Department of English
PhD Alumni Placement List
PhD 2011
Jacqueline Emery, Ph.D. 2011.
Dissertation Title: Writing Against Erasure: Native American Boarding School Students and the Periodical Press, 1880-1920.
Current Job Placement: Assistant Professor of English, SUNY College at Old Westbury. Prior Placement: Interim Chair of the Liberal Arts Program at Moore College of Art and Design.
Jennifer Maloy, Ph.D. 2011.
Current Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Queensborough Community College, CUNY
PhD 2010
Andrea Cabus, Ph.D. 2010.
Current Job Placement: Professor of English, Johnson County Community College.
Leiza Brown, Ph.D.
Current Job Placement: Morgan State University.
Andrea Cabus, Ph.D. 2010.
Dissertation Title: Selective Memory: Victorian Periodical Receptions of Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Novels.
Current Job Placement: Assistant Professor at Coker College.
Margaret J. Godbey, Ph.D. 2010.
Dissertation Title: Vying for Authority: Realism, Myth, and the Painter in British Literature, 1800-1855.
Current job placement: Assistant Professor of English and Coordinator of English Education Concentration in the Department of Communication, Language and Literature at Coker College.
Elizabeth Kimball, Ph.D. 2010
Current Job Placement: Assistant Professor of English at The New Community College at CUNY.
Steven Lento, Ph.D. 2010.
Current Job Placement: Adjunct Instructor at Fisher College.
Janina Levin, Ph.D. 2010.
Dissertation Title: Modern Reinterpretations of the Cuckold.
Current Job Placement: Lecturer at Holy Family University.
April Logan, Ph.D. 2010.
Dissertation Title: Theorizing and Performing Socio-Political Representation: Harriet Wilson, Harriet Jacobs, and Pauline Hopkins.
Current Job Placement: Assistant Professor of English, Salisbury University. Prior Placement: Multicultural Fellow at the Pennsylvania State University, Abington College.
Janet Neigh, Ph.D. 2010.
Dissertation Title: Rhythmic Literacy: Poetry, Reading and Public
Voices in Black Atlantic Poetics.
Current Job Placement: Assistant Professor at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College.
Anna Peak, Ph.D. 2010.
Dissertation Title: The Music of the Spheres: Music and the Gendered Mind in Nineteenth-Century Britain.
Current Job Placement: Assistant Professor in the Intellectual Heritage Program, Temple University.
Carissa Porkorny-Golden, Ph.D. 2010.
Current Job Placement: Kutztown University.
PhD 2009
Elizabeth Allan, Ph.D. 2009.
Dissertation Title: Composition, Rhetoric, and Literacies in Architecture Studio Classes. Current Job Placement: Assistant Professor in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric Department at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan.
Jeffrey Hibbert, Ph.D. 2009.
Current Job Placement: Lecturer at Yasar University, Turkey.
Elizabeth Kimball, Ph.D.
Current Job Placement: Assistant Professor of English at The New Community College at CUNY.
Chris Drew, Ph.D. 2009.
Current Job Placement: Independent entrepreneur of Pocket Literacy
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Daniel Ellis, Ph.D. 2009.
Dissertation Title: “Free from Any Other Meaning”: Truth and Politics in the Rhetoric of Elizabeth I.
Current Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Director of Composition, and Director of the Plassmann Writing Center at St. Bonaventure University).
Jeffrey Hibbert, Ph.D. 2009.
Current Job Placement: Lecturer at Yasar University, Turkey.
Cameron Mackenzie, Ph.D. 2009
Current Job Placement: Visiting Professor at San Francisco Art Institute
Katherine Malone, Ph.D. 2009.
Dissertation Title: The Lady Critic: Women of Letters and Critical Authority in British Periodicals, 1854–1908
Current Job: Assistant Professor (Teaching/Instructional), Intellectual Heritage Program, Temple U.
PhD 2008
Jaime Longo, Ph.D. 2008.
Dissertation Title: Forging Connections: Development of Academic Argument in First Year Honors Students’ Writing.
Current Job Placement: Associate Director of Academic and Learning Support Services at La Salle University.
PhD 2006
Ross Gay, Ph.D. 2006.
Dissertation Title: An American Drama: Fictional Representations of
Interracial Desire, 1894-2003. Current Job Placement: Assistant Professor and Associate Director of Creative Writing, Indiana University Bloomington. Dr. Gay also teaches at the low-residency MFA in poetry program at Drew University.
Thane Glenn, Ph.D. 2006.
Dissertation Title: The Invented Language: John Foxe, Edmund Spenser, and the
Rhetorical Development of English as a Genre of Heritage in the Sixteenth Century. Current Job Placement: Assistant Professor at Bryn Athyn College.
Gina Mackenzie, Ph.D. 2006.
Dissertation Title: The Theatre of the Real: Yeats, Beckett and Sondheim.
Current Job Placement: Assistant Professor at Community College of Philadelphia. Dr. Mackenzie also hosts the Philadelphia Cultural Forum on Channel 53, CCPTV, a program designed to highlight local artists and bring their work out to the community.
PhD 2005
Jessica Restaino, Ph.D. 2005.
Current Job Placement: Associate Professor, Montclair State University.
Schuster, Marc, Ph.D. 2005.
Dissertation Title: Practical Ambivalence: Don DeLillo and the Political Economy of the Sign.
Current Job Placement: Assistant Professor at Montgomery County Community College.
PhD 2004
Kabi Hartman, Ph.D. 2004.
Current Job Placement: Senior Adjunct Assistant Professor of English, Franklin and Marshall College.
Christine Swiridoff, Ph.D. 2004.
Current Job Placement: Professor of English and Director of the Honors Program, Cerro Coso Community College.
Kerry Sherin Wright, Ph.D. 2003
Current Job Placement: Founding Director of the Philadelphia Alumni Writers House at Franklin & Marshall College and an adjunct assistant professor in the English department.
PhD 2002
Brian O’Sullivan, Ph.D. 2002.
Dissertation Title: "Raids on the Inarticulate": Modernist Scenes of Composition.
Current Job Placement: Assistant Professor of English, St. Mary's College of Maryland.
Scott Warnock, Ph.D. 2002.
Dissertation Title: Subtle Technology and Student Writers: The Ambient Influence of Technological Myths on Communicators.
Current Job Placement: Associate Professor of English and Director of the Writing Center and Writing Across the Curriculum, Drexel University.
PhD 2001
Vincent Williams, Ph.D. 2001.
Current Job Placement: Drexel University.
Esther Schwartz-McKinzie, Ph.D. 2001.
Dissertation Title: “Play with the Stories a Little While”: Mobility of Mind in Short Fictions by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Kate Chopin, George Egerton and Sarah Grand. Current Job Placement: Interim Associate Dean of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at the Takoma Park/Silver Spring (TP/SS) campus of Montgomery College.
PhD 1994
Andrea L. Broomfield, Ph.D. 1994.
Current Job Placement: Professor of English, Johnson County Community College.
Bernadette Balcer, Ph.D.
Current Job Placement: Part time instructor at Holy Family University.
Leiza Brown, Ph.D.
Current Job Placement: Morgan State University.
Jason Esters, ABD.
Current Job Placement: Community College of Philadelphia.
Kellen Graham, ABD.
Current Job Placement: English Teacher at Haverford School.
Tatum Dowling Petrich, ABD.
Current Job Placement: Montclair State University.