in Cairo, Egypt
Ava L.J. Kim	David L. Eng	Trans / Nation: Gender and Democracy in an Age of Transition	Assistant Professor, Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies, University of California, Davis
Alicia Meyer	Melissa E. Sanchez	Pedagogies of Power: Gender, Race, and Bridewell Hospital on the Early Modern Stage	Curator of Research Services, Kislak Center, Penn Libraries
Rovel Sequeira	Ania Loomba	The Nation and its Deviants: Global Sexology and the Racial Grammar of Sex in Colonial India, 1870-1950	Assistant Professor and LSA Collegiate Fellow of Women's and Gender Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Clinton Williamson	David Kazanjian	Nebulous Figures: A Cultural History of an American Riotocracy, 1848-1929	Postdoctoral Associate, Kilachand Honors College, Boston University

2021
Alumnus	Director(s)	Title of Dissertation	Where they are now
Ajay Kumar Batra	David Kazanjian	Radiant Ephemera: Abolition in the Archives of Atlantic Slavery, 1785-1865	Assistant Professor of English, Vanderbilt University
Thomas Conners (SPAN)	David L. Eng	New Latinx Feelings: Race, Affect, and Form in Queer Latinx Literature	Lecturer, History & Literature, Harvard
Dana Cypress	Herman Beavers	In Time of Disaster: Representations of Hurricane Katrina in Literature and Culture	Assistant Professor of English, Colgate University
Vikrant Dadawala	Suvir Kaul	The Decades of Disillusionment: Essays on Indian Literature and Cinema after Nehru	Assistant Professor of English, York University, Toronto
Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach (COML)	Kevin M.F. Platt Paul Saint-Amour	Lyric Witness: Intergenerational (Re)collection of the Holocaust in Contemporary American Poetry	Assistant Professor and Murphy Visiting Fellow in Literature and Languages, Creative Writing, Hendrix College
Zach Fruit	Emily Steinlight	The Lie of the Land: Landscape Aesthetics and British Realism	Ahamanson-Getty Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies, UCLA
Augusta Atinuke Irele (COML)	Rita Barnard	Narratives of the New Diaspora: Migration and Transnationalism in Contemporary African Literature	President’s Post-doc Scholar, African American and African Studies, Ohio State Consortium for Faculty Diversity Fellow, Visiting Assistant Professor of African Studies and French and Francophone Studies, Davidson College
Davy Knittle	Melissa E. Sanchez	Designs on the Future: Gender, Race, and Environment in the Transitional City	Assistant Professor of English, University of Delaware
Kiana Murphy	Dagmawi Woubshet Salamishah Tillet	Speculative Black Girl Ethics: Reading Practices, Visual Culture, and The Urgency of the Present	Assistant Professor of American Studies, Brown University
Divya Nair	Ralph M. Rosen	Early Modern English Literature and The Emerging Problem of the Color Line	Mellon Postdoctoral Fellows in Public Humanities as Social Practice, Humanities Research Institute, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Kaushik Ramu (COML)	Paul Saint-Amour	Scaling Naïveté: Deep Time and the Slow Bourgeoisie	Assistant Professor of Literary & Cultural Studies, FLAME University, Pune, India
Elias Rodriques	Josephine Park Salamishah Tillet	Falling Out of History: Gender in Representations of Police Violence in Post-45 African-American Novels	Assistant Professor of African American Literature, Sarah Lawrence College
Jess Shollenberger	Heather K. Love	Intimate Reception: Reading Ordinary Queerness in American Women's Literature	Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Literatures in English, Bryn Mawr College

2020
Alumnus	Director(s)	Title of Dissertation	Where they are now
Chris Chan	Suvir Kaul	Communal Lyricisms and the Lyricization of English Poetry, 1650–1790
Daniel Davies	David Wallace	Forms of Writing, Forms of War: Scotland, England, France c.1300-1450	Assistant Professor of English, University of Houston
Micah Del Rosario	Jed Esty	Scattered Supremacies: Locating Whiteness in Modernist Fiction	English Department Faculty, The Haverford School
Tajah Ebram	Margo Natalie Crawford	Black Urban Revolution: A Cultural History of MOVE and the Radical Everyday in West Philadelphia	Black Studies Librarian, Rutgers University Libraries
Eve Eure	David Kazanjian	The Grammar of Kinship: Black and Native Intimacies in the 19th Century	Assistant Professor, Lehman College, City University of New York
Meghan E. Hall	Ania Loomba	Out of Compass: English Women's Writing and the Cultures of Travel, 1604-1680	Associate Director for Graduate Studies, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania
Anna Johnson Lyman	Emily Steiner Rita Copeland	Reading the Past: Ruins and Historical Writing in England, 800-1400
Riley McGuire	Emily Steinlight	Figures of Speech: The Relational and Generic Forms of Vocal Disability in Nineteenth-Century Culture	Assistant Professor of English, Worcester State University
Martin Premoli (COML)	Rita Barnard	Global Anthropocene Fiction and the Politics of Climate Disaster	Assistant Professor of English, Pepperdine
Sam Waterman	Jed Esty	After Men: Modernist Adventure and Post-Patriarchal Work	Assistant Professor, New College of the Humanities in London