Our recent Ph.D. graduates have pursued careers that include both academic and non-academic positions in educational, non-profit, and research institutions, foundations and libraries, entertainment and technological industries.
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2025 Placements
| Name | Dissertation Title | First Position | Current Position |
| Jené Pledger | Earwitnesses in America: Listening Literatures in the Nineteenth-Century U.S. | Writing Tutor Coordinator, Writing Center, Community College of Denver | |
| Jessica Sherrill | Memory Machines: Mnemonics, Poetry, And Computing in Nineteenth-Century Britain | Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Texas at Austin | |
| Sammy Solis | Contested Bodies: Fictions of Brownness and Latinidad | Assistant Director for Teaching Development, UCLA Teaching and Learning Center | |
| Lesley Thulin | Disability and Political Economy in Romantic Literature, 1762-1834 | Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of English, George Washington University |
2024 Placements
| Name | Dissertation Title | First Position | Current Position |
| Salvador Herrera | Desert Dreams: TransBorder Art at the Limits of Identity | Assistant Professor of Latinx Studies and Cultural Production, Department of English, University of Oregon | |
| Oriah Amit | Precautionary Tales: Political Consequence in British Fiction, 1867-1903 | Program Advisor, Thematic Option Honors Program, University of Southern California | Senior College Admissions Consultant, Spark Admissions |
| Spencer Robins | Our Planet: Collective Narrative in the Climate Change Era | Assistant Professor, Department of English, Saddleback College | |
| Arielle Stambler | The Social Rights Imaginary of the Contemporary Postcolonial Novel | Assistant Professor, English and Africana Studies, Mercer University | |
| Jesslyn Whittell | The Riot and the Didactic: Radical Instruction in British Romantic Poetry | Visiting Assistant Professor, Poetry and Creative Writing, Scripps College |
2023 Placements
| Name | Dissertation Title | First Position | Current Position |
| Andrea Acosta | Virtual Bodies: On Minoritarian Performance and Digital Subcultures | Assistant Professor of Digital Media, Department of Media Studies, Pitzer College | |
| Kate Bonnici | Becoming Dead in Early Modern English Literature: A Lucretian Poetics | Assistant Professor, Pepperdine University | |
| Kersti Francis | Queer Magic: Sodomy, Sin, and the Supernatural 1150-165 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Society of Fellows, Boston University College of Arts and Sciences | |
| Misho Ishikawa | Into Sensation: Sensing Mongol Imperialism in Medieval Contact Literatures (1206–1368) | Assistant Professor of the Global Middle Ages, New York University | |
| Yangjung Lee | A Guilty Emancipation: Victorian Fiction and the Legacies of Compensation | Assistant Professor, Department of English, Seattle University | |
| Robert Mendoza | The Work Of Movement Literatures: Images of Labor in 1960s and 1970s African American and Latinx Writing | Assistant Professor of English, Multi-Ethnic U.S. & African American Literatures, California Lutheran University | |
| Shouhei Tanaka | Power: Energy Empire and Insurgent Life | Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Southern California | Professor of English, East Los Angeles College |
2022 Placements
| Name | Dissertation Title | First Position | Current Position |
| Ellen Truxaw Bistline | The Realism of Seeing the Text in Nineteenth-Century Fiction | Assistant Professor, Orange Coast College | |
| Vivian Delchamps | The Names of Sickness: Writing Disability and Revising Diagnosis in Nineteenth-Century America | Assistant Professor, Dominican University | |
| Lauren Dembowitz | Retracing the Black Venus: Figures of Intimate Commerce in the Atlantic World | Lecturer, Department of English, University of Colorado Boulder | |
| Timothy Fosbury | Persistent Futures of Bermudas Past: Genres of Geography and Race in Early America | Senior Fellowships Officer, UCLA | |
| Lillian Lu | Naïveté and the British Novel (1770 – 1830) | English Faculty, Viewpoint School | Assistant Professor of English and Cultural Studies at UCSD |
| Hannah Nahm | Alien Love: Passing, Race, and the Ethics of the Neighbor in Postwar African American Novels, 1945 -1956 | Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Mississippi | Assistant Professor, Department of English, Humanities, Palomar College |
| Taly Ravid | Time Out of Joint: Counterfactuals, Alternate Histories, and Traumati | Lecturer (Teaching Track), University of Southern California | |
| Kiel Shaub | Rethinking the Arts and Sciences: Institutional Movement and the Formation of Romantic Discourse | Academic Curator, EXL Lab (Experiential & Applied Learning), University of Southern California | |
| Claire Stanford | Future Asians: Orientalism and Posthumanism in Twenty-First Century U.S. Science Fiction | Assistant Professor, University of Nevada, Reno | |
| Gabriela Valenzuela | Reading Centroamericanismo: U.S. Central American Literatures in the Long Nineteenth Century, 1870-1921 | Assistant Professor, Chicanx and Latinx Studies, California State University, Los Angeles |
2021 Placements
| Name | Dissertation Title | First Position | Current Position |
| Comfort Azubuko-Udah | Unwritten Spaces: African Literature and Charismatic Spatiality | Assistant Professor of English and Africana Studies, University of Toronto | Research Associate and Lecturer, Dartmouth, African and African American Studies; English |
| Jacqueline Barrios | London’s Pacific Rim: East Asian Emplacements of the British Capital | Assistant Professor, University of Arizona, Dept. of Public and Applied Humanities | |
| Mark Gallagher | Affective Transcendentalism: Sense and Spirit in Emerson, Peabody, Thoreau, and Melville | Visiting Assistant Professor, Texas Woman’s University | |
| Lauren Rebecca King | Reaching Readers: An Analysis of Identification in the Writings of Christine de Pizan and Geoffrey Chaucer | Full-time Lecturer, UC Irvine Composition Program | |
| Efren Lopez | Arrested Solidarities: Resistance and Racial Contact Zones in the U.S. 19th Century | Assistant Professor of English, San Diego State University, Imperial Valley | |
| Craig Messner | Speech as Writing: Literary Dialect Orthography in the United States from 1790-1930 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Digital Humanities, Johns Hopkins University | |
| Jeremy Schmidt | Three Very Short Poems: The Verbal Economics of Twentieth-Century American Poetry | Assistant Instructional Professor in the Humanities, University of Chicago |
2020 Placements
| Name | Dissertation Title | First Position | Current Position |
| Ji Eun Lee | Unwritten Spaces: African Literature and Charismatic Spatiality | Assistant Professor of English and Africana Studies, University of Toronto | Research Associate and Lecturer, Dartmouth, African and African American Studies; English |
| Kirsten Lew | Deviant Representations: Discourses of Sexuality and Facilitations of Intersectionality in American Film and | Fellow, Getty Research Institute | Literary and Film Historian, Content Producer, Getty Research Institute |
| Samantha Morse | Dread: The Literary History of a Political Affect, 1750-1900 | English Teacher, Ransom Everglades School | |
| Robert Smith | Representing Radical Politics in Anglophone Caribbean Literature After Independence | Assistant Professor, CSU San Bernardino, English |