This chronologically ordered list of PhD and MA degree recipients in Literature reflects the most recent position reported by our alumni. Have an update? Please email our graduate coordinator: litgrdcd@ucsc.edu
Thaïs Miller (PhD 2024)
Dissertation/Thesis: A Funny Jewish Novel about Intergenerational Trauma and Jewish Humor Narrative Tropes and Female Characters in Women-Led Digital Streaming Productions (2010-2023) (Director: Micah Perks)
Assistant Professor, Department of Film, Theatre, and Creative Writing, University of Central Arkansas
Nathan Osorio (PhD 2024)
Dissertation/Thesis: Borderland Vitality: Unsettling Form Through Decolonial Poetics (Director: Juan Poblete and Ronaldo Wilson)
Assistant Professor, Texas Tech University
Kirstin Wagner (PhD 2024)
Dissertation/Thesis: Daughter in Waves: Matrilineal Inheritance and the Poetics of Violence (Director: Micah Perks)
Visiting English Teacher, Sorbonne University
Margarita bac Sierra (MA 2024)
Dissertation/Thesis: Liberatory Literature and Amor Art from Incarcerated Hearts: A Collection of Consciousness from The Beat Within Magazine (Director: Kirsten Silva Gruesz)
Rain Ramirez (MA 2024)
Dissertation/Thesis: The Missionization of Gendered Violence: The Colonial Gaze in Indigenous/Latinx Communities (Director: Zac Zimmer)
PhD Student, University of Texas at Austin
Angie Lou (PhD 2024)
Dissertation/Thesis: Glint of Sport: Stories (Director: Ronaldo Wilson)
Amani Liggett (PhD 2024)
Dissertation/Thesis: “Dream On”: Examining Watching, Sleep, and Dreams in Shakespeare’s First Tetralogy (Director: Sean Keilen)
Debbie Duarte (PhD 2024)
Dissertation/Thesis: Borderland Ghosts: Necropolitics at the Colonial Wound (Director: Zac Zimmer)
UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship
Chacko Kuruvilla (PhD 2024)
Dissertation/Thesis: Aspects of Emersonianism in American Fiction & At Interminable Oceans (A Novel) (Director: Micah Perks and Rob Wilson)
Yuki Obayashi (PhD 2023)
Dissertation/Thesis: Unsettled Empires: Japanese And U.S. Cultural Imaginaries of the “South Pacific” (Director: Christine Hong)
Kelsey McFaul (PhD 2023)
Dissertation/Thesis: Rain Washed the Old World Away: Empire and the Novel in the Horn of Africa (Director: Vilashini Cooppan)
Ashley Herum (PhD 2022)
Dissertation/Thesis: Recovering the Irrecoverable: Female Figurative Distillers in Three Shakespearean Plays (Director: Sean Keilen)
Courtney Kersten (PhD 2022)
Dissertation/Thesis: Looking for Linda (Director: Micah Perks)
Assistant Professor, University of North Dakota
Jose Antonio Villarán (PhD 2022)
Dissertation/Thesis: Open Pit; A Story about Morococha and Extractivism in the Américas (Director: Micah Perks)
Assistant Professor, Illinois State University
Joshua Jones (PhD 2022)
Dissertation/Thesis: Ambivalence in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century US Literature and Culture (Director: Carla Freccero)
Grants Manager, First Star Inc
Emma Wood (PhD 2022)
Dissertation/Thesis: Personal Statement (Director: Micah Perks)
Jennifer Macasek (PhD 2022)
Dissertation/Thesis: From the Soil to the People: The Rural Question in Chinese Literature 1940-2010 (Director: Chris Connery)
Assistant Teaching Professor of Chinese, Iowa State University
Angie Bonilla (PhD 2022)
Dissertation/Thesis: Migrant Figures: Visual Embodiments of Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Contemporary US Central American-Latinx Culture (Director: Kirsten Silva Gruesz)
Visiting Assistant Professor, Pomona College
Ka-eul Yoo (PhD 2022)
Dissertation/Thesis: Cold War Disability: The Biopolitics of U.S. Military Empire in Post-1945 Asia (Director: Christine Hong)
UC Presidents Postdoctoral Fellowship, UC Irvine
Lisbet Gabriela Ramirez-Chavez (PhD 2021)
Dissertation/Thesis: Heart of the Stone: A Critical Translation and Trilingual Edition of Rosa Chávez’s Ri uk’u’x ri ab’aj / El corazón de la piedra (Director: Kirsten Silva Gruesz)
Danielle Crawford (PhD 2021)
Dissertation/Thesis: Storms, Bombs, and Ecologies of Destruction: The Intimacies of Weather Disasters and U.S. Militarization in Asia and the Pacific (Director: Rob Wilson)
Rebekkah Dilts (PhD 2021)
Dissertation/Thesis: Constellations of Sappho: Texts, Translation and Sexuality (Director: Carla Freccero)
Tara Thomas (PhD 2021)
Dissertation/Thesis: Queer Decadent Classicism: Late-Victorian Representations of Ancient Roman Literary Culture (Director: Carla Freccero)
Michael Fennessey (MA 2021)
Dissertation/Thesis: The Sound of Neoliberalism: The Role of Music and Sound in Neoliberal Culture (Director: Hunter Bivens)
PhD Student, Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media North Carolina State University
Georgia Moos (MA 2021)
Dissertation/Thesis: A Pregnant, Nameless Thing: Improvisation In Love’s Labour’s Lost (Director: Sean Keilen)
Courtney Valdez (MA 2021)
Dissertation/Thesis: Here and Now, Then and There: Past, Present, and Future in the Tree of History (Director: Susan Gillman)
Nicholas Whittington (PhD 2020)
Dissertation/Thesis: A Scholar Is Never Without His Lute: Robert Duncan and Company in the Poetics Program at New College of California, 1980-1987 (Director: Rob Wilson)
Jared Harvey (PhD 2020)
Dissertation/Thesis: The Currant (Director: Susan Gillman & Ronaldo Wilson)
Lara Galas (PhD 2019)
Dissertation/Thesis: American Souths: Reading Social Markers through the Landscape (Director: Susan Gillman)
Lecturer, UC Santa Cruz, Writing Program
Robin Goralka (MA 2019)
Dissertation/Thesis: The Death of Malvina: Suicide, Gender and Nationalism in the French Reception of the Ossian Poems (Director: Jody Greene)
Assistant Editor, American Intermutual Agency Inc.
James Nichols (MA 2019)
Dissertation/Thesis: Re-thinking Ruiz: Non/Synchronicity and the Details (Director: Hunter Bivens)
PhD Student, Comparative Literature, UC Santa Barbara
Cathy Thomas (PhD 2019)
Dissertation/Thesis: PoCo Mas/ A Poetics of Salvage and Speculation in the Caribbean Diaspora (Director: Kim Lau & Micah Perks)
Assistant Professor, Department of English, UC Santa Barbara
Kenan Sharpe (PhD 2019)
Dissertation/Thesis: Cultural Revolutions: Turkey and the United States During the Long 1960s (Director: Sharon Kinoshita)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Modern Turkish Studies, Northwestern University
Mariana Romero (MA 2019)
Dissertation/Thesis: Transcending Place in Bodies: Queer Feeling in Indigenous & Latinx Women’s Writing (Director: Kirsten Silva Gruesz)
PhD Student, McCracken Fellow, New York University
Sam Skinazi (PhD 2019)
Dissertation/Thesis: Animal People: Freaks, Elitists, Fanatics, and Haters in U.S. Discourses about Veganism (1995-2019) (Director: Sean Keilen)
Consultant, Self Employed
Kara Hisatake (PhD 2019)
Dissertation/Thesis: Queer Pidgin: Unsettling U.S. Settler Colonialism in Hawai‘i’s Language Politics (Director: Rob Wilson & Christine Hong)
Teacher, Sacred Hearts Academy
Scott Riley (PhD 2019)
Dissertation/Thesis: Westering Knights: American Medievalisms and Contestations of Manifest Destiny (Director: Susan Gillman)
Jeremey Throne (PhD 2018)
Dissertation/Thesis: Printed Texts and Digital Doppelgangers: Reading Literature in the 21st Century (Director: Susan Gillman)
Maxim Dobrushin (PhD 2018)
Dissertation/Thesis: An Invention of Russia in America, 1880-1920 (Director: Susan Gillman)
Founder and President, Quantum Lógos
Matthew Gervase (PhD 2018)
Dissertation/Thesis: Toward a Republican Ethics of Fraternité: Charles Péguy’s Mystical Refashioning of Civic Virtue (Director: Tyrus Miller)
Assistant Professor, French, Spring Hill College
Sarah Papazoglakis (PhD 2018)
Dissertation/Thesis: Doing Good, Behaving Badly: Fictions of Philanthropy in the Americas (Director: Susan Gillman & Christine Hong)
Privacy and Trust Product Strategist (VR/AR), Facebook Reality Labs
Tsering Wangmo (PhD 2018)
Dissertation/Thesis: From the Margins of Exile: Democracy and Dissent within the Tibetan Diaspora (Director: Chris Connery & Christine Hong)
Assistant Professor, English, Villanova University
Brian Clack (MA 2017)
Dissertation/Thesis: Anxious assumptions: Anxiety, experience, and literary representation in modernity (Director: Dorian Bell)
PhD Student, UC Davis, Literature
Fritzie De Mata (PhD 2017)
Dissertation/Thesis: Filipino Poethics: Reading the Philippines beyond the Object/Subject Divide (Director: Wlad Godzich)
Associate Director, Alumni Scholars Program, UC Berkeley
Hannah Edber (MA 2017)
Dissertation/Thesis: This Poem Which Is Not Your Language”: Jewishness, Translation, and the Historical Philosophy of Adrienne Rich, 1968-1991 (Director: Susan Gillman)
English Teacher, Albany High School
Lauren Shufran (PhD 2017)
Dissertation/Thesis: Cultural Revolutions: Turkey and the United States During the Long 1960s (Director: Sharon Kinoshita)
Bethany Sweeney (PhD 2017)
Dissertation/Thesis: Quiverfull Reality and Rhetoric: Reading Practices in the Biblical Patriarchy Movement (Director: Wlad Godzich)
Associate Profesor of English and History, Des Moines Area Community Collee
Director of Iowa Operations, One Smart Kid, Tutoring Company
Katharine Trostel (PhD 2017)
Dissertation/Thesis: Memoryscapes: Women Chart the Post-Trauma City in 20th- and 21st- Century Latin America (Director: Norma Klahn)
Assistant Professor, English, Ursuline College
Timothy Willcutts (PhD 2017)
Dissertation/Thesis: Breaking Silence / Breaking Communicability: Figuring Incestous Abuse in the Early 1970s United States (Director: Wlad Godzich)
Alexander B. Cargol (MA 2016)
Dissertation/Thesis: Melville’s Montaigne: Essayism, Anamnesis and Allegories of Reading (Director: Susan Gillman)
MFA Student, University of Wyoming
Kendra A. Dority (PhD 2016)
Dissertation/Thesis: Deciding the letter: Reading, ethics, and language politics in Ancient Greek and contemporary US Latina/o literatures (Director: Karen Bassi)
Associate Director for Programs, UC Santa Cruz Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning
Mark Jones (PhD 2016)
Dissertation/Thesis: Huerto nuestro que nos hizo extraño”: Poetics of (un)translatability in Chilean literature across the Americas (Director: Norma Klahn)
Lecturer, UC Santa Cruz Campus
Matthew Landry (PhD 2016)
Dissertation/Thesis: The Beginning: Tel Quel in the 1960s (Director: Tyrus Miller)
Adjunct Faculty, French, Merrimack College
French Teacher, Pittsfield Public Schools
Madeline M Lane-McKinley (PhD 2016)
Dissertation/Thesis: After the ‘post-sixties’: A cultural history of Utopia in the United States (Director: Wlad Godzich)
Lecturer, Writing Program, UC Santa Cruz Campus
Founding Editor, Blindfield Magazine
Sophia B Magnone (PhD 2016)
Dissertation/Thesis: The speculative agency of the nonhuman: Animal, object, and posthuman worldings (Director: Carla Freccero)
Development Manager, The Feminist Press
Public Fellow, Mellon/ACLS
Joanna Meadvin (PhD 2016)
Dissertation/Thesis: Making America / Makhn Amerike / Haciendo la América Jewish immigrants write the Americas (1880-1990) (Director: Susan Gillman)
Trainer, SEAL (Sobrato Early Academic Model)
Zach Montgomery (MA 2016)
Dissertation/Thesis: The time of space and the space of time in “Benito Cereno” and “The Magic Mountain”: Towards a comparative utopian reading (Director: Susan Gillman)
Nicholas Norman (MA 2016)
Dissertation/Thesis: Armies of the dispossessed: Labor, landscape, and representation in John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath” (Director: Susan Gillman)
Substitute Teacher, Santa Barbara Unified School District
Lisa Schilz (PhD 2016)
Dissertation/Thesis: Violent inscriptions: Border crossings in early nineteenth-century American literary history (Director: Kirsten Silva Gruesz)
Lecturer, UC Santa Cruz Campus
Erica G Smeltzer (PhD 2016)
Dissertation/Thesis: Urban space and national memory: The narratives of Berlin, Prague, and Gdańsk (Director: Wlad Godzich)
Director of Academic Programs, BASIS Global
Melissa A. Yinger (PhD 2016)
Dissertation/Thesis: Echo-critical Poetic Narcissisms: Being Transformed in Petrarca, Ronsard, and Shakespeare (Director: Carla Freccero)
Copy Editor, Cross Fit, Inc.
Sophie Bargues Rollins (PhD 2015)
Dissertation/Thesis: The texte fleuve and infinity: The play of finitude and endlessness in Proust, Woolf, and the open world video game (Director: Richard Terdiman)
Independent Scholar, Translator,
Elizabeth Bejarano (MA (PhD NYU) 2015)
Dissertation/Thesis: “To be equally diverted and informed by every line”: the ambivalent act of story-fashioning in a “Tale of a Tub” (Director: Sean Keilen)
PhD Student, NYU
Keegan Cook Finberg (PhD 2015)
Dissertation/Thesis: From “avant-garde” to “experimental”: Reading poetry after the 1960s (Director: Tyrus Miller)
Assistant Professor of English in Modern and Contemporary American Literature, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
Gabriela A. Gavande (PhD 2015)
Dissertation/Thesis: “The Halfbreed”: A translation of Balduin Moellhausen’s “Der Halbrindianer” (Director: Loisa Nygaard & Susan Gillman)
Owner/Partner, Gavande Equestrian, LLC
Lecturer, UC Santa Cruz Campus
Ariane N Helou (PhD 2015)
Dissertation/Thesis: Figures of voice in early modern Europe (Director: Deanna Shemek)
Scientific Writing Specialist, Caltech, Beckman Institute
Kendra A Poppy (MA 2015)
Dissertation/Thesis: Las aguas de los mares occidentales: The Latin Pacific imaginary (Director: Kirsten Silva Gruesz)
Senior Social Media and Content Manager, Sunset Magazine
Melissa Paloma Eriko Poulsen (PhD 2015)
Dissertation/Thesis: Figuring futures: Early Asian American mixed-race literature (Director: Rob Wilson & Christine Hong)
Assistant Professor of English, Menlo College
Julianne Dolores Ruetz (MA 2015)
Dissertation/Thesis: A book to hold the event: “Acting out” and “working through” loss in Victor Hugo’s Bug-Jargal (Director: Susan Gillman)
Marketing Communications Specialist, The Allen Group, LLC
Matthew E. Suazo (PhD 2015)
Dissertation/Thesis: Wetland Americas: Mapping a literary history of New Orleans and Louisiana (Director: Kirsten Silva Gruesz)
Assistant Professor in the English Department, Kenyon College
Shawna Vesco (PhD 2015)
Dissertation/Thesis: The (dis)unity of the Western Modern Project (Director: Wlad Godzich)
Art Curator, San Mateo County Office of Arts and Culture
Shelby Wilson (MA 2015)
Dissertation/Thesis: The bitten word: Feminine jouissance, language, and the female vampire (Director: Kim Lau)
PhD Student, UC Santa Cruz Campus
Jessica Beard (PhD 2014)
Dissertation/Thesis: “Bound—a Trouble—“: Emily Dickinson and the Archive (Director: Carla Freccero & Jody Greene)
Labor Representative/Organizer, IFPTE Local 21, San Francisco
Stephanie Chan (PhD 2014)
Dissertation/Thesis: Making to taste: Culinary experimentalism in Asian Pacific American culture (Director: Rob Wilson)
English Faculty, Foothill College
Alexander James Davis (MA 2014)
Dissertation/Thesis: Doubling the problem of the color line: Mark Twain and W. E. B. Du Bois (Director: Susan Gillman & Forrest Robinson)
Lecturer, English, Cabrillo College
PhD Student, UC Santa Cruz Campus
Henry Trey Highton III (MA 2014)
Dissertation/Thesis: The Old West and New Pacific Frontiers: Surfers and ‘The Search’ in the American Oceanic Imaginary (Director: Rob Wilson)
Film Festival Director, Save the Waves
PhD Student, UC Santa Cruz Campus
Soledad Lujan (MA 2014)
Dissertation/Thesis: En medio de Un gran circo: La Ciudad de México a través de las crónicas musicales de Maldita Vecindad y los Hijos del 5° Patio (Director: Norma Klahn)
Client Success Lead, Edmunds
Brian Malone (PhD 2014)
Dissertation/Thesis: Disaster in nineteenth-century England and France: A literary and cultural history (Director: Richard Terdiman)
English Faculty, De Anza College
Heidi Elizabeth Morse (PhD 2014)
Dissertation/Thesis: Minding “Our Cicero”: Nineteenth-century African American women’s rhetoric and the classical tradition (Director: Kirsten Silva Gruesz)
Lecturer I, University of Michigan
Eireene Nealand (PhD 2014)
Dissertation/Thesis: Beyond the perceptual model: Toward a proprioceptive poetics (Director: Wlad Godzich)
Author,
Andrea Quaid (PhD 2014)
Dissertation/Thesis: Continuity and change: Experimental women’s writing and the epic tradition (Director: Carla Freccero)
Adjunct Faculty, California Institute of the Arts
Faculty, Bard Masters of Art in Teaching Program Language and Thinking Program
Brenda Sanfilippo (PhD 2014)
Dissertation/Thesis: Blood wings: Feeling war in the twenty-first century (Director: Wlad Godzich)
Lecturer, UC Santa Cruz Campus
James Ramsey Wallen (PhD 2014)
Dissertation/Thesis: Beyond completion: Towards a genealogy of unfinishable novels (Director: Wlad Godzich)
Writer,
Timothy Jitsuo Yamamura (PhD 2014)
Dissertation/Thesis: Science fiction futures and the ocean as history: Literature, diaspora, and the Pacific War (Director: Rob Wilson)
Lecturer, Northern Arizona University
Allison Katherine Athens (PhD (JD, UC Berkeley) 2013)
Dissertation/Thesis: Arctic ecologies: The politics and poetics of northern literary environments (Director: Carla Freccero)
Law Student, Berkeley Law
Albert P. Connelly (PhD 2013)
Dissertation/Thesis: The youth of the nation: The space-time of adolescence in the turn of the century United States (Director: Chris Connery)
Professor, San Francisco State University
Juliana I Leslie (PhD 2013)
Dissertation/Thesis: Secret histories/impossible objects: Toward a hemispheric poetics of twentieth-century long poems (Director: Tyrus Miller)
Lecturer, UC Santa Cruz Campus
Christina Luce (MA 2013)
Dissertation/Thesis: Once upon a Sibyl’s tongue: Conjuring fairy tale [hi]stories for power and pleasure (Director: Wlad Godzich)
Teacher, Berkeley Unified School District
Cora Starker Gorman Malone (PhD 2013)
Dissertation/Thesis: The testimonial world: Affect and ethics in Latin American literature and film (1969–1991) (Director: Norma Klahn)
Freelance Instructional Designer, Cora Malone Consulting
Instructor, South Hills Power Yoga
Jeffery R. Marino (MA 2013)
Dissertation/Thesis: Freedom and form: Marxist hermeneutics and the Spinozist turn (Director: Chris Connery)
Freelance Editor & Content Writer, New Paradigm Content (Self-Employed)
Chelsea L Nevé (neé Pearson) (MA 2013)
Dissertation/Thesis: “Call me a Californio”: Translating Hemispheric Legacies in Helen Hunt Jackson, Don Antonio Coronel, and José Martí (Director: Susan Gillman)
Assistant Content Development Director, Research Methods, SAGE Publishing
Laurel Peacock (PhD 2013)
Dissertation/Thesis: The poetics of affect in contemporary feminist poetry (Director: Carla Freccero)
Instructor, Foothill College
Samantha Lauren Skinazi (MA (PhD, UCSC) 2013)
Dissertation/Thesis: Fabulating Sovereignty with Descartes, Alice, Derrida and Some Damn Animals (Director: Wlad Godzich)
PhD Student, UC Santa Cruz Campus
Benjamin Alexander Spanbock (PhD 2013)
Dissertation/Thesis: Transfrontera translations: Language, culture, and history in the U.S./Mexican borderlands (Director: Kirsten Silva Gruesz)
Lecturer, UC Berkeley Writing Center
Evan Calder Williams (PhD 2013)
Dissertation/Thesis: The fog of class war: Cinema, circulation, and refusal in Italy’s creeping ’70s (Director: Tyrus Miller)
Faculty, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College
Bonnie Andryeyev (PhD 2012)
Dissertation/Thesis: Hearts of darkness: Race and urban epistemology in American noir (Director: Wlad Godzich)
English Instructor, Foothill De Anza Community College
English Instructor, Contra Costa Community College
Jimmy Fazzino (PhD 2012)
Dissertation/Thesis: Beat subterranean: Tactics of assemblage and worldmaking in Beat Generation writing (Director: Rob Wilson)
Lecturer, UC Santa Cruz Campus
Thomas Francis Genova (PhD 2012)
Dissertation/Thesis: Entangled Roots: Race, Historical Literature, and Citizenship in the Nineteenth-Century Americas (Director: Norma Klahn)
Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota,Twin Cities
Josh Guevara (PhD 2012)
Dissertation/Thesis: “The Mechanisms. Light and Miraculous”: The Convivial Bicycle in Literature and Film (Director: Tyrus Miller)
Development Director, Santa Cruz Community Health Centers
Jin Suh Jirn (PhD 2012)
Dissertation/Thesis: Cosmopolis now urban narratives in the age of global migration (Director: Rob Wilson)
Foreign Professor, Yuhan University
Aliyah Ryhaan Khan (PhD 2012)
Dissertation/Thesis: “Calling the magician”: The metamorphic Indo-Caribbean (Director: Carla Freccero)
Associate Professor, University of Michigan
Laura Elizabeth Martin (PhD 2012)
Dissertation/Thesis: The comparative geographies of servitude: Servitude, slavery, and ideology in the 17th- and 18th-century Anglo-American Atlantic (Director: Jody Green & Susan Gillman)
Lecturer, UC Santa Cruz Campus
Calvin Lee McMillin (PhD 2012)
Dissertation/Thesis: The hardboiled and the haunted: Race, masculinity, and the Asian American detective (Director: Rob Wilson)
English Teacher, Iolani School
Christine Lupo Montgomery (PhD 2012)
Dissertation/Thesis: Conjuring freedom: Reconstructions and revisions of neo-slave narratives (Director: Susan Gillman)
Assistant Professor, California State University, Sacramento, English Department
Sara E. S. Orning (PhD 2012)
Dissertation/Thesis: Fleshly embodiments: Early modern monsters, Victorian freaks, and twentieth-century affective spectatorship (Director: Carla Freccero)
Tenured Senior Lecturer, Centre for Gender Research, University of Olso
Nirshan Rex-Boniface Perera (PhD 2012)
Dissertation/Thesis: Dickens and Darwin (Director: John O. Jordan)
Lecturer, UC Santa Cruz Campus
Prema Purigali Prabhakar (PhD 2012)
Dissertation/Thesis: “How Skin Can See”: A Phenomenological and Cultural Account of Touch as Witness in the Latter Half of the Twentieth-Century (Director: Tyrus Miller)
Adjunct Writing Instructor, De Anza College
Sobia Saleem (MA 2012)
Dissertation/Thesis: “Never trust the teller,” he said. “Trust the tale”: Narrative technique from the “Arabian Nights” to postmodern adaptations by Rabih Alameddine and Pier Pasolini (Director: Wlad Godzich)
Faculty, English Department, Ohlone College
Trevor Malcolm Schack (MA 2012)
Dissertation/Thesis: The renegade heroes: A discussion of 19th century popular western fiction (Director: Kirsten Silva Gruesz)
Production Director, Ubisoft
Emily Ann Scheese (PhD 2012)
Dissertation/Thesis: The shores of US empire: Islands and geographies of historical struggle in the literary imagination (Director: Rob Wilson)
Women’s Soccer Coach, CSU Maritime Academy
Emily Anna Sloan-Pace (PhD 2012)
Dissertation/Thesis: Articulating agency: Women in Shakespeare’s history plays (Director: Carla Freccero)
Professor-in-Residence, Zoho Corporation
Carra Sage Stratton (MA 2012)
Dissertation/Thesis: Not Available (Director: Not Available)
Erik M. Bachman (PhD 2011)
Dissertation/Thesis: Getting off the page: Literary naturalism, obscenity case law, and cultures of modernism, 1917-1949 (Director: Tyrus Miller)
Lecturer, UC Santa Cruz Campus
Virginia Rebecca Benitez (PhD 2011)
Dissertation/Thesis: The residues of colonialism in twentieth-century Cuban confinement literature (Director: Lourdes Martinez-Echazabal)
Teacher, Crossroads School for the Atrs and Sciences
Christian Blood (PhD 2011)
Dissertation/Thesis: Some Versions of Menippea (Director: Dan Selden)
Director of People Operations for North America, Zoho Corporation
Kelly Anne Brown (PhD 2011)
Dissertation/Thesis: Circling the Square: Publicness and the Transformations of the Modernist Performative Artifact (Director: Tyrus Miller)
Associate Director, University of California, Humanities Research Institute
Stephen Douglass Carter (PhD 2011)
Dissertation/Thesis: Military reading and modern American narrative (Director: Chris Connery & Susan Gillman)
Assistant Professor of English, University of CO, Colorado Springs
Dorothea S Coblentz (MA (PhD, Emory) 2011)
Dissertation/Thesis: Not Available (Director: Not Available)
Marion L. Brittain Fellow, GeorgiaTech Writing and Communication Program
Dina El Dessouky (PhD 2011)
Dissertation/Thesis: Indigenous articulations of identity and Island Place in contemporary Kanaka Maoli and Ma’Ohi literatures (Director: Rob Wilson)
Lecturer, Writing Program, UC Santa Cruz Campus
Johanna Isaacson (PhD 2011)
Dissertation/Thesis: Literature and Oppositional Culture in Late Capitalism (Director: Chris Connery)
Instructor, English, Modesto Junior College
Sherwin F Mendoza (PhD 2011)
Dissertation/Thesis: The experience of class, struggle and warfare in Filipino American novels, 1970-2010 (Director: Chris Connery)
Professor, De Anza College
Gregory Ford Pollock (MA 2011)
Dissertation/Thesis: Not Available (Director: Not Available)
Product Manager, UpGuard
Christina L. Stevenson (PhD 2011)
Dissertation/Thesis: The Politics of the Room: Sexuality and Subjectivity in the Modernist Text (Director: Carla Freccero)
Adjunct Faculty, San Francisco Art Institute
Jake J. Thomas (PhD 2011)
Dissertation/Thesis: Post-Western: Postmodern Fictions of the U.S. West (Director: Tyrus Miller)
Photographer
Michael Gregory Ursell (PhD 2011)
Dissertation/Thesis: “If words be made of breath”: Inspiration, book-making, and the Renaissance lyric (Director: Jody Green)
Development Associate and Special Events Coordinator, Black Mountain Institute, UNLV
Associate Publisher, Believer Magazine
Josh Philip Barlas (MA 2010)
Dissertation/Thesis: Not Available (Director: Not Available)
Protected Species Observer, Passive Acoustic Monitor Oper, RPS Group
Jennifer C. Brittan (PhD 2010)
Dissertation/Thesis: Movable locations and geographical accidents: Small hemispheres in the inter-Americas (Director: Susan Gillman)
Lecturer, University of West Indies
Christina Jean Cady (PhD 2010)
Dissertation/Thesis: The rhetoric of bonds, alliances, and identities: Interrogating social networks in early modern English drama (Director: Jody Green)
Manager, Daniel Oster Real Estate
Francesca Racquel Caparas (MA 2010)
Dissertation/Thesis: Not Available (Director: Not Available)
Faculty, De Anza College
Cloe-Mai Le Gall-Scoville (MA (PhD, UC Davis) 2010)
Dissertation/Thesis: Un)willing memory : representability in autobiographical works by Assia Djebar and Djur Djura (Director: Not Available)
Lecturer, Comparative Literature, UC Davis
Julio Cesar Leal (PhD 2010)
Dissertation/Thesis: Reclaiming Chicano/a poetics and spatiality: Central California geographies and the literary and cultural imaginary (Director: Norma Klahn)
English Instructor, Cabrillo College
Isela Ocegueda (PhD 2010)
Dissertation/Thesis: Phantom memories: An analysis of urban hauntings and memory in Latin American literature (Director: Norma Klahn)
Dean, English Division, Pasadena City College
Laurel Kristin Seely (PhD 2010)
Dissertation/Thesis: Cultural discourses of Bosnian identity from the death of Tito to the postwar period (Director: Tyrus Miller)
Foreign Affairs Officer, State Department
Ricardo Alberto Torres-Mateluna (MA 2010)
Dissertation/Thesis: Not Available (Director: Not Available)
Emily Rebecca Woomer (PhD 2010)
Dissertation/Thesis: The republic of letters: Epistolarity, the public sphere, and the rise of the novel (Director: Jody Greene)
Leigh Noelle Fullmer (PhD 2009)
Dissertation/Thesis: Aura and the Automation: Occulted Crowds in L’Eve Future (Director: Not Available)
Guest Lecturer, UC Paris Study Center
Natalie Corinne Hansen (PhD 2009)
Dissertation/Thesis: Horse stories: Rethinking the human -animal divide (Director: Carla Freccero)
Associate Faculty, English Department, Santa Monica College
Kelly T Holt (PhD 2009)
Dissertation/Thesis: “In the sense of a lasting doctrine”: Ernst Kantorowicz’s historiography and the serial poetics of the Berkeley Renaissance (Director: Nathaniel Mackey)
Writing Coordinator, Liberal Arts, Academy of Art University
Katie Michelle Kanagawa (PhD 2009)
Dissertation/Thesis: Girl avengers: Revising feminist approaches to sexuality, violence, and power in representation (Director: Carla Freccero)
Communications and Program Manager (Dept of Biomedical Science & CEHG), Stanford University
Jennifer Sun Kwak (MA (PhD, University of Michigan) 2009)
Dissertation/Thesis: Remapping an “American” Pacific : contested spatialities and representations of the Pacific in Melville, Twain, and Queen Lili’uokalani (Director: Rob Wilson)
Shane Andrew Sanchez (MA 2009)
Dissertation/Thesis: Not Available (Director: Not Available)
Coordinator for Residential Education, Crown College, UC Santa Cruz Campus
Robin Joan Tremblay-McGaw (PhD 2009)
Dissertation/Thesis: Community and contestatory writing practices in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1970–Present (Director: Tyrus Miller)
Lecturer, Santa Clara University
Julie Elizabeth Williams (MA 2009)
Dissertation/Thesis: Landscapes of the Southwest (Director: Vilashini Coopan)
Instructor, University of New Mexico
Instructor, Sani Yoga
Molly Elizabeth Ball (MA 2008)
Dissertation/Thesis: Roggewein’s giants : exploring the imbrications of myth and history (Director: Not Available)
Assistant Professor – English, Eureka College
Felice Dawna Blake (PhD 2008)
Dissertation/Thesis: Reading Black intimacies: Literary studies beyond representational inclusion (Director: Susan Gillman)
Assistant Professor, UC Santa Barbara
Maria Frangos (PhD 2008)
Dissertation/Thesis: ‘The shame of all her kind’: A genealogy of female monstrosity and metamorphosis from the Middle Ages through early modernity (Director: Carla Freccero)
Teaching Artist, Berkeley Repertory Theatre
Lecturer, UCSC
Helen Monica Hauser-Vermeulen (PhD 2008)
Dissertation/Thesis: Miscellaneous blood: GWM Reynolds, Dickens, and the anatomical moment (Director: John O. Jordan)
Senior Medical and Creative Copywriter, Lemieux Bédard
Kathleen Moira McCann (MA 2008)
Dissertation/Thesis: Cormac McCarthy’s anti-Western : representations of violence along the Southwestern frontier (Director: Not Available)
Ann Ogle (PhD 2008)
Dissertation/Thesis: Not Available (Director: Hayden White)
Professor, Foothill College
(retired?),
Karen C. Sherwood Sotelino (PhD 2008)
Dissertation/Thesis: The unreliable memories of Machado de Assis: The ambiguous language of remembrance in translation (Director: Richard Terdiman)
VIsiting Scholar, Stanford University
Translator, New Directions
Shigeru Suzuki (PhD 2008)
Dissertation/Thesis: Posthuman visions in postwar U.S. and Japanese speculative fiction: Re(con)figuring Western (post)humanism (Director: Chris Connery)
Assistant Professor, Baruch College
Colleen Marie Tripp (MA (PhD, Brown) 2008)
Dissertation/Thesis: Worlding Murieta : geographies of the American west in the Murieta text network (Director: Not Available)
Assistant Professor, Cal State Northridge
Alexandria Reene White (MA 2008)
Dissertation/Thesis: History as fiction and the concepts of race, and gender in W.E.B. Du Bois’s final creative intervention : The Black Flame Trilogy (Director: Not Available)
Associate Professor of English, Sacramento City College
Board Member Secretary, South Oak Park Community Association
Aurelie C. Capron (PhD 2007)
Dissertation/Thesis: Staging women: Representation of female scholarship in seventeenth-century Spanish and French drama (Director: Carla Freccero)
Associate Professor of Spanish, Mckendree University
John Francis Draper (MA 2007)
Dissertation/Thesis: Cities of the Imagination, Mexico City: The Inchoherence of Order in the Old New world (Director: Norma Klahn)
Infromation Analyst, Political Affairs Officer, United Nations Mission in South Sudan
Veronica Annette Flanagan (PhD 2007)
Dissertation/Thesis: Not Available (Director: Not Available)
Lecturer, UC Santa Cruz Campus
Denise L. Silva (PhD 2007)
Dissertation/Thesis: Flânerie, gender, and the politics of marginality in representations of London, 1820–1940 (Director: John O. Jordan)
Continuing Lecturer, UC Santa Cruz Campus
Andrea Yi-ling Wang (MA 2007)
Dissertation/Thesis: Not Available (Director: Not Available)
Lisa Ann Weiss (PhD 2007)
Dissertation/Thesis: Writing Paris: Transformations of Urban Geography from Haussmann to the Medina (Director: Sharon Kinoshita)
Aaron C. Anderson (MA 2006)
Dissertation/Thesis: A Virtuous Public: The Culture War and Conservative Power (Director: Chris Connery)
Associate Professor of Screen Media, University of Wollongong in Dubai
Terra Lynn Eggink (MA 2006)
Dissertation/Thesis: Seeing Sight: The Steroscope and Emergence of a Visible Vision (Director: Chris Connery)
Graduate Program Coordinator, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories
Alicia Ivonne Estrada (PhD 2006)
Dissertation/Thesis: Textual transversals : activisms and decolonization in Guatemalan Mayan and Ladina women’s texts of the Civil War and postwar periods (Director: Juan Poblete)
Associate Professor, California State University, Northridge
Jason David Jacobs (PhD 2006)
Dissertation/Thesis: The political poetics of the chanson de geste in France and Italy: 1130–1532 (Director: Sharon Kinoshita)
Associate Dean of General Education, Roger Williams University
Narayan Madhavan Nayar (MA 2006)
Dissertation/Thesis: Not Available (Director: Tyrus Miller)
Vice President of Product Design, Business Analytics, Oracle
Farrah Lisa Sarafa (MA 2006)
Dissertation/Thesis: Re-Writing Algerian Nationalism Thorugh the Discourse of the Woman in Assia Djebar’s La Fantasia (Director: Vilashini Coopan)
Robert Lincoln Snavely (MA 2006)
Dissertation/Thesis: Heteroglossia and the Carnivalesque in “The Henriad” Shakespeare’s Second Tetralogy (Director: Susan Gillman)
Middle School Teacher, Stratford Elementary School
Scott Alan Thompson (MA 2006)
Dissertation/Thesis: Not Available (Director: Not Available)
Matthew A Tierney (MA 2006)
Dissertation/Thesis: Objects of film theory (Director: Not Available)
Assistant Professor, Penn State
Chih-Ming (Andy) Wang (PhD 2006)
Dissertation/Thesis: Transpacific articulations: Study abroad and the making of Asia/America (Director: Rob Wilson & Chris Connery)
Assistant Research Fellow, European and American Studies, Academia Sinica
Victoria M Bañales (PhD 2005)
Dissertation/Thesis: Twentieth-century Latin American and U.S. Latina women’s literature and the paradox of dictatorship and democracy (Director: Norma Klahn)
English Faculty, Cabrillo College
Edward George Bloom (MA 2005)
Dissertation/Thesis: Unfinished Stories: Exile, Conversation, and Jewish Identity in W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz (Director: Murray Baumgarten)
Graduate Student, Stanford University
Alison Crakow Davies (MA 2005)
Dissertation/Thesis: Eating Ethnic: Women, Food, and Identity in Caribbean Literature (Director: Kirsten Silva Gruesz)
CFP, Principal, Fruition Advisers LLC
Stefan Thomson Esposito (MA 2005)
Dissertation/Thesis: Not Available (Director: Not Available)
Program Director, Harvard Business School, HarvardX
Hilda Del Carmen Fernandez (MA 2005)
Dissertation/Thesis: She speaks with her rebozo : Cisneros re-members her body through storytelling (Director: Juan Poblete)
Instructor, Foothill College
Adalaine B. Holton (PhD 2005)
Dissertation/Thesis: The practices of black radical print (Director: Susan Gillman)
Associate Professor, Stockton University
Michelle E. Morton (PhD 2005)
Dissertation/Thesis: Utopian and dystopian visions of California in the historical imagination (Director: Susan Gillman)
Instruction Librarian, Cabrillo College
Alexei Robert Nowak (MA 2005)
Dissertation/Thesis: Alexander Shāh : Persian legitimacy and the place of Islam in Firdawsī’s Shāhnāmah (Director: Not Available)
TOP Coordinator, Office of Instructional Development, UCLA
Teaching Fellow, Writing Program, UCLA
Stacy Anne Plock (MA 2005)
Dissertation/Thesis: Communicative strategies, speech and silence in Jane Austen and Therese Huber (Director: Not Available)
Lee Ann Ritscher (PhD 2005)
Dissertation/Thesis: The semiotics of rape in Renaissance English literature (Director: Margo Hendricks)
Lecturer, CSU Monterey Bay
Diane Belle Sievert (MA 2005)
Dissertation/Thesis: No powre to speak’ : politics of indirect discourse in book III of The Faerie queene (Director: Not Available)
Publications Manager, Imperial Capital, LLC
Elizabeth Irene Smith (MA 2005)
Dissertation/Thesis: Not Available (Director: Juan Poblete)
Part-time Instructor, Writing Program, Portland Community College
Gloria Evangelina (DECEASED) Anzaldúa (PhD 2004)
Dissertation/Thesis: Not Available (Director: Not Available)
Jessica Ann Breheny (PhD 2004)
Dissertation/Thesis: “These were our times”: Red -baiting, blacklisting, and the lost literature of dissent in mid-twentieth-century California (Director: Paul Skenazy)
Instructor, San Jose City College
James H. Christianson (PhD 2004)
Dissertation/Thesis: Revolutionizing time and space: The close accord of modern science and aesthetics in picturing physical planes (Director: Forrest Robinson)
Instructor, English, Cabrillo Community College
Jamie Nicole Davidson (MA 2004)
Dissertation/Thesis: Language, Intertextuality and the Dismantlling of Anthropology in Alejo Carpentier’s The Lost Stephs and Mario Vargas-Llosa’s The Storyteller (Director: Lourdes Martinez-Echazabal)
Ethnographer and Performing Artist,
Catalina Alejandra Forttes (MA 2004)
Dissertation/Thesis: Critica cultural : writing from the periphery with stolen words : the case of the Revista de critica cultural (Director: Juan Poblete)
Associate Professor, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso
Kurt William Harris (PhD 2004)
Dissertation/Thesis: The signification of the Omphalos: On maternal loss and the metaphorics of reunion in Victorian literature (Director: John O. Jordan)
Associate Professor of English; Director of Learning Abroad, Southern Utah University
Sherri Helvie (PhD 2004)
Dissertation/Thesis: Plotting sisters: From surplus women to sex panics in nineteenth-century British literature and culture (Director: Carla Freccero)
Head of School, The Orchard School
Sarah A. Hirsch (MA 2004)
Dissertation/Thesis: Imperial Revisions: The Changing Image of Empire in Late Nineteenth Century U.S. Culture (Director: Susan Gillman)
Lecturer, UC Santa Cruz Campus
Matthew Buffington Russell (MA (PhD, UC Davis) 2004)
Dissertation/Thesis: Children and the Spanish Civil War in Victor Erice’s El Espiritu de la Colmena and El Sur (Director: Jorge Aladro-Font)
Lecturer, Spanish, UC Davis
Michele Diane Speitz (MA 2004)
Dissertation/Thesis: Sacrificial Succession: Child-Alimentary Sacrifice as Social Order and Social Horror (Director: Karen Bassi)
Assistant Professor, Furmann University
Gina Leanne Vallis (PhD 2004)
Dissertation/Thesis: Finding fault: History and the extra -literary novel (Director: Richard Terdiman)
Lecturer, Writing Program, UC Santa Barbara
Kristin Jennifer Wartman (MA 2004)
Dissertation/Thesis: The Politics of the Game: Capitalism, Hip Hop and Pimp Theory (Director: Louis Chude-Sokei)
Freelance Writer & Consultant, Self-Employed
Sondra Maria Archimedes (PhD 2003)
Dissertation/Thesis: Not Available (Director: Carla Freccero)
Writing Program Lecturer, UC Santa Cruz Campus
Maria Elena C Caballero-Robb (PhD 2003)
Dissertation/Thesis: Poetry and the public sphere : politics, participation, and uncommon speech (Director: Susan Gillman)
English Department Head, English Teacher, Kirby Prep School
Candace Calsoyas (PhD 2003)
Dissertation/Thesis: Women’s Relationship to Land: A Study of Four British and American Female Authors Writing on Landscape and Nature (Director: Mary-Kay Gamel)
Lecturer, UC Santa Cruz Campus
Gloria E Chacón (MA 2003)
Dissertation/Thesis: Contemporary Maya writers: Kabawil and the making of a Millenarian literary tradition (Director: Norma Klahn)
Assistant Professor, UC San Diego
Manuel Gutierrez (MA (MA/PhD, UCLA) 2003)
Dissertation/Thesis: Rescuing the Mexican Picaresque Novel (Director: Jorge Aladro-Font)
Assistant Professor, Spanish & Portuguese, Rice University
Kenan Sharpe (PhD 2019)
Dissertation/Thesis: Cultural Revolutions: Turkey and the United States During the Long 1960s (Director: Sharon Kinoshita)
Kenan Sharpe (PhD 2019)
Dissertation/Thesis: Cultural Revolutions: Turkey and the United States During the Long 1960s (Director: Sharon Kinoshita)
Kenan Sharpe (PhD 2019)
Dissertation/Thesis: Cultural Revolutions: Turkey and the United States During the Long 1960s (Director: Sharon Kinoshita)
Rob Halpern (MA 2003)
Dissertation/Thesis: The politics of autonomy: Social engagement and aesthetic value from the Romantic fragment to the poème en prose (Director: Richard Terdiman)
Associate Professor of Creative Writing, Eastern Michigan University
Poet,
Tanya Yukling Kam (PhD 2003)
Dissertation/Thesis: Women on the edge: Autobiographical selves and the lure of the boundary in twentieth-century United States literature (Director: Michael Cowan)
Associate Professor, Multicultural Literature, University of Wisconsin Whitewater
Emily J Klein (PhD 2003)
Dissertation/Thesis: White Writing from the Veld: Female Voices in Southern Africa 1877-1953 (Director: John O. Jordan)
Ninth Grade English Teacher, Pacific Collegiate School
Michelle Lee (MA (PhD, UCLA) 2003)
Dissertation/Thesis: Pastorial Utopia and Colonial Fantasy: Nature, Slavery, and Trade in Bernardin de Saint-Pierre’s Paul et Virginie (Director: Sharon Kinoshita)
Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of French , Wellesley College
Kyle Garret Mack (MA 2003)
Dissertation/Thesis: Conversion and becoming : Augustine, Deleuze, and the simulacrum (Director: Not Available)
Senior Research Scientist, Amazon
Jill Dianne Milstead (MA 2003)
Dissertation/Thesis: Not Available (Director: Not Available)
Classroom Teacher, San Francisco Unified School District
Vanessa Lynn Rapatz (MA (PhD, UC Davis) 2003)
Dissertation/Thesis: Neither This nor That: Convents and Novices in Early Modern English Problem Plays (Director: Frances E. Dolan)
Assistant Professor of English, Ball State University
Maritza Giovanna Stanchich (PhD 2003)
Dissertation/Thesis: Insular interventions: Diasporic Puerto Rican literature bilanguaging toward a greater Puerto Rico (Director: Susan Gillman)
Professor, English, Univ. of Puerto Rico-English Dept. Clg. of Humanities
Stephen Gerald Weber (MA 2003)
Dissertation/Thesis: “But You Speak So Well…?”: Intelligence, Language and Race in the Modern Meritocracy (Director: Jody Greene)
English Teacher, New York City Public Schools
Kristen G Brookes (PhD 2002)
Dissertation/Thesis: Alien incorporations: Fantasies and nightmares of racialization in early modern England (Director: H. Marshall Leicester Jr.)
Senior Writing Associate, Amherst College
Brenda O’Brien Buckner (MA 2002)
Dissertation/Thesis: Sydney Owenson and the Idealization of Ireland: Cultural Nationalism In The Wild Irish Girl and The O’Briens and the O’Flahertys (Director: John O. Jordan)
High School Faculty, CS Lewis Academy
Ernesto J Castillo-Ceide (PhD 2002)
Dissertation/Thesis: Mario Benedetti and exile: Preliminary study and translation of journalistic essays, Spain, 1982–1984 (Director: Norma Klahn)
Faculty of Humanities, University of Puerto Rico en Cayay
Liddy Detar (PhD 2002)
Dissertation/Thesis: Intimacies of empire: Post -colonial women’s writing from the Caribbean, France and United States (Director: Carla Freccero)
Instructor and Advisor, Oregon State University
Claudia Vanessa Dorn (MA 2002)
Dissertation/Thesis: Melodramatic silencing : the transition from page to stage to screen of female characters in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s cabin (Director: Not Available)
Manager of Resources and Community, Stanford Arts, Stanford University
Joshua Albert Fleming (MA 2002)
Dissertation/Thesis: Examining the role of medieval masculinity in U.S. cultural/national consolidation in the periods of expansionism and post-reconstruction (Director: Not Available)
Community College Professor, English, Western Nevada College
Warren David Hoffman (MA 2002)
Dissertation/Thesis: Not Available (Director: Not Available)
Executive Director, Association for Jewish Studies
Casey Lane Kile (PhD 2002)
Dissertation/Thesis: Shadows in the forest”: Native Americans, slaves and conspiracy in United States literature, 1675–1863 (Director: Susan Gillman)
Teacher, Albuquerque Academy
Barbara Ellen Logan (PhD 2002)
Dissertation/Thesis: The askesis of abjection: The ethics of everyday suffering in early Christian martyrdoms (Director: Karen Bassi)
Assistant of History, The University of Wyoming
Judith Anne Lopez (MA 2002)
Dissertation/Thesis: Not Available (Director: Not Available)
Academic Advisor and Graduate Coordinator, UC Riverside
Kelly Marie Peterson (MA 2002)
Dissertation/Thesis: Mysticism in nature : nature writers and the experience of wholeness (Director: Not Available)
Writing Professor, Chemeketa Community College
Bernard (Bernie) Richter (MA (PhD, UC Irvine) 2002)
Dissertation/Thesis: Trembling subjects : Hegel’s ‘night of the world’ and its ontological entanglements (Director: Not Available)
Instructor, Journalism, CSU Chico
Catherine Marie Carlstroem (PhD 2001)
Dissertation/Thesis: Homicidal economics in Mark Twain: Legacies of American theft (Director: Susan Gillman)
Lecturer, UC Santa Cruz
Susannah Alicia Carney-Waddy (MA 2001)
Dissertation/Thesis: Not Available (Director: Not Available)
English Instructor, Cabrillo College, CSU Monterey Bay, Hartnell College
Freelance Editor, Self-employed
Lisa Ann Guerrero (PhD 2001)
Dissertation/Thesis: Shadow citizens: Articulations of Black manhood and contestations of American identity in the works of 20th century Black male writers (Director: Susan Gillman)
Associate Professor, Washington State University
Monique Dascha Inciarte (MA 2001)
Dissertation/Thesis: Not Available (Director: Not Available)
Translation Instructor, UCSD Online
Instructor, Laney College
Karen Kyyung Kim (PhD 2001)
Dissertation/Thesis: Traumatic figures: The inscription of world war in “Mrs. Dalloway”, “Sula”, “The Night Porter”, and “Hiroshima, Mon Amour” (Director: Teresa de Lauretis)
East Asian Studies, UC Irvine
Lynne Therese Maes (MA (MLIS, San Jose State) 2001)
Dissertation/Thesis: Not Available (Director: Not Available)
Children’ Librarian, San Francisco Public Library
Elisha Anne Venable (MA 2001)
Dissertation/Thesis: Representative fictions : two studies of murder in England, 1828-1852 (Director: Not Available)
Christopher David Breu (PhD 2000)
Dissertation/Thesis: Hard -boiled masculinities: Fantasizing gender in American literature and popular culture, 1920–1945 (Director: Susan Gillman)
Associate Professor, English, Illinois State University
Scott Christopher Davis (PhD 2000)
Dissertation/Thesis: Telling tales: Ideology and the American observer, 1890–1896 (Director: Susan Gillman)
Professor, English, CSU, Stanislaus
Felicia L Fahey (PhD 2000)
Dissertation/Thesis: Remaking place: National space in late twentieth-century Latin American fiction (Director: Norma Klahn)
College Consultant, Self-Employed
Valerie Forman (PhD 2000)
Dissertation/Thesis: Counterfeit investments: Economy and sovereignty in early modern texts (Director: Harry Berger, Jr.)
Associate Professor, NYU Gallatin
Judith Patricia Haas (PhD 2000)
Dissertation/Thesis: Trojan origins and the translation of culture in medieval English and French Romance (Director: Carla Freccero)
Associate Professor, English, Rhodes College
Valerie Mae Kaussen (PhD 2000)
Dissertation/Thesis: Romancing the peasant: History and revolution in the modern Haitian novel (Director: Carla Freccero & Kristin Ross)
Associate Professor, French, University of Missouri
Catherine J Kordich (PhD 2000)
Dissertation/Thesis: A lover’s quarrel with the city: Representations of ethnicity and the urban in John Fante’s novels (Director: Michael Cowan)
Author, Chelsea House Publishing
Tera L. Martin (PhD 2000)
Dissertation/Thesis: Epidemic time: AIDS and the imagining of American cultural history (Director: Paul Skenazy)
Director, Integrated Learning Center & Instructor of English, Cabrillo College
Catherine Newman (PhD 2000)
Dissertation/Thesis: Graphic bodies: The writing of early modern gender and sexuality (Director: Carla Freccero)
Academic Department Coordinator, Creative Writing Center, Amherst College
Marc David Schachter (PhD 2000)
Dissertation/Thesis:
‘Voluntary servitude’ and the politics of friendship: Plato, Ariosto, La Boétie, Montaigne (Director: Carla Freccero)
Associate Professor, French; Director of Studies, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Durham University
Christopher Allen Shinn (PhD 2000)
Dissertation/Thesis: From Mah Jong to masquerade: Varieties of play in Chinese American and African American cultures (Director: Nathaniel Mackey)
Adjunct Lecturer, Georgetown University School of Continuing Studies
Ann Marie Speno (PhD 2000)
Dissertation/Thesis: The cultural production of anorexia in women’s fiction (Director: Helen Moglen)
Marriage and Family Therapist, Self-Employed
Blaize Wilkinson (MA 2000)
Dissertation/Thesis: Not Available (Director: Not Available)
Freelance Copyeditor, Self-Employed
Catherine Ja-Chi Yu (MA (JD, University of Michigan) 2000)
Dissertation/Thesis: Not Available (Director: Not Available)
Retired Attorney (Retired), Hogan Lovells (Retired)
Gabriel Noah Brahm (PhD 1999)
Dissertation/Thesis: The post-human condition : the disappearance of power and public space in American political culture (Director: J. Peter Euben)
Associate Professor, Northern Michigan University
Sergio E Delamora (PhD 1999)
Dissertation/Thesis: Virile nationalism: Cinema, the state, and the formation of a national consciousness in Mexico, 1950–1994 (Director: Julianne Burton-Carvajal)
Associate Professor, Chicanx Studies, UC Davis, Chicana/o Studies
Joseph Geller (MA 1999)
Dissertation/Thesis: Not Available (Director: Not Available)
Librarian, Stanford University
LEFT 2015 to “relocate to east coast”,
Jessica Leah Goodman (MA (MLIS, San Jose State) 1999)
Dissertation/Thesis: Not Available (Director: Not Available)
Regional Manager, Santa Cruz Public Library
Corby Keith Guenther (PhD 1999)
Dissertation/Thesis: Conceived in sin: Debating race and nationality in the Reconstruction novel (Director: Susan Gillman)
Principal Trainer and Seminar Leader, BulletProof Communications Training
Rusty Jones III (PhD & MA 1999)
Dissertation/Thesis: “The mists of error withdrawn”: Elizabethan satire, cultural criticism, and the Bishops’ Ban of 1599 (Director: Margo Hendricks)
Associate Professor of English, Chair, Murray Shakespeare Festival, Murray State Unversity
Lucia De Fatima Soares (MA (MBA, San Jose State) 1999)
Dissertation/Thesis: A complex reading of Catherine in Shakespeare’s Henry V (Director: Michael Warren)
Managing Director , The Caryle Group
Rita Keresztesi Treat (PhD 1999)
Dissertation/Thesis: Strangers at home: Ethnic modernism between the world wars (Director: Thomas A. Vogler)
Associate Professor , Univ of Oklahoma
Jon Michael Varese (MA 1999)
Dissertation/Thesis: Not Available (Director: Not Available)
Freelance writer, author, Self-Employed
Jeanne Marie Vaughn (PhD 1999)
Dissertation/Thesis: The Latin American subject of feminism: Unraveling the threads of sexuality, nationality, and femaleness (Director: Norma Klahn)
Senior Vice President, GlobalHue Latino
Gordon S Bigelow (PhD 1998)
Dissertation/Thesis: Producing the consumer: Political economy, Ireland, and the early Victorian social novel (Director: Thomas A. Vogler)
Professor, English, Rhodes College
Stuart Colin Fraser Christie (PhD 1998)
Dissertation/Thesis:
Worlding Forster: The passage from pastoral (Director: Thomas A. Vogler)
Head Professor, English, Hong Kong Baptist University
David Allan Dabaco (MA 1998)
Dissertation/Thesis: Not Available (Director: Not Available)
Teacher, Village Oaks School
Helen Michelle Doss (MA 1998)
Dissertation/Thesis: Subjectivity, opposition, and subversion: divine illumination, right reason, and the revision of the experimental scientific method in John Milton’s Paradise Regained (Director: Michael Warren)
Associate Professor, City College of Chicago (Wilbur Wright or Malcom X)
Michael Robert Doylen (PhD 1998)
Dissertation/Thesis: Homosexual askesis: Representations of self-fashioning in the writings of Walter Pater, Oscar Wilde, and John Addington Symonds (Director: John O. Jordan)
Interim Provost and Director of Libraries, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Libraries
James Bennett Lewis (MA 1998)
Dissertation/Thesis: Not Available (Director: Not Available)
David Evan Luis-Brown (PhD 1998)
Dissertation/Thesis: Waves of decolonization: Towards an Inter-Americas Cultural Studies (Director: Susan Gillman)
Associate Professor of Cultural Studies and English; Chair, Cultural Studies; Director, Africana Studies,
Becky Lynn Roberts (PhD 1998)
Dissertation/Thesis: Narrating slavery: A post-Reconstruction historical crisis (Director: Susan Gillman)
Professor, De Anza College
Ana Patricia Rodriguez (PhD 1998)
Dissertation/Thesis: Amor ideal y realidad humana : la mujer en la novela pastoril española (Director: Norma Klahn)
Associate Professor, University of Maryland
Willow Lisa Rodriguez (PhD 1998)
Dissertation/Thesis: Amor ideal y realidad humana: La mujer en la novela pastoril espanola (Director: Jorge Aladro-Font)
Teacher, Paso Robles Public Schools
Jeremy Oren Rubenstein (MA 1998)
Dissertation/Thesis: Not Available (Director: Not Available)
English Teacher, Mountain View High School
Maria Fatima Salvador (MA 1998)
Dissertation/Thesis: Not Available (Director: Not Available)
Rochelle Renee Venuto (PhD 1998)
Dissertation/Thesis: Indian authorities: Race, gender and empire in mid-nineteenth century United States-Indian narratives (Director: Susan Gillman)
Books for Wider Horizons Coordinator, Oakland Public Library
Elena Marie Villa (MA 1998)
Dissertation/Thesis: Le serpent qui danse ” : representations of the dancer in nineteenth-century french travel narrative and fiction (Director: Not Available)
Writing Instructor, Portland Community College
Melinda Ann Weinstein (PhD 1998)
Dissertation/Thesis:
The genealogy of nature (Director: H. Marshall Leicester Jr.)
Associate Professor, English, Lawrence Technological University
Elissa Greer Weintraub (PhD 1998)
Dissertation/Thesis:
Mining ‘about’ the subject of editorial theory (Director: Thomas A. Vogler)
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Hunter College
Owner, Elissa Greer Jewelery
Hector L Zuklic (PhD 1998)
Dissertation/Thesis: Not Available (Director: Not Available)
Margaret Crane Amis (PhD 1997)
Dissertation/Thesis: Three couples talking: Doing it with words in Restoration Comedy (Director: H. Marshall Leicester Jr.)
Temp Continuing Appointment, UC Santa Cruz Campus
Hue-Thanh T Bergevin (MA 1997)
Dissertation/Thesis: Not Available (Director: Not Available)
Retired
Steven Joel Bliss (MA 1997)
Dissertation/Thesis: Not Available (Director: Not Available)
Freelance Writer, Self-Employed
Michelle Ann Habell-Pallán (PhD 1997)
Dissertation/Thesis: Cutting the label out” : performing identity, cultural politics, and transnational subjects in Chicana/o and Latina/o cultural production (Director: Jose D. Saldivar)
Professor, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies; Adjunct Professor, School of Music and Department of Communication, University of Washington
Barbara Kaoru Ige (PhD 1997)
Dissertation/Thesis: Virtual textualities: postmodern dialectics of democracy (Director: Louis D. Owens)
Adjunct Professor, English, Los Angeles Valley College
Catherine A John (PhD 1997)
Dissertation/Thesis: Not Available (Director: Not Available)
Associate Professor, Afro-Caribbean & African American Liturature, University of Oklahoma
Thomas Christopher Marshall (PhD 1997)
Dissertation/Thesis: Ugly beauty: modern experiments in crossing poetry & prose (Director: Thomas A. Vogler)
Lecturer/Instructor, English Department, Cabrillo College
Christiane Marie Michel (PhD 1997)
Dissertation/Thesis: Gerard de Nerval and Théophile Guatier: the poetics and politics of the French literary fantastic (Director: Kristin Ross)
Assistant Linguistic Attache, French Consulate General
Richard Scott Mobley (PhD 1997)
Dissertation/Thesis: “A magic mirror”: representations of the Donner Party, 1846-1977 (Director: Chris Connery)
Ekua Rashidah Omosupe (PhD 1997)
Dissertation/Thesis: Transgressions, African American womens’ autobiography and literacy (Director: Angela Davis)
Professor, English, Cabrillo College
Author and Poet,
Celina (Lyn) Thompson-Lemaire (MA (PhD NYU) 1997)
Dissertation/Thesis: Not Available (Director: Not Available)
French Teacher, Germantown Academy
Suran Kim Thrift (MA 1997)
Dissertation/Thesis: Not Available (Director: Not Available)
Sarah Greenleaf Whittier (PhD 1997)
Dissertation/Thesis: The rhetoric of embowerment: evasive (in)action in lyric poetry of Sydney, Spenser, Donne, and Marvell (Director: Harry Berger, Jr.)
AP English Teacher, Pacific Collegiate College
No longer listed on website,
Marisa Ann Aguayo (MA 1996)
Dissertation/Thesis: Not Available (Director: Not Available)
Development Director, National Immigration Law Center
Susan Katherine Bernardin (PhD 1996)
Dissertation/Thesis: Naming the nation : race, romance, and ethnography in foundational Native American and African American women’s literature (Director: Susan Gillman)
Director, School of Language, Culture, and Society, Oregon State University
Ana Maria N Carbonell (PhD 1996)
Dissertation/Thesis: Reconstructing motherhood : the female gothic and transcultural strategies in African American and Chicana feminist writings (Director: Susan Gillman)
English Instructor, Diablo Valley College
Susana Conde (PhD 1996)
Dissertation/Thesis: The South begins on the other side : the South and its fictions in Borges (Director: Marta Morello-Frosch)
Adjunct Professor (Retired), Saint Mary’s College (Retired)
Deborah Ann Condon (MA 1996)
Dissertation/Thesis: The Transgressive Heroines of Sensation: A Study in the Politics of Genre (Director: Helene Moglen)
Part-Time Instructor, Gavilan College
Ina Cumpiano (PhD 1996)
Dissertation/Thesis: Hazardous mat(t)ers : metonymy and the fantasy of maternal origins in Latin American literature (Director: Thomas A. Vogler)
Author, Self-Employed
Daniel King Duane (PhD 1996)
Dissertation/Thesis: “When democracy shall hold its carnival” : post-revolutionary conservatism and dystopic frontier fiction (Director: Forrest Robinson)
Freelance journalism,
Tamara J Gould (MA 1996)
Dissertation/Thesis: Transgressive passions : Mária Luisa Bemberg’s Camila (Director: Not Available)
Head of International Productions and Strategic Partnerships, ITVS
Ellen Louise Hart (PhD 1996)
Dissertation/Thesis: New approaches to editing Emily Dickinson (Director: Priscilla W. Shaw)
Part-Time Instructor, Portland Community College
Sean Paul Thomas (PhD 2006)
Dissertation/Thesis: Haunted by authors: Pretexts and pleasures in early -modern English and late -modern American angling (Director: H. Marshall Leicester Jr.)
Professor, English, College of the Redwoods
Jonathan Penn Hunt (PhD 1996)
Dissertation/Thesis: Naturalist democracy : literary and political representation in the works of Frank Norris and Émile Zola (Director: Kristin Ross)
Associate Professor, Rhetoric and Language; Co-Director Center for Teaching Excellence, University of San Francisco
Neva Jacquelyn Kilpatrick (PhD 1996)
Dissertation/Thesis: Trajectories of representation : Native Americans in film (Director: Louis D. Owens)
Director, School of Arts, CSU San Marcos
Stefan Nicholas Mattessich (PhD 1996)
Dissertation/Thesis: Blake and Pynchon : a study in discursive time (Director: Thomas A. Vogler)
Full-time faculty, Santa Monica College
Author
Erin Ann O’Connell (PhD 1996)
Dissertation/Thesis: Herakleitos and Derrida : presocratic deconstruction (Director: John P. Lynh)
Associate Professor, World Languages and Cultures, University of Utah
Melinda Ann Palacio (MA 1996)
Dissertation/Thesis: Not Available (Director: Not Available)
MFA Faculty, Univeristy of Arkansas, Monticello
Author and Poet
Yu Mi Yang (PhD 1996)
Dissertation/Thesis: The novelistic anomaly : origins of modernity’s narrative forms (Director: Helene Moglen)
Faculty, Kyung Hee University
Martha E Bonilla (MA 1995)
Dissertation/Thesis: Romance: The emulation of empire (Director: Susan Gillman)
Associate Professor, English and Composition, Pasadena City College
Barbara Brinson Curiel (PhD 1995)
Dissertation/Thesis: Sex and the spirit: The authorization of narrative in the work of three women writers of color (Director: Jose D. Saldivar)
Professor, English, Humboldt State University
Melinda Luisa De Jesus (PhD 1995)
Dissertation/Thesis: A Portrait of the Artist as a Woman of Color: Rewriting the Female Künstlerroman (Director: Paul Skenazy)
Chair, Associate Professor of Diversity Studies, California College of Arts
Virginia Lee Larsen (PhD 1995)
Dissertation/Thesis: Thomas Middleton, Social Critic: A Study of Three Plays (Director: Michael Warren)
Lecturer, Communications, San Jose State University
Christine Mergozzi (PhD 1995)
Dissertation/Thesis: Literary aurality and the politics of counter-literacy : spiritual resistance in Morrison, Mehr, Anzaldúa, and Silko (Director: Not Available)
Adrielle Anna Mitchell (PhD 1995)
Dissertation/Thesis: “The plain reader be damned” : confusion as method in the works of Djuna Barnes (Director: Helene Moglen)
Professor, English and Communication, Nazareth College of Rochester
Valerie Ann Ross (PhD 1995)
Dissertation/Thesis: The tradition of subversion in medieval vernacular literature : a feminist analysis of selected works by Marie de France and Geoffrey Chaucer (Director: Linda Lomperis)
Faculty, Castilleja School
Anna Marie Sandoval (PhD 1995)
Dissertation/Thesis: “No dejen que se escapen:” Modes of Repression and Modeas of Resistance in Chicana or Mexicana Literature (Director: Jose D. Saldivar)
Professor and Chair of Department, CSU Long Beach – Chicano & Latino Studies Dept.
Margaret Lockwood Satterthwaite (MA 1995)
Dissertation/Thesis: Not Available (Director: Not Available)
Professor, Clinical Law; Faculty Director, Center for Human Rights and Global Justice; Director, Global Justice Clinic; Faculty Director, Robert L. Bernstein Institute for Human Rights
Ann Francois Scherz (MA 1995)
Dissertation/Thesis: Not Available (Director: Not Available)
ESL Instructor, UCSB, Santa Barbara Community College & Kaplan International
Instructor, Kaplan International
Susan F Charlip (MA 1994)
Dissertation/Thesis: Not Available (Director: Not Available)
Educational Management Professional
Steve Martinot (PhD 1994)
Dissertation/Thesis: Forms in the Abyss: A Philosophical Bridge Between Sartre and Derrida (Director: Tom Vogler)
Instructor Emeritus, Center for Interdisciplinary Programs, SFSU
Critical Race Theorist, Author
Martha Groves Perry (PhD 1994)
Dissertation/Thesis: Reinventing the nation : Anglo-Saxon romantic racial nationalism from Dixon to James (Director: Susan Gillman)
Freelance Editor, Self-Employed
Head of School, Waldorf School of the Peninsula
S Travis Silcox (PhD 1994)
Dissertation/Thesis: Reading politically : U.S. women writers and reconfigurations of political fiction (Director: Susan Gillman)
Professor, English, Sacramento City College
Michele Marie Sordi (PhD 1994)
Dissertation/Thesis: Managing Desire: Friendship and Courtship in the Early English Novel (Director: Helene Moglen)
Sr. Vice President & Head of US College, SAGE Publications, Inc.
L Cole Swensen (PhD 1994)
Dissertation/Thesis: Between the Atlantic and l’Atlantique: Productive Difference in Contemporary French and American Poetry (Director: Richard Terdiman)
Department Chair, Professor of Literary Arts, Brown University
Poet
Molly Kirsten Whalen (PhD 1994)
Dissertation/Thesis: The Public Currency of the Private Letter: Gender, Class, and Epistolarity (Director: Harry Berger, Jr.)
Asst. Adjunct Professor, Hampshire College
Jennifer Chappell Wheat (PhD 1994)
Dissertation/Thesis: The Powers of Mestra: Women as Agents of Social Change in Comedy (Director: Mary-Kay Gamel)
Associate English Professor, UH-Hilo
Carolyn Elizabeth Whitson (PhD 1994)
Dissertation/Thesis: The anatomy of conflict: Gender and strategies of agency in “The Book of Margery Kempe” (Director: Linda Lomperis)
Professor, Literature and Language School of Communication, Writing, and the Arts, Metropolitan State University
Magdalena S Zschokke (PhD 1994)
Dissertation/Thesis: The Other Woman, from Monster to Vampire: the Figure of the Lesbian in Fiction (Director: Teresa de Lauretis)
Writer/Novelist, Self-Employed
Leslie Anne Bow (PhD 1993)
Dissertation/Thesis: For every gesture of loyalty, there doesn’t have to be a betrayal” : feminism and cultural nationalism in Asian American women’s literature (Director: Helene Moglen)
Professor, English & Asian American Studies, University of WI Madison
Jachinson Wingate Chan (PhD 1993)
Dissertation/Thesis: Sexual Ambiguities: Representations of Asian Men I American (Popular) Culture (Director: Michael Cowan)
Director, Smart Rainbow Learning Center
Marcella Mahony Greening (PhD 1993)
Dissertation/Thesis: The sense of chaos : a dynamical theory of narrative (Director: Not Available)
Massage Therapist
Miriam Latane Wallace (PhD 1993)
Dissertation/Thesis: Challenging gendered subjects : modern feminism and the alternate subjectivity of Laurence Sterne’s The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman and Virginia Woolf’s The waves (Director: Helene Moglen)
Professor, English and Gender Studies, New College of Florida
Kathleen Andersen-Wyman (PhD 1992)
Dissertation/Thesis: Andreas Capellanus on love : seduction, subversion and desire in a twelfth-century text (Director: Not Available)
Associate Professor, Brazosport College
Bruce Robert Avery (PhD 1992)
Dissertation/Thesis: The eye of history : literature and cartography in the colonial encounter (Director: Harry Berger, Jr.)
Professor, Theatre Arts, San Francisco State University
Artistic Director, Bread and Butter Theatre Company
Rebecca Leigh Bell (MA 1992)
Dissertation/Thesis: Not Available (Director: Not Available)
Registered Nurse
Russell John Castronovo (PhD 1992)
Dissertation/Thesis: Monuments, fathers, slaves: Genealogies of American democracy (Director: Michael Cowan)
Tom Paine Professor of English, Dorothy Draheim Professor of American Studies; Department Chair, University of Wisconsin – Department of English
Renny Teresa Christopher (PhD 1992)
Dissertation/Thesis: The Viet Nam War/the American War : images and representations in Euro-American and Vietnamese exile narratives (Director: Susan Gillman)
Professor of English, California State University Channel Islands
Mary R A Horn (MA 1992)
Dissertation/Thesis: Not Available (Director: Not Available)
Mathew Charles Meyer (MA 1992)
Dissertation/Thesis: Not Available (Director: Not Available)
Lecturer In American Lit, Seinan Gakuin University
Judith M Nolan (MA 1992)
Dissertation/Thesis: Not Available (Director: Not Available)
Literature/French Translation
Janice Elma Patten-Haeger (PhD 1992)
Dissertation/Thesis: Not Available (Director: Tom Vogler)
Artist/Retired English Professor, San Jose University
Lee Anne E Rappold (PhD 1992)
Dissertation/Thesis: Hamlet and the Elizabethan Common Law (Director: Not Available)
Ingrid Kirstin Walker (PhD 1992)
Dissertation/Thesis: Paranoia, politics, and the popular imagination : conspiracy in contemporary American literature (Director: Not Available)
Associate Professor of American Studies, University of Washington, Tacoma
Kenneth Robert Weisner (PhD 1992)
Dissertation/Thesis: Gary Snyder’s Myths & texts and the poetry of constituency (Director: Paul Skenazy)
Full-Time Faculty, English, De Anza College
Opportune Marie Zongo (PhD 1992)
Dissertation/Thesis: Body politics: Representing the body in “Le Vieux Negre et la Medaille”, “The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born”, and “Une Si Longue Lettre” (Director: Not Available)
Associate Professor, Romance and Classical Studies, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Bowling Green State Univ
John T Coates (PhD 1991)
Dissertation/Thesis: The theory of cross-cultural analysis in Goethe’s Noten und Abhandlungen (Director: John Ellis)
Senior Lecturer in Humanities, Western New England University
Brian Martin Collins (PhD 1991)
Dissertation/Thesis: Mark Twain and the culture of imperialism, 1866-1902 (Director: Susan Gillman)
Developer, High Value Healthcare Collaborative, Dartmouth Institute
Kevin James Hearle (PhD 1991)
Dissertation/Thesis: Regions of discourse : Steinbeck, Cather, Jewett and the pastoral tradition of American regionalism (Director: Louis D. Owens)
Poet & Critic, Self-Employed
Michael Lee Miller (PhD 1991)
Dissertation/Thesis: Not Available (Director: Not Available)
Independent Scholar
Bruce Warren Spear (PhD 1991)
Dissertation/Thesis: The fate of virtue in the democracy: Political morality in the literatures of the Vietnam era (Director: Not Available)
Lecturer, Berlin School of Economics and Law
Robert Sherman Anderson II (MA 1990)
Dissertation/Thesis: Not Available (Director: Not Available)
Instructor, University of New York, Farmingdale
Harryette Romell Mullen (PhD 1990)
Dissertation/Thesis: “Gender and the subjugated body : readings of race, subjectivity, and difference in the construction of slave narratives” (Director: Michael Cowan)
Professor, UCLA
Writer, Poet
Marie-France Nizet (MA 1990)
Dissertation/Thesis: Mobilis in mobili “et surtout, pas de bicyclisme!” ambigüité, paranoia et transcendance du discours didactique dans Jules Verne (Director: Not Available)
Freelance Writer
Thad Randall Nodine (PhD 1990)
Dissertation/Thesis: Detecting community: Joseph McCarthy, the detective form, and recent American fiction (Director: Not Available)
Novelist
Andrew Anthony Rodriguez (PhD 1990)
Dissertation/Thesis: Not Available (Director: Not Available)
Harriet Sue Chamberlain (PhD 1989)
Dissertation/Thesis: Existential perspectives and Victorian literature : Browning, Arnold, and Hopkins (Director: Not Available)
Writing Workshop Teacher
Marilyn Dilworth Patton (PhD 1989)
Dissertation/Thesis: Cannibal craft : the eaten body in the writings of Herman Melville and Margaret Atwood (Director: Michael Cowan)
Lecturer, UC Santa Cruz Campus
Kirsten Johanna Buckendorf (MA 1988)
Dissertation/Thesis: Not Available (Director: Not Available)
Book Buyer, Puget Consumer’s Co-op
Brooke Fredericksen (MA 1988)
Dissertation/Thesis: Not Available (Director: Not Available)
Content Editor, Strong Mind
Elizabeth Rosa Horan (PhD 1988)
Dissertation/Thesis: Not Available (Director: Not Available)
Professor, English, Arizona State University
Patricia L. MacKinnon (PhD 1988)
Dissertation/Thesis: The analogy of the body politic in St. Augustine, Dante, Petrarch, and Ariosto (Director: Robert M. Durling)
Lecturer Emerita, Comparative Literature, UC Davis
James E Nolan (PhD 1988)
Dissertation/Thesis: Not Available (Director: Not Available)
Author, Translator
Alfred Arteaga (PhD 1987)
Dissertation/Thesis: Language, Discourse, Sign: Reading Dialogisms in the Texts of Shakespeare, and SorJuana Ines de la Cruz (Director: Hayden White)
Professor, Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley
Poet
Diane Jill Rayor (PhD 1987)
Dissertation/Thesis: Translating archaic Greek lyric poetry (Director: Schein)
Professor, Grand Valley State University
Itsuki Yasuyoshi (PhD 1987)
Dissertation/Thesis: The Energeia of Hopkins; Poetry (Director: John O. Jordan)
Professor, Waseda University
Lisa Magdalena Lowe (PhD 1986)
Dissertation/Thesis: French literary orientalism : representations of “others” in the texts of Montesquieu, Flaubert, and Kristeva (Director: Marta Morello-Frosch)
Samuel Knight Professor of American Studies, Yale University
Robert Cary Mc Mahon (PhD 1985)
Dissertation/Thesis: Narcissus and the problem of interpretation : Dante’s theory of reading in the Commedia (Director: Robert Durling)
Associate Professor, Louisiana State University
Laurie Jean Churchill (PhD 1985)
Dissertation/Thesis: Chants democratic : the Native American poetics of Walt Whitman and Pablo Neruda (Director: Mary-Kay Gamel)
Faculty, New Mexico State University
Mark Jeffry Dicks (PhD 1985)
Dissertation/Thesis:
READING IRONY (LITERATURE, VOLTAIRE, SWIFT, BROWNING) (Director: John O. Jordan)
Attorney, Hooper, Lundy, & Bookman
Margaret Randolph Faurot (PhD 1985)
Dissertation/Thesis: The topographical imagination : vision and recantation in the poetry of Thomas Hardy (Director: John O. Jordan)
Retired Lecturer (Retired), UT College of Liberal Arts (Retired)
Barbara Gottfried (PhD 1985)
Dissertation/Thesis: Sexual and Textual Politics in “Bleak House” and “Villette”: Expanding the Parameters of Feminist Readings (Director: John O. Jordan)
Professor. Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studues, Boston University
John Edward Kidd (PhD 1985)
Dissertation/Thesis: Joyce’s debt to Rabelais (Director: John Halverson)
Director/Founder, James Joyce Research Center
Paul Schreiber (PhD 1985)
Dissertation/Thesis: Sacramental Modes of Re-Entry
in the Fiction of Walker Percy (Director: Paul Skenazy)
Leonard Celine (PhD 1984)
Dissertation/Thesis: Flora’s Bargain: A Study of Gender Relations in the Poetry of Edmund Spenser (Director: Harry Berger, Jr.)
Virginia Coe (PhD 1984)
Dissertation/Thesis: Happily Ever After: A Reading of Jane Austen’s Novels (Director: Moore)
Deborah Gimple (PhD 1984)
Dissertation/Thesis: Reader Theater as Literary Criticism: The Theory and the Application to Carson McCullers’ “The Member of the Wedding” (Director: Moore)
Patrick McGee (PhD 1984)
Dissertation/Thesis: Force and Style: On James
Joyce’s “Ulysses” (Director: Thomas A. Vogler)
Laura Haigwood (PhD 1984)
Dissertation/Thesis: Eve’s Daughters: The Subversive
in Feminine in Blake and Wordsworth (Director: John O. Jordan)
Professor of English, Saint Mary’s College
bell hooks (PhD 1983)
Dissertation/Thesis: Toni Morrison’s Fiction: Keeping “A Hold on Life” (Director: Helene Moglen)
Author and Social
Activist, Distinguished Professor in Residence in Appalachian Studies, Berea College
Rosalie King (Phd 1983)
Dissertation/Thesis: Bee, Angels, Myth: Studies in H.D.’s Trilogy (Director: Priscilla Shaw)
William Van Pelt (PhD 1983)
Dissertation/Thesis: The Gates of Paradise: A Study of Images of Desire in the Poetry and Illustrations of William Blake (Director: Thomas A. Vogler)
Associate Professor of English, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Lynn Woodbury (PhD 1983)
Dissertation/Thesis: Elizabeth Gaskell and the Victorian Outsider (Director: John O. Jordan)
Professor and Chair of English Department , Oakton Community College
James Young (PhD 1983)
Dissertation/Thesis: Writing and Re-writing the
Holocaust: Essays on the Nature of Holocaust Literature and its Critical Interpretation (Director: Murray Baumgarten)
Distinguished
University Professor Emeritus and Founding Director, Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies , Univeristy of Massachussetts, Amherst
Stephen Kessler (MA 1969)
Dissertation/Thesis: (Not available)
Poet, Translator, Essayist
