Recent Graduate Placement

Faculty Positions

2011

Michael Devine
Assistant Professor (tenure-track), State University of New York, Plattsburgh

Geneva Gano
Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio

Eric Gudas
Lecturer, UCLA Department of English

Julian Knox
Lecturer, University of South Alabama

Adam Lowenstein
Lecturer, UCLA Department of English

Christina Nagao
Lecturer, UCLA Department of English

Thomas O'Donnell
Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Fordham University (beginning 2012)
(formerly at York University)
Medieval Literature

Anne Stiles
Assistant Professor (tenure-track), St. Louis University
(formerly at Washington State University, Pullman)

Erin Suzuki
Lecturer, UCLA Department of English

Dennis Tyler
Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Fordham University (beginning 2012)
(formerly at University of Virginia)
African-American Literature

2010

Jonathan Naito
Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at St. Olaf College
20-Century British Literature and Anglophone Postcolonial Literature

John Reder
Assistant Professor, Bucks County College
Early and 19th-Century American Literature

Joseph Rezek
Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Boston University
Early and 19th-Century American Literature

2009

Linda Greenberg
Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at California State University, Los Angeles
Ethnic U.S. Literatures

Courtney Marshall
Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at University of New Hampshire
English and Women’s Studies

Kate Marshall
Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at University of Notre Dame
Twentieth-Century American Fiction and Media Studies

Thomas O’Donnell
Lecturer in Medieval Literature at University of York
Literature of the High Middle Ages

Sam See
Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at Yale University
20th-century British and American Literature, Sexuality Studies

Sean Silver
Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at University of Michigan
Literature of the Long 18th Century, 1600-1800

2008

Dorothy Kim
Instructor of English at Vassar College
Medieval Literature

Wendy Belcher
Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at Princeton University
Comparative Literature

Nathan Brown
Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at University of California, Davis
American Literature, 1870-present

Noah Comet
Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at The Ohio State University at Mansfield
19th-Century British Literature

Kevin Cooney
Adjunct Professor of English
Writing and Composition

John Alba Cutler
Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at Northwestern University
Chicana/o and Latina/o and Comparative Ethnic American Literatures, Contemporary American Poetry, and Gender Studies

Margaret Lamont
Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at North Carolina State University
Medieval British Literature

John David Lopez
Lecturer, UCLA Department of English
Romantic Literature

Keidra Morris
Lecturer, UCLA Department of English
Ethnic American Literature

Jessica Pressman
Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at Yale University
Digital Literature, 20th and 21st-Century American Literature, Modernism

2007

Denise Cruz
Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at Indiana University
20th-Century American Literature

Christopher Loar
Associate Professor (tenure-track) at UC Davis
18th-Century British Literature

Samantha Pinto
Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at Georgetown University
20th-Century American Literature

Emily Russell
Associate Professor (tenure-track) at Rollins College
20th-Century American Literature, Disability Studies

Melissa Sodeman
Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at Coe College
18th-Century British Literature

Kathleen Washburn
Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at University of New Mexico

Grace Yeh
Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
Asian-American Literature

2006

Debra Bronstein
Instructor (tenure-track) at Pasadena Community College
18th-Century Literature

Helen Choi
Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at SUNY, Stony Brook
20th-Century American Literature

Nicole Horejsi
Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at Columbia University
18th-Century British Literature

Derek Pacheco
Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at Purdue University
American Transcendentalism, Class and Gender in 18th and 19th-Century American Literature, American Women's Writing, and the American Novel

Manushag Powell
Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at Purdue University
18th-Century British Literature

Ann Stiles
Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at Washington State University, Pullman
Late-Victorian and Edwardian Literature, Literature of Science

Erin Templeton
Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at Converse College
Transatlantic Modernism, Authorship and Gender, Textual Studies

Joanne Tong
Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at Converse College
British Romantic Literature

Leslie Wingard
Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at College of Wooster
African-American Literature, Black Visual Culture, Religion and Literature, Ethnic Studies, and Women's and Gender Studies

Post-Doctoral Appointments

2011

Adam Gordon
John B. Hench Postdoctoral Fellow, American Antiquarian Society

T. Austin Graham
ACLS New Faculty Fellow, University of Virginia
(formerly at American Academy of Arts and Sciences)

2010

Olivia Banner
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Rice University Humanities Research Center

T. Austin Graham
Visiting Scholar, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Literature

Charles Russell Stone
Postdoctoral Fellow, Core Humanities, University of Nevada, Reno
Classical and Medieval Literature

Dennis Tyler
Carter G. Woodson Post Doctoral Fellow, University of Virginia
African-American and African Studies

2009

Noelle Chao
Visiting Assistant Professor at The Ohio State University, Mansfield
English Literature

Anthony Galluzzo
Visiting Assistant Professor at The United States Military Academy at West Point
English Literature

Geneva Gano
Visiting Assistant Professor at Indiana University Bloomington
American Studies and Latino Studies

Joseph Rezek
Barra Foundation Post-doctoral Fellow
University of Pannsylvania
McNeil Center for Early American Studies
20th-century British and American Literature, Sexuality Studies

2008

John Naito
Visiting Assistant Professor at Reed College
20th-Century British and Irish Literature, Postcolonial Literature and Theory, Black and Asian British Studies, Contemporary Literature
(currently at St. Olaf College)

2007

Noelle Chao
Visiting Assistant Professor at Cornell University

Alison Harvey
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Humanities, University of Nevada, Reno
Victorian Literature

Darren Howard
Visiting Assistant Professorship at Willamette University
British Romanticism

2006

Loren Blinde
Visiting Assistant Professor at Randolph Macon College
Early Modern Literature 

Grace Park
Five College Fellow at Mt. Holyoke College 

Other placements

2011

Elizabeth Goodhue
Assistant Director, UCLA Center for Community Learning

Emily Morishima
Course Mentor for Liberal Arts, Language and Communications, Western Governors University

Valerie Shepard
Program Manager, UCLA Graduate Resource Center

Erin Suzuki
Senior Marketing Writer, iolo technologies, inc.

2009

Joni Jones
Executive Director of the Maryland Commission on African American History and Culture and Director of the Banneker-Douglass Museum (Ph.D. earned in 1998)

Joyce Lee
Program Officer
American Council of Learned Societies

2008

Melanie Ho
Higher Education Consultant
The Advisory Board, Washington, DC

 

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