English PhD Alumni Network & Placement Information

Harvard’s Department of English has a strong record of job placement.  Two faculty Placement Officers work closely with students to help them prepare for each stage of the academic hiring process.  In recent years, Harvard PhD’s have accepted tenure track positions, visiting positions, and postdoctoral fellowships at major colleges and universities in the United States, Britain, and elsewhere, including Ashoka University, Bar-Ilan University, Indiana University, Ithaca College, Nanjing University, University of Chicago, UCLA, University of Groningen, University of Minnesota, University of Southern Mississippi, University of North Carolina, and the University of Warwick, as well as the Chicago, Dartmouth, Harvard, and Princeton Societies of Fellows, and short-term positions at Berkeley, Harvard’s Expository Writing and History and Literature programs, and elsewhere.  We also help prepare students for work in related fields, including educational planning and management, high school teaching, and library science.

Recent Job Placement

2018-19
Ashoka University
Indiana University - Bloomington
University of California - Berkeley, Post-Doctoral Fellowship
Harvard University Center for the Environment, Post-Doctoral Fellowship
Stanford University, Lecturer
Dartmouth College Society of Fellows
Harvard University, Lecturer in English
Harvard College Fellow
Harvard College Writing Program, Preceptor
 
2017-18
University of California Los Angeles
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Princeton University, Writing Faculty
Rockhurst University
Ithaca College
University of Southern Mississippi
 
2016-17
Centenary University
University of Warwick
Harvard Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, Associate Researcher
US Naval Postgraduate School, Writing Tutor
 
2015-16
Harvard Society of Fellows
Hollins University
Huntington Library Postdoc
New Jersey Institute of Technology Reed College
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
 
2014-15
Harper-Schmidt Postdoc, University of Chicago Harvard Society of Fellows
Iolani School
Maimonidis School
University of Houston
Visiting Assistant Professor, West Point West Point
 
2013-14
Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellowship Dumbarton Oaks Fellowship
Harvard (Preceptor in Expository Writing) Harvard (Preceptor in Expository Writing) Harvard (Preceptor in Expository Writing)
Harvard College Fellow
Harvard Society of Fellows
Humbolt Research Fellowship, University of Rochester
Ohio State University
University of Sydney
 
2012-13
University of Minnesota
Magdalene College, Cambridge UK (Post-Doc) Deerfield Academy
New York University
Macalester University
Washington University in St Louis
ACLS New Faculty Fellowship, University of Virginia
Colgate University
Lincoln College Fellow. Oxford
University of Chicago
Harvard (Lecturer in History and Literature)
 
2011-12
Louisiana State University
Temple University
U Indiana - Bloomington
Harvard College Fellow, English
Victoria University, NZ & Mount Holyoke Coll. Princeton Society of Fellows
U North Texas Stanford Post-Doc
 
2010-11
Boston College
Providence College Dickinson College Harvard Society of Fellows Reed College
Harvard (Preceptor in Expository Writing) Rutgers Post-Doc
Ludwig Maximilian University Post-Doc Harvard English Department Lectureship Harvard English Department Lectureship
 
2009-10
Boston College
University of Toronto Florida Atlantic University Johns Hopkins
Amherst College
Dartmouth
Linfield College
The Rivers School
Humanities Center Postdoctoral Fellowship
 
2008-09
Providence College
Grinnell College
Lilly Fellows Postdoctoral Fellowship University of British Columbia Queens College- CUNY
Harvard College Fellow

Current Alumni Positions

 

Name Year of PhD Place of Work Title
David Nee
2021
Harvard University
Preceptor in Expository Writing
Eliza Holmes
2020
Harvard University
Preceptor in Expository Writing
Stella Wang
2020
College of the Holy Cross
Visiting Assistant Professor
Julia Tejblum
2020
Harvard University
Preceptor, Harvard College Writing Program
Aparna Chaudhuri
2019
Ashoka University
Assistant Professor
Dena Fehrenbacher
2019
University of California, Berkeley
Post Doctoral Fellowship
Marissa Grunes
2019
Harvard University
Post Doctoral Fellowship
Miles Osgood
2019
Stanford University
Lecturer
Elizabeth Phillips
2019
Bates College
Visiting Assistant Professor of Theater
Nicholas Rinehart
2019
Dartmouth College
Society of Fellows
Christopher Spaide
2019
Harvard University
Lecturer
Helen Cushman
2018
Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Assistant Professor
Adrienne Raphel
2018
Princeton University
Writing Seminar Faculty
Erica Weaver
2018
University of California Los Angeles
Assistant Professor
Jacob Stulberg
2018
US Naval Postgraduate School
Writing Tutor
Rebecca Kastleman
2017
College of the Holy Cross
Visiting Assistant Professor
Matthew Franks
2017
The University of Warwick
Lecturer
Alison Chapman
2017
Harvard University
Preceptor in Expository Writing
Stephen Tardif
2017
University of Toronto
Assistant Professor
Taylor Cowdery
2016
Univ. of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Assistant Professor
Michelle DeGroot
2016
Hollins University
Assistant Professor
Carra Glatt
2016
Bar-Ilan University
Lecturer
Calista McRae
2016
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Assistant Professor
Misha Teramura
2016
University of Toronto
Assistant Professor
Kathryn Roberts
2016
University of Groningen
Assistant Professor
Joseph McMullen
2015
Indiana University, Bloomington
Assistant Professor
David Weimer
2015
Harvard Map Collection, Pusey Library
Libarian for Cartographic Collections and Learning
Alexis Becker
2015
Ithaca College
Assistant Professor
Laura Forsberg
2015
Rockhurst University
Assistant Professor
Seth Herbst
2015
West Point Academy
Assistant Professor
Rhema Hokama
2015
Singapore University of Technology and Design
Assistant Professor
John Radway
2015
Waynflete School
Teacher
Daniel Williams
2015
Columbia University
Lecturer
Margaret Rennix
2015
Harvard Expository Writing Program
Preceptor
Maggie Doherty
2015
Harvard Expository Writing Program
Lecturer; Preceptor
Heather Brink-Roby
2015
Stanford University
Lecturer
Cassandra Nelson
2014
University of Virginia
Bradley Fellow, Inst. for Advancing Studies in Culture
Laura Wang
2014
Iolani School
Teacher
Jacob Risinger
2014
Ohio State University
Assistant Professor
Len Neidorf
2014
Nanjing University, China
Assistant Professor
Joanna Grossman
2014
Animal Welfare Institute
Federal Policy Advisor
Lauren Brozovich
2013
Univ. of Houston
Assistant Professor
Matthew Sussman
2013
University of Sydney
Lecturer
Lesley Goodman
2013
Albright College
Assistant Professor
Sara Gorman
2013
The Jed Foundation (JED)
Director, High School Programming
Richard Johnston
2013
United States Air Force Academy
Assistant Professor
Christine Barrett
2012
Louisiana State U.
Assistant Professor
Odile Harter
2012
Harvard College Library
Research Librarian
Steven Rozenski
2012
Univ. of Rochester
Assistant Professor
Nikki Skillman
2012
Indiana Univ. Bloomington
Assistant Professor
Adena Spingarn
2012
Stanford University
Lecturer
Rikita Tyson
2012
Commonwealth School, Boston
English Teacher
Elaine Auyoung
2011
Univ. of Minnesota
Assistant Professor
Margaret Healy-Varley
2011
Providence College
Associate Professor
Stephen Hequembourg
2011
Univ. of Virginia
Lecturer
Jason Manoharan
2011
The College Board
Vice President, AP Strategy and Program Management
Suparna Roychoudhury
2011
Mount Holyoke
Associate Professor
Yulia Ryzhik
2011
U. of Toronto - Scarborough
Assistant Professor
Jacob Sider Jost
2011
Dickinson College
Assistant Professor
Sarah Wagner-McCoy
2011
Reed College
Asst. Prof. of English and Humanities
Brett Gamboa
2010
Brown Univ.
Visiting Assistant Professor
John Golden
2010
Florida Atlantic Univ.
Assistant Professor
Amelia Klein
2010
Colgate Univ.
Assistant Professor
Maia McAleavey
2010
Boston College
Assistant Professor
Ingrid Nelson
2010
Amherst College
Assistant Professor
Julie Orlemanski
2010
University of Chicago
Assistant Professor
Daniel Pollack-Pelzner
2010
Linfield College
Ronnie Lacroute Chair in Shakespeare Studies
Lawrence Switzky
2010
U. of Toronto - Mississauga
Associate Professor
Eric Bennett
2009
Providence College
Associate Professor
Kevin Birmingham
2009
Harvard Univ.
Lecturer
Timothy Michael
2009
Lincoln College, Oxford
Tutorial Fellow in English Literature
Yi-Ping Ong
2009
Johns Hopkins Univ.
Assistant Professor
Jason Crawford
2008
Union University
Assistant Professor
Jared Hickman
2008
Johns Hopkins Univ.
Associate Professor
Joshua King
2008
Baylor Univ.
Associate Professor
Julia Lee
2008
Loyola Marymount University
Assistant Professor
Susan Miller
2008
Greenwood After School
Educator
Gillian Paku
2008
SUNY Geneseo
Associate Professor
Srikanth Reddy
2008
Univ. of Chicago
Associate Professor
Peter Saval
2008
Brown Univ.
Asst. Prof. of Comparative Literature
Namwali Serpell
2008
Univ. of Califoria, Berkeley
Associate Professor
Daniel Shore
2008
Georgetown Univ.
Associate Professor
Hannah Sullivan
2008
New College, Oxford
Associate Professor, Tutorial Fellow
 

A Sampling of Books from Dissertation

  • Elaine Auyoung, When Fiction Feels Real: Representation and the Reading Mind (Oxford, 2018) 

  • Chris Barrett, Early Modern English Literature and the Poetics of Cartographic Anxiety (forthcoming from Oxford UP; March 22, 2018) 

  • Lawrence Switzky, The Rise of the Theatre Director: Negotiations with the Material World, 1880-1956, (Northwestern UP, 2018) 

  • Suparna Roychoudhury, Phantasmatic Shakespeare: Imagination in the Age of Early Modern Science (Cornell UP, 2018) 

  • Yi-Ping Ong, Art of Being: The Poetics of the Novel and Existentialist Philosophy, forthcoming 2018, Harvard University Press 

  • Ingrid Nelson, Lyric Tactics: Poetry, Genre, and Practice in Later Medieval England, UPenn, 2017 

  • Nikki Skillman, The Lyric in the Age of the Brain, 2016, Harvard University Press 

  • Melissa Jenkins, Fatherhood, Authority, and British Reading Culture. Routledge Paperback, 2016 

  • Catherine Toal, The Entrapments of Form: Cruelty and Modern Literature (Fordham University Press, 2016) 

  • Maia McAleavey, The Bigamy Plot: Sensation and Convention in the Victorian Novel, Cambridge University Press, 2015 

  • Jacob Sider Jost, Prose Immortality, 1711-1819 (UVA, 2015) 

  • Eric Bennett, Workshops of Empire: Stegner, Engell, and American Creative Writing during the Cold War, 2015, University of Iowa Press 

  • Allen MacDuffie, Victorian Literature, Energy, and the Ecological Imagination (Cambridge: 2014) 

  • Sarah Wall-Randell, The Immaterial Book: Reading and Romance in Early Modern England (University of Michigan Press, 2013) 

  • Srikanth Reddy, Changing Subjects: Digressions in Modern American Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2012) 

  • Seo-Young Chu, Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep? (Harvard UP, 2011) 

  • Catherine Keyser, Playing Smart: New York Women Writers and Modern Magazine Culture (Rutgers 2010) 

  • Eric Eisner, Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Literary Celebrity (Palgrave, 2009) 

  • Leonard Cassuto, The Inhuman Race (Columbia UP, 1997) 

  • Matthew Rubery, The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News (Oxford UP, 2009) 

  • Scott Newstok, Quoting Death in Early Moderm England — Palgrave, 2009 

  • Ayanna Thompson, Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern Stage (Routledge 2008) 

  • Jim von der Heydt, "At the Brink of Infinity: Poetic Humility in Boundless American Space" (U. Iowa Press 2008) 

  • Susan Phillips, Transforming Talk: The Problem with Gossip in Late Medieval England (Penn State UP, 2007) 

  • Noah Heringman, Romantic Rocks, Aesthetic Geology (Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2004) 

  • Aviva Briefel, The Deceivers: Art Forgery and Narrative in the Nineteenth Century (Cornell UP, 2006) 

  • Patrick O’Malley, Catholicism, Sexual Deviance, and Victorian Gothic Culture; Cambridge University Press, 2006 

  • Rebecca Walkowitz, Cosmopolitan Style: Modernism beyond the Nation, Columbia UP, 2006. 

  • Scott Hess, Authoring the Self: Self-Representation, Authorship, and the Print Market in British Poetry from Pope through Wordsworth (Routledge, 2005) 

  • Maria DeGuzman, Spain's Long Shadow: The Black Legend, Off-Whiteness, and Anglo-American Empire, 2005 by the University of Minnesota Press 

  • Harrison DeSales, The End of the Mind: Poetry and the Edge of the Intelligible in Hardy, Stevens, Larkin, Plath, and Glück, Routledge, 2005 

  • Gabrielle Starr, Lyric Generations: Poetry and the Novel in the Long Eighteenth Century, Hopkins, 2004 

  • Michael Soto, The Modernist Nation: Generation, Renaissance, and Twentieth-Century American Literature (U of Alabama P, 2004) 

  • Douglas Trevor, The Poetics of Melancholy in Early Modern England, 2004, Cambridge University Press 

  • James Dawes, The Language of War: Literature and Culture in the United States from the Civil War through World War II (Harvard University Press, 2002). 

  • Bryan Reynolds, Becoming Criminal: Transversal Performance and Cultural Dissidence in Early Modern England (Johns Hopkins UP, 2002) 

  • Nicholas Dames, Amnesiac Selves: Nostalgia, Forgetting, and British Fiction 1810-1870 (Oxford UP, 2001) 

  • Scott Gordon, The Power of the Passive Self in English Literature, 1640-1770 (Cambridge UP, 2001) 

  • Jeffrey Cohen, Of Giants: Sex, Monsters and the Middle Ages (University of Minnesota Press, 1999) 

  • Suzanne Keen, Victorian Renovations of the Novel: Narrative Annexes and the Boundaries of Representation (Cambridge UP, 1998) 

  • Chris Cannon, The Making of Chaucer's English: A Study of Words (Cambridge University Press, 1998) 

  • Deirde d’Albertis Dissembling Fictions: Elizabeth Gaskell and the Victorian Social Text (NY: St. Martin's Press, 1997). 

  • Anita Patterson, From Emerson to King: Democracy, Race, and the Politics of Protest (Oxford University Press, 1997) 

  • Curtis Perry, The Making of Jacobean Culture: James I and the Renegotiation of Elizabethan Literary Practice (Cambridge University Press, 1997) 

  • Judson Watson, Forensic Fictions: The Lawyer Figure in Faulkner (1993, U of Georgia P) 

  • Carolyn Dever, Death and the Mother From Dickens To Freud: Victorian Fiction and the Anxiety of Origins, 1993, Cambridge.