Graduate Alumni Data - UNC English & Comparative Literature

Degree Recipients since 2006

Name	Graduation Year	Current Position	Dissertation Director	Dissertation Title
Heather E Epes	2006	General Administrator at Montessori Day School	Todd Taylor	Methodologies of *relationship: Risking self-(re)definition through communities and dialogues of difference
Marc K Dudley	2006	Professor of English at NC State University	Townsend Ludington	Drawing the (color)line: Hemingway's America, Africa, and the question(ing) of authority
Regina F Bartolone	2006	Leadership Coach at Bartolone Coaching	Martine Antle	Re-thinking the language of pain in the works of Marguerite Duras and Frida Kahlo
Nora L Corrigan	2007	Professor of English at Mississippi University of Women	Alan Dessen	English commoners and communities on the early modern stage
Patrick Cooper	2007	Manager of Technology and Training at Sullivan and Cromwell LLP	John McGowan	“A vision of human claims”: George Eliot's challenge to Victorian selfishness
Kristen Carella	2007	Professor of English at Assumption University	Patrick O'Neill	Alcuin and Alfred: Two Anglo -Saxon legal reformers
James A Crank	2007	Associate Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of Alabama	Linda Wagner-Martin	James Agee and the wounded body
Jose L Venegas	2007	Professor of Spanish and Interdisciplinary Humanities at Wake Forest University	Diane Leonard	Decolonizing modernism: James Joyce and the development of contemporary Spanish American narrative
Kathleen B Rogers	2007	Professor and Director of Medical Humanities at College of Charleston	Jeanne Moskal	Medical poems and the Romantic rise of disciplinarity
Clare Little	2007	Associate Professor of Humanities and Communication at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University	Beverly Taylor	A new “look” at the canon: De -familiarizing the works of Thackeray, Dickens, Collins, and Gaskell through a recovery of their illustrations
Sean P Knierim	2007	Partner and Co-founder of Sideporch, Partner at Estabrook Carbon, Professor of Practice at Arizona State University, Partner and Co-Founder of The Liminal Collective	Monica Rector	Literatures of urban development: World Bank literature and the chronicles of Rio de Janeiro and Mexico City
Supritha Rajan	2007	Associate Professor of English at University of Rochester	John McGowan	The rites and relics of value: Sacrifice and communality in nineteenth-century political economy, anthropology, and fiction
Patricia D Patrick	2007	Dean and Associate Professor of Arts and Letters at Brigham Young University Hawaii	Jessica Wolfe	Judgment in early modern England, 1580–1615
Donald Douglas Wells Jr	2007		Reid Barbour	Political Platonism in the English Renaissance
John D Kitchens	2007	Honors Faculty at Colorado State University	Lynda Stone	Orientation and education: Critical constellations in the new millennium
Philip J Kowalski	2007	Independent scholar and poet	Jane Thrailkill	Cultural genetics: Theories of inheritance and nineteenth-century American literature
Amy N Mcguff	2007		Pamela Cooper	Intimate terror: Gender, domesticity, and violence in Irish and Indian novels of partition
Timothy R Jecmen	2007	Manager of Instructional Design at Atria Management Company	Philip Gura	Writing the Revolution: Radicalism and the United States historical romance, 1835–1860
Timothy S Hayes	2007	Associate Professor of English and Chair of Chowan University English Department	John McGowan	Stories of things remote: (Re)placing the self in 19th-century adventure fiction
Carrie R Matthews	2007	Associate Teaching Professor of English at the University of Washington	John McGowan & Eric Downing	Articulations of anarchist modernism: Putting art to work
Suzanne Shrell Bolt	2007		Joseph Flora	A view to a cure: Narrative quest and healing transformation in the work of Reynolds Price
Heather L Klomhaus	2007		Eric Downing	Negative visions: The referential authority of photography in contemporary literary fiction
Eileen Margaret Anderson	2008	Lecturing Fellow of Romance Studies at Duke University	Maria DeGuzman and Nicholas Allen	Resisting anglicization: Irish and Puerto Rican intersections in New York in the twentieth century
Kinitra D Brooks	2008	Leslie Endowed Chair in Literary Studies and Associate Professor in the Department of English at Michigan State University	Trudier Harris	The black maternal: Heterogeneity and resistance in literary representations of black mothers in 20th century African American and Afro-Caribbean women's fiction
Sarah A Miller	2008	Associate Professor of Classics and Chair at Duquesne University	Dorothy Verkerk	The Milan Diptych: A sixth-century gospel book cover in the political landscape of Ravenna
Tessa J. Nicholas	2008	Teaching Professor, Director of Digital Arts and Humanities Projects and a Lecturer at the Department of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	William Harmon	Imagining community: Individual influence and group cohesion in American avant-garde poetry and poetics
Derek J Thiess	2008	Assistant Professor at University of North Georgia	Clayton Koelb	Miller's milieu, or the cultural moments of late humanism: Science and religion in the golden age of science fiction
Jennifer L. Larson	2008	Director of Credit Programs and Summer School, Digital and Lifelong Learning & Teaching Professor in English and Comparative Literature at UNC Chapel Hill	Trudier Harris	The revisionary aesthetic of Suzan -Lori Parks: “Hear the bones sing, write it down”
Alex Charles Mcaulay	2008	Film director and novelist	Pamela Cooper	Surfing the interzones: Posthuman geographies in twentieth century literature and film
Molly M Westerman	2008	Article Writer at Mutha Magazine	Pamela Cooper	Narrating historians: Crises of historical authority in twentieth-century British fiction
Nathaniel E Cadle	2008	Assistant Professor and Faculty Advisor in English at Florida International University	Jane Thrailkill	The mediating nation: American literature and globalization from Henry James to Woodrow Wilson
Kara N Getrost	2008	Senior Lecturer at University of Dayton	Eric Downing & John McGowan	From innocent play to imperial survey: Adolescent rites of passage in the British and German adventure novels of sub -Saharan Africa, 1870–1905
William A Nolan	2008	Deceased	Eric Downing & John McGowan	Capturing life: Zoological gardens and the emergence of cinema
Maria C Bortolotto	2008	Adjunct Senior Lecturer at University of New England	Maria DeGuzman & Tanya Shields	Blushing to be: Shame and the narration of subjectivity in contemporary U.S. -Caribbean fiction
Thomas R Spencer	2008	Associate Professor of German & Russian at Brigham Young Univeristy	Alice Kuzniar	“Was ist gott?” The representation of the divine in Friedrich Hölderlin
Paul M Worley	2009	Associate Professor of Global Literature at Western Carolina University	Rosa Perelmuter	Telling and being told: Storytelling and cultural control in contemporary Mexican and Yukatek Maya texts
Courtney L Vien	2009	Editor-in-Chief at AICPA's Journal of Accountancy	Allan Life	The inward mirror: George Meredith and the psyche
Maura M D'Amore	2009	Professor of English at St. Michael's College	Philip Gura	“Country life within city reach”: Masculine domesticity in suburban America, 1819–1871
Camille T. Passalacqua	2009		Trudier Harris	The corporeal trauma narratives of Gayl Jones's “Corregidora, ” Phyllis Alesia Perry's “Stigmata” and Luisa Valenzuela's “Cambio de armas”
Marc Philip Napolitano	2009	Director of Faculty Development at United States Air Force Academy	Allan Life	“Reviewing the situation”: Oliver! and the musical afterlife of Dickens's novels
Anne J Menkens	2009	Self-Employed Writing / Project Consultant	Reid Barbour	“And in another make me understood”: Reading George Herbert in the light of his contemporaries
Elizabeth V Keim Harper	2009	Associate Professor of English at Mercer University	Joseph Wittig	Gifts and economic exchange in Middle English religious writing
Karah E Rempe	2009	Pastry Chef and Owner of Dutch Baby Bakery	Eliza Richards & Philip Gura	Intimacy in print: Literary celebrity and public interiority in nineteenth-century American literature
Jennifer L Cadwallader	2009	Professor of English at Randolph-Macon College	Beverly Taylor	Spirits of the age: Ghost stories and the Victorian psyche
Anne L Bruder	2009	Dean Of Academic Affairs at Deerfield Academy	Eliza Richards	Outside the classroom walls: Alternative pedagogies in American literature and culture, 1868–1910
Melissa M Caldwell	2009	Professor and Department Advisor at Eastern Illinois University Department of English	Reid Barbour	The outlines of skepticism: The problem of moral authority in early modern England
Aman Ya Nadhiri	2009		Joseph Wittig	Sarasins and Franks: Perceptions of self and the other in 12th -15th century literature
Timothy W Galow	2009	Professor of English at Carroll University	Linda Wagner-Martin	Writing celebrity: Modernism, authorial personas, and self -promotion in the early twentieth century United States
Nilanjana Dutta	2009	Adjunct Faculty of Composition at George Mason University	Sucheta Mazumdar	“Scott of Bengal”: Examining the European legacy in the historical novels of Bankimchandra Chatterjee
Margaret F Swezey	2009	Assistant Director of the Duke University Writing Studio	Joseph Wittig	Courtship and the making of marriage in early Middle English romance
Erin L Ashworth-King	2009	Professor and Department Chair of English and Modern Languages at Angelo State University	Reid Barbour	The ethics of satire in early modern English literature
William M. Russell	2009	Professor of English at the Department of English at the College of Charleston	Jessica Wolfe	The invention of the critic in England, 1570–1640
Carine R Applegarth	2009	Assistant Professor of English at UNC Greensboro	Jane Danielewicz	Other grounds: Popular genres and the rhetoric of anthropology, 1900–1940
Sarah O Hallenbeck	2009	Associate Professor of English & Composition Coordinator at UNC Wilmington	Jane Danielewicz & Jordynn Jack	Writing the bicycle: Women, rhetoric, and technology in late nineteenth-century America
Mary Raschko	2009	Associate Professor of English at Whitman College	Joseph Wittig & Fiona Somerset	Rendering the word: Vernacular accounts of the parables in late medieval England
Jennifer Bolton Verdun	2009	President of Magnolia Bough Jewelry & Gifts LLC	Reid Barbour	Cultivating power: Transformations of the gardener-king trope in the interregnum and the restoration
Deric J Corlew	2010	Business Development Director at Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)	George Lensing	“Nerves in patterns”: Synaptic space, neuroscience, and American modernist poetry
Gerald A Miller	2010	English Department Author at Alamance Community College	Gregory Flaxman	Variables of the human: Theoretical utopianisms and heterotopian science fictions
Sarah Wood Anderson	2010	Senior Lecturer at University of Wisconsin-Madison	Linda Wagner-Martin	Readings of trauma and madness in Hemingway, H.D., and Fitzgerald
Genevieve E. Romeo	2010	Editor for Hire at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Writing Center	Jessica Wolfe	Vessels of vengeance: Divine wrath and human instruments in early modern revenge tragedy
Michael Bogucki	2010	Professor of Arts And Humanities at Minerva University @KGI	John McGowan & Nicholas Allen	Brutal phantoms: Modernism, anti-theatricality, and Irish drama
Dustin L Mengelkoch	2010		Jessica Wolfe	Papinian mutability: Statius and early modernity
Zachary Mcleod Hutchins	2010	Associate Professor of English at Colorado State University	Philip Gura	Inventing Eden: Primitivism, millennialism, and the making of New England
Roger M Jackson	2010	Associate Professor of English and Modern Languages at Angelo State University	Reid Barbour	The prolongation of life in early modern English literature and culture, with emphasis on Francis Bacon
Robert L Martinez II	2010	Associate Professor of English at Eastern Illinois University	Pamela Cooper & John McGowan	No future: The realist impulse in dystopian fictions in Britain, 1973–1987
Matthew J Luter	2010	Upper English School Teacher at St. Andrew's Episcopal School	Linda Wagner-Martin	Writing the devouring neon: Celebrity and audience in American literature 1973–2003
Nicholas M. Gaskill	2010	Associate Professor of American Literature at Oxford University	Jane Thrailkill	Vibrant environments: The feel of color from the white whale to the red wheelbarrow
Mary Alice Kirkpatrick	2010	Director of Strategic Initiatives and Communication at Furman University	Minrose Gwin	The Present Elsewhere: Theorizing an aesthetics of displacement in contemporary African American and postcolonial literatures
Catherine O. Clark	2010	Assistant Professor of English and French at Averett University	Erin Carlston & Eric Downing	Reading Sapphic modernism: Belle époque poésie and poetic prose
Rania Chelala	2010	Part-Time Writer in Italy	Linda Wagner-Martin	Border-crossing laughter: Humor in the short fiction of Mark Twain, Mikhail Naimy, Edgar Allan Poe, and Emile Habiby
Kevin Parker Eubanks	2010	Associate Professor of Writing and Electives at U.S. Naval War College	Eric Downing	A poetics of “Care, ” or time and the “Dasein” of modernism in Thomas Mann and Martin Heidegger (1924/1947)
Sarah K Cantrell	2010	Lecturer at the University of Tennessee Knoxville	Shayne Legassie	Errant Latin: The Transformation of Language in Medieval Missions to the Mongol Empire
Toby L Weisslitz	2010	Instructional Specialist at College of Communication and Information at Florida State University	Jessica Wolfe	Beyond the Bosphorus: The Holy Land in English Reformation Literature, 1516–1596
Hannah L Rigby	2011	Adjunct Instructor of English at University of Mississippi	Eliza Richards	Contentment and Its Discontents
Amanda M Page	2011	Associate Professor of English at Juniata College	María DeGuzmán; Miriam Cooke	Translators and Interpreters in Iraq War Literature
Leslie Davison	2011	Proposal Coordinator at Mindwire Systems Ltd	Marsha Collins; Inger Brodey	Echoes of Honor: A Comparative Analysis of Blood, Honor, and Revenge from Spanish and Japanese Drama to the Digital Age
Marc D Cohen	2011	Teaching Associate Professor at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill	Florence Dore	Books of Life: Post-DNA Life Science in 1960s American Fiction
Robert Alden Rubin	2011	Author, Editorial Consultant at The Book Doc	Miriam Cooke; Gregory Flaxman	Mediterranean Dream-Places: The Past and Future of Surrealism in Late Twentieth-century Arab Literature
Heather R Ross	2011	Adjunct Professor at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Danielle Christmas	To Be Continued: Literary Identities in Transition
Sarah E Clere	2011	Visiting Assistant Professor at The Citadel	Jennifer Ho	Fabric Thinking: Blending Text and Textile
Jonathan Lee D'Amore	2011	Special Assistant to the President of the University of Vermont	Joseph Buttgrieg	The Writing Life: Authorship and Authority in Recent American Autobiographical Narratives
Cynthia A Current	2011	Associate Teaching Professor at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill	John McGowan	Technology and the Archive: Framing Identity in American Literature, 1880–1914
Wilson Ron Kaiser	2011	Professor at Florida State College at Jacksonville	Frederico Lusetti; Richard Canti	Partial Affinities: Fascism and the Politics of Representation in Interwar America
Winifred A Ernst	2011	Co-Founder and Executive Coach/Expert Facilitator at Blue Waters Associates	Thomas A. Stumpf	John Dryden: The Old Lion in 1700
Sarah H Ficke	2011	Associate Professor at Marymount University	William Andrews; Laurie Langbauer	Pirates, Runaways, and Long-Lost Princes: Race and National Identity in Transatlantic Adventure Fiction
Nathaniel Doyle Stogdill	2011	9th Grade Dean & Coordinator and Program Director of JumpStart at Polytechnic School	Reid Barbour	“Plastic power”: Imagining adaptability in seventeenth-century England
Michael Eugene Cornett	2011	Associate Director and Director of Undergraduate Studies for Duke's Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies		The form of confession a later medieval genre for examining conscience
Anna M Panszczyk	2011	Master Lecturer at Boston University	Madeline Levine	Dollhood: The Doll as a Space of Duality in 20th-Century Literature and Art
Jennifer Patricia Flaherty	2011	Associate Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Georgia College State University	Jessica Wolfe	“Chronicles of our time:” Feminism and postcolonialism in appropriations of Shakespeare's plays
Elena Grear Oxman	2012	Director/Writer/Taught Film History at UNC, Duke, Stanford, and the College of San Mateo	Gregory Flaxman	“Images without metaphor”: Re-visioning French film theory
Sarah R Lindsay	2012		Edward Donald Kennedy	Questioning chivalry in the Middle English Gawain romances
Jennifer Ann Williamson	2012	Vice President of Gender and Social Inclusion at ACDI/VOCA	Linda Wagner-Martin	Sentimental appropriations: Contemporary sympathy in the novels of Grace Lumpkin, Josephine Johnson, John Steinbeck, Margaret Walker, Octavia Butler, and Toni Morrison
Kelly B Ross	2012	Assistant Professor of English at Rider University	Eliza Richards	Marks and Traces: The Origins of Literary Detection in the Antebellum United States
Katherine L Carlson-Eastvold	2012	Instructor of Capital Scholars Honors Program at University of Illinois Springfield	Laurie Langbauer	Artful artlessness: Authorship, appropriation, and the creative child, 1858–1920
Melissa Dee Birkhofer	2012	Instructor in the English Department/Director of the U.S. Latinx Studies program at Western Carolina	Maria Guzmán	Bordering borders: Gender politics and contemporary Latina literature
Angela Marie Calcaterra	2012	Associate Professor of English at University of Northern Texas	Eliza Richards	American Indians and the grounds of American literary history
Erin Lee Branch	2012	Associate Teaching Professor/Director of the Writing Program at Wake Forest University	Jane Danielewicz; Jordynn Jack	Transforming Tastes: M. F. K. Fisher, Julia Child, Alice Waters and the Revision of American Food Rhetorics
Harry Osborne Thomas Jr	2012	Learner Engagement Strategist with Beyond the Professionate	Minrose Gwin	Sissy!: The effeminate grotesque in U.S. literature and culture since 1940
Jonathan Thomas Risner	2012	Associate Professor/Associate Chair Spanish and Portuguese	Maria DeGuzmán; Joanne Hershfield	Blood runs: The circulation of Argentine horror cinema in Argentina and the United States
Julie E Fann	2012	Therapist at Julie Fann Counseling, PLLC	Megan Matchinkse	Stories of God and Gall: Presbyterian polemic during the conformity wars of mid-seventeenth-century England and Scotland
Stephanie Shawn Morgan	2012	Director of Education and Edtech at CompTIA	Daniel Anderson	The write match: Women's rhetorosociality in online dating
Matthew Paul Carlson	2012	Associate Professor of English at High Point University	George Lensing	W. H. Auden and opera: Studies of the libretto as literary form
David Cooper Phillips	2012	Instructor of English at Wake Technical Community College	John McGowan	Black blood/red ink: Fact, fiction, and authorial self-representation in Vladimir Nabokov's “Look at the Harlequins!, ” Marguerite Duras' “L'Amant de la Chine du Nord, ” and Philip Roth's “Operation Shylock: A Confession”
Allison Margaret Bigelow	2012	Tom Scully Discovery Chair Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Virginia	Timothy Marr	Mining empire, planting empire: The colonial scientific literatures of the Americas
Robert E Barham	2012	Associate Professor of English at Covenent College	Jessica Wolfe	Rhetorical failure in English Renaissance literature
Heather L Branstetter	2012	Writer and Director of Historic Wallace Preservation Society	Jordynn Jack; Jane Danielewicz	An ALFA-Omega approach to rhetorical invention: Queer revolutionary pragmatism and political education
Erich Werner	2012	Associate Professor of English at Westchester Community College	Jordynn Jack; Dr. Daniel Anderson	Rants, Reactions, and other Rhetorics: Genres of the YouTube Vlog
Sarah Elizabeth Parker	2012	Associate Professor of English at Jacksonville University	Jessica Wolfe	Contrary signs: Categorizing illness in early modern literature
Marco Alexandre De Oliveira	2012	Independent scholar	Federico Luisetti; Walter Mignolo	Cannibal logic: Latin America under the sign of an other thinking
Karen Cruz Stapleton	2012		María DeGuzmán	Reading food: Gender, ethnicity, and transnational identities in Latina literature
Aram Jonathan Shepherd	2012	Faculty Member at Mission College	María DeGuzmán	The contours of America: Latin America and the borders of modernist literature in the United States
Pablo Maurette	2013	Associate Professor of English at Florida State University	Jessica Wolfe	Touch, hands, kiss, skin: Tactility in early modern Europe
Kwangtaek Han	2013		Eliza Richards	Spectral substances of democracy: Agency, affect, and power in American romance
Robert D Lupton	2013		Thomas Reinert	Letters & Laws: How Literary Genre Shaped 18th-Century Clubs
Joseph Stephen Wallace	2013	Associate Editor at the Modern Language Association of America	Reid Barbour; Jessica Wolfe	Pagan Fictions: Literature and False Religion in England, 1550–1650
Seth M. Martin	2013		George Lensing	The Poetics of Return: Five Contemporary Irish Poets and America
Graham W Culbertson	2013	Teaching Assistant Professor at UNC-Chapel Hill	John McGowan; Jane F. Thrailkill	Life was doing something new: The making of the American metropolis, 1870-1920
Adrian L Greene	2013	Part-Time Professor of English at Wake Forest University and Associate Dean of Admissions Communications	Philip Gura	The war against weariness: Imaginative energies in southern American novels (1864-1918)
Michael J Rulon	2013	Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Global Languages and Cultures at Northern Arizona University	Martine Antle	Intimate selving and healing in women's writing of postcolonial warfare
Samantha Michele Riley	2013	Executive Director of the Lonely Entrepreneur	Juan Carlos González Espitia	Absurdist-ethics and radical agency in AIDS cinema: Erotic genealogies, absurd laughter, and grotesque aesthetics
Erin Bartels Buller	2013	Writing Coach at Brave Writer	Minrose Gwin	The unlocked room problem: Evidence and interpretation in twentieth-century investigation narratives
Kelly L Bezio	2013	Graduate Coordinator/Associate Professor of English at Texas A&M University	Jane F. Thrailkill	Communicable Disease in the American Literary Imagination
Kathleen Robin Curtin	2013	Assistant Professor of English at Concordia University Chicago	Reid Barbour	Honey from the lion: Interpretation and religious persecution in early modern English autobiography
William Oliver Taylor	2013		Eric Downing	Birth of an artistic Socrates: The motivations and form of Nietzsche's classicism 1869-1872
Katherine I Shrieves	2013	Associate Teaching Professor of English at University of Massachussetts Lowell	Mary Floyd-Wilson	Animate texts: Hieroglyphic reading practices in early modern England, 1564-1658
Benjamin G Sammons	2013	Assistant Professor of English at Wingate University	Linda Wagner-Martin	Reforming readers: Agency and activism in the Long Progressive Era
Evan August Gurney	2013	Associate Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Asheville	Reid Barbour	Discontented charity: Theology, community, and hermeneutics, more to Milton
Emily Marie Brewer	2013	Writer, Designer, and Project Manager at Legacy Storybooks	Jeanne Moskal	A lady novelist and the late eighteenth-century book trade: Charlotte Smith's letters to publisher Thomas Cadell, Sr., 1786-94
Elissa Mara Zellinger	2013	Associate Professor of English at Texas Tech University	Eliza Richards	Lyrical strains: 1820-1920
Christopher J Mckenna	2013	Associate Professor of Business Communication, Nelson Rusche College of Business at Stephen F. Austin State University	Timothy Marr	Chasing Mr. C: Early motion-picture exhibition in Robeson County, North Carolina (1896-1950)
Jennifer Neale Mcdaneld	2013	Adjunct Assistant Professor of English at the University of Portland	Jane Thrailkill; Robyn Wiegman	Splitting Suffrage: 1869 and the Narrative Forms of Race and Gender in U.S. Feminism
Aaron David Shackelford	2013	Director of Programming for Duke Arts	Eliza Richards	Unfamiliar war: Literature & trauma in the American Civil War
Lauren Nicole Cameron	2013	Assistant Teaching Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University	Beverly Taylor	Renegotiating Science: British Women Novelists and Evolution Controversies, 1826-1876
Euan D Griffiths	2013	Senior Quality Control Specialist at Synger-G Biopharma Group	Edward Donald Kennedy	Varieties in Translation: Adaptation and Translation between French and English Arthurian Romance
Kristen E Lacefield	2013	Lecturer of English and Film Studies at Texas Christian University	Beverly Taylor	Mary Shelley's novels, the guillotine, and contemporary horror film
Danielle Nicole Johnson	2013	Writer and editor	Minrose Gwin; Bland Simpson	I'm glad I gave all my heart: The fiction of Lee Smith
Elizabeth Ashley Brimmer Hall	2013		Daniel Anderson	Emergent design: Tracing and studying knowledge transfer through composition networks
Sarah Elizabeth Marsh	2013	Associate Professor of English/Director of DE&I Curriculum Development in the Liberal Arts at Seton Hill University	Jeanne Moskal	The regency novel and the British constitution: Austen, Brunton, Shelley, and the culture of romantic decline
Meredith Marie Malburne-Wade	2013	Director of the Office of Fellowships and Awards (OFA); Student Awards, Initiatives, and Research (STAIR) at James Madison University	Maria DeGuzmán	Revision as resistance in twentieth-century American drama
Patrick Emmet Horn	2013	English Teacher at Northern High School, Durham Public Schools	Rebecka Rutledge-Fisher	Narrative empathy for "the other" in American literature, 1845-1945
Ashley K Reed	2014	Assistant Professor of English at Virginia Tech	Jane Thrailkill	Gender, race, and secular agency in American Protestant fiction, 1820-1870
Stephanie Adair Rispoli	2014		Reid Barbour; Paul Youngquist	Anatomy, vitality, and the Romantic Body: Blake, Coleridge, and the Hunter Circle, 1750-1840
Jena Abdullah Al-Fuhaid	2014		Jeanne Moskal	Feminine-centered history and the "good cause" in Mary Shelley's "Perkin Warbeck"
Luke William Mills	2014	Associate Professor of English at Wingate University	Joseph Wittig	Religious oaths in the Chaucerian fabliaux
Rebecca L Nesvet	2014	Associate Professor in the Center for Food in Community & Culture at University of Wisconsin Green Bay	Jeanne Moskal	The vanishing voyager and the emerging outsider, 1818-1930
Benjamin E Rogerson	2014	Assistant Professor of Practice at Texas Tech University	Gregory Flaxman	Art/work: White-collar creativity, 1960-1970
Catherine Jane Massie	2014		Joseph Viscomi	Romantic frames of mind: Vision and sympathy in British novels of the nineteenth century
Chelsea Redeker Milbourne	2014	Assistant Professor of Technical & Professional Communication and the Rhetoric of Science/ English Major advisor at California Polytechnic State University	Jordynn Jack; Jane Danielewicz	Revisions of nature: Spectacle, gender, and public science rhetoric in eighteenth-century Great Britain
Lynn Ann Badia	2014	Assistant Professor of English and Environmental Humanities at Colorado State University	Lawrence Grossberg; Tyler Curtain	A universe of forces: Energy in early twentieth-century theory and literature
Zackary Dwayne Vernon	2014	Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies (English) at Appalachian State University	Fred Hobson	Haunted by waters: The hydropolitics of American literature and film, 1960-1980
Kevin Robert Kritsch	2014		Patrick O'Neill	Apostles, apostolicity & apocrypha: The literary reception and treatment of the twelve apostles in Anglo-Saxon England with a study of the cult of St. Andrew
Jessica Lynn Martell	2014	Assistant Professor, Member of the Graduate School Faculty: Department of Interdisciplinary Studies at Appalachian State University	Gregory Flaxman	In formlessness and appetite: Modernist form and imperial food politics, 1890-1922
Scott Daniel Dill	2014	Medical Writer at NAMSA	Florence Dore; Gregory Flaxman	The only crucial clocks: Secular time in the contemporary American novel
Rosa Arrington Heath Sledge	2015		Jane Thrailkill; John McGowan	Reading fashions, fashioning readings: Genre, style, and sartorial semiotics in nineteenth-century American literature
Lena Jeanette Brown	2015		Todd Taylor	Kicking ass is comfort food: Television and the feminist heroick
Benjamin Clay Mangrum	2015	Assistant Professor of Literature at MIT	John McGowan	Land of Tomorrow: The postwar novel and the rise of the New Conservative movement
Lauren Garrett	2015	Upper School English teacher at Durham Academy	Mary Floyd-Wilson	In praise of debt: Affective economics in early modern English literature
Susan Bramley Thananopavarn	2015	Lecturing Fellow in Thompson Writing Program at Duke University	Jennifer Ho; Maria DeGuzman	LatinAsian Nation: Re-imagining United States history through contemporary Asian American and Latina/o literature
Emily Dawn Bunner	2015		Todd Taylor	In network: Gaming theory as a strategy for building digital health literacy
Kathryn Ann Jacob Caprino	2015	Assistant Professor of Education PK-12 at Elizabethtown College	Cheryl Bolick	Investigating an online study group as a path to critical digital writing for four middle grades English teachers: A qualitative study
John David Ribo	2015	Assistant Professor of English at Florida State University	Maria DeGuzmán	Decolonizing the Caribbean borderlands: The Haitian revolution in contemporary Latina/o cultural production
Paul Joseph Stapleton	2015	Research Triangle High School	Jessica Wolfe	The cross in Elizabethan England: An image in an age of iconoclasm
Kathleen Crosby	2015	Lecturer in English at Elon University	Philip Gura	Geographies of the mind: Narrative spaces and literary landscapes in William Gilmore Simms's antebellum fiction
Adam Forrest Mccune	2016	Novelist; Data Analyst at Brain Power Software	Laurie Langbauer	The little actor: Performing childhood in nineteenth-century British literature
Jittima Pruttipurk	2016		Jane Thrailkill	The gendered subject of turn-of-the century American fiction
Kevin Michael Chovanec	2016		Reid Barbour	Pan-protestant heroism in early modern England
Meagan Lynne Blair	2016		Beverly Taylor	Anticontagionism and social reform in nineteenth-century transatlantic literature
Sarah R Workman	2016	Assistant Director for Proposal Development in Office of Research Development (Humanities)	Eric Carlston; Heidi Kim	The strange play of traumatic reality: Enchantment in Jewish American literature
James Bolling	2016	Writer at The New Futurists	Megan Matchinske	Serial historiography: Literature, narrative history, and the anxiety of truth
Lauren Du Graf	2016	Freelance Writer and Producer	Inger Brodey	Ambivalent Americanism: U.S. Literary Modernism in France and Algeria after 1940
Jameela Fay Dallis	2016	Writer, Tarot Reader, Scholar	Minrose Gwin; Shayne Legassie	Haunted narratives: The afterlife of Gothic aesthetics in contemporary transatlantic women's fiction
Vaughn Stewart	2016	Director, Digital ACT Studio at UNCG	Jessica Wolfe	Reading Nobility: Authority and Early English Print
Vera R Foley	2016	Visiting Assistant Professor in English at Gustavus Adolphus College	Philip Gura	The home front revisited: Visions of union from professional women writers of the American North, 1859-1877
Benjamin Joshua Doty	2016	Assistant Professor of English, Literature and Language and Chair of the Department of English Literature and Language at St. Mary's University		The anatomy of conscience: Science, ethics, and religion in nineteenth-century American literature
Jeffrey Tyler Gibbons	2016	Academy Professor at United States Military Academy at West Point	Jennifer Ho	Asian American war stories: Trauma and healing in contemporary Asian American literature
Jane Lim	2016	Associate Professor of Humanities at Seoul National University	Laurie Langbauer	Imaginary translators: The boundaries of the English novel, 1763-1818
Lindsay Rebecca Starck	2016	Assistant Director of MFA Program & Associate Professor at Augsburg University	Gregory Flaxman; Erin Carlston	News that stays news: Transformations of literature, gossip, and community in modernity
Joseph A. Fletcher	2016	Teaching Assistant Professor of English at UNC	Joseph Viscomi	Quid's pantheism: William Blake as natural philosopher
Meredith A Farmer	2016	Assistant Teaching Professor of English at Wake Forest	Jessica Wolfe; Timothy Marr	Melville's ontology
Helen Hye Eun Lee	2016	Lecturer in Asian Languages and Literature at University of Washington	Jane Danielewicz	Imprisoned voices: The rhetorics of community in prison writings
Sheila J Nayar	2017	Adjunct Professor of Film and Media Arts at the University of Utah		Print, Powder, Compass: Technological Inter-Animation and Early Modern Literature
Oren Maxwell Abeles	2017	Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition and Interim Director of Composition Program at Michigan Tech	Jordynn Jack	The Agricultural Climax and Darwin's Evolutionary Rhetoric
Donato Fhunsu	2017	Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Africana Studies at Bowdoin College	Inger S. B. Brodey; Todd Ramón Ochoa	The Kongo Rule: The Palo Monte Mayombe Wisdom Society ("Reglas De Congo: Palo Monte Mayombe"): A Book by Lydia Cabrera. An English Translation from the Spanish
Doreen Thierauf	2017	Assistant Professor of English, General Education Program Coordinator, Assistant Director of the Teaching and Learning Center at North Carolina Wesleyan University	Beverly Taylor; Ruth Salvaggio	Spectacularly Conceived: Sexual Violence and Burdened Motherhood in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
Christin Mary Mulligan	2017		Pamela A. Cooper	Intimate Cartographies: Irish and Diasporic Explorations of Gendered Space
Jennifer M Park	2017	Lecturer in Early Modern English at University of Glasgow	Mary Floyd-Wilson	Immortal Longings: Towards a Poetics of Preservation on the Early Modern Stage
Philip Sandick	2017	Assistant Teaching Professor of English at Georgetown University	Daniel Anderson; Jordynn Jack	Bits Creating Bonds: Lore as a Form of History in Creative Writing and Composition Pedagogy
Sarah Elizabeth Boyd	2017	Teaching Assistant Professor of English at UNC	Eliza Richards	Masculinity and the Highly Wrought Style in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Adam J Engel	2017	Client Training Manager at Triumvirate Environmental	Pamela A. Cooper	Between Two Worlds: The Functions of Liminal Space in Twentieth-Century Literature
Annette Rebecca Pomeroy Shores	2017		Patrick P. O’Neill	Nautical Narratives in Anglo-Latin Hagiographies, ca. 700-1100
Lina Juliane Kuhn	2018	Lecturer at Elon University	Matthew Taylor; Eric Downing	Following Darwin: Biopolitics and the Grotesque in American and German Culture, 1890-1933
Patrick James Eichholz	2018	Assistant Professor of English at Virginia Military Institute	John McGowan	The Great War and the Annus Mirabilis
Alexis Seccombe Giachetti	2018	Educational Consultant at CIEE College Study Abroad and Multilingual Learners (ELL) Faculty at Carrboro High School	Federico Luisetti; John McGowan	Mid-Twentieth Century Meditations on Love in Europe
Andrew Robert Belton	2018	Assistant Professor of English at Oklahoma State University	GerShun Avilez	Hip Hop Illiterate: Hermeneutics for the Future of American Literary Theory and Criticism
Katherine Nicole Walker	2018	Assistant Professor of English at University of Nevada Las Vegas	Mary Floyd-Wilson	Reading the Natural and Preternatural Worlds in Early Modern Drama
Caitlin Grace Watt	2018	English Lecturer at Clemson University	Shayne Legassie	Authorship and the Discovery of Character in Medieval Romance
Robin Rudy Horton	2018	Peer Tutoring Specialist at UNC
Angela Gina O'Donnell	2018	Associate Director of Curan Center for American Catholic Studies at Fordham University	Joseph Viscomi; Richard Giannone	Radical Ambivalence: Race in Flannery O'Connor
Rae X Yan	2018	Assistant Professor of British Literature from 1830 to 1900 at the University of Florida	John McGowan; Beverly Taylor	This Seemingly So Solid Body: Philosophical Anatomy and Victorian Fiction
Suzanna Leigh Geiser	2018	Professor of Legal Research and Writing at Campbell University	James Thompson; Jeanne Moskal	Legal Fictions, Literary Narrative, and the Historical Truth: The Jurisprudence of Marriage in the Long Eighteenth Century
Kym Weed-Buzinski	2018	Teaching Assistant Professor of English, Co-Director of the HHIVE Lab, Associate Director of the Literature, Medicine and Culture Program at UNC	Thrailkill, Jane F.; Wald, Priscilla	Our Microbes: Imagining Human Interdependence with Bacteria in American Literature, Science, and Culture, 1880-1920
Leslie Jane Mcabee	2018	Teaching Assistant Professor of English at Marquette University	Eliza Richards	Menagerie to Me / My Neighbor Be: Exotic Animals and American Conscience, 1840-1900
Bethany Lam	2018	Teaching Professor of English at Xavier University	María DeGuzmán	Abjective Conflict among Mixed Race Mother-Daughter Dyads in Modern and Contemporary U.S. Women's Prose
Rachel Anne Norman	2018	Director of Writing and Assistant Professor at Linfield University	María DeGuzmán	Multilingual Arabesques in the Novel in North America
Leroy Lamar Wilson	2018	Assistant Professor of English at Florida State University	GerShun Avilez; Neel Ahuja	Quare Poetics: Black Maternity and the Arc of Protest in the African American Elegiac Tradition
Emma Rachel Calabrese	2018	Freelance Professional Academic Editor	Eliza Richards	Making Sense of American Regional Literature, 1865-1914
Rebecca Rae Garonzik	2018	Spanish Instructor at UNC Chapel Hill	Juan Carlos Gonzalez Espitia	Eros Galvanized: Critical Intersections of Eroticism and Politics in Contemporary Literatures of the Americas
Adra Mia Raine	2019	Co-Director of English Curriculum at The Mountain School	Tyler Curtain; Joseph Donahue	Resonance Over Resolution: Resisting Definition in Susan Howe, Nathaniel Mackey, and Ed Roberson's Post-1968 Poetics
Rachael Lauren Isom	2019	Assistant Professor of English at Arkansas State University	Jeanna Moskal	The Female Enthusiast: Nineteenth-Century Women and the Poetics of Inspiration
April Ann Munroe	2019		John McGowan	Modernist Spacing: Spatial Rhetoric and Poetics in the Modernist Novel
Tobias Alexander Funt	2019	Assistant Director of the UNC Writing Center	Jane Danielewicz	In Favor of a Minimalist, Asynchronous Online Approach to Coaching Multiliteracies in a Traditional Writing Center
Ashley Jane King	2019	Lecturer in Professional Writing at NC State University	Beverly Taylor	The Calling: Religious Listening and Vocation in the Mid-Victorian Popular Novel
Elizabeth Gale Greenlee	2019	Bell Hooks Center Teacher-Scholar in Residence at Berea College	Laura Halperin; María DeGuzmán,	Homeplaces and Spaces: Black and Brown Feminists and Girlhood Geographies of Agency
Sarah Ann Singer	2019	Assistant Professor of English and Certified Instructor of Disabled Learning at University of Central Florida	Jordynn Jack & Jane Danielewicz	The Empowerment Paradox: Rhetorics of Lyme Disease and the Future of Chronic Illness
Jacob T. Watson	2019	Lecturer and Undergraduate Research Coordinator at University of Florida	Gregory Flaxman	The Page in the Screen: Visualized Information and the Aesthetics of the Digital Image
Hannah L. Palmer	2019	Assistant Director of Academic Projects and Programs at Stone Center for Latin American Studies at Tulane University		Writing Maya Women: Representations of Gender in Contemporary Yucatec Maya Literatures
Sarah George-Waterfield	2019	Managing Editor at Permanent Equity	Jennifer Ho	Fabric Thinking: Blending Text and Textile
Laura Joy Broom	2019		Danielle Christmas	To Be Continued: Literary Identities in Transition
Anna C Levett	2019	Visiting Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and French at Oberlin College	Miriam Cooke; Gregory Flaxman	Mediterranean Dream-Places: The Past and Future of Surrealism in Late Twentieth-century Arab Literature
Lee Norton	2019	Development Director at Ugly Duckling Presse Editorial Collective; Adjunct Assistant Professor of English at Queens College CUNY	Florence Dore	Books of Life: Post-DNA Life Science in 1960s American Fiction
Laurel Ashlyn Foote-Hudson	2019	Director and Strategic Consultant at Fidelity Investments	Marsha Collins	Echoes of Honor: A Comparative Analysis of Blood, Honor, and Revenge from Spanish and Japanese Drama to the Digital Age
Amanda Margaret Al-Raba'A	2019	English Teacher at RB Stall High School		Translators and Interpreters in Iraq War Literature
Michael Roy Fox	2019			The Aesthete's Idea of History
Sarah Anne Kuczynski	2019	Senior Program Manager of Transfer Initiatives at New England Board of Higher Education	Eliza Richards	Contentment and Its Discontents
Jerrod Nathan Rosenbaum	2019		Jessica Wolfe	Beyond the Bosphorus: The Holy Land in English Reformation Literature, 1516–1596
Maria Jose Duran	2019	Assistant Professor of Latinx Cultural Studies at Brandeis University	María DeGuzmán	Chicana Perspectives on the Politics of Public Mourning
Jessica Grace Drexel	2019		John McGowan; Eric Downing	Reconfiguring Self, World, and Word: Modernist Poetic Epiphanies in Eliot, Williams, Levertov, and Revell
Meredith F Ringel-Ensley	2019	Assistant Director at Frank Business Communication Center	Shayne Legassie	Errant Latin: The Transformation of Language in Medieval Missions to the Mongol Empire
Dwight Kenneth Tanner	2020	Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Appalachian State University	Jennifer Ho	In the End: Apocalyptic Literature, Minoritarian Identity, and Hopeless Futurity
Jennifer Kay Edwell	2020		Jordynn Jack & Jane Danielewicz	Origin Stories: The Rhetorical Ecology of American Birth Medicine
Kenneth Jude Lota	2020	Independent scholar	Jennifer Ho	The Post-Noir Novel: Pulp Genre, Alienation, and the Turn from Postmodernism in Contemporary American Fiction
Kimberly Farris	2020	Proposals Writer II at ICON plc	Eliza Richards	The Incorporeal Scientific Method: Gender, Hybridity, and the Rise of Material Science in American Literature, 1840–1900
Geovani R Ramirez	2020	Assistant Professor of Latinx Studies and Literature at Virginia Tech University	Maria DeGuzman	Re-imagining Chicana/o Thought through Labor Discourses: The Transnational Ideologies of Mexican-Heritage Women Writers, 1872–Present
Moira Anne Marquis	2020	Senior Program Manager of The Freewrite Project at PEN America	Priscilla Wald; Matthew Taylor	The Dialectic of Myth: Making Meaning in the Anthropocene
Anneke Ellen Schwob	2020	Author		In Situ: Environmental Management and the Progressive Literary Imagination, 1872-1924
Bridget Donnelly	2020	Assistant Professor of English at Middle Tennesse State University		Accidents Waiting to Happen: Plotting the Unexpected in the Eighteenth-Century Novel
Mark Edward Collins	2020		Jennifer Ho	Nuclear Reproduction: Race, Gender, and Reproductive Control in US Cold War Speculative Fictions
Travis Townley Alexander	2020	Junior Fellow at Rice University		A Glamorous Nightmare: HIV/Aids, American Literature, and the Viral Power of Whiteness
Nora Katherine Augustine	2021	Visiting Assistant Professor of Gender Studies at The University of Mississippi	Jordynn Jack, Laura Halperin	Extra/Ordinary Minds: Mad Genius Rhetoric and Women's Memoirs of Mental Illness
Tyler Sinclair Bunzey	2021	Visiting Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies at Johnson C. Smith University	GerShun Avilez
Kimberly L. Burnett	2021	Freelance editor https://kimberlylburnett.com/	Danielle Christmas	Up Above My Head: Gospel Music and the Sonic Fictions of Black Womanhood in Twentieth-Century African American Literature
Michael Clark	2022	English Teacher at Northfield Mount Hermon	Jessica Wolfe	Deceptive Medicine and (Dis)Trust in Rennaissance Drama
James Silas Cobb	2022		GerShun Avilez	Black Ontology: Contemporary Black Fiction and the Problem of Metaphysics
Matthew Bradford Diem	2022	High School Latin Teacher at Covenant Day School	Patrick O'Neill	Doublespeak: Translational Doubling in the Wycliffite Bible and Other Old and Middle English Biblical Texts
Sean Michael Dileonardi	2021	Assistant Professor of English and Digital Humanities at University of Pittsburgh	Florence Dore	Improbable Realism: The Postwar American Novel and the Digital Aesthetic
Tyler John Easterbrook	2021	Assistant Professor of English and Director of Composition at University of Idaho	Dan Anderson, Jordynn Jack	The Rhetoric of Conspiracism in User-Centered Democracy
Elisa Landess Faison	2022	Freelance Editor and Author	Florence Dore	Domesticating the Apocalypse: Motherhood and the Novel at the End of Time
Anne Rogers Fertig	2022	Digital Projects Editor at the Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington.	Inger Brody
Ani Govjian	2022	Project Manager at Marketing Unlimited	Mary Floyd-Wilson, Shayne Legassie
Martin Groff	2022	Humanities Teacher at Thales Academy	Eliza Richards	Royal Democracy: American Dignity and the Aristocratic Impulse
Donald Holmes II	2021	Assistant Professor at University of Pittsburg	Jordynn Jack, Candace Epps-Robertson
Kelli Marie Holt	2022		Jeanne Moskal	Animal Welfare in Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Law
Andrew Dong-Hyun Kim	2022		Inger Brody, Heidi Kim
Katharine Elizabeth Landers	2022	Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Illinois State University	David Baker, Megan Matchinske
Mary Learner	2022	Proposal Writer at ICON plc	Megan Matchinske	Patterns, Samples, and Observational Science in Early Modern Literature
Abigail Lee	2022	Assistant Professor of Humanities and Cultural Studies at University of South Florida	Heidi Kim, GerShun Avilez	Site Trouble: Asianness and Blackness in Contemporary Cultural Production
Christina Choon Ling Lee	2021	Self-Employed Executive Resume Writer	Eliza Richards	Therapoetics in Late Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Eddie Al-Tariq Moore	2022	Teaching Instructor of English at East Carolina University	Rebecka Rutledge Fisher
Benjamin James Murphy	2022	Lecturer of English at NC State University	Matt Taylor	“Provisional Beings”: Crowds, Race, & the Biopolitics of Lynching in American Literature, 1890-1915
Susan M O'Rourke	2022	Program Coordinator at UNC World View	David Baker, Megan Matchinske	Project Illumine: The History and Writing of Women in Early Modern England and Ireland
Kevin Wood Pyon	2021	Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, English, Faculty Member	James W. Coleman	Towards an African-American Genealogy of Market and Religion in Rap Music
Trisha Remetir	2022	Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow of Media and Cultural Studies at University of California at Riverside	Maria DeGuzman, Neel Ahuja	Unfamiliar Waters: Representations of Resource Extraction in the Philippines, 1970s to Present
Jane Ellen Smith	2022		Megan Matchinske	Popular Royalism and Cheap Print in Interregnum England
Carlie Wetzel	2022	English Teacher at Kimball Union Academy	Jeanne Moskal	Cliché and Ritual in Nineteenth-Century British Elegies for Children
Liz Shand	2023	Digital Collections Librarian at Dartmouth College	Kim Stern	Defining the Industrial Book: Material Agencies and Print Cultures in Britain, 1814-1855
Eric Bontempo	2023	Assistant Professor at Abilene Christian University	Jeanne Moskal	Reverent Romanticism: Anthologizing Romantic Poetry in Victorian Devotional Literature
Nicole Berland	2022		Gregg Flaxman	Watching the Watchers: Contemporary Television, Complex Seriality, and Media Literacy
Eleanor Griggs	2023	Literature Study Guide Writer at SuperSummary	Shayne Legassie	Subterranean Knowledge in Medieval English Literature
Kristján Hannesson	2023		Jessica Wolfe	The Unfinished Renaissance: Staging Rupture in Early Modern Literature, Art and Architecture
Marcy Pedzwater	2023	Instructional Designer at Vanderbilt University	Maria DeGuzman	Patriarchival Violence: Patriarchy, Archives, and Violence in Post-Dictatorship Latin American and Latina Women’s Writing
Nikki Roulo,	2023	Assistant Professor at Peru State College	David Baker
Sarah Walton	2023	Assistant Professor at Marshall University	Kim Stern

This table includes the current job placement of doctoral alumni who graduated the program since fall 2006.
This table was constructed using data pulled from alumni of the program. If you would like to be included in this table, please email dlc_lab@unc.edu