Listed below are initial tenure track (or equivalent) jobs, or other employment of our recent Ph.D.'s
Molly Warnock: Postdoctoral Fellow, Art History, Princeton University Dissertation:"Thought by Painting: The Early Work of Simon Hantaï."
Stefanos Geroulanos: History, New York University Dissertation: “Man Under Erasure: The Emergence of Antihumanism in French Thought, Politics, and Literature, 1926-1954”
Jie Guo: Comparative Literature, University South Carolina Dissertation: “Confusing Desires: Representations of Male Same-Sex Relationships in Late Ming and Early Qing Literature” Samantha Fenno Humanities, University of Chicago Dissertation: “Specters of Skepticism: Henry Fielding and the Problematic of Recognition”
Danielle Follett: D'Etudes Des Pays Anglophones, University of Paris-VIII, Saint Denis Dissertation: “The ghost of God: studies in the nineteenth-century poetics and aesthetics of chance : Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Proust” Oleg Gelikman: Humanities, Soka University Dissertation: “The idea of prose as modernist poetics” Alexandre Lefebvre: Postdoctoral Fellow, Faculty of Law, McGill University Dissertation: “The image of law: Deleuze, Bergson, Spinoza” Liang Mao English, Beijing University Dissertation: “Henry James and the claim of sociality”
Anne Rose: History, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC Dissertation: “Children’s moral culture and the experimental human sciences in Britain, France and Italy, 1748-1899”
Zachary Sng: German, Brown University Dissertation: “Corrupting the fountains of knowledge: language and error from Locke to Schlegel” Antonia Szabari: French and Comparative Literature, University of Southern California Dissertation: “Less rightly said: inventing scandalous speech in literature and religion in the Reformation” Ivan Grabovac: Writing Program, University of British Columbia Dissertation: “Thoreau's passion”
Christopher Powers: Comparative Literature, University of Puerto Rico Dissertation: “Ambivalent freedom: the politics of style in the writings of James Joyce and Ralph Ellison” Elizabeth Rottenberg: Philosophy, DePaul University Dissertation: “Inheriting the future: legacies of Kant, Freud, and Flaubert”
William Scott: English, University of Pittsburgh Dissertation: “Writing from the left: race, gender, and the critique of representation in the Great Depression” Arnd Wedemeyer: German, Princeton University Dissertation: “Expanses of thought: interpretations of space from Kant to Heidegger” Patrick Greaney: German, University of Colorado Dissertation: “The beggar's voice: impoverished writing in Nietzsche, Mallarme, Rilke, and Benjamin”
Dana Hollander: Religious Studies, McMaster University Dissertation: “Exemplarity and chosenness: Rosenzweig and Derrida on the nation of philosophy” Joanna Klink: English, University of Montana Dissertation: “Paul Celan: the second person, poetic realism, and ontological hope” Patrick Provost-Smith: Divinity School, Harvard University Dissertation: “Macao, Manila, Mexico, and Madrid: Jesuit controversies over strategies for the Christianization of China (1580-1600)” John D. Connor: English and Visual Culture, Harvard University Dissertation: “The language of men: identity and existentialism in the American postwar”
Daniel Heller Roazen: Comparative Literature, Princeton University Dissertation: “Fortune's faces : the Roman de la Rose and the poetics of contingency” Michael Kohler: SUNY Binghamton; Attorney, Associate at McKee Nelson L Dissertation: “Governmental modernity and nineteenth-century narrative and dramatic verse: a study in the ideological inflection of form”
Sarah Roff: German, Princeton University Dissertation: “Group mind: psychology and the construction of the public sphere from Romanticism to psychoanalysis” Maria Farland: English, Fordham University Dissertation: “Sexual genesis: narrative form and gender in American literature, 1880-1918”
Susan Maslan: French, University California, Berkeley Dissertation: “Representations and theatricality in French revolutionary theater and politics” Mark McGurl: English, University of California, Los Angeles Dissertation: “The novel inside out: forms of distinction in James, Crane, Faulkner and Hammett” Philip Vogt: Humanities, Lawrence Technological University Dissertation: “Figures of continuity and modernity in Locke” Robert Mankin: Institute Charles V, Universit é Paris 7 Dissertation: “A history of contempt: Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”
Katherine Rudolph: Philosophy, DePaul University Dissertation: “This body of my dreams: Descartes and Augustine on the body of language” Joanne Wood: English, Indiana University at Bloomington Dissertation: “Artificial bodies: British modernism and the idea of form”
Dissertation: “Race in the making of American liberalism: 1912-1965”
Dissertation: “Household stuff: Shakespeare's domestic economies”
Brigitte Gerl: Towson State University Dissertation: “Modern bodies: D.H. Lawrence, H.D., and the psychoanalytic movement”
Alan Keenan: Social Sciences, Harvard University Dissertation: “The democratic question: on the rule of the people and the paradoxes of political freedom” Bridget McDonald: Fellowship to France Dissertation: “Pensée, plagiary: Pascal and the moderns” Sharon Marcus: English, UC, Berkeley Dissertation: “Restless houses: domesticity and urban culture in Paris and London, 1820-1888” David Wittenberg: English and Comparative Literature, University of Iowa Dissertation: “Philosophical revision: a reading of Heidegger's Nietzsche” Paul Nelles: Warburg Institute, University of London Dissertation: “The public library and the late humanist scholarship in early modern Europe: antiquarianism and encyclopaedism” Elizabeth Pittenger: English, UC, Berkeley Dissertation: “The traffic in pages: pedagogy, pederasty, and printing in the English Renaissance” Tim Walters: NYU, Rochester Dissertation: “Hegel's last words and the critique of speculative idea”
Kevin Pask: Concordia University, Montreal Dissertation: “The emergence of the English author: pre-scripting the life of the poet in early modern England” Shaun Irlam: Comparative Literature, SUNY, Buffalo Dissertation: “Unworlding and otherworldliness: enthusiasm, epiphany, and typology in the poetry of James Thomson and Edward Young” Akira Lippit: Department of Cinema, San Francisco State University Dissertation: “Wildlife after death: zoomorphology and modernism” Christy Burns: English, College of William & Mary Dissertation: “The mirror and the razor crossed: the politics of parody in James Joyce's Ulysses and Finnegans wake”
Karin Cope: English, McGill University Dissertation: “Gertrude Stein, Pablo Picasso, and the love of error” Beatrice Hanssen: Germanic Languages and Literature, Harvard University Dissertation: “Walter Benjamin's other history of stones, animals, human beings, and angels” Saul Myers: MICA, University of Baltimore Dissertation: “Between gold and oblivion: the poetry of Paul Celan and the persistence of extinguished memory” Gregory Sims: Bryn Mawr Dissertation: “Essaying prudence: Montaigne and the semiotics of diversion” Susan Bernstein: Comparative Literature, Brown University Dissertation: “Virtuosity of the nineteenth-century : music and language in Heine, Liszt and Baudelaire”
Robin Avner: SUNY Binghamton Dissertation: “Literature as leaven : George Eliot on fiction, figurative language, and culture” Margaret Leahey: New Hampshire College & University Counsel Dissertation: “To hear with my eyes : the native language acquisition project in the Jesuit relations” Jay Tribby: History, University of Florida Dissertation: “Eloquence and experiment : essays on the civil gestures of inquiry in seventeenth-century France and Italy” Joseph Marino History, Hood College Dissertation: “Renaissance ideas of ambience and the practice of letters: studies in continuity and change in the works and careers of Francesco Petrarca, Giovanni Gherardi da Prato, Baldassar Castiglione, and Sperone Speroni”
JoAnn Pilardi: Towson State University Dissertation: “Simone de Beauvoir’s notion of the self: philosophy becomes autobiographical” Peter Fenves: German, Northwestern University Dissertation: “A peculiar fate: Kant and the question of world-history” Elizabeth Watson: Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas Dissertation: “Achille Bocchi and the emblem book as symbolic form”
Jay Gillen: Principal of Stadium School (Baltimore, MD) Dissertation: “Rhetorical invention in the poetry of Robert Browning” Susan Derwin: Comparative Literature, UC, Santa Barbara Dissertation: “The renunciation of mimesis: theory and practice of the novel” Jeffrey Wallen: Humanities & Arts, Hampshire College Dissertation: “Aesthetic vision and revision: Walter Pater’s portraiture” Susan White: English, University of Arizona Dissertation: “The cinema of Max Ophuls: marginality, magisterial vision and the figure of woman” Neil Saccamano English, Cornell University Dissertation: “Publication, interpretation, and neoclassicism : the case of Swift “ Beatrice Marie: English, George Mason University Dissertation: “Echoes of revolution : early Victorian narrative and French fictional models”
Peter Murphy: English, Williams College Dissertation: “Popular charms: popularity and its influence on some Romantic literary careers |