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Graduate Student Placement

Graduate Student Placement:
Current employment

Year of Degree

                                                                                                                                                     

Academic Field

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, 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
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
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

 

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
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 Assistant 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
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
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
Professor of English
New York University
Early Modern literature
John Martin
Scholarly Communications Librarian
University of North Texas
19th-c American literature