Recent Graduate Placement

2011

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

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

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

Elizabeth Goodhue
Assistant Director, UCLA Center of Community Learning

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

Eric Gudas
Lecturer, UCLA Department of English

Julian Knox
Lecturer, University of South Alabama

Adam Lowenstein
Lecturer, UCLA Department of English

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

Christina Nagao
Lecturer, UCLA Department of English

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

Valerie Shepard
Program Manager, UCLA Graduate Resource Center

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

Erin Suzuki
Lecturer, UCLA Department of English
Senior Marketing Writer, iolo technologies, inc.

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

2010

Olivia Banner
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Rice University Humanities Research Center

Joyce Lee
Program Officer, American Council of Learned Societies

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

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

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

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

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

John Reder
Instructor at Bucks County Community College
Language and Literature

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

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

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)

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

2007

Noelle Chao
Visiting Assistant Professor at Cornell University

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

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

Darren Howard
Visiting Assistant Professorship at Willamette University
British Romanticism

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

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

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

Grace Park
Five College Fellow at Mt. Holyoke College

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

2005

Irene Beesemyer
Lecturer, UCLA Department of English
Restoration Literature

Molly Hiro
Assistant Professor (tenure-track), University of Portland
19th- and 20th-Century American Literature

Julia Lee
Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at University of Texas, Austin
20th-Century American Literature

Anne Myers
Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at University of Missouri, Columbia
17th-Century British Literature

Holly Crawford Pickett
Assistant Professor (tenure track), Washington and Lee University
Reformation Literature

Andrew Sargent
Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at West Chester University
20th-Century African-American and American Literature

Kathryn Stelmach
Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at Westmont College
20th-Century American/British Literature

2004

Mary Holland
Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at SUNY, New Paltz
20th-Century American Literature

Lynn Itagaki
Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at University of Montana
20th-Century American Literature
(currently Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at The Ohio State University)

Lars Erik Larson
Assistant Professor (tenure-track), University of Portland
19th- and 20th-Century American Literature, Literature and Social Space, Western American Literature

La’Tonya Reese Miles
Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at the Department of Liberal Studies, California State University, Los Angeles
African American Literature and Culture, American Literature, Cultural Studies

Meredith Neuman
Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Clark University
Early American Literature

2003

June Chung
Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at DePaul University
19th- and 20th-Century Fiction, Film and Literature

Alice Dailey
Visiting Assistant Professor at The Ohio State University
Renaissance Literature

Ho, Khanh
Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at Grinnell College

Michelle Levy
Assistant Professor at Simon Fraser University
Modernism and Romanticism

Heather Lukes
Faculty Fellow, Draper Interdisciplinary Master’s Program, New York University

Sharon B. Oster
Assistant Professor (tenure track), University of Redlands
19th and 20th-Century American Literature, Jewish Studies.

Mark Quigley
Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at University of Oregon
19th and 20th-Century British and Irish Literature, The History of the Novel

Beth Wightman
Assistant Professor at California State University, Northridge
20th-Century British Literature, Irish Literature, Caribbean Literature

David Witzling
Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at Manhattan College
20th and 21st-Century American Literature

2002

Christina Fitzgerald
Assistant Professor at University of Toledo
Medieval Literature, Feminist Theory

Chris Flynn
Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at University of Nebraska, Omaha
18th-Century British Literature, Romanticism, Transatlantic Literature

Martin Griffin
Assistant Professor at University of Tennessee, Knoxville
19th-Century American Literature

Rhoda Janzen
Assistant Professor at Hope College
Creative Writing (poetry); American Literature 1865-1925; James, Wharton, and Cather; Modernism; Epistemology; Sexology

Norman Jones
Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at Ohio State University, Mansfield
20th-Century American Literature

Lisa Kasmer
Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at Clark University
18th-Century and Romantic British Literature

Anne Kellenberger
Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at St. John’s Seminary College

Tooktook Thongthiraj
Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at Pasadena City College
Asian American Literature

2001

Jill Galvan
Assistant Professor at Ohio State University
Victorian Literature, 20th-Century British Literature, Women's Studies

William David Halloran
Lecturer at Indiana University
Modern British and American Literature

Karen Thomas Rose
Instructor (tenure-track) at Long Beach City College
20th-Century American and Chicano/a Literature

Elliot Visconsi
Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at Yale University
17th- and 18th-Century English Drama and Fiction, Law and Political Philosophy

Curtis Whitaker
Assistant Professor at Idaho State University
18th-Century British Literature

2000

Terri Bays
Adjunct Professor, University of Notre Dame
Medieval Literature
(Currently:  Director, OpenCourseWare Project, Kaneb Institute for Teaching and Learning and Concurrent Assistant Professional Specialist in English, University of Notre Dame)

Jessica Brantley
Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at Yale University
Old and Middle English Literatures, Manuscript Studies, Text/image Relations, History of the Book

Tracy Curtis
Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at University of Wisconsin, Madison
African-American Literature

Theresa Delgadillo
Assistant Professor (tenure-track) and University of Notre Dame
Latino/a literary and Cultural Studies

Kevin Frank
Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at Baruch College, CUNY
Victorian Postcolonial Literature

Corrine Harol
Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at University of Utah
18th-Century British Literature, Theory of the Novel

Martin Kevorkian
Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at University of Texas
American literature, computers and English, popular culture

James Lee
Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at University of California, Santa Barbara
Asian-American Studies

Maurice Lee
Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at University of Missouri, Columbia
19th-Century American Literature

Matthew Wickman
Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at Brigham Young University
18th-Century British Literature, Scottish literature, literary theory, intellectual history