Graduate English Doctoral Alumni
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Alumnus | Director(s) | Title of Dissertation | Where they are now |
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Natalie Amleshi |
Jed Esty | Inhuman Power: Infrastructural Modernism and the Fiction of Social Form | Postdoctoral Fellowship in Modernist Studies at Univ. of Texas-Austin |
Tim Chandler(COML) |
Emily Steinlight | Vestures of the Past: The Other Historicisms of Victorian Aesthetics | employed full-time outside academia: junior front-end engineer at Doodle (Berlin) |
Alex Eisenthal |
Amy Kaplan | Non-Native Grounds: Jewish Writers in American Empire | |
Mariah Min |
Emily Steiner | Damned If You Do: Judas Iscariot and the Invention of Medieval Literary Character | Lecturer, Bryn Mawr College |
Chris Mustazza |
Charles Bernstein | Speech Labs: Language Experiments, Early Poetry Audio Archives, and the Poetic Record | Co-Director of the PennSound Archive; Sr. Director of Academic Computing, Penn's School of Arts & Sciences |
Eleni Palis |
Timothy Corrigan | Theorizing Film Quotation: Re-Membering Classical Hollywood in Contemporary American Cinema | Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee |
Keyana Parks |
Salamishah Tillet | The Absurdity of Colorblindness: Post Blackness in Twenty-first Century African American Satire to Real(ly) Absurd: Post Black Paradoxes in African American Satire | Assistant Professor of English, UMass Boston |
Ariel Resnikoff(COML) |
Charles Bernstein | The Radical Afterlives of Yiddishland | Postdoctoral Fellow in Secular Jewish Studies and Pedagogy, Posen Foundation |
Evelyn Soto |
David Kazanjian | Beyond the Black Legend: Spanish-American Political Imaginaries in the U.S., 1800 - 1855 | Assistant Professor of English, Rutgers University - New Brunswick |
Hao Jun Tam (Howie) |
Josephine Park | Rewriting Vietnam: Forms of Nationhood in Diasporic Literature | Assistant Professor of English at Brandeis |
Orchid Tierney |
Charles Bernstein | Materials Poetics: Landfills and Waste Management in Contemporary Literature and Media | Assistant Professor, Kenyon College |
Alumnus | Director(s) | Title of Dissertation | Where they are now |
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Julia Cox |
Salamishah Tillet | The Protest Song: Bridge Leadership, Sonic Innovation, and the Long Civil Rights Movement | Communications Consultant, Slalom, New York |
Erika Smith Harman |
Emily Steiner Rita Copeland |
The Art of the Question in Late Medieval England | |
Melanie R. Hill |
Herman Beavers Salamishah Tillet |
Personified Preaching: Black Feminist Sermonic Practice in Literature and Music | Assistant Professor in African American Literature, Rutgers University, Newark |
Najnin Islam |
David Kazanjian | Reading the Coolie: Race, Caste and Narratives of Asian Indentureship | Assistant Professor of English, Colorado College |
Travis Chi Wing Lau |
Michael Gamer Lance Wahlert |
Prophylactic Fictions: Immunity and Biosecurity | Assistant Professor of English, Kenyon College |
Sierra Lomuto |
Emily Steiner | Exotic Allies: Mongol Alterity and Racial Formation in the Global Middle Ages, 1220-1400 | Assistant Professor of English, Rowan University |
Joan Lubin |
Heather K. Love | Social Science Fictions: The Numeric Imaginary of Cold War America | |
Clare Mullaney |
Heather K. Love | American Imprints: Disability and the Material Text, 1858-1932 | Assistant Professor, Clemson University |
Sara Sligar |
Jed Esty | Forms of Justice: The Rise of the Legal Procedural in the Age of Due Process, 1930-1980 | Society of Fellows in the Humanities, University of South California |
B. Jamieson Stanley |
Rita Barnard | The Global Environmental Novel and the Politics of Food | Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Delaware |
Sarah Wilma Watson |
David Wallace | Women, Reading, and Literary Culture: The Reception of Christine de Pizan in Fifteenth-Century England | Communications Specialist, Strategic Planning and Internal Engagement, McKinsey & Co. |
Omari Weekes |
Thadious Davis | "On a Path of Decent Pleasures: Sex, Spirit, and Affect in Late Twentieth-Century African American Literature." | Queens College, CUNY, Assistant Professor of English (Fall 2022–) |
Alumnus | Director(s) | Title of Dissertation | Where they are now |
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Jacqueline Marie Burek |
Rita Copeland Emily Steiner |
Mending a Broken Chain: Continuous History and Literary Form in England and Wales, 1125-1450 | Assistant Professor of Medieval Literature at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. |
Nesrine Chahine(COML) |
Jed Esty | Marketplaces of the Modern: Egypt as Marketplace in Twentieth-Century Anglo-Egyptian Literature | Assistant Professor, Texas Tech University |
Laura Finch(COML) |
James English | Intimate Economies: Financial Citizenship and Literary Form in the Contemporary Novel | Assistant Professor, English Dept, MIT |
Chris Jimenez |
James English | The Exploding Globe: Scale and Catastrophe in Contemporary Anglophone Literature | Assistant Professor, Stetson University |
Don James McLaughlin |
Max Cavitch Heather K. Love |
Infectious Affect: The Phobic Imagination in American Literature | Assistant Professor, University of Tulsa |
Dianne Mitchell |
Peter Stallybrass Zachary Lesser |
Unfolding Verse: Poetry as Correspondence in Early Modern England | Assistant Professor, University of Colorado, Boulder |
Kalyan Nadiminti |
Josephine Park | Difficult Work: The Politics of Counter-Professionalism in Post-1945 Transnational American Fiction | Assistant Professor of English, Northwestern University |
Ana Schwartz |
David Kazanjian Max Cavitch |
Feeling Past Politics: Affection, Settlement, and the Disciplines of Civil Society in Early Anglo America, 1620-1682 | Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Austin |
Mary Zaborskis |
Heather K. Love | Erotics of Education: Queering Children in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Boarding Schools | Assistant Professor of American Studies and Gender Studies, Penn State Harrisburg |
Alumnus | Director(s) | Title of Dissertation | Where they are now |
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Monika Bhagat-Kennedy |
Ania Loomba | Imagining Bharat: Romance, Heroism, and Hindu Nationalism in the Bengali Novel, 1880-1920 | Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Mississippi |
Ashley Chang |
Josephine Park Charles Bernstein |
Sensing Sounding: Close Listening to Experimental Asian American Poetry | Vanguard |
Alexander Devine |
David Wallace Emily Steiner |
A Portable Feast: The Production and Use of the Thirteenth-Century Portable Bible 1200-1500 | Sub-Librarian, The Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge |
Lydia Yaitsky Kertz |
David Wallace Emily Steiner |
Luxury, Aesthetics and Politics: The Social Lives of Medieval Romance | Assistant Professor of English, SUNY |
Alice Tweedy McGrath |
Toni Bowers | Patchwork Fictions: Imagining Intimacy Beyond the Marriage Plot | Digital Scholarship Specialist, Bryn Mawr College |
Alan Niles |
Peter Stallybrass | Making English Memorial Literatures, 1500-1700 | Lecturer, History and Literature department, Harvard University |
Kelly Mee Rich |
Jed Esty Paul Saint-Amour |
States of Repair: Institutions of Private Life in the Postwar Anglophone Novel | Assistant Professor of English at Harvard University |
Gabriel Sessions(COML) |
Jean-Michel Rabaté Paul Saint-Amour |
To Feel Thought as Immediately as a Rose: Philosophy, Modernism, and Utopian Collaborations | Visiting Assistant Professor at Haverford College |
Laura Soderberg |
David Kazanjian | ‘Vicious Infants’: Antisocial Childhoods and the Politics of Population in Antebellum U.S. Literature | Assistant Professor, University of Southern Indiana |
Christine Woody |
Michael Gamer | Romantic Periodicals and the Invention of the Living Author | Assistant Professor, Widener University |
Jason Zuzga |
Charles Bernstein | Uncanny World: Envisioning Nature in Documentary | Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania |
Alumnus | Director(s) | Title of Dissertation | Where they are now |
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Alyssa Connell |
Toni Bowers Michael Gamer |
Paper Kingdom: Travel Literature, Chorography, and the Writing of Britain, 1660-1770 | Chief of Staff, Field Museum |
Neşe Lisa Devenot(COML) |
Charles Bernstein Michael Gamer |
Altered States/Other Worlds: Romanticism, Nitrous Oxide, and the Literary Prehistory of Psychedelia | Assistant Teaching Professor, Writing Program, Johns Hopkins University |
Thomas Alan Dichter |
Amy Kaplan | Violent Convictions: Punishment, Literature, and the Reconstruction of Race | Visiting Assistant Professor of Law Jurisprudence and Social Thought, Amherst College (2017-2018); Lecturer in English (starting spring 2018) and History and Literature (on leave 2017-2018), Harvard University |
Jessica Hurley |
Paul Saint-Amour | Ground Zero at the City on a Hill: Apocalypse and the Politics of Form in the Nuclear Age | Assistant Professor, George Mason University |
Aundeah Kearney |
Thadious Davis | Ambitious Confusion: Recovering the Unthought in Contemporary Memorials to the Antebellum South | Financial Advisor at Merrill Lynch Wealth Management. |
A. Yumi Lee |
David L. Eng Josephine Park |
Someone Else's War: Korea and the Post-1945 U.S. Racial Order | Assistant Professor of English at Villanova University |
Clifford Mak(COML) |
Jed Esty | Virtuoso Beasts: Modernist Fables and the Vitality of Style | Assistant Professor Queen College CUNY |
J. Bret Maney(COML) |
Rita Barnard | Novels Wrecked by Success: American Fiction and the Problem of the Good Life: 1890-1940 | Assistant Professor at Lehman College, CUNY. |
Amy Paeth |
Bob Perelman | State Verse Culture: American Poets Laureate, 1945-2015 | Lecturer in Critical Writing, The Marks Family Center for Excellence in Writing |
Daniel Snelson |
Charles Bernstein Jean-Michel Rabaté |
Variable Format: Media Poetics and the Little Database | Assistant Professor of English, UCLA |
Emma Stapely |
Amy Kaplan | Insurgent Remains: Afterlives of the American Revolution,1770-1820 | Assistant Professor, University of California Riverside |
Bronwyn V. Wallace |
Margreta de Grazia | Intimate Exegesis: Reading and Feeling in Early Modern Devotional Literature | Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of York |
Alumnus | Director(s) | Title of Dissertation | Where they are now |
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Marina Bilbija |
David Kazanjian | Worlds of Color: Black Internationalism and the Periodical in the Age of Empire | Assistant Professor of English, Wesleyan University |
Beth Blum |
Paul Saint-Amour | Proverbial Modernism: Difficult Literature and the Self-Help Hermeneutic | Assistant Professor of English, Harvard University |
Julius B. Fleming, Jr. |
Thadious Davis | Staging Civil Rights: African American Literature, Performance, and Innovation | University of Maryland, Assistant Professor (20th-Century/African American Literature) |
Emily C. Gerstell |
Melissa E. Sanchez | Trafficking Women: Interest, Desire, and Early Modern English Drama | Associate, McKinsey and Company |
Jungha Kim(COML) |
David L. Eng | Trauma of Empire: Violence, Minor Affect, and the Cold War Transpacific | Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature at Seoul National University |
Lucia Martinez |
Peter Stallybrass | Making a Solemn Note: The Music and Meter of English Reformation Psalms | Reed College, Assistant Professor |
Marissa Nicosia |
Melissa E. Sanchez Zachary Lesser |
Historical Futures in Seventeenth-Century Literature | Associate Professor, Penn State Abington |
Vaclav Paris |
Jean-Michel Rabaté | Everyday Epic: Evolution, Sexuality, and Modernist Narrative. | CUNY, City College of New York |
John Pollack |
Peter Stallybrass | Native American Words, Early American Texts | Library Specialist, Public Services. Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts |
Katie L. Price |
Charles Bernstein | 'The Tangential Point': Pataphysical Practice in Postwar Poetry | Assistant Director for Co-Curricular Programming & Outreach, Swarthmore College |
Philip Tsang |
Jed Esty | Untimely Citizens: Late Realism in Twentieth-Century British Literature | Assistant Professor, University of Cincinnati |
Marie Turner |
David Wallace Emily Steiner |
Beyond Romance: Genre and History in England, 1066-1400 | Director of the Rossell Hope Robbins Library and the Koller-Collins Center for English Studies at the River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester. |
Sunny Chen Yang |
David L. Eng | Fictions of Territoriality: Legal and Literary Narratives of US Imperial Contestation Zones, 1844-1914 | Assistant Professor of English at the University of Houston |
Alumnus | Director(s) | Title of Dissertation | Where they are now |
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Asma Al-Naser(COML) |
Rita Barnard | Afterlives: Specters of the American Century in Post-WWII American and Arabic Literature | Assistant Professor at Vanier College, Montreal, QB. |
Rachel Banner |
David Kazanjian | Freedom's Bonds: Reconfiguring Formal Freedom in Antebellum U.S. Law and Literature | Assistant Professor, West Chester University |
Claire M. L. Bourne |
Zachary Lesser | 'A Play and No Play': Printing the Performance in Early Modern England | Assistant Professor, Pennsylvania State University |
Tekla Bude |
David Wallace | Musica Celestis: Mystical Song in Late Medieval England | Assistant Professor of English, Oregon State University |
Ashley L. Cohen |
Ania Loomba Suvir Kaul |
The Global Indies: Reading the Imaginative Geography of British Empire, 1763-1871 | Assistant Professor at University of Southern California |
Jonathan Fedors |
Bob Perelman | Modern American Poetry and the Protestant Establishment | Assistant Teaching Professor in English, Penn State University |
David Gardner |
Nancy Bentley | How Novels Act: The Dramaturgy of Nineteenth-Century American Fiction | Phillips Academy in Andover |
Kara Gaston |
David Wallace Rita Copeland |
Chaucer's Formal Histories: Temporality and Intertextuality from the Italian Trecento to Troilus and Criseyde and The Canterbury Tales | Assistant Professor; Graduate Faculty; Undergraduate Instructor (UTSC), University of Toronto |
Grace Lavery(COML) |
Paul Saint-Amour | Empire in a Glass Case: Japanese Beauty, British Culture, and Transnational Aestheticism | Assistant Professor UC Berkeley |
Phillip Maciak |
Amy Kaplan | Technologies of Belief: Christian Visions of U.S. Secularism, 1880-1930. | Assistant Professor, Louisiana State University |
Simran Thadani |
Peter Stallybrass | Penmanship in Print: English Copy-Books and their Makers, 1570-1763 | Executive Director, Letterform Archive, San Francisco |
Rafael Walker |
Nancy Bentley Wendy Steiner |
Realism after Liberalism: Women, Desire, and the Modern American Novel | Assistant Professor, Baruch College, City University of New York |
Gregory Wolmart |
Al Filreis | Styles of Anarchic Will in Cold War American Literature | Assistant Teaching Professor, Drexel University, Cinema and television; film history. |
Alumnus | Director(s) | Title of Dissertation | Where they are now |
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David Alff |
Toni Bowers | British Writing and the Culture of Projection: 1660–1790 | Associate Professor, University of Buffalo |
Suzanne L. Barnett |
Stuart Curran Michael Gamer |
Romantic Paganism: Ecstasy and Excess in the Shelley Circle | Visiting Assistant Professor, Manhattan College |
Aliki Caloyeras |
Bob Perelman | H.D.: The Politics and Poetics of the Maternal Body | |
Sarah Dowling |
Charles Bernstein | Remote Intimacies: Multilingualism in Contemporary Poetry | Gender, & Sexuality Studies, Associate Chair at University of Toronto |
Shoshana Enelow(COML) |
Charles Bernstein | Method Acting and the Limits of Identity in the Mid-century America | |
James J. Fiumara |
Timothy Corrigan | Grotesque Attractions: Genre History, Popular Entertainment, and the Origins of the Horror Film | Assistant Professor - University of Colorado at Denver |
Sarah Mantilla Griffin |
Thadious Davis | 'Hush Now Can You Hear It': Black Women's Sonic Literature | |
Katherine Bennett Gustafson |
Stuart Curran Michael Gamer |
Coming of Age in the Eighteenth-Century Novel | Indiana University Northwest (18th-Century/Children's Literature) |
Jennifer Jahner |
David Wallace | Sacra Jura: Literature, Law, and Piety in the Era of Magna Carta | Professor, Cal Tech. |
Myra Lotto |
Stuart Curran Michael Gamer |
The Rustic Mode in Britain, 1700-1900 | Adjunct Assistant Professor · York College (CUNY) |
Melanie Micir |
James English | Public Lives, Intimate Archives: Queer Biographical Practices in British Women's Writing | Assistant Professor Washington University in Saint Louis |
Christen Mucher |
David Kazanjian | Antiquity, Prehistory, Culture: American Narratives of the Distant Past, 1787-1867 | Smith College, American Studies |
Courtney Rydel |
David Wallace | Legendary Effects: Women Saints of the Legenda Aurea in England, 1260-1532 | Assistant Professor, Washington College |
Mecca Jamilah Sullivan |
Thadious Davis | Interstitial Voices: The Poetics of Difference in Afrodiasporic Women's Literature | Assistant Professor of English at Bryn Mawr College |
Christopher Taylor |
David Kazanjian | Empire of Neglect: Caribbean Literature, British Liberalism, and New Works of Care, 1776-1888. | Assistant Professor, University of Chicago |
Alumnus | Director(s) | Title of Dissertation | Where they are now |
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Jarrett Anthony |
Nancy Bentley | "Higher Laws: The Making of Religion in Antebellum American Literature" | House Assistant Dean of Flora Rose House, Cornell University |
Julia Bloch |
Bob Perelman | ||
Megan Cook |
David Wallace | The Poet and the Antiquaries: Renaissance Readers and Chaucerian Scholarship | Assistant Professor, Colby College |
Daniel DeWispelare(COML) |
Michael Gamer | Textual Shibboleths: Anglophony, Authority, and Authenticity, 1753-1832 | |
Jonathan Scott Enderle |
Michael Gamer | Novel Properties: Communication, Copyright and the British Novel, 1710-1774 | Digital Humanities Specialist, Penn Libraries |
S. Isabel Geathers |
Thadious Davis | Tragedy's Black Eye: Theorizing the Tragic in Contemporary African American Literature | Senior Associate Director of the Institute for Recruitment of Teachers (IRT) at Phillips Academy; Postdoctoral/ Teaching Fellow, Princeton University |
Greta LaFleur |
Max Cavitch David Kazanjian |
American Insides: Popular Narrative and the Historiography of Sexuality, 1674-1815 | Yale University, Assistant Professor |
Edward Lybeer(COML) |
Rita Barnard | Transnational Modernism in the Americas: Mexican and US Culture in the 1920s and 1930s | |
William Nessly |
Amy Kaplan | Rewriting the Rising Sun: Narrative Authority and Japanese Empire in Asian American Literature | Assistant Professor, West Chester University |
Mearah Quinn-Brauner |
James English | Recovering the Conflicts: Memoirs of the Late-Twentieth Century American Literary Academy | Assistant Director, Student Preparation, University of Chicago |
Joshua Ratner |
Max Cavitch | "American Paratexts: Experimentation and Anxiety in the Early United States" | William Penn Charter School (Philadelphia, PA) |
Poulomi Saha |
Ania Loomba | "Revolutionary Desires: Gender and National Attachment in Colonial and Postcolonial Bengal" | Assistant Professor of English, University of California, Berkley |
Jill Shashaty |
Amy Kaplan | As If: Utopian Desire and the Imagination of History in Nineteenth-Century America | Assistant Professor, Community College of Philadelphia |
Lance Wahlert(BIOL) |
Heather K. Love | The Clinical Gays and the Painful Reunion: Medical Spectatorship and Historiographical Practice in New Queer Cinema | Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Ethics & Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania |
Thomas Ward |
Margreta de Grazia | Inside Voices of the English Renaissance | Associate Professor, US Naval Academy |
Brandon T. Woods |
Herman Beavers | Dangerous Accumulations: Representing Black Rage in the Protest Era, 1936-1945 | Wilmington Friends School (Wilmington, DE), Director, QUEST Center |
Alumnus | Director(s) | Title of Dissertation | Where they are now |
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Todd Carmody |
Heather K. Love | Intentional Communities: The Public Life of Race in American Literature, 1925–1961 | Senior Strategist, Gemic Consulting |
Urvashi Chakravarty |
Peter Stallybrass | Serving Like a Free Man: Labor, Liberty, and Consent in Early Modern English Drama | Associate Professor of English, University of Toronto |
John Connor |
James English | Mid-Century Romance: Modernist Afterlives of the Historical Novel | Lecturer in Literature and Politics, Kings College University of London |
Stephanie Elsky |
Margreta de Grazia | Time Out of Mind: The Poetics of Custom and Common Law in Early Modern England | Associate Professor of English, Rhodes College |
Anna Foy |
John Richetti Suvir Kaul |
Poetry and the Common Weal: Conceiving Civic Utility in British Poetics of the Long Eighteenth Century | Assistant Professor at the University of Alabama Huntsville |
Sarah Kerman(COML) |
Charles Bernstein | Speaking for Americans: Modernist Voices and Political Representation, 1910-1940 | High School English Teacher & Department Chair, The Dalton School |
Jeehyun Lim |
Josephine Park | Between Foreigners and Citizens: Bilinguals in Asian American and Latino Literature, 1960–2000 | Associate Professor of English, University of Texas at Austin |
Rachael Nichols |
Amy Kaplan | The Human Animal: Tangles in Science and Literature , 1870-1920 | Visiting Assistant Professor in English, Skidmore College; Visiting Assistant Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania |
Emily Ogden |
Nancy Bentley Amy Kaplan |
The Science of Error: Mesmerism and American Fiction, 1784–1890 | Associate Professor of English & Director of Graduate Studies, University of Virginia |
Greg Steirer |
James English Charles Bernstein |
‘Raise the Black Flag’: The Neoliberal Aesthetic in 1970s Britain | Associate Professor, Dickinson College |
Michelle Strizever |
Charles Bernstein | Visible Texture: Artists' Books, 1960–2010 | Archives Specialist, House Office of the Historian, United States House of Representatives |