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Department of English
Graduate Database
Graduate Database
2022
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Emily Simon
Current Position Editorial, Design and Production Assistant at the MIT PressPrevious Positions Editorial Intern at Columbia University PressDissertation Essentially Shimmering: Contemporary Poetics at the Edges of Materialism
2021
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Michael Gastiger
Dissertation Paper Urbanism: American Literature and the Design of Cities -
Claire Grandy
Current Position Assistant Professor of English at Baruch CollegePrevious Position Visiting Assistant Professor, Pembroke Center, Brown UniversityDissertation Photo-Poetics: Documentary Forms from William Wordsworth to Robin Coste Lewis -
Christopher Lee
Current Position President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of English: Literature and Languages, University of California, MercedPrevious Position Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Brown UniversityDissertation Unspectacular Violence: Narrating Trans/Queer Death in Contemporary American Culture -
Jennie Snow
Current Position Fitchburg State University, English Studies, Assistant Professor (2022-present)Previous Positions Rutgers University, Writing Program, Teaching Instructor (2019-2022) Literacy Source (Seattle, WA), ABE Instructional Lead (2018-2019) Seattle Central College, English, Literature and Writing Studies, Instructor (2017-2019)Dissertation Estranging Citizenship: U.S. Prison Camps Since World War II, Forms of Memory and Address -
Christopher Yates
Current Position Lecturer in English, Providence CollegePrevious Position Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Brown UniversityDissertation Early Modern Collectors and Hoarders: Idolatry, Matter, and Inheritance in English Poetry and Drama, from Spenser to Milton
2020
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John Casey
Dissertation Early Modern Rhetorics of Color -
Nicole Fung
Current Position Technical Writing Specialist, FEMADissertation Stereo Types: Sounding Race in Twentieth-Century America -
Cole Morgan
Current Position Assistant Professor of English at UC IrvineDissertation The World Before Us: Blackness, Narration, and Photography -
Anna Thomas
Current Position Assistant Professor of English at the University of TorontoDissertation Forms of Rearrangement: Habit, Injury, and Mourning in African American and Caribbean Literature
2019
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Ian Sampson
Current Position Writer and PoetDissertation Tuneless Numbers: New Media, Poetry, and the Oulipo -
Jerrine Tan
Current Position Assistant Professor of English, City University Hong KongPrevious Position Visiting Lecturer in Global Anglophone Literature, Department of English (Mount Holyoke College)Dissertation Bad Style: Feminism and the Ethics of Reading in 20th and 21st century Global Anglophone Literature -
Jennifer Wang
Current Position Assistant Professor, English & American Literatures, Middlebury CollegeDissertation Race After Identity: Forms of Racial Configuration in Contemporary North American Literature
2018
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David Hollingshead
Current Position Assistant Professor of English at MacEwan UniversityPrevious Position Instructor, Emerson CollegeDissertation The Biomatters of American Modernity -
Sara L. Pfaff
Current Position Visiting Assistant Professor, Kenyon CollegeDissertation Pluralism and the Body Politics of Neoliberalism -
Swetha Regunathan
Current Position Senior Producer - Blink productionPrevious Position Producer (Tribeca Film Festival), Production Co-Ordinator (Mandalay Pictures), Research Assistant (RadicalMediaLLC), Acquisitions Intern (Gunpowder & Sky)Dissertation ‘A machine which winds its own springs’: Fictions of Self-invention in the Eighteenth Century
2017
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Matthew Beach
Current Position Visiting Assistant Professor at Providence CollegePrevious Position Software Quality Assurance Specialist (Life Image), Instructor (EC English Language Centers), Special Lecturer in English (Providence College)Dissertation Out of Time: Sentimentalism and Temporality in Long Nineteenth-Century American Literature -
Katie Fitzpatrick
Current Position Lecturer, School of Journalism, Writing and Media, University of British ColumbiaPrevious Position Humanities Editor, Los Angeles Review of BooksDissertation Between Law and Justice: Legal Authority, Liberal Democracy, and Postwar Fiction -
Peter Kim
Current Position: Co-Founder and Head of Curriculum and Learning at Scholars CollectiveDissertation Reading Character in George Eliot and William Thackeray -
Joel Simundich
Current Position Assistant Director of Fellowships and Post-Graduate Opportunities, Brown UniversityPrevious Position Visiting Assistant Professor (Wheaton College), Visiting Assistant Professor (Emerson College), Lecturer (College of the Holy Cross), Lecturer (Springfield College)Dissertation Unformed Feelings: Reading Affects in the Mid-Victorian Novel -
Jessica Tabak
Current Position Assistant Director for the Writing Center, Sheridan Center, Brown UniversityPrevious Position Writer for University Initiatives and Student Life, Office of University Communications, Brown UniversityDissertation Pained Measures: Forms of Suffering in Spenser, Shakespeare, and Donne -
Stephanie E. Tilden
Current Position Goldstein Borgen Dardarian & Ho’s 2021-2022 Social Justice FellowPrevious Position Student, Berkeley LawDissertation Paper Boats: The American Sea Travel Narrative and Archives of Knowledge, 1815-1850 -
Rebecca van Laer
Current Position Writer, How to Adjust to the Dark; Head of Email & Instructional Design, CopycatDissertation Autobiography's Queer Forms: Modernist Self-Writing from Auden to H.D.
2016
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Andrea C. Actis
Current Position English Instructor, Capilano UniversityPrevious Position The Capilano Review, Sessional Instructor at Emily Carr University of Art and DesignDissertation Our Kind of Serious: The Reintegration of Judgement in Contemporary American Culture -
Nathaniel Conroy
Current Position Senior Software Engineer, Comscore Inc.Previous Position C++ Developer, AI. ReverieDissertation American Literature and the Religion of the Disinherited: Antisecularism and Modern Fiction -
Sachelle M. Ford
Current Position Director of Duke LIFE and the Rubenstein Scholars Program.Dissertation Intimate Crossings: Literature and the Politics of Black Diasporic Affection -
John Murillo III
Current Position Assistant Professor of African American Studies, UC IrvinePrevious Position Instructor (Top Education Institute)Dissertation Quantum Blackanics: Untimely Blackness, and Black Literature Out of Nowhere -
Sarah Osment
Current Position Writing Specialist at the University of ChicagoPrevious Positions Visiting Assistant Professor, New College of Florida. Visiting Lecturer, Amherst College. Visiting Assistant Professor, Rhode Island School of Design.Dissertation Indexical Modernism: Autonomy, Commitment, Aesthetics -
Steven Swarbrick
Current Position Assistant Professor ofEnglish, Baruch CollegePrevious Position Postdoctoral Fellow (Tulane University)Dissertation The Inhuman Renaissance: Naturalist Poetics and Forms of Life
2015
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Angela S. Allan
Current Position Associate Director of Studies, History & Literature at Harvard UniversityPrevious Position Lecturer, Harvard Hist & LitDissertation Postmodern Realism and the Neoliberal Imagination -
James Beaver
Current Position Visiting Faculty, Providence CollegeDissertation Material Encounters of the English Renaissance -
Jeffrey Covington
Current Position Assistant Professor of English, Baldwin Wallace UniversityDissertation Security Breach: British Modernism and the Violence of Secrets -
Sean M. Keck
Current Position Assistant Professor, Radford UniversityPrevious Position Adjunct (Bryant, Providence College), Visiting Assistant Professor at St. Lawrence UniversityDissertation Dictators: Ethnic American Narrative and the Strongman Genre -
David Liao
Current Position Dean Of Students at Rhode Island International AcademyPrevious Position Interim Director of Programs and Operations (Rhode Island International Academy), Adjunct Professor (Bryant University)Dissertation Dictators: Ethnic American Narrative and the Strongman Genre -
John Mulligan
Current Position Rice University Center for Research Computing, Digital Scholarship Postdoctoral Fellow; Humanities Research Center, LecturerPrevious Position Instructor, URI & Rice UniversityDissertation Romantic Experiment: The Second Scientific Revolution and 19th-century English Literature -
Andrew James Naughton
Current Position Attorney at IRS, Office of Chief CounselPrevious Position Judicial Extern (US District Court, Eastern District of Virginia), Summer Associate (Pierce Atwood), Adjunct Professor (Bryant University)Dissertation Writing Allegiance from Marvell to Pope
2014
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Derek Ettensohn
Current Position Associate Professor of English and Humanities, Sewanee UniversityPrevious Position Assistant Professor Bryant UniversityDissertation Globalism, Humanitarianism, and the Body in Postcolonial Literature -
Katherine Miller Weber
Current Position Head of Partnerships at ApoliticalPrevious Position Senior Partnership Manager, Education Portfolio Lead at FutureLearnDissertation Temporal Thinking in Modern Lyric -
Jeffrey P. Nielson
Current Position English Teacher at Hayward Twin Oaks Montessori SchoolPrevious Position Instructor, Menlo College - English and History Teacher, St Mary's College HighschoolDissertation Making a Living Poetry: The Process of Poetic Vocation in Postwar America -
Jennifer D. Schnepf
Current Position Lecturer in American Studies in the History and Literature Concentration at HarvardPrevious Position Connecticut College. Visiting Instructor of EnglishDissertation Strange Intimacies: The Limits of Community in the Twentieth-Century Novel
2013
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Adriane Genette
Current Position Claim Representative at Travelers InsurancePrevious Position Boettcher Teacher Residency, English Professor at DSST Public SchoolsDissertation Social Spaces and Literary Spaces in Post-Apartheid South African Fiction -
Khristina Gonzalez
Current Position Associate Dean of the College Princeton UniversityPrevious Position Associate Director (Princeton's Writing Center)Dissertation Malevolent Civility: The Victorian Novel and the Logic of Reform -
Austin Gorman
Current Position Writing, Strategy and Thought Leadership ConsultantPrevious Positions Instructor (Bryant University), Visiting Assistant Professor (Hope College), Director of the Writing Center & Special Lecturer (Clemson University) Writer & Research Consultant (Self Employed), Content Manager at Beck DigitalDissertation The Postwar American Novel and Mr. Keynes: Literature in the Age of Stabilizing Economic Disequilibrium
2012
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Christine Baumgarthuber
Current Position Senior Learning Designer, Brown Sheridan CenterPrevious Position Runner, The Austerity KitchenDissertation Writing the Poverty Line: Dickens, Gissing, Orwell and the Social Scientists -
Daniel Block
Current Position Teacher, Upper School English at King School, ConnecticutPrevious Position Visiting Assistant Professor of British Literature (Hampshire College)Dissertation "The Feel of Not to Feel It”: British Romanticism, Melancholic Historiography, and the Degree Zero of Emotion -
Christopher Holmes
Current Position Associate Professor, Literatures in English, Ithaca CollegePrevious Position Telluride Association Summer Program (TASP), Cornell UniversitDissertation Translation, the Hoax, and the Postcolonial Novel in a Global Age. -
Deborah Katz
Current Position English Professor, Georgetown Day SchoolDissertation Bodies Unbound: Race, Gender, and Embodied Identity Politics in Recent Ethnic American Fiction -
Wendy Lee
Current Position Associate Director of the Pembroke Center, Director of the Undergraduate Program in Gender and Sexuality StudiesPrevious Position Assistant Professor of English, Skidmore CollegeDissertation Miscegenated Genres: Interracial Form and the Politics of National Futurity in 1990s Asian American and African American Fiction -
Laurel Rayburn
Current Position General Manager at GradeSaver & BookRagsPrevious Position Adjunct Faculty (Freedom Education Project Puget Sound), Adjunct Professor of English (Harvard University Extension School)Dissertation 'Unhackneyed Solitudes': Recycled Fragment as Lyric Voice in the Poetry of Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, and Sylvia Plath -
Hannah Sikorski
Dissertation "A Critical Romance: Literary Modernism Rewriting Literary History"