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.