Skip to main content

Graduate Student Placement

Graduate Student Placement:
Current employment

Year of Degree

                                                                                                                                                     

Academic Field

2025

7 grads

Bergh, Rio
Assistant Professor
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
18th- and 19th-century American literatures; environmental humanities; Indigenous studies; material textual studies
 
Jones-Torregrosa, Paulina
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Gender and Sexuality Studies
Princeton University
Latinx literatures and cultures;women of color feminisms, gender and sexuality studies; multiethnic U.S. American literatures since 1900
 
Xu, Lingyi
Assistant Professor
Yale University
19th-century British literature; Modern Chinese literature; Translation Studies; History of the Novel; Asian Diasporic Studies; Global Anglophone and Sinophone Studies; Critical Race Studies; Postcolonial Studies
2024

8 grads

Harrison Graves
Assistant Professor
Loyola University Chicago
African American Literature; American Literature and Culture; Black Studies and Black Critical Theory; Black Masculinity and Black Gender Theory; African American History & Sociology of Race; Psychoanalytic Theory; Prison Studies
 
Katherine Scharfenberg
Lecturer
Loyola University Chicago
Early/19th-century American literatures; Indigenous studies; geography, narrative incoherence, and nationalism
 
Tyler Talbott
Assistant Professor
Creighton University
Victorian and postcolonial British literature; ethnonationalism; postcolonial studies; undisciplining Victorian studies; theories of writing and pedagogy
 
Anna Zalokostas
North Carolina State
Postdoctoral Teaching Scholar
multiethnic US literature and culture since 1900, especially post-1965; Marxist theory, especially feminist theories of social reproduction; transnational labor and migration
2022

6 grads

Jayme Collins
Postdoctoral Research Associate
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
University of West Florida
Early Modern drama, hospitality, travel literature, and framing texts
 
Samantha Botz
Assistant Professor
University of Alaska - Fairbanks
18th/19th-c British literature
Noah Chaskin
WCAS Academic Advisor, Assistant Professor of Instruction in English
Northwestern University
18th c literature, feminist & queer theory, women's writing, and the novel
 
Clay Cogswell
Assistant Professor of Instruction
University of Mississippi
19th-century British literature
 

Maria Dikcis
Communications Manager
The City Bureau - Chicago

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
English Department Chair
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 Comparative Literature
Howard University
African literature; (Post)colonial literary politics
Simone Waller
Assistant Professor of English and Humanities
Reed College
Early modern prose; 16th-/17th-c drama
2018

7 grads

Kellen Bolt
Assistant Professor II of English
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+ Programs and Services
Wellesley 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-c 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
Assistant Professor
University of Wyoming - Laramie
Renaissance literature
2016

7 grads

Ariel Bookman
Senior Editor in Compliance & Quality Control
Bitwise Asset Management
20th-/21st-c African literature; Literature as a commodity

 

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

4 grads

Shane Clauser
Co-Founder and Partner
Paraforge
16th-/17th-c Anglo-Spanish literature
 
Maha Jafri
Associate Professor of English
Sewanee: The University of the South
19th-c British literature
 
Nathan Leahy
Transfer Pricing Manager
Abbott Laboratories
19th-/20th-c American literature; Film; Economic history
 
Whitney Taylor
Senior Career Coach
Vanderbilt University 
Renaissance literature; Poetry &Poetics
2014

2 grads

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

6 grads

Jacquelyn Hendricks
Teaching Professor
Santa Clara University
Medieval literature; History of the book
Carolina Hotchandani
Goodrich Professor of English and American literature and culture
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
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
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
Professor of English
University of North Carolina - Charlotte
Late 19th-/20th-c American literature; African American literature
Sarah Mesle
Professor (Teaching) of Writing
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
Senior 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
Professor of English
New York University
Early Modern literature
John Martin
Scholarly Communications Librarian
University of North Texas
19th-c American literature