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Career placement is intended for informational purposes only and is based on our most recently available information.<\/p>\n

This is not comprehensive of all students and alumni on the market.<\/p>\n

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Our department has a comprehensive Job Placement Program with a strong track record of graduate student mentoring and development. Our graduates in the critical and creative tracks go on to successful careers both within and beyond the academy, and we celebrate that success. From the first year, we provide extensive mentoring and support as they grow into their roles as professional academics, teachers, and writers, helping them build a portfolio of achievements, including securing both internal and external awards, grants, and funding, high-profile publications, field-specific teaching experience, and specialized trainings and certificates, that underpin a compelling dossier.<\/p>\n

Each year, all dissertating (A.B.D) students have access to a year-long job market training service, which begins in the spring with a placement seminar, followed by a continuous program of job market material development, mock interviews, and practice job talks, in collaboration with multiple faculty. Our placement officer is available to all students to give advice about their career, and to help candidates strategize their approach to the job market, prepare for campus visits, and negotiate the terms of job offers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n

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Katie Googe (English)<\/strong>, Dissertation Chair, Fulbright to Brno, Czechia, Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Postdoctoral Fellow
\nPurdue University<\/p>\n

James Ciano (English)<\/strong>, Creative Writing Fellow in Poetry,\u00a0Emory University
\nDissertation: \u201cThink of me what you think of me\u201d: Lateness in the Poetry of Larry Levis<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n

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Viola Lasmana<\/strong>, Assistant Professor, Comparative World Literature Program
\nCalifornia State University, Long Beach
\nDissertation: Shadow Imaginations: Transpacific Approaches to Post-1965 Indonesian Archives<\/em><\/p>\n

Past Positions: Postdoctoral Fellow, American Council of Learned Societies, Rutgers University (2022); Postdoctoral Fellow, American Council of Learned Societies, Columbia University (2020); Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Southern California (2018)<\/p>\n

Khaliah Reed<\/strong>, Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Women\u2019s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
\nWake Forest University
\nDissertation: Fifty Shades of Fandom: Shame, Respectability, and the Politics of Fanfiction<\/em><\/p>\n

Sara Fetherolf<\/strong>, ACLS Leading Edge Fellow, Los Angeles Poverty Department
\nDissertation: “Sing into the Hardness of the Heart of the Future:” Elise Cowen, Reassembled and Reanimated<\/em><\/p>\n

Katharine Ogle<\/strong>, Study Abroad Program Faculty and Giordano Bruno Teaching Fellow
\nUniversity of Washington
\nDissertation: Blue Mind: On the Language and Literature of Marine Depth<\/em><\/p>\n

Austen Leah Rose<\/strong>, Dornsife Fellow in General Education
\nUniversity of Southern California
\nDissertation: Blue Mind: Earth, My Dearest, I Will: Rilke as Poet of Porousness, Motherhood, and Deep Ecology<\/em><\/p>\n

Mary Alice Daniel<\/strong>, Associate Research Scholar and Lecturer in African Studies
\nPrinceton University
\nDissertation: Negrolands: Anticolonial Aesthetics for the Lands of the Blacks<\/em><\/p>\n

Past positions: Scripps College Mary Routt Endowed Chair of Writing; Visiting Writer-in-residence at Washington University, St. Louis; Postdoctoral Fellow at Brown University<\/p>\n

Nicole Richards (ASE)<\/strong>, Dissertation Chair, Assistant Professor (tenure-track), African American Studies
\nSacramento State University<\/p>\n

Past position: Consortium for Faculty Diversity Postdoctoral Fellow (2023-2024), Scripps College<\/p>\n

Teddy Lance<\/strong>, Dissertation Co-chair, Assistant Professor of English (tenure-track), African American Studies
\nMenlo College<\/p>\n

Samantha Ikehara (ASE)<\/strong>, Dissertation Chair, Assistant Professor of American Studies (tenure-track),
\nUniversity of Hawai\u02bdi, Manoa<\/p>\n

Past positions: University of California President\u2019s Postdoctoral Fellow, UCSC, Christine Hong (Mentor) (2023-2024)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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L. A. Johnson<\/strong>, Melon Humanities & University of the Future Postdoctoral Fellow
\nUniversity of Southern California
\nDissertation: Troublesome Bodies: The American Woman’s Long Poem Revisited<\/em><\/p>\n

Brianna Beehler<\/strong>, Upper School English Teacher
\nThe Nueva School
\nDissertation: Dollplay: Narrative Rituals in Nineteenth-Century Britain<\/em>
\n<\/em>Past position: English Specialist, Khan Lab School (2021)<\/p>\n

Cruz Arroyo<\/b>, 2023 ACLS Leading Edge Fellow: Movement Building and Capacity Strategist
\nDissertation: I Can’t Make This Stuff Up: Fictionality, Autobiography, and Deviance in American Stand-Up Comedy<\/i><\/p>\n

Darby Walters<\/b>, Assistant Instructor
\nUniversity of Florida
\nDissertation: Infectious Feelings: Disease, Sympathy, and the Nineteenth-Century Novel<\/i><\/p>\n

Past Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Florida<\/p>\n

Michael Benitez<\/b>, Instructor
\nMt. San Jacinto College
\nDissertation: Shakespeare’s Archive-in-Action: Queer Futurity in Shakespeare’s Plays<\/i><\/p>\n

Eliot Dunn<\/b>, Postdoctoral Fellow
\nUniversity of Southern California, Dissertation Chair
\nDissertation: “A door, an exit, a way out”: Trans*Temporality in Hybrid Media<\/i><\/p>\n

Krishna Narayanamurti<\/b>, Postdoctoral Fellow
\nUniversity of Southern California
\nDissertation: An Almost Unbroken Place: Desert Aesthetics and Environmental Connection in Southwestern Literature<\/i><\/p>\n

Muriel Leung<\/b>, Faculty in Poetry (tenure-track)
\nCalifornia Institute of the Arts
\nDissertation: Wild Grammars<\/em><\/p>\n

Kyunghee Eo<\/b>, Tenure-Track Assistant Professorship in East Asian Languages and Literature
\nYale University
\nDissertation: Politics of Purity: The Making of Girlhood in South Korean Literature <\/em><\/p>\n

Past position: Assistant Professor (tenure-track), University of Colorado, Boulder (2020)<\/p>\n

Brandi Wells<\/b>, Assistant Professor (tenure-track)
\nCalifornia State University, Fullerton
\nDissertation: The Desperation of Desert Islands: Risk and Dreams in Feminist Dystopian Fiction<\/em><\/p>\n

Jean Chen Ho<\/b>, Visiting Assistant Professor
\nSkidmore College
\nDissertation: Sight\/Cite\/Site: Racial Violence, Chinese Angelenos, and LA\u2019s Lost Chinatown 1850-1938<\/em><\/p>\n

Rachel Neve-Midbar<\/b>, Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow (2023-2025)
\nHebrew University of Jerusalem
\nDissertation: Breaching the Labial Lips: Thought and New Language In the Menstrual Poem<\/em><\/p>\n

Samantha Cohen<\/b>, Visiting Assistant Professor
\nOberlin College
\nDissertation: Becoming Multiple: Cyborg Aesthetics and the Inversion of Horror<\/em><\/p>\n

Melissa Chadburn, <\/b>Assistant Professor
\nLoyal Marymount University
\nDissertation: Enchanted Opacities<\/em><\/p>\n

Catherine Theis<\/strong>, <\/b>Dornsife Fellow in General Education
\nUniversity of Southern California
\nDissertation: H.D.’s Dramatic Poetics: Tragedy, Translation, and Processional Poems<\/em><\/p>\n

Rosario (formerly Nathan) Pogar (English)<\/strong>, Dissertation Chair, Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Ethnic Studies
\nCalifornia State University, Dominguez Hills<\/p>\n

Huan He (ASE)<\/strong>, Dissertation Committee Member, Assistant Professor of English
\nVanderbilt University<\/p>\n

Past position: Postdoctoral Fellow (2022-2023), University of Michigan<\/p>\n

Dina Murokh<\/strong>, Dissertation Committee Member, Assistant Director,\u00a0 Williams Program in the History of Art
\nWilliams College<\/p>\n

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Zachary Mann<\/strong>, Associate Director
\nLevan Institute for the Humanities, University of Southern California
\nDissertation: The Punch Card Imagination: Authorship and Early Machine Programming\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Justin Bortnick<\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Teaching
\nDepartment of English, University of Pittsburgh
\nDissertation: Communities of Reality: Game Design, Narrative and Political Play<\/em><\/p>\n

Nicholas Bredie<\/b>, Assistant Professor (tenure-track)
\nUtah Valley University
\nDissertation:\u00a0Americans Abroad: Expatriate Experience and its Critics\u00a0<\/em>
\n<\/em>Creative Project:\u00a0Not Constantinople<\/em><\/p>\n

Nikki Darling<\/strong><\/b>, Affiliate Faculty
\nAntioch University
\nDissertation: Body of A Woman: New Narrative; The Call is Coming From Inside the House<\/em><\/p>\n

Piotr Florczyk<\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages & Literature
\nUniversity of Washington
\nDissertation: East Meets West: On Translation and the Dialogue of Polish and American Poets<\/em><\/p>\n

Zachary Torp<\/strong>, English (Ph.D.), Dissertation Chair
\nPrivate High School Teacher, Seattle, WA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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Safiya<\/strong>\u00a0Sinclair<\/strong>, Associate Professor (tenure-track)
\nArizona State University
\nDissertation:\u00a0Herself Behind Herself Concealed: a Biomythography of Jamaican Womanhood<\/em>
\n<\/em>Creative Project:\u00a0Crania Americana<\/em>
\n<\/em>Past position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Brown University (2019)<\/p>\n

Douglas Manuel<\/strong>, Bayard Rustin Teaching Fellow
\nWhittier College
\nDissertation: How Does it Feel to Be a Problem? Revisiting Cane and the Life of Jean Toomer<\/em><\/p>\n

Kyunghee Eo<\/strong>, Dissertation Chair, Assistant Professor of Korean Literature (tenure-track),
\nYale University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n 2020\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Diana Arterian<\/strong>, Lecturer, Creative Writing
\nMerrimack College
\nDissertation:\u00a0Migratory Wounds: Relayed Trauma in Contemporary Poetics
\n<\/em>Creative Project:\u00a0Seiche<\/em><\/p>\n

Lisa Locascio<\/strong>, Core Faculty (tenure-eligible)
\nAntioch University
\nDissertation:\u00a0A Bag of Shocking Pink: Occult Imagery in Contemporary American Fiction by Women<\/em>
\n<\/em>Creative Project:\u00a0Open Me<\/em>
\n<\/em>Past position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Wesleyan University (2015)<\/p>\n

Amanda Ruud<\/strong>, Adjunct Faculty
\nBiola University
\nDissertation:\u00a0Shakespeare’s Speaking Pictures<\/em><\/p>\n

Dexter Booth<\/strong>, Residential Faculty
\nParadise Valley Community College
\nDissertation: The Flying____.<\/em><\/p>\n

Kate Partridge<\/strong>, Assistant Professor of English and Director of Women\u2019s & Gender Studies Program
\nRegis University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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Alison Pearl<\/strong>,\u00a0<\/strong>Postdoctoral Fellow, Thematic Option
\nUniversity of Southern California
\nDissertation:\u00a0Archiving Ephemerality: The Politics of Preservation<\/em><\/p>\n

Leah Bailey<\/strong>, Instructor of English
\nCapilano University
\nDissertation: The Futurists: Speculative Fiction for the Network Society<\/em><\/p>\n

Michelle Brittan Rosado<\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Writing
\nUniversity of Southern California
\nDissertation: The Pantoum across the Pacific: The Circumnavigation of a Poetic Form<\/em><\/p>\n

Corinna McClanahan Schroeder<\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Writing
\nUniversity of Southern California
\nDissertation: Between Homes: Moving House in the Victorian Novel and Popular Culture<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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Christina Belcher, <\/strong>Dissertation Chair, Lecturer, American Studies and Ethnicity
\nUniversity of Southern California
\nDissertation:\u00a0Backward: Queer Rurality in American Popular Culture from 1920 to the Present<\/em><\/p>\n


\n<\/em>Past position: Assistant Professor (visiting), Cal-State Northridge,, Associate Professor (Teaching), Writing Program and Gender & Sexuality Studies
\nUniversity of Souther California<\/p>\n

Joshua Bernstein<\/strong>,\u00a0<\/strong>Assistant Professor (tenure-track)
\nUniversity of Southern Mississippi
\nDissertation:\u00a0\u201cWhere Beasts\u2019 Spirits Wail\u201d: The Great War and Animal Rights
\n<\/em>Creative project:\u00a0Stick-Light
\n<\/em>Past position: Assistant Professor (tenure-track), University of Minnesota-Duluth<\/p>\n

Elizabeth Callaghan<\/strong>,\u00a0<\/strong>Instructional Designer
\nFoundry College
\nDissertation:\u00a0Domestic Topographies: Gender and the House in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel<\/em><\/p>\n

Past position: Contributing writer, Apartment Therapy<\/p>\n

Stephen Pasqualina<\/strong>, Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of English
\nUniversity of Detroit Mercy
\nDissertation:\u00a0History in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
\n<\/em>Past position: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Nevada, Reno<\/p>\n

Dagmar Van Engen<\/strong>, Honors Faculty Fellow
\nArizona State University
\nDissertation:\u00a0Tentacular Sex: Gender, Race, and Science in American Speculative Fiction<\/em><\/p>\n

Erika Wright<\/strong>, Associate Director of HEAL (Humanities, Ethics \/ Economics, Art, and Law), Assistant Professor of Clinical Medical Education, Lecturer (English Department)
\nUniversity of Southern California
\nDissertation:\u00a0Fictions of Health: Medicine and the Nineteenth-Century Novel
\n<\/em>Past position: Lecturer, English, University of Southern California<\/p>\n

Chris Muniz<\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Writing
\nUniversity of Southern California
\nDissertation: The Pocho as Palimpsest: Reframing \u2018Deviant\u2019 Masculinity as Resistance<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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Gino Conti<\/strong>,\u00a0Lecturer, Women\u2019s, Gender and Sexuality Studies
\nCal-State Los Angeles
\nDissertation:\u00a0Queer Enthusiasms: Cross-Gender Awakening and the Affective Remnants of Religious Feeling<\/em>
\nPast position:\u00a0Instructor (visiting),\u00a0Whittier College<\/p>\n

Michael Cucher<\/strong>, Assistant Professor (tenure-track)
\nUniversity of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras
\nDissertation:\u00a0Riding with Zapata through Las Entra\u00f1as del Monstruo: Representations of Emiliano Zapata from Cold War Hollywood, Chicana\/o literature and culture, and the EZLN rebellion<\/em><\/p>\n

Past Position: Assistant Professor of Latino Studies, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras (San Juan) Department of English (2011)<\/p>\n

Stacy Lettman<\/strong>, Assistant Professor (tenure-track)
\nFlorida Atlantic University
\nDissertation:\u00a0Unfaded echoes of slavery: The sublime language of violence in Jamaican literature and music<\/em>
\nPast position: Assistant Professor (tenure-track), University of Central Arksansas<\/p>\n

Ryan McIlvain<\/strong>, Assistant Professor (tenure-track)
\nUniversity of Tampa
\nDissertation:\u00a0The Moral Basement: Investigations into Ethics and Irony in Contemporary Fiction
\n<\/em>Creative Project:\u00a0The Earth Will Roll Up Like A Scroll<\/em><\/p>\n

Stephen Park<\/strong>, Assistant Professor (tenure-track)
\nLoyola University Maryland
\nDissertation:\u00a0The Pan American Imagination: Modern U.S. literature’s hemispheric vision<\/em>
\n<\/em>Past position: Assistant Professor (tenure-track), University of Texas-Brownsville; The Writing Program, University of Southern California (2011)<\/p>\n

Annemarie Perez<\/strong>, Assistant Professor (tenure-track)
\nCalifornia State University, Dominguez Hills
\nDissertation:\u00a0Splitting Aztl\u00e1n: American resistance and Chicana visions of a radical utopia<\/em>
\n<\/em>Past position: Lecturer, Loyola Marymount University
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\n<\/strong>Robert Rabiee,\u00a0<\/strong>Assistant Professor (non-tenure-track)
\nTemple University
\nDissertation:\u00a0Medieval America: Liberalism and Feudalism in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Culture
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\n<\/strong>Jeffrey Solomon<\/strong>, Assistant Professor (tenure-track)
\nWake Forest University
\nDissertation:\u00a0Unsettling the nation: Anti-colonial nationalism and narratives of the non-Western world in U.S. literature and culture, 1783\u20131860<\/em>
\n<\/em>Past position: Lecturer, English Department, University of Southern California; Department of English (part-time faculty), College of the Redwoods (2011)<\/p>\n

Alex Trimble Young<\/strong>, Honors Faculty Fellow
\nArizona State University
\nDissertation:\u00a0\u201cLet us fake out a frontier\u201d: Dissent and the Settler Colonial Imaginary in US Literature after 1945<\/em>
\n<\/em>Past positions: Dornsife Preceptor, University of Southern California; Copeland Visiting Fellow, Amherst College<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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Amanda Bloom<\/strong>,\u00a0Lecturer, Writing Program
\nUniversity of Southern California
\nDissertation:\u00a0Suppositional Thinking in Eighteenth-Century Literature: Authorship, Originality, and the Female Imagination<\/em><\/p>\n

Mary Ann Davis<\/strong>, Assistant Professor (tenure-track)
\nAntioch College
\nDissertation:\u00a0Useful Dangers: The Erotics of Form, Sadomasochism, Victorian Narrative<\/em><\/p>\n

Bryan Hurt,\u00a0<\/strong>Assistant Professor (tenure-track)
\nCapital University
\nDissertation:\u00a0Repeatable\u00a0<\/em>Pamela<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/em>Creative Project:\u00a0Everyone Wants to Be Ambassador to France<\/em>
\nPast positions:\u00a0St. Lawrence University (visiting professor);\u00a0Colorado College (visiting professor)<\/p>\n

Brandon Som,\u00a0<\/strong>Assistant Professor (tenure-track)
\nUniversity California, San Diego
\nDissertation:Citing Passages: Citational Poetics and Transpacific Identities
\n<\/em>Creative Project:\u00a0The Tribute Horse<\/em><\/p>\n

Alex Wescott<\/strong>, Dissertation Chair, Lecturer (English)
\nUniversity California, Riverside
\nDissertation:\u00a0<\/em>Arrested Development: The Rise of the Slacker in Capitalism, from the 19th Century to the Present<\/em><\/p>\n

Past positions: Lecturer, Ethnic Studies, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo (2014)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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Amanda Weldy Boyd<\/strong>,\u00a0Adjunct Associate Professor
\nHope International University
\nDissertation:\u00a0The Desire for Presence: Developments in Theatrical Biography During the Long Eighteenth Century
\n<\/em>Past position:\u00a0Adjunct Assistant Professor, Hope International University<\/p>\n

Penelope Geng<\/strong>, Assistant Professor (tenure-track)
\nMacalester College
\nDissertation:\u00a0Popular Jurisprudence in Early Modern England<\/em><\/p>\n

Chris Santiago<\/strong>, Assistant Professor (tenure-track)
\nUniversity of St. Thomas
\nDissertation:\u00a0Sonic Displacement and Sonic Placemaking: The Poetics of Diaspora in Yoko Tawada, Jessica Hagedorn, and<\/em>\u00a0M.I.A.
\nCreative Project:\u00a0Arkipelagos<\/em><\/p>\n

Matt Smith<\/strong>, Assistant Professor (tenure-track)
\nAzusa Pacific University
\nDissertation:\u00a0Stage, Cathedral, Wagon, Street: The Grounds of Belief in Shakespeare and Renaissance Performance<\/em><\/p>\n

Gino Conti<\/strong>, English (Ph.D. 2015), Dissertation Chair, Lecturer
\nUniversity of Souther California Writing Program<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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J.C. Sibara<\/strong>, Assistant Professor (tenure-track)
\nColby College
\nDissertation:\u00a0Imperial injuries: race, disease, and disability in North American narratives of resistance, 1908-2006<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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Michael Busk<\/strong>, (full-time)
\nEverest University
\nDissertation: “A New and Sharper Vision”: Sensuous Aesthetics as Theological Immersion in Terrence Malick’s\u00a0<\/em>The Tree of Life, Thomas Kinkade’s Landscapes, and Ron Hansen’s\u00a0<\/em>Mariette in Ecstasy
\nCreative project:\u00a0The Connoisseur of Pain<\/em>\u00a0(novel)<\/p>\n

Matthew Carillo-Vincent<\/strong>, English teacher
\nAlverno Heights Academy
\nDissertation:\u00a0The Work of Being a Wallflower: Male Sentimentality and the Politics of the Periphery<\/em><\/p>\n

Josie Sigler Sibara,<\/strong>\u00a0Assistant Professor of English (tenure track)
\nSpecializing in Creative Writing\/Fiction
\nUniversity of Rhode Island
\nDissertation:\u00a0Dangerous Climate: Race, Gender, and State Violence in Post Carbon Fiction<\/em><\/p>\n

Marie Smart<\/strong><\/a>,<\/strong>\u00a0Lecturer in American Literature
\nBaylor University
\nDissertation:\u00a0The World Wars and the ‘Other’ Avant-Garde Tradition<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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Alice Bardan<\/strong>, Research associate
\nLoughborough University, Loughborough, England
\nDissertation:\u00a0Contemporary European Cinema in a Transnational Perspective: Aftereffects of 1989<\/em><\/p>\n

Jessica Bremmer<\/strong>, English teacher
\nWestridge School, Pasadena, CA
\nDissertation:\u00a0Self-representation, cultural formation, and Mexican-American modernism<\/em><\/p>\n

Mary-Ann Davis<\/strong>, Visiting Assistant Professor (non-tenure track)
\nScripps College, Pomona;
\nLecturer at Mt. St. Mary’s College
\nDissertation:\u00a0Useful dangers: The erotics of form, sadomasochism, Victorian narrative<\/em>
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\n<\/strong>Alexis Lothian<\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies and LGBT Studies
\nUniversity of Maryland, College Park
\nDissertation:\u00a0Deviant Futures: Queer Temporality and the Cultural Politics of Science Fiction<\/em>
\nWebsite:\u00a0http:\/\/queergeektheory.org<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Jose A. Navarro<\/strong>, Chair, Ethnic Studies, Professor
\nCal Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo
\nDissertation:\u00a0Machos y Malinchistas: Chicano\/Latino Gang Narratives & Culture<\/em><\/p>\n

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Matthew Smith<\/strong><\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0Assistant Professor (tenure-track)
\n<\/em>Azusa Pacific University, English
\n<\/em>Dissertation:\u00a0Stage, Cathedral, Wagon, Street: The Grounds of Belief in Shakespeare and Renaissance Performance<\/em>
\n<\/em>Website:\u00a0http:\/\/www.matthewjsmith.net<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Adrienne Walser<\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Literature
\nBard College MAT, California
\nDissertation:\u00a0Modernism’s Poetics of Dislocation<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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Natasha Alvandi\u00a0Hunt<\/strong>, Assistant Professor (tenure-track)
\nLone Star College
\nDissertation:\u00a0Transitive Spaces: Mid-Victorian Anxiety in the Face of Change<\/em>
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\nJennifer Ansley<\/strong>, Postdoctoral Fellow
\nDuke University, Thompson Writing Program
\nDissertation:\u00a0Labors of Love: Reading Queer Female Kinship in the Melodramatic Mode<\/em><\/p>\n

Judith DeTar<\/strong>, Senior Editor
\nAmerican Indian Studies Center
\nUniversity of California, Los Angeles;
\nAdjunct Instructor
\nLos Angeles City College
\nDissertation:\u00a0Real work: The stage actress in the Bildungsromans of Geraldine Jewsbury and Louisa May Alcott<\/em><\/p>\n

Shayna Kessel<\/strong>, Assistant Dean of the Graduate School
\nUniversity of Southern California
\nDissertation:\u00a0Open Wounds: Rethinking Trauma in Twentieth-Century Literature and Visual Culture<\/em>
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\nRory Lukins<\/strong>, Lecturer in the Department of English
\nUniversity of Southern California
\nDissertation:\u00a0The Ethics of Form: Politics, the Passions, and Genre Formation in the English Renaissance<\/em>
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\nBrett Myhren<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor (tenure-track)
\nSaddleback College, Mission Viejo, CA
\nDissertation:\u00a0Ahistoricism and the literature of California, 1510–1846<\/em><\/p>\n

Elizabeth Park<\/strong>, Writer
\nKelly House Museum
\nDissertation:\u00a0Going Beyond the Victory Garden: War, Gender, and Women of National Concern<\/em><\/p>\n

Annemarie Perez<\/strong>, (Ph.D.) Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies
\nCalifornia State University, Dominguez Hills
\nDissertation: \u201cSplitting Aztl\u00e1n: American Resistance and Chicana Visions of a Radical Utopia.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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John Burns<\/u><\/b>, Professor of Film Studies at the College of Charleston
\nAffiliated Faculty, Women\u2019s and Gender Studies Program at the College of Charleston
\nDissertation:\u00a0Loopholes: Reading Comically<\/i><\/p>\n

Chris Abani<\/strong>, Regents Board of Trustees Endowed Professor of English
\nNorthwestern University
\nDissertation:\u00a0The Myth of Fingerprints: Signifying as Displacement in Derek Walcott’s “Omeros”<\/em>
\nCreative project:\u00a0Daphne’s Lot<\/em>\u00a0(novel)<\/p>\n

Vidhu Aggarwal<\/strong>, Assistant Professor (tenure track)
\nRollins College
\nDissertation:\u00a0Undecidable Cases: Investigations into Lyric Modes and Affective Processes<\/em><\/p>\n

William (Memo) Arce<\/strong>, Assistant Professor (tenure track)
\nUniversity of Texas-Arlington
\nDissertation:\u00a0A Nation in Uniform: Chicano\/Latino War Literature and the Construction of Nation 1951\u20131976<\/em><\/p>\n

Kent Baxter<\/strong>, Associate Professor
\nCalifornia State University, Northridge
\nDissertation:\u00a0Identity in crisis: Modernism and the Texts of Adolescence<\/em><\/p>\n

Sumangala Bhattacharya<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor
\nPitzer College
\nDissertation:\u00a0Victorian Hunger<\/em><\/p>\n

Elizabeth Binggeli<\/strong>, High School Teacher
\nImmaculate Heart;
\nDissertation:\u00a0‘Obviously not for the Screen’: Race, Hollywood Story Searches, and the Revenge of Unfilmable Narrative<\/em>
\n<\/em>Past position: Postdoc at University of Chicago in English and Cinema and Media Studies<\/p>\n

Michael Blackie<\/strong>, Associate Professor of Family and Community Medicine
\nNortheast Ohio Medical University
\nDissertation:\u00a0Rest Cures: The Narrative Life of a Medical Practice<\/em>
\n<\/em>Past position: 2-year Postdoc in Film and Literature
\nHiram College Literature and Medicine Program<\/p>\n

Ruth Blandon<\/strong>, Department of English (full-time faculty)
\nEast Los Angeles College
\nDissertation:\u00a0Trans-American Modernisms: Racial Passing, Travel Writing, and Cultural Fantasies of Latin America<\/em><\/p>\n

Elizabeth Bleicher<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor (tenure track)
\nCoordinator of English Education
\nAcademic Director, Ithaca College Exploratory Program
\nHonors Program Faculty Member
\nIthaca College
\nDissertation:\u00a0‘Whom Do You Take me For?’: Narrative Self-fashioning and Confidence in Victorian Fiction<\/em><\/p>\n

Amaranth Borsuk<\/strong>, Assistant Professor (tenure track)
\nUniversity of Washington, Bothell
\nMellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at MIT, 2010-2012
\nDissertation:\u00a0“Machines Made of Words”: Poets, Technology, and the Mediation of Subjectivity<\/em>
\n<\/em>Creative project:\u00a0Pomegranate-eater\u00a0(poems)<\/em>
\n<\/em>Website:\u00a0http:\/\/www.amaranthborsuk.com\/<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Amy Braden<\/strong>, Associate Director
\nUSC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute
\nDissertation:\u00a0As She Fled: Women and Movement in Early Modern English Poetry and Drama<\/em><\/p>\n

Leslie Bruce<\/strong>, Full-time lecturer, Department of English
\nCalifornia State University, Fullerton
\nDissertation:\u00a0Outlaw mothers: Marital conflict, family law, and women’s novels in Victorian England<\/em><\/p>\n

Elizabeth Callaghan<\/strong>, Contributing writer
\nApartment Therapy
\nDissertation:\u00a0Domestic Topographies: Gender and the House in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel<\/em><\/p>\n

Brooke Allan Carlson<\/strong><\/a>, Lectureship
\nChaminade University, Honolulu
\nDissertation:\u00a0Printing Pleasing Profit: Crafting Capital Sales and Selves in Early Modern English Drama<\/em>
\n<\/em>Past position: Non-TT, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul, South Korea
\n<\/em>Website:\u00a0http:\/\/www.chaminade.edu\/faculty\/profiles\/Brooke_Carlson.php<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Erin Toth Caron<\/strong><\/a>, Lecturer
\nDepartment of Theatre Arts
\nCalifornia State University, Long Beach
\nDissertation:\u00a0Vietnam War Drama 1966-2008: American Theatrical Responses to the War and its Aftermath<\/em><\/p>\n

Joseph Carrithers<\/strong>, Professor
\nFullerton College
\nDissertation:\u00a0On the Margins of Memory: Narrating the Past in the Contemporary Multicultural Novel<\/em><\/p>\n

Arnab Chakladar<\/strong>, Assistant Professor (tenure track)
\nUniversity of Colorado at Boulder
\nDissertation:\u00a0At Home in the World: Indian Literature in the Postcolonial Academy<\/em><\/p>\n

Ava Chin<\/strong>, Associate Professor (tenure track)
\nCUNY-Staten Island
\nDissertation:\u00a0A Nation in Uniform: Chicano\/Latino War Literature and the Construction of Nation 1951\u20131976<\/em>
\n<\/em>Website:\u00a0http:\/\/www.avachin.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Stephan Clark<\/strong>, Assistant Professor of English (tenure track)
\nAugsburg College, Minnesota
\nDissertation:\u00a0The Grotesque in Post-War American Literature<\/em>
\nCreative project:\u00a0The Flavorist<\/em>\u00a0(novel)<\/p>\n

Jennifer Conary<\/strong>, Assistant Professor (tenure track)
\nDe Paul University
\nDissertation:\u00a0Beautiful Lost Causes: Quixotic Reform and the Victorian Novel<\/em><\/p>\n

Jennifer Kwon Dobbs<\/strong>, Associate Professor (tenured)
\nSt. Olaf’s College
\n<\/em>Website:\u00a0http:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/dobbs<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Shauna L. Eddy-Sanders<\/strong>, (part-time faculty)
\nBrigham Young University
\nDissertation:\u00a0Signing Identity and Rethinking U.S. Poetry: Acts of Translating American Sign Language, African American, and Chicano Poetry and the Language of Silence<\/em><\/p>\n

Molly Engelhardt<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor (tenure track)
\nTexas A&M University\u2014Corpus Christi
\nDissertation:\u00a0Dancing out of Line: Ballrooms, Ballets, and Victorian Bodies in Motion<\/em><\/p>\n

Richard Fliegel<\/strong>, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs
\nUniversity of Southern California
\nDornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences
\nDissertation:\u00a0The Codes of Literacy<\/em>
\nWebsite:\u00a0http:\/\/www-bcf.usc.edu\/~fliegel\/<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Plamen Gaptov<\/strong>, Assistant Professor
\nSofia University, Bulgaria
\nDissertation:\u00a0Slow Folk at Work! Literary appropriations of local traditions by Irish, Caribbean, Spanish, and Bulgarian modernists<\/em><\/p>\n

Alicia Garnica<\/strong>, Lecturer in Department of Comparative Literature
\nUniversity of Southern California
\nDissertation:\u00a0The Curious Life of the Corpse in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture<\/em><\/p>\n

Nora Gilbert<\/strong>, Assistant Professor of English (tenure track)
\nUniversity of North Texas
\nDissertation:\u00a0The Joy of Censorship: Strategies of Circumvention in Novel and Film<\/em><\/p>\n

Jitender Gill<\/strong>, Associate Professor
\nDepartment of English
\nJanki Devi College, University of Delhi
\nFulbright Teaching Fellowship, 2010-2011
\nDissertation:\u00a0Servants of the Raj: Colonials and their fictions, 1770–1930<\/em><\/p>\n

Joel Gordon<\/strong>, Attorney
\nO\u2019Melveny and Meyers, LLP
\nDissertation:\u00a0The Reformation of the World: History, Revelation, and Reform in the Antebellum Romance<\/em><\/p>\n

Theresa Gregor<\/strong><\/a>, Executive Director
\nInterTribal Long Term Recovery Foundation
\nAssociate Researcher
\nCalifornia Indian Culture and Sovereignty Center
\nCalifornia State University, San Marcos
\nDissertation:\u00a0From Captors to Captives: Native American Responses to Popular American Narrative Forms<\/em><\/p>\n

Pamela Grieman<\/strong><\/a>, Publications Manager
\nAmerican Indian Studies Center
\nUniversity of California, Los Angeles;
\nAdjunct Professor
\nLos Angeles City College
\nDissertation:\u00a0Representing the Unnarratable: ‘Feminist Terrorism’ and the Problem of Realism in the Novel<\/em>
\n<\/em>Website:\u00a0www.books.aisc.ucla.edu<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Andrew Hakim<\/strong>, Lecturer
\nPrinceton University, Writing Program
\nDissertation:\u00a0Fictions of Representation: Narrative and the Politics of Self-Making in the Interwar American Novel<\/em><\/p>\n

Desmond Harding<\/strong>, Associate Professor (tenure track)
\nCentral Michigan University
\nDissertation:\u00a0Writing the City: Urban Visions and Literary Modernism<\/em>\u00a0(pb. Routledge, 2003)<\/p>\n

Tanya Heflin<\/strong>, Assistant Professor of English (tenure track)
\nIndiana University of Pennsylvania
\nDissertation:\u00a0Those Secret Exhibitionists: Women’s Psychological Diaries at the Turn of the Twentieth Century<\/em><\/p>\n

Lucia Hodgson<\/strong>, Assistant Professor (tenure track)
\nTexas A&M University
\nDissertation:\u00a0Nature, Nurture, Nation: Race and Childhood in Transatlantic American Discourses of Slavery<\/em><\/p>\n

Shakira Holt<\/strong>, English Teacher
\nFirebaugh High School
\nDissertation:\u00a0\u202aOn Speaking Terms: <\/em>\u202aSpirituality and Sensuality in the Tradition of Modern Black Female Intellectualism<\/em><\/p>\n

Yetta Howard<\/strong>, Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature (tenure-track)
\nSan Diego State University
\nDissertation:\u00a0Ugly Dykes: Pejorative Identities and the Anti-Aesthetics of Lesbianism<\/em>
\nWebsite:\u00a0http:\/\/literature.sdsu.edu\/bios\/yetta_howard.html<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Jinny Huh<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor (tenure track)
\nUniversity of Vermont;
\nPostdoctoral fellowship at UCLA
\nDissertation:\u00a0The Arresting Eye: Race and the Detection of Deception<\/em><\/p>\n

Cathy Irwin<\/strong>, Associate Professor
\nUniversity of La Verne
\nDissertation:\u00a0Voices in the Mirror: Sacrifice and the Theater of the Body in the Dramatic Monologues of Ai and Frank Bidart<\/em><\/p>\n

Katherine Karlin<\/strong>, Associate Professor of English (tenure track)
\nKansas State University
\nDissertation:\u00a0Alewives and Factory Girls: Literary Representations of Working Woman<\/em>
\nCreative project:\u00a0Freedom of Information<\/em>\u00a0(novel)<\/p>\n

Tiffany Knight<\/strong>, Marketing Director
\nLegalzoom
\nDissertation:\u00a0Labor, Performance, and Theatre: Strike Culture and the Emergence of Organized Labor in the 1930’s<\/em><\/p>\n

Kevin Laam<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor (tenure track)
\nOakland University
\nDissertation:\u00a0Borrowed Heaven: Early Modern Devotion and the Art of Happiness<\/em><\/p>\n

Unhae Langis<\/strong>, Assistant Professor (tenure track)
\nSlippery Rock State College
\nDissertation:\u00a0Disciplined Passion: Virtuous Moderation in Shakespearean Drama<\/em><\/p>\n

Sun Hee Theresa Lee<\/strong>, Visiting Assistant Professor
\nCarleton College
\nDissertation:\u00a0Self-Reflexivity and Minority Politics in Contemporary American Literature and Performance<\/em><\/p>\n

Deborah Levitt<\/strong>, Assistant Professor (tenure track)
\nEugene Language College, The New School for Liberal Arts
\nDissertation:\u00a0ZoeTropes: Cinema, literature, and the modernity of the living picture<\/em><\/p>\n

Frank Mabee<\/strong>, Associate Professor (tenure track)
\nFitchburg State
\nDissertation:\u00a0The Pastured Sea: Maritime Radicalism and British Romanticism<\/em><\/p>\n

Jennifer Malia<\/strong>, Assistant Professor of English (tenure track)
\nNorfolk State University
\nDissertation:\u00a0Romancing the Bomb: Gothic Terror and Terrorism in Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century<\/em><\/p>\n

Marci McMahon<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor, Department of English
\nDirector, Mexican American Studies
\nUniversity of Texas, Pan American
\nADVANCE Administrative Fellow, VPFA
\nDissertation:\u00a0Domestic Negotiations: Chicana Domesticity as a Critical Discourse of U.S. Literature and Culture<\/em>
\n<\/em>Website:\u00a0https:\/\/utpa.academia.edu\/MarciMcMahon<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Barbara Mello<\/strong>, Adjunct Faculty
\nCalifornia State University, Long Beach
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Michael Miklos<\/strong>, Ralph Bunche Professor, English
\nLos Angeles City College
\nDissertation:\u00a0Undermining Common Sense: Racial Legislation, Comedy, and the Family<\/em><\/p>\n

Peter O’Neill<\/strong>, Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature
\nUniversity of Georgia, Athens
\nDissertation:\u00a0Transatlantic Irish and the Racial<\/em>\u00a0State<\/em><\/p>\n

Samuel Park<\/strong>, Assistant Professor
\nColumbia College
\nDissertation:\u00a0The Performance of Race in Asian American Drama<\/em>
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\nJohn S. Kenyon Professor of English
\nHiram College
\nDissertation:\u00a0Home Work: Women, Accomplishments, and Victorian Constructions of Class<\/em><\/p>\n

James Penner<\/strong>, Assistant Professor (tenure track)
\nEnglish Department of the College of General Studies, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras (San Juan)
\nDissertation:\u00a0Pinks, Pansies, and Punks: The Rhetoric of Masculinity in American Literary Culture from the Depression to the Sexual Revolution<\/em><\/p>\n

Kevin Pinkham<\/strong>, Assistant Professor of English
\nNyack College, New York
\nDissertation:\u00a0Through the Bottom of a Glass Darkly: Narrative, Alcohol, and Identity in Temperance and Prohibition-Era<\/em><\/p>\n

Shefali Rajamannar<\/strong>, Associate Director of The Writing Program
\nUniversity of Southern California
\nDissertation:\u00a0Making Kingdoms Out of Beasts: Animals and the British Raj<\/em><\/p>\n

Michael Robinson<\/strong>, Adjunct Faculty in Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
\nUniversity of Southern California
\nDissertation:\u00a0Ornamental Gentlemen: Literary Curiosities and Queer Romanticisms<\/em><\/p>\n

Cynthia Sarver<\/strong>, Assistant Professor (tenure track)
\nSUNY-Cortland
\nDissertation:\u00a0Seeing in the Dark: Race, Representation and the Ethics of Visuality in Literary Modernism<\/em><\/p>\n

Ned Schantz<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor
\nMcGill University
\nDissertation:\u00a0Gossip, Letters, Phones: The Scandal of Female Networks in Film and Literature<\/em><\/p>\n

Amy Schroeder<\/strong>, Assistant Professor
\nDogus University
\nDissertation:\u00a0Typewriters and Cooking Smells: The Associated Sensibilities of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, T.S. Eliot, and Jorie Graham<\/em>
\nCreative project:\u00a0The Sleep Hotel<\/em>\u00a0(poetry collection)<\/p>\n

Joshua Smith<\/strong>, Department of English (part-time faculty)
\nChaffey Community College
\nDissertation:\u00a0Black Origins of the American Self: Frontier Mythology in Early African American Literature<\/em><\/p>\n

Jeffrey M. Solomon<\/strong>, Lecturer
\nUniversity of Southern California, English
\nDissertation:\u00a0Fabulous Potency: Gertrude Stein, Truman Capote, Authorial Personae, and Homosexual Identity from the Wilde Trials to Stonewall<\/em>
\n<\/em>Past position: Visiting Assistant Professor (non-tenure track)
\nSt. Olaf College, Minnesota<\/p>\n

Jennifer Stoever-Ackerman<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor (tenure track)
\nBinghamton University;
\nEditor in Chief,\u00a0Sounding Out!<\/em>
\nDissertation:\u00a0The Contours of the Sonic Color-line: Slavery, Segregation, and the Cultural Politics of Listening<\/em>
\n<\/em>Website:\u00a0http:\/\/jenniferstoever.com<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0http:\/\/soundingoutblog.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Kathryn Strong Hansen<\/strong>, Assistant Professor (tenure track)
\nThe Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina
\nDissertation:\u00a0Dress and Deception: Women’s Dress and the Eighteenth-Century British Novel<\/em><\/p>\n

Hande Tekdemir<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor (tenure track)
\nBosphorus University, Istanbul
\nDissertation:\u00a0Collective Melacholy: Istanbul at the Crossroads History, Space and Memory<\/em><\/p>\n

Mary Beth Tegan<\/strong>, Associate Professor
\nSt. Xavier University
\nDissertation:\u00a0Vanity’s Heirs: Feminist Readers’ Reflections Within the Mirror of Romance, 1788-1876<\/em><\/p>\n

David Tomkins<\/strong>, Lecturer in The Writing Program
\nUniversity of Southern California
\nDissertation:\u00a0Cowboys of the Wasteland: Modernism and the American Frontier<\/em><\/p>\n

Laura Skandera Trombley<\/strong>, President elect
\nThe Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
\nPresident, Pitzer College
\nDissertation:\u00a0The charmed circle: Mark Twain, women, and the integration of imagination<\/em><\/p>\n

Alison Tymoczko Jeffries<\/strong>, Adjunct Faculty in the Department of English
\nPasadena City College
\nDissertation:\u00a0Writing Under the Auspices of Eros: Female Encounters with Ovid’s Cupid in Early Modern English Literature<\/em><\/p>\n

Onita Vaz<\/strong>, Associate Professor
\nDavidson College
\nDissertation:\u00a0Perpetual Self-Duplication: Coleridge’s Practice of Revision<\/em><\/p>\n

Alice Marie Villase\u00f1or<\/strong>, Assistant Professor (tenure track)
\nMedaille College, New York
\nDissertation:\u00a0Women Readers and the Victorian Jane Austen<\/em><\/p>\n

Sean Zwagerman<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor
\nUndergraduate Chair, Department of English
\nSimon Fraser University
\nDissertation:\u00a0At Wit’s End: The Rhetoric of Humor and the Ends of Talk<\/em>
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