Career placement

• 2013
  
  

  Marie Smart, 7-year appointment (non-tenure track)
  Baylor Univeristy
  Dissertation: “The World Wars and the 'Other' Avant-Garde Tradition”

• 2012

  
  Mary-Ann Davis, Visiting Assistant Professor (non-tenure track)
  Scripps College, Pomona;
  Lecturer at Mt. St. Mary's College
  Dissertation: Useful dangers: The erotics of form, sadomasochism, Victorian narrative

  
  
  Alexis Lothian, Assistant Professor of English (tenure track)
  Indiana University of Pennsylvania
  Dissertation: “Deviant Futures: Queer Temporality and the Cultural Politics of Science Fiction”

  
  
  Jose A. Navarro, Assistant Professor of English (tenure track)
  Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
  Dissertation: Machos y Malinchistas: Chicano/Latino Gang Narratives & Culture
  
  Matthew Smith, Assistant Professor (tenure track)
  Azusa Pacific University, English
  Dissertation: “Stage, Cathedral, Wagon, Street: The Grounds of Belief in Shakespeare and Renaissance Performance”
  
  Adrienne Walser, Assistant Professor of Literature (tenure track)
  Bard College, New York
  Dissertation: Modernism's Poetics of Dislocation

• 2011

  
  Natasha Alvandi
  Lone Star College
  Dissertation: Transitive Spaces: Mid-Victorian Anxiety in the Face of Change
  
  Jennifer Ansley, Postdoctoral Fellow
  Duke Unniversity, Thompson Writing Program
  University of Southern California
  Dissertation: Labors of Love: Reading Queer Female Kinship in the Melodramatic Mode
  
  Shayna Kessel, Assistant Dean of the Graduate School
  University of Southern California
  Dissertation: Open Wounds: Rethinking Trauma in Twentieth-Century Literature and Visual Culture
  
  Rory Lukins, Lecturer in the Department of English
  University of Southern California
  Dissertation: The Ethics of Form: Politics, the Passions, and Genre Formation in the English Renaissance
  

  
  Brett Myhren, Assistant Professor (tenure track)
  Saddleback College, Mission Viejo, CA
  Dissertation: Ahistoricism and the literature of California, 1510--1846
  
  

  Elizabeth Park, Writer
  Kelly House Museum
  Dissertation: Going Beyond the Victory Garden: War, Gender, and Women of National Concern
  
  Stephen Park, The Writing Program
  University of Southern California
  Dissertation: The Pan American Imagination: Modern U.S. Literature's Hemispheric Vision
  
  Jeffrey Solomon, Department of English (part-time faculty)
  College of the Redwoods
  Dissertation: Fictional Nations: U.S. Geopolitical Realism and the Developing World in the Long 19th Century

• 2002 - 2010

  
  Chris Abani, Associate Professor
  University of California, Riverside
  Dissertation: The Myth of Fingerprints: Signifying as Displacement in Derek Walcott's "Omeros"
  Creative project: Daphne's Lot (novel)
  
  Vidhu Aggarwal, Assistant Professor (tenure track)
  Rollins College
  Dissertation: Undecidable Cases: Investigations into Lyric Modes and Affective Processes
  
  William (Memo) Arce, Assistant Professor (tenure track)
  University of Texas-Arlington
  Dissertation: A Nation in Uniform: Chicano/Latino War Literature and the Construction of Nation 1951–1976
  
  Sumangala Bhattacharya, Assistant Professor
  Pitzer College
  Dissertation: Victorian Hunger
  
  Elizabeth Binggeli, High School Teacher
  Immaculate Heart;
  Past position: Postdoc at University of Chicago in English and Cinema and Media Studies
  Dissertation: 'Obviously not for the Screen:' Race, Hollywood Story Searches, and the Revenge of Unfilmable Narrative
  
  Michael Blackie, Associate Professor of Biomedical Humanities
  Hiram College
  Past position: 2-year Postdoc in Film and Literature
  Hiram College Literature and Medicine Program
  Dissertation: Rest Cures: The Narrative Life of a Medical Practice
  
  Ruth Blandon, Department of English (full-time faculty)
  East Los Angeles College
  Dissertation: Trans-American Modernisms: Racial Passing, Travel Writing, and Cultural Fantasies of Latin America
  
  Elizabeth Bleicher, Assistant Professor (tenure track)
  Ithaca College
  Dissertation: 'Whom Do You Take me For?': Narrative Self-fashioning and Confidence in Victorian Fiction
  
  Amaranth Borsuk, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Comparative Media Studies and Writing and Humanistic Studies
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Dissertation: "Machines Made of Words": Poets, Technology, and the Mediation of Subjectivity
  Creative project: Pomegranate-eater (poems)
  
  Amy Braden, Program Administrator
  USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute
  Dissertation: As She Fled: Women and Movement in Early Modern English Poetry and Drama
  
  John Bruns, Assistant Professor (tenure track)
  College of Charleston
  Dissertation: Loopholes: Reading Comically
  
  Elizabeth Callaghan, Contributing writer
  Apartment Therapy
  Dissertation: Domestic Topographies: Gender and the House in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel
  
  Brooke Allan Carlson, Lectureship
  Chaminade University, Honolulu
  Past position: Non-TT, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul, South Korea
  Dissertation: Printing Pleasing Profit: Crafting Capital Sales and Selves in Early Modern English Drama
  
  Erin Toth Caron, Lecturer
  California State University, Long Beach
  Dissertation: Vietnam War Drama 1966-2008: American Theatrical Responses to the War and its Aftermath
  
  Joseph Carrithers, Associate Professor
  Fullerton College
  Dissertation: On the Margins of Memory: Narrating the Past in the Contemporary Multicultural Novel
  
  Arnab Chakladar, Assistant Professor (tenure track)
  University of Colorado at Boulder
  Dissertation: At Home in the World: Indian Literature in the Postcolonial Academy
  
  Ava Chin, Assistant Professor (tenure track)
  SUNY-Staten Island
  Dissertation: A Nation in Uniform: Chicano/Latino War Literature and the Construction of Nation 1951–1976
  
  Stephan Clark, Assistant Professor of English (tenure track)
  Augsburg College, Minnesota
  Dissertation: The Grotesque in Post-War American Literature
  Creative project: The Flavorist (novel)
  
  Jennifer Conary, Assistant Professor (tenure track)
  De Paul University
  Dissertation: Beautiful Lost Causes: Quixotic Reform and the Victorian Novel
  
  Jennifer Kwon Dobbs, Assistant Professor (tenure track)
  St. Olaf's College
  Dissertation: Articulate Absences: Notebooks from a Missing Person
  Creative project: Paper Pavilion (poetry collection)
  
  Shaunda L. Eddy-Sanders, (part-time faculty)
  Brigham Young University
  Dissertation: Signing Identity and Rethinking U.S. Poetry: Acts of Translating American Sign Language, African American, and Chicano Poetry and the Language of Silence
  
  Molly Engelhardt, Assistant Professor (tenure track)
  Texas A&M University—Corpus Christi
  Dissertation: Dancing out of Line: Ballrooms, Ballets, and Victorian Bodies in Motion
  
  Plamen Gaptov, Assistant Professor
  Sofia University, Bulgaria
  Dissertation: Slow Folk at Work! Literary appropriations of local traditions by Irish, Caribbean, Spanish, and Bulgarian modernists
  
  Alicia Garnica, Lecturer in Department of Comparative Literature
  University of Southern California
  Dissertation: The Curious Life of the Corpse in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
  
  Nora Gilbert, Assistant Professor of English (tenure track)
  University of North Texas
  Dissertation: The Joy of Censorship: Strategies of Circumvention in Novel and Film
  
  Jitender Gill
  University of New Delhi
  Dissertation: Servants of the Raj: Colonials and their fictions, 1770--1930
  
  Joel Gordon, Attorney
  O’Melveny and Meyers, LLP
  Dissertation: The Reformation of the World: History, Revelation, and Reform in the Antebellum Romance
  
  Theresa Gregor, Executive Director
  InterTribal Long Term Recovery Foundation
  Dissertation: From Captors to Captives: Native American Responses to Popular American Narrative Forms
  
  Pamela Grieman, Publications Manager
  University of California, Los Angeles
  Dissertation: Representing the Unnarratable: 'Feminist Terrorism' and the Problem of Realism in the Novel
  
  Andrew Hakim, Lecturer
  New York University
  Dissertation: Fictions of Representation:  Narrative and the Politics of Self-Making in the Interwar American Novel
  
  Desmond Harding, Assistant Professor (tenure track)
  Central Michigan University
  Dissertation: Writing the City: Urban Visions and Literary Modernism (pb. Routledge, 2003)
  
  Tanya Heflin, Assistant Professor of English (tenure track)
  Indiana University of Pennsylvania
  Dissertation: Those Secret Exhibitionists: Women's Psychological Diaries at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
  
  Lucia Hodgson, Assistant Professor
  Texas A&M University
  Dissertation: Little Subjects: The Lockean Child and Race in Transatlantic American Discourses of Slavery
  
  Shakira Holt, English Teacher
  Firebaugh High School
  Dissertation: “‪On Speaking Terms: ‪Spirituality and Sensuality in the Tradition of Modern Black Female Intellectualism”
  
  Yetta Howard, Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature
  San Diego State University
  Dissertation: Ugly Dykes: Pejorative Identities and the Anti-Aesthetics of Lesbianism
  
  Jinny Huh, Assistant Professor (tenure track)
  University of Vermont and postdoctoral fellowship at UCLA
  Dissertation: The Arresting Eye: Race and the Detection of Deception
  
  Katherine Karlin, Assistant Professor of English (tenure track)
  Kansas State University
  Dissertation: Alewives and Factory Girls: Literary Representations of Working Woman
  Creative project: Freedom of Information (novel)
  
  Tiffany Knight, Marketing Director
  Legalzoom
  Dissertation: Labor, Performance, and Theatre: Strike Culture and the Emergence of Organized Labor in the 1930's
  
  Kevin Laam, Assistant Professor (tenure track)
  Oakland University
  Dissertation: Borrowed Heaven: Early Modern Devotion and the Art of Happiness
  
  Unhae Langis, Assistant Professor (tenure track)
  Slippery Rock State College
  Dissertation: Disciplined Passion: Virtuous Moderation in Shakespearean Drama
  
  Sun Hee Theresa Lee, Visiting Assistant Professor
  Carleton College
  Dissertation: Self-Reflexivity and Minority Politics in Contemporary American Literature and Performance
  
  Deborah Levitt, Assistant Professor (tenure track)
  Eugene Language College, The New School for Liberal Arts
  Dissertation: ZoeTropes: Cinema, literature, and the modernity of the living picture
  
  Frank Mabee, Assistant Professor (tenure track)
  Fitchburg State
  Dissertation: The Pastured Sea: Maritime Radicalism and British Romanticism
  
  Jennifer Malia, Lecturer (non-tenure track)
  Writing Studies Department, American University, United Arab Emirates
  Dissertation: Romancing the Bomb: Gothic Terror and Terrorism in Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century
  
  Marci McMahon, Assistant Professor (tenure track)
  University of Texas, Pan American
  Dissertation: Domestic Negotiations: Chicana Domesticity as a Critical Discourse of U.S. Literature and Culture
  
  Michael Miklos, Ralph Bunche Professor, English
  Los Angeles City College
  Dissertation: Undermining Common Sense: Racial Legislation, Comedy, and the Family
  
  Peter O'Neill, Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature
  University of Georgia, Athens
  Dissertation: Transatlantic Irish and the Racial State
  
  James Penner, Assistant Professor (tenure track)
  English Department of the College of General Studies, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras (San Juan)
  Dissertation: Pinks, Pansies, and Punks: The Rhetoric of Masculinity in American Literary Culture from the Depression to the Sexual Revolution
  
  Kevin Pinkham, Assistant Professor of English
  Nyack College, New York
  Dissertation: Through the Bottom of a Glass Darkly: Narrative, Alcohol, and Identity in Temperance and Prohibition-Era
  
  Shefali Rajamannar, Associate Director of The Writing Program
  University of Southern California
  Dissertation: Making Kingdoms Out of Beasts: Animals and the British Raj
  
  Michael Robinson, Adjunct Faculty in Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
  University of Southern California
  Dissertation: Ornamental Gentlemen: Literary Curiosities and Queer Romanticisms
  
  Cynthia Sarver, Assistant Professor (tenure track)
  SUNY-Cortland
  Dissertation: Seeing in the Dark: Race, Representation and the Ethics of Visuality in Literary Modernism
  
  Edward Schantz, Associate Professor
  McGill University
  Dissertation: Gossip, Letters, Phones: The Scandal of Female Networks in Film and Literature
  
  Amy Schroeder, Assistant Professor
  Dogus University
  Dissertation: Typewriters and Cooking Smells: The Associated Sensibilities of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, T.S. Eliot, and Jorie Graham
  Creative project: The Sleep Hotel (poetry collection)
  
  Joshua Smith, Department of English (part-time faculty)
  Chaffey Community College
  Dissertation: Black Origins of the American Self: Frontier Mythology in Early African American Literature
  
  Jeffrey M. Solomon, Lecturer
  University of Southern California, English
  Past position: Visiting Assistant Professor (non-tenure track)
  St. Olaf College, Minnesota
  Dissertation: Fabulous Potency: Gertrude Stein, Truman Capote, Authorial Personae, and Homosexual Identity from the Wilde Trials to Stonewall
  
  Jennifer Stoever, Assistant Professor (tenure track)
  SUNY-Binghamton
  Dissertation: Soundscapes of Race: African American Literature and the Cultural Politics of Listening
  
  Kathryn M. Strong, Assistant Professor (tenure track)
  The Citadell, The Military College of South Carolina
  Dissertation: Dress and Deception: Women's Dress and the Eighteenth-Century British Novel
  
  Hande Tekdemir, Assistant Professor (tenure track)
  Bosphorus University, Istanbul
  Dissertation: Collective Melacholy: Istanbul at the Crossroads History, Space and Memory
  
  Mary Elizabeth Tegan, Associate Professor
  Xavier College, Chicago
  Dissertation: Vanity's Heirs: Feminist Readers' Reflections Within the Mirror of Romance, 1788-1876
  
  David Tomkins, Lecturer in The Writing Program
  University of Southern California
  Dissertation: Cowboys of the Wasteland: Modernism and the American Frontier
  
  Alison Tymoczko, Adjunct Faculty in the Department of English
  Pasadena City College
  Dissertation: Writing Under the Auspices of Eros: Female Encounters with Ovid's Cupid in Early Modern English Literature
  
  Onita Vaz, Associate Professor
  Davidson College
  Dissertation: Perpetual Self-Duplication: Coleridge's Practice of Revision
  
  Alice Marie Villasenor, Assistant Professor
  Medaille College, New York
  Dissertation: Women Readers and the Victorian Jane Austen
  
  Sean Zwagerman, Associate Professor
  Simon Fraser University
  Dissertation: At Wit's End: The Rhetoric of Humor and the Ends of Talk