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Graduate Student Placement

Graduate Student Placement:
Current employment

Year of Degree

                                                                                                                                                     

Academic Field

2023

2 grads

Nancy Jiang
Teaching Fellow
University of Warwick
Confession, Penitential literature, lay piety, medieval mercantilism, and History of the Book
2022

6 grads

Jayme Collins
Environmental Postdoctoral Fellow
High Meadows Environmental Institute
Princeton University
Poetry & Poetics
Environmental humanities
 
Bradley Dubos
Assistant Professor
Ohio State University
Early/19th-century American poetry and culture
Indigenous studies
2021

6 grads

Katie Blankenau
Assistant Professor
Mount Marty University
Early Modern drama, hospitality, travel literature, and framing texts
 
Samantha Botz
Assistant Professor
University of Alaska - Fairbanks
18th/19th-c British literature
 
Maria Dikcis
College Fellow in Media
Harvard University
Poetry & Poetics
Critical race and ethnicity studies
2020

8 grads

Bonnie Etherington
Lecturer in Literary and Creative Communication (tenure track)
Victoria University of Wellington
New Zealand
Global/Transnational indigenous studies
Sara Černe
University of California - Irvine
Research Grants Manager
20th/21st-century American literature and culture
African American literature
Delali Kumavie
Assistant Professor
Syracuse University
African and African Diasporic literature
Sarah Wilson
Assistant Director of Engagement, Leadership & Society Initiative
University of Chicago
Medieval literature
2019

9 grads

Anne Boemler
Upper School English Teacher
St. Paul Academy and Summit School
16th-/17th-c literature
Corrine Collins
Assistant Professor
University of Southern California
African Diaspora
Elizabeth Rodriguez
Coordinator of Learning Innovations
Center for Teaching and Learning
Northeastern Illinois University
Digital pedagogy;
Early Modern literature;
Legal studies
Susanna Sacks
Assistant Professor of English
Howard University
African literature;
(Post)colonial literary politics
Simone Waller
Assistant Professor of English and Humanities
Reed University
Early modern prose;
16th-/17th-c drama
2018

7 grads

Kellen Bolt
Instructor
Elgin Community College
Early 19th-c American literature
Meaghan Fritz
Assistant Professor of Instruction
The Cook Family Writing Program
Northwestern University
19th-c American literature;
Women’s & gender studies
Ean High
Associate Director of the Academic Advising Center 
Duke University
Early American literature
Chad Infante
Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature
University of Maryland - College Park
African American literature;
Native American literature
Andrew Keener
Honors College Scholars Advisor
UNC - Charlotte
Renaissance literature;
Digital humanities
Todd Nordgren
Director of LGBTQ Services
Adjunct Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Dickinson College
British & Continental modernism;
Queer & feminist theories
2017

9 grads

Aaron Greenberg
Co-founder
bioGraph LLC
Renaissance literature;
Medical humanities;
Life-writing
Kara Johnson
Manager of Teacher & Student Programs
The Newberry Library
19th-cc American literature;
Theatre & dance studies
Sarah Roth
Upper School Director
Columbia Independent School
mid-19th-c British novels & periodicals;
Gender & sexuality
Elizabeth Sterzinger
Lecturer of English
City Colleges of Chicago - Harold Washington College
20th-c American literature;
American architectural history
Seth Swanner
Lecturer of English & LeaRN
University of Wyoming - Laramie
Renaissance literature
2016

7 grads

Ariel Bookman
Owner and founder
Beyond Test Prep
20th-/21st-c African literature;
Literature as a commodity

 

Rebecca Fall
Program Manager
Center for Renaissance Studies
The Newberry Library
Early Modern literature;
Gender & sexuality;
Public humanities

 

Tasha Hawthorne
Dean of Pierson College
Yale College
19th-/20th-c American literature;
African American literature
Hosanna Krienke
Lecturer of Honors College & LeaRN
University of Wyoming - Laramie
19th-c British literature;
History of medicine
Raashi Rastogi
Director of Research
Gartner Inc.
Early modern English drama and poetry
2015

4 grads

Shane Clauser
Partner
Paraforge
16th-/17th-c Anglo-Spanish literature
 
Maha Jafri
Assistant Professor of English
Sewanee: The University of the South
19th-c British literature
 
Nathan Leahy
International Tax Manager
Abbott Laboratories
19th-/20th-c American literature; Film; Economic history
 
Whitney Taylor
Senior Career Coach
Vanderbilt University 
Renaissance literature; poetry and poetics
2014

2 grads

Winter Werner
Associate Professor of English
Wheaton College, Massachusetts
19th-c British literature;
Religion & secularization
2013

6 grads

Jacquelyn Hendricks
Senior Lecturer
Santa Clara University
Medieval literature;
History of the book
Carolina Hotchandani
Assistant Professor of English
Goodrich Scholarship Program
University of Nebraska - Omaha
18th-c literature;
20th-c poetry
Elizabeth McCabe
Assistant Professor of Instruction 
Chicago Field Studies
Northwestern University
19th-c British literature;
Evolutionism & anthropology
Wanalee Romero
Clinical Associate Professor
University of Houston - Clear Lake
19th-/20th-c American literature;
Latina/o & Chicana/o literature; 
Ethnic feminisms
Michael Slater
Associate Professor of English
SUNY - Brockport
Early Modern literature;
Science & literature
2012

10 grads

Vanessa Corredera
Associate Professor of English
Andrews University
Early Modern drama;
Gender & race
Melissa Daniels-Rauterkus
Associate Professor of English
University of Southern California
American literature;
African American literature;
Critical race & ethnicity studies
Carissa Harris
Associate Professor of English
Temple University
Medieval literature
Greg Laski
Professor of English
U.S. Air Force Academy
19th-/20th-c American literature;
African American literature;
Critical race theory
Wendy Roberts
Associate Professor of English
SUNY - Albany
Early American literature & religion
2011

1 graduate

Joshua Smith
Associate Professor of English
University of Arkansas
Medieval literature;
Multilingualism & literary exchange
2010

4 grads

Christie Harner
Senior Lecturer in English
Dartmouth College
19th-c British literature;
19th-c colonial literature;
Science & literature
Heidi Kim
Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
20th-c American literature;
Asian American literature;
Other American ethnic literatures
Abram Van Engen
Professor of English, Religion, and Politics
Washington University - St. Louis
Early American literature;
Puritanism & literature
2009

6 grads

Sarah Blackwood
Associate Professor of English
Pace University
19th-c American literature & visual culture
Peter Jaros
Associate Professor of English
Franklin & Marshall College
Early/Antebellum American literature;
Transatlantic 18th-c literature
Jeffrey Knight
Associate Professor of English
University of Washington
Early modern literature;
History of the book
Janaka Lewis
Associate Professor of English
University of North Carolina - Charlotte
Late 19th-/20th-c American literature;
African American literature
Sarah Mesle
Associate Professor (Teaching)
University of Southern California
American literature;
African American literature
2008

5 grads

Katherine Chiles
Associate Professor of English
University of Tennessee - Knoxville
Early/Antebellum American literature;
African American literature;
Native American studies
Joanne Diaz
Professor of English
Illinois Wesleyan University
Early Modern poetry/drama;
20th-c poetry
Scott Proudfit
Associate Professor of English
Elon University
Early Modern/20th-c drama;
Performance theory
Gayle Rogers
Professor of Literature
University of Pittsburgh
Global modernisms;
Translation theory
2007

4 grads

Douglas O'Keefe
Lecturer
Auburn University
Ballad opera;
Theory of genre
 
Daniel Gleason
Head of the Upper School
Kingswood Oxford School
20th-/21st-c literature & poetics
2006

5 grads

Coleman Hutchison
Associate Professor of English
University of Texas - Austin
American literature
Wen Jin
Associate Professor in English
Fudan University, Shanghai
20th-c literature
Jenny Mann
Associate Professor of English
New York University
Early Modern literature
John Martin
Scholarly Communications Librarian
University of North Texas
19th-c American literature