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 three years: the department placed recent or finishing Ph.D.s in eleven tenure-track positions in the U.S. and Canada, including institutions such as Columbia University, University of Texas at Austin, University of British Columbia, 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
Dinius, Marcy	University of Delaware	Assistant Professor
Field:	American lit. and culture, early photography
Dujardin, Gwynn	Queens University, Canada	Assistant Professor
Field:	Renaissance/early modern lit., poetics, pedagogy, gender
Friedman, Ryan	Ohio State University	Assistant Professor
Field:	Film studies, African-American and American lit., jazz
Hager, Chris	Trinity College	Assistant Professor
Field:	American literature 1865-1945
Howell, William (Hunt)	University of Pennsylvania	Postdoctoral Fellow, McNeil Center for Early American Studies
Field:	American lit., material culture, gender, history of science
Hutchison, Coleman	University Texas, Austin	Assistant Professor
Field:	American lit. and culture, history of the book, print culture, music
Jin, Wen	Columbia University	Assistant Professor
Field:	Asian-American lit. and culture, gender, economic theory
Kreisel, Deanna	University of British Columbia	Assistant Professor
Field:	Victorian lit. and culture, gender, economic theory
Mann, Jenny	Cornell University	Assistant Professor
Field:	Renaissance/early modern lit., rhetoric, gender
Martin, John	Louisiana Tech University	Assistant Professor
Field:	American lit., romanticism, and poetry
Wasinger, Carrie	University of Michigan, Lansing	Visiting Assistant Professor
Field:	Nineteenth-century British novel and young adult lit.

Between 2000 and 2008, 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 U (African-American literature), U California at Davis (medieval), California State U at Northridge (Renaissance/early modern), Eastern Connecticut State (eighteenth century), Cornell University (Renaissance/early modern), Southern Methodist U (Renaissance/early modern), U Pennsylvania (American), U Rhode Island (American), St. Mary's College of Maryland (Renaissance/early modern), SUNY Stony Brook (modern literature), Washington U. (American, women's studies). 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.