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.
English PhD Alumni Network & Placement Information
Recent Job Placement
Ashoka University
Harvard College Fellow
University of California Los Angeles
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Princeton University, Writing Faculty
Rockhurst University
Ithaca College
University of Southern Mississippi
Centenary University
University of Warwick
Harvard Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, Associate Researcher
US Naval Postgraduate School, Writing Tutor
Harvard Society of Fellows
Hollins University
Huntington Library Postdoc
New Jersey Institute of Technology Reed College
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Harper-Schmidt Postdoc, University of Chicago Harvard Society of Fellows
Iolani School
Maimonidis School
University of Houston
Visiting Assistant Professor, West Point West Point
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
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)
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
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
Boston College
University of Toronto Florida Atlantic University Johns Hopkins
Amherst College
Dartmouth
Linfield College
The Rivers School
Humanities Center Postdoctoral Fellowship
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 |
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David Nee
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2021
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Harvard University
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Preceptor in Expository Writing
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Eliza Holmes
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2020
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Harvard University
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Preceptor in Expository Writing
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Stella Wang
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2020
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College of the Holy Cross
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Visiting Assistant Professor
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Julia Tejblum
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2020
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Harvard University
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Preceptor, Harvard College Writing Program
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Aparna Chaudhuri
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2019
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Ashoka University
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Assistant Professor
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Dena Fehrenbacher
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2019
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University of California, Berkeley
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Post Doctoral Fellowship
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Marissa Grunes
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2019
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Harvard University
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Post Doctoral Fellowship
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Miles Osgood
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2019
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Stanford University
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Lecturer
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Elizabeth Phillips
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2019
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Bates College
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Visiting Assistant Professor of Theater
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Nicholas Rinehart
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2019
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Dartmouth College
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Society of Fellows
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Christopher Spaide
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2019
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Harvard University
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Lecturer
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Helen Cushman
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2018
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Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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Assistant Professor
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Adrienne Raphel
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2018
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Princeton University
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Writing Seminar Faculty
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Erica Weaver
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2018
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University of California Los Angeles
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Assistant Professor
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Jacob Stulberg
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2018
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US Naval Postgraduate School
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Writing Tutor
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Rebecca Kastleman
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2017
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College of the Holy Cross
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Visiting Assistant Professor
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Matthew Franks
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2017
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The University of Warwick
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Lecturer
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Alison Chapman
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2017
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Harvard University
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Preceptor in Expository Writing
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Stephen Tardif
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2017
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University of Toronto
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Assistant Professor
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Taylor Cowdery
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2016
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Univ. of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
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Assistant Professor
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Michelle DeGroot
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2016
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Hollins University
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Assistant Professor
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Carra Glatt
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2016
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Bar-Ilan University
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Lecturer
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Calista McRae
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2016
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New Jersey Institute of Technology
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Assistant Professor
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Misha Teramura
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2016
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University of Toronto
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Assistant Professor
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Kathryn Roberts
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2016
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University of Groningen
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Assistant Professor
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Joseph McMullen
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2015
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Indiana University, Bloomington
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Assistant Professor
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David Weimer
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2015
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Harvard Map Collection, Pusey Library
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Libarian for Cartographic Collections and Learning
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Alexis Becker
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2015
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Ithaca College
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Assistant Professor
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Laura Forsberg
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2015
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Rockhurst University
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Assistant Professor
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Seth Herbst
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2015
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West Point Academy
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Assistant Professor
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Rhema Hokama
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2015
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Singapore University of Technology and Design
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Assistant Professor
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John Radway
|
2015
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Waynflete School
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Teacher
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Daniel Williams
|
2015
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Columbia University
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Lecturer
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Margaret Rennix
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2015
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Harvard Expository Writing Program
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Preceptor
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Maggie Doherty
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2015
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Harvard Expository Writing Program
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Lecturer; Preceptor
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Heather Brink-Roby
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2015
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Stanford University
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Lecturer
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Cassandra Nelson
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2014
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University of Virginia
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Bradley Fellow, Inst. for Advancing Studies in Culture
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Laura Wang
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2014
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Iolani School
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Teacher
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Jacob Risinger
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2014
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Ohio State University
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Assistant Professor
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Len Neidorf
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2014
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Nanjing University, China
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Assistant Professor
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Joanna Grossman
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2014
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Animal Welfare Institute
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Federal Policy Advisor
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Lauren Brozovich
|
2013
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Univ. of Houston
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Assistant Professor
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Matthew Sussman
|
2013
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University of Sydney
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Lecturer
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Lesley Goodman
|
2013
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Albright College
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Assistant Professor
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Sara Gorman
|
2013
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The Jed Foundation (JED)
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Director, High School Programming
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Richard Johnston
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2013
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United States Air Force Academy
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Assistant Professor
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Christine Barrett
|
2012
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Louisiana State U.
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Assistant Professor
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Odile Harter
|
2012
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Harvard College Library
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Research Librarian
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Steven Rozenski
|
2012
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Univ. of Rochester
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Assistant Professor
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Nikki Skillman
|
2012
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Indiana Univ. Bloomington
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Assistant Professor
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Adena Spingarn
|
2012
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Stanford University
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Lecturer
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Rikita Tyson
|
2012
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Commonwealth School, Boston
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English Teacher
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Elaine Auyoung
|
2011
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Univ. of Minnesota
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Assistant Professor
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Margaret Healy-Varley
|
2011
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Providence College
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Associate Professor
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Stephen Hequembourg
|
2011
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Univ. of Virginia
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Lecturer
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Jason Manoharan
|
2011
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The College Board
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Vice President, AP Strategy and Program Management
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Suparna Roychoudhury
|
2011
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Mount Holyoke
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Associate Professor
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Yulia Ryzhik
|
2011
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U. of Toronto - Scarborough
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Assistant Professor
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Jacob Sider Jost
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2011
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Dickinson College
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Assistant Professor
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Sarah Wagner-McCoy
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2011
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Reed College
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Asst. Prof. of English and Humanities
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Brett Gamboa
|
2010
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Brown Univ.
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Visiting Assistant Professor
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John Golden
|
2010
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Florida Atlantic Univ.
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Assistant Professor
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Amelia Klein
|
2010
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Colgate Univ.
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Assistant Professor
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Maia McAleavey
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2010
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Boston College
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Assistant Professor
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Ingrid Nelson
|
2010
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Amherst College
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Assistant Professor
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Julie Orlemanski
|
2010
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University of Chicago
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Assistant Professor
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Daniel Pollack-Pelzner
|
2010
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Linfield College
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Ronnie Lacroute Chair in Shakespeare Studies
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Lawrence Switzky
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2010
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U. of Toronto - Mississauga
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Associate Professor
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Eric Bennett
|
2009
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Providence College
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Associate Professor
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Kevin Birmingham
|
2009
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Harvard Univ.
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Lecturer
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Timothy Michael
|
2009
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Lincoln College, Oxford
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Tutorial Fellow in English Literature
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Yi-Ping Ong
|
2009
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Johns Hopkins Univ.
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Assistant Professor
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Jason Crawford
|
2008
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Union University
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Assistant Professor
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Jared Hickman
|
2008
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Johns Hopkins Univ.
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Associate Professor
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Joshua King
|
2008
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Baylor Univ.
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Associate Professor
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Julia Lee
|
2008
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Loyola Marymount University
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Assistant Professor
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Susan Miller
|
2008
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Greenwood After School
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Educator
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Gillian Paku
|
2008
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SUNY Geneseo
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Associate Professor
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Srikanth Reddy
|
2008
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Univ. of Chicago
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Associate Professor
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Peter Saval
|
2008
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Brown Univ.
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Asst. Prof. of Comparative Literature
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Namwali Serpell
|
2008
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Univ. of Califoria, Berkeley
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Associate Professor
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Daniel Shore
|
2008
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Georgetown Univ.
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Associate Professor
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Hannah Sullivan
|
2008
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New College, Oxford
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Associate Professor, Tutorial Fellow
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A Sampling of Books from Dissertation
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Elaine Auyoung, When Fiction Feels Real: Representation and the Reading Mind (Oxford, 2018)
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Chris Barrett, Early Modern English Literature and the Poetics of Cartographic Anxiety (forthcoming from Oxford UP; March 22, 2018)
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Lawrence Switzky, The Rise of the Theatre Director: Negotiations with the Material World, 1880-1956, (Northwestern UP, 2018)
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Suparna Roychoudhury, Phantasmatic Shakespeare: Imagination in the Age of Early Modern Science (Cornell UP, 2018)
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Yi-Ping Ong, Art of Being: The Poetics of the Novel and Existentialist Philosophy, forthcoming 2018, Harvard University Press
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Ingrid Nelson, Lyric Tactics: Poetry, Genre, and Practice in Later Medieval England, UPenn, 2017
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Nikki Skillman, The Lyric in the Age of the Brain, 2016, Harvard University Press
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Melissa Jenkins, Fatherhood, Authority, and British Reading Culture. Routledge Paperback, 2016
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Catherine Toal, The Entrapments of Form: Cruelty and Modern Literature (Fordham University Press, 2016)
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Maia McAleavey, The Bigamy Plot: Sensation and Convention in the Victorian Novel, Cambridge University Press, 2015
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Jacob Sider Jost, Prose Immortality, 1711-1819 (UVA, 2015)
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Eric Bennett, Workshops of Empire: Stegner, Engell, and American Creative Writing during the Cold War, 2015, University of Iowa Press
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Allen MacDuffie, Victorian Literature, Energy, and the Ecological Imagination (Cambridge: 2014)
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Sarah Wall-Randell, The Immaterial Book: Reading and Romance in Early Modern England (University of Michigan Press, 2013)
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Srikanth Reddy, Changing Subjects: Digressions in Modern American Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2012)
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Seo-Young Chu, Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep? (Harvard UP, 2011)
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Catherine Keyser, Playing Smart: New York Women Writers and Modern Magazine Culture (Rutgers 2010)
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Eric Eisner, Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Literary Celebrity (Palgrave, 2009)
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Leonard Cassuto, The Inhuman Race (Columbia UP, 1997)
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Matthew Rubery, The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News (Oxford UP, 2009)
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Scott Newstok, Quoting Death in Early Moderm England — Palgrave, 2009
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Ayanna Thompson, Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern Stage (Routledge 2008)
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Jim von der Heydt, "At the Brink of Infinity: Poetic Humility in Boundless American Space" (U. Iowa Press 2008)
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Susan Phillips, Transforming Talk: The Problem with Gossip in Late Medieval England (Penn State UP, 2007)
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Noah Heringman, Romantic Rocks, Aesthetic Geology (Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2004)
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Aviva Briefel, The Deceivers: Art Forgery and Narrative in the Nineteenth Century (Cornell UP, 2006)
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Patrick O’Malley, Catholicism, Sexual Deviance, and Victorian Gothic Culture; Cambridge University Press, 2006
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Rebecca Walkowitz, Cosmopolitan Style: Modernism beyond the Nation, Columbia UP, 2006.
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Scott Hess, Authoring the Self: Self-Representation, Authorship, and the Print Market in British Poetry from Pope through Wordsworth (Routledge, 2005)
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Maria DeGuzman, Spain's Long Shadow: The Black Legend, Off-Whiteness, and Anglo-American Empire, 2005 by the University of Minnesota Press
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Harrison DeSales, The End of the Mind: Poetry and the Edge of the Intelligible in Hardy, Stevens, Larkin, Plath, and Glück, Routledge, 2005
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Gabrielle Starr, Lyric Generations: Poetry and the Novel in the Long Eighteenth Century, Hopkins, 2004
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Michael Soto, The Modernist Nation: Generation, Renaissance, and Twentieth-Century American Literature (U of Alabama P, 2004)
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Douglas Trevor, The Poetics of Melancholy in Early Modern England, 2004, Cambridge University Press
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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).
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Bryan Reynolds, Becoming Criminal: Transversal Performance and Cultural Dissidence in Early Modern England (Johns Hopkins UP, 2002)
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Nicholas Dames, Amnesiac Selves: Nostalgia, Forgetting, and British Fiction 1810-1870 (Oxford UP, 2001)
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Scott Gordon, The Power of the Passive Self in English Literature, 1640-1770 (Cambridge UP, 2001)
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Jeffrey Cohen, Of Giants: Sex, Monsters and the Middle Ages (University of Minnesota Press, 1999)
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Suzanne Keen, Victorian Renovations of the Novel: Narrative Annexes and the Boundaries of Representation (Cambridge UP, 1998)
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Chris Cannon, The Making of Chaucer's English: A Study of Words (Cambridge University Press, 1998)
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Deirde d’Albertis Dissembling Fictions: Elizabeth Gaskell and the Victorian Social Text (NY: St. Martin's Press, 1997).
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Anita Patterson, From Emerson to King: Democracy, Race, and the Politics of Protest (Oxford University Press, 1997)
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Curtis Perry, The Making of Jacobean Culture: James I and the Renegotiation of Elizabethan Literary Practice (Cambridge University Press, 1997)
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Judson Watson, Forensic Fictions: The Lawyer Figure in Faulkner (1993, U of Georgia P)
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Carolyn Dever, Death and the Mother From Dickens To Freud: Victorian Fiction and the Anxiety of Origins, 1993, Cambridge.