Graduate Program Placement
Northwestern's English Ph.D. program enjoys a strong record of placement in tenure-track positions in recent years. We have had particular success in the last five years: the department placed recent or finishing Ph.D.s in nineteen tenure-track positions in the U.S. and Canada, including such institutions as Boston University, Columbia University, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Tennessee, and Cornell University.
A distinctive feature of Northwestern's recent Ph.D.s is often cross-disciplinary work undertaken from within the English program, in such related fields and disciplines as African-American studies, Asian-American studies, diaspora studies, film, gender studies, history, history of the book, history of science, music, and photography/visual culture. Our Ph.D.s secured some of the best available positions in their respective fields, including the following recent examples:
Name |
Institution |
Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Blackwood, Sarah | Pace University Field: Literary and visual portraiture, history of photography |
Assistant Professor |
| Chiles, Katy | University of Tennessee Field: African-American Literature |
Assistant Professor |
| Dinius, Marcy | University of Delaware Field: American lit. and culture, early photography |
Assistant Professor |
| Dujardin, Gwynn | Queens University, Canada Field: Renaissance/early modern lit., poetics, pedagogy, gender |
Assistant Professor |
| Friedman, Ryan | Ohio State University Field: Film studies, African-American and American lit., jazz |
Assistant Professor |
| Hager, Chris | Trinity College Field: American literature 1865-1945 |
Assistant Professor |
| Howell, Hunt | Boston University Field: American Literature and Culture to 1900 |
Assistant Professor |
| Hutchison, Coleman | University Texas, Austin Field: American lit. and culture, history of the book, print culture, music |
Assistant Professor |
| Jin, Wen | Columbia University Field: Asian-American lit. and culture, gender, economic theory |
Assistant Professor |
| Knight, Jeff | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Field: Early modern lit., History of the book and reading, Media studies |
Assistant Professor/ Postdoctoral Fellow |
| Kreisel, Deanna | University of British Columbia Field: Victorian lit. and culture, gender, economic theory |
Assistant Professor |
| Lewis, Janaka | UNC Charlotte Field: 19th and 20th c. American and African-American lit. |
Assistant Professor |
| Mann, Jenny | Cornell University Field: Renaissance/early modern lit., rhetoric, gender |
Assistant Professor |
| Martin, John | Louisiana Tech University Field: American lit., romanticism, and poetry |
Assistant Professor |
| Proudfit, Scott | University of Texas, Houston Field: Drama/Performance, 20th c. American literature and culture |
Assistant Professor |
| Rogers, Gayle | University of Pittsburgh Field: European, Spanish, and American modernisms |
Assistant Professor |
Between 2000 and 2009, Northwestern English Ph.D.s have moved to tenure-track jobs or postdoctoral fellowships at a wide variety of other institutions, including but not limited to: Agnes Scott College (Renaissance/early modern), Arcadia University(African-American literature), University California at Davis (medieval), Boston University (early American literature), California State U at Northridge (Renaissance/early modern), Eastern Connecticut State (eighteenth century), Cornell University (Renaissance/early modern), Southern Methodist U (Renaissance/early modern), University of Michigan at Ann Arbor (early modern lit). University of Pennsylvania (American), University Rhode Island (American), St. Mary's College of Maryland (Renaissance/early modern). Other students have obtained full-time multi-year positions at institutions such as Harvard University, Wake Forest University, and Oberlin College.
Several of our students have turned down tenure track appointments or decided against a career in academics and have taken jobs in editing, as well as with organizations such as the Modern Language Association.
Several of our students have turned down tenure track appointments or decided against a career in academics and have taken jobs in editing, as well as with organizations such as the Modern Language Association.
