Our recent Ph.D. graduates have pursued careers that include both academic and non-academic positions in educational, non-profit, and research institutions, foundations and libraries, entertainment and technological industries. Graduate Career Update Form to submit updates to this page.
2025
Name Dissertation Title First Position Current Position Jené Pledger Earwitnesses in America: Listening Literatures in the Nineteenth-Century U.S. Writing Tutor Coordinator, Writing Center, Community College of Denver Jessica Sherrill Memory Machines: Mnemonics, Poetry, And Computing in Nineteenth-Century Britain Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Texas at Austin Sammy Solis Contested Bodies: Fictions of Brownness and Latinidad Assistant Director for Teaching Development, UCLA Teaching and Learning Center Lesley Thulin Disability and Political Economy in Romantic Literature, 1762-1834 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of English, George Washington University
2024
Name Dissertation Title First Position Current Position Salvador Herrera Desert Dreams: TransBorder Art at the Limits of Identity Assistant Professor of Latinx Studies and Cultural Production, Department of English, University of Oregon Oriah Amit Precautionary Tales: Political Consequence in British Fiction, 1867-1903 Program Advisor, Thematic Option Honors Program, University of Southern California Senior College Admissions Consultant, Spark Admissions Spencer Robins Our Planet: Collective Narrative in the Climate Change Era Assistant Professor, Department of English, Saddleback College Arielle Stambler The Social Rights Imaginary of the Contemporary Postcolonial Novel Assistant Professor, English and Africana Studies, Mercer University Jesslyn Whittell The Riot and the Didactic: Radical Instruction in British Romantic Poetry Visiting Assistant Professor, Poetry and Creative Writing, Scripps College