English PhD Alumni Network & Placement Information

Source: https://english.fas.harvard.edu/job-placement Parent: https://english.fas.harvard.edu/undergraduate

Harvard’s Department of English has a strong record of job placement.  Two faculty Placement Officers work closely with students to help them prepare for each stage of the academic hiring process.  In recent years, Harvard PhD’s have accepted tenure track positions, visiting positions, and postdoctoral fellowships at major colleges and universities in the United States, Britain, and elsewhere, including Ashoka University, Bar-Ilan University, Indiana University, Ithaca College, Nanjing University, University of Chicago, UCLA, University of Groningen, University of Minnesota, University of Southern Mississippi, University of North Carolina, and the University of Warwick, as well as the Chicago, Dartmouth, Harvard, and Princeton Societies of Fellows, and short-term positions at Berkeley, Harvard’s Expository Writing and History and Literature programs, and elsewhere.  We also help prepare students for work in related fields, including educational planning and management, high school teaching, and library science.

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2024-25

• Assistant Professor, English Department, Bryn Mawr College
• Assistant Professor of Literature, Claremont McKenna College
• Lecturer in Comparative Literature, SUNY Binghamton
• Assistant Professor, English Department, University of Washington

2023-24

• Faculty Member, Department of Literature, Bennington College
• Assistant Professor of English, Louisiana State University
• Assistant Professor of English, West Point
• Assistant Professor of English, The University of Southern Mississippi
• Assistant Professor of English, University of Memphis
• Assistant Professor of English, Central Florida University
• N.E.H. Postdoctoral Fellow in Poetics, Emory University
• Hutchins Family Fellow, Harvard’s Hutchins Center
• Affiliate, Sarah Parker Remond Center for the Study of Racism and Racialisation at University College London
• Society of Fellows, Harvard

2022-23

• Communications and Marketing Officer, The Wheel (Ireland)
• Four-year Junior Research Fellowship, Trinity College (Cambridge, UK)
• Arts & Sciences Humanities Teaching Fellowship in the Department of Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora, Tufts University
• Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Harvard’s Fellowship and Writing Center
• Course Director for Humanities 10 & Lecturer on English, Harvard
• Society of Fellows, Harvard
• Research Fellow in English Literature, Università degli Studi di Sassari

2021-22

• Postdoctoral Fellowship, Dartmouth
• One-year appointment at Bilkent University, Turkey (for 2021-22); Asst. Prof. at Tel Aviv Univ. (as of 2022-23)
• Society of Fellows, Princeton
• Director of Academic Programming, Center for Christianity & Scholarship, Duke University
• Harvard Expository Writing Preceptor
• Sarah Lawrence College- Lecturer
• Junior Research Fellowship at Jesus College, University of Cambridge
• Postdoctoral Fellowship, Brown University
• Postdoctoral Fellowship at UC Berkeley
• Lecturer, California State University-Dominguez Hills

2020-21

• Lecturer, University of York
• Post-Doctoral Fellow, Harvard
• ACLS Emerging Voices Fellowship, University of California Los Angeles
• Stanford Law School
• English Teacher, Tower Hill School. Instructor, Center for Talented Youth
• Preceptor, Harvard University Expository Writing
• Fellow, Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies
• Joanna Randall-MacIver Junior Research Fellowship, St. Hilda’s College, Oxford

2019-20

• Harvard Society of Fellows
• Harvard University Expository Writing, Preceptor
• Harvard University Extension School, Special Program Instructor
• Harvard University, Lecturer in English
• Harvard University Press
• Holy Cross, Visiting Assistant Professor
• Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows Program
• Success Academy Charter Schools
• English and Creative Writing Faculty, Pierrepont School
• Digital Course Reserves Accessibility Specialist, Harvard

2018-19

• Ashoka University
• Indiana University - Bloomington
• University of California - Berkeley, Post-Doctoral Fellowship
• Harvard University Center for the Environment, Post-Doctoral Fellowship
• Stanford University, Lecturer
• Dartmouth College Society of Fellows
• Harvard University, Lecturer in English
• Harvard College Fellow
• Harvard College Writing Program, Preceptor
• Assistant Professor, UNC Chapel Hill

2017-18

• University of California Los Angeles
• University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
• Princeton University, Writing Faculty
• Rockhurst University
• Ithaca College
• University of Southern Mississippi

2016-17

• Centenary University
• University of Warwick
• Harvard Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, Associate Researcher
• US Naval Postgraduate School, Writing Tutor

2015-16

• Harvard Society of Fellows
• Hollins University
• Huntington Library Postdoc
• New Jersey Institute of Technology Reed College
• University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

2014-15

• Harper-Schmidt Postdoc, University of Chicago Harvard Society of Fellows
• Iolani School
• Maimonidis School
• University of Houston
• Visiting Assistant Professor, West Point West Point

2013-14

• Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellowship Dumbarton Oaks Fellowship
• Harvard (Preceptor in Expository Writing) Harvard (Preceptor in Expository Writing) Harvard (Preceptor in Expository Writing)
• Harvard College Fellow
• Harvard Society of Fellows
• Humbolt Research Fellowship, University of Rochester
• Ohio State University
• University of Sydney

2012-13

• University of Minnesota
• Magdalene College, Cambridge UK (Post-Doc) Deerfield Academy
• New York University
• Macalester University
• Washington University in St Louis
• ACLS New Faculty Fellowship, University of Virginia
• Colgate University
• Lincoln College Fellow. Oxford
• University of Chicago
• Harvard (Lecturer in History and Literature)

2011-12

• Louisiana State University
• Temple University
• U Indiana - Bloomington
• Harvard College Fellow, English
• Victoria University, NZ & Mount Holyoke Coll. Princeton Society of Fellows
• U North Texas Stanford Post-Doc

2010-11

• Boston College
• Providence College Dickinson College Harvard Society of Fellows Reed College
• Harvard (Preceptor in Expository Writing) Rutgers Post-Doc
• Ludwig Maximilian University Post-Doc Harvard English Department Lectureship Harvard English Department Lectureship

2009-10

• Boston College
• University of Toronto Florida Atlantic University Johns Hopkins
• Amherst College
• Dartmouth
• Linfield College
• The Rivers School
• Humanities Center Postdoctoral Fellowship

2008-09

• Providence College
• Grinnell College
• Lilly Fellows Postdoctoral Fellowship University of British Columbia Queens College- CUNY
• Harvard College Fellow

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A Sampling of Books from Dissertations expand_more

• Rebecca Kastleman,Profaning Acts: Drama After Religion on the Modern Stage(Cambridge Uiversity Press, 2026)
• Amanda Auerbach,Getting Lost in the Novel: Strategic Confusion in Eighteenth - and Nineteenth Century Literature(Cambridge U. Press, 2025)
• Daniel Williams,The Art of Uncertainty: Probable Realism and the Victorian Novel(Cambridge U. Press, 2024)
• Seth Herbst, Milton and Music (Routledge, 2023)
• Rhema Hokama, Devotional Experience and Erotic Knowledge in the Literary Culture of the English Reformation (Oxford University Press, 2023)
• Carra Glatt, Narrative and Its Nonevents (UVA Press, 2022)
• Laura Forsberg,Worlds Beyond: Miniatures in Victorian Fiction(Yale University Press, 2021)
• Matthew Sussman, Stylistic Virtue and Victorian Fiction: Form, Ethics, and the Novel (Cambridge University Press, 2021)
• Calista McRae, Lyric as Comedy (Cornell University Press, 2020)
• Adrienne Raphel,Thinking Inside the Box: Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can’t Live Without Them(Penguin Books, 2020)
• Emmy Waldman, Filial Lines: Art Spiegelman, Alison Bechdel, and Comics Form (Cambridge University Press, accepted 2025)
• Wendy Beth Hyman, Impossible Desire and the Limits of Knowledge in Renaissance Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2019)
• Elaine Auyoung, When Fiction Feels Real: Representation and the Reading Mind (Oxford University Press, 2018)
• Chris Barrett, Early Modern English Literature and the Poetics of Cartographic Anxiety (Oxford University Press; March 22, 2018)
• Lawrence Switzky, The Rise of the Theatre Director: Negotiations with the Material World, 1880-1956 (Northwestern UP, 2018)
• Suparna Roychoudhury, Phantasmatic Shakespeare: Imagination in the Age of Early Modern Science (Cornell University Press, 2018)
• Yi-Ping Ong, Art of Being: The Poetics of the Novel and Existentialist Philosophy (Harvard University Press, 2018)
• Leonard Neidorf, The Transmission of "Beowulf" (Cornell University Press, 2017)
• Ingrid Nelson, Lyric Tactics: Poetry, Genre, and Practice in Later Medieval England (UPenn, 2017)
• Nikki Skillman, The Lyric in the Age of the Brain (Harvard University Press, 2016)
• Melissa Jenkins, Fatherhood, Authority, and British Reading Culture (Routledge Paperback, 2016)
• Catherine Toal, The Entrapments of Form: Cruelty and Modern Literature (Fordham University Press, 2016)
• Timothy Michael, British Romanticism and the Critique of Political Reason (JHUP, 2015)
• Maia McAleavey, The Bigamy Plot: Sensation and Convention in the Victorian Novel (Cambridge University Press, 2015)
• Jacob Sider Jost, Prose Immortality, 1711-1819 (UVA, 2015)
• Eric Bennett, Workshops of Empire: Stegner, Engell, and American Creative Writing during the Cold War (University of Iowa Press, 2015)
• Allen MacDuffie, Victorian Literature, Energy, and the Ecological Imagination (Cambridge, 2014)
• Sarah Wall-Randell, The Immaterial Book: Reading and Romance in Early Modern England (University of Michigan Press, 2013)
• Srikanth Reddy, Changing Subjects: Digressions in Modern American Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2012)
• Seo-Young Chu, Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep? (Harvard University Press, 2011)
• Catherine Keyser, Playing Smart: New York Women Writers and Modern Magazine Culture (Rutgers, 2010)
• Eric Eisner, Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Literary Celebrity (Palgrave, 2009)
• Leonard Cassuto, The Inhuman Race (Columbia University Press, 1997)
• Matthew Rubery, The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News (Oxford University Press, 2009)
• Scott Newstok, Quoting Death in Early Modern England (Palgrave, 2009)
• Ayanna Thompson, Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern Stage (Routledge, 2008)
• Jim von der Heydt, At the Brink of Infinity: Poetic Humility in Boundless American Space (University of Iowa Press, 2008)
• Susan Phillips, Transforming Talk: The Problem with Gossip in Late Medieval England (Penn State University Press, 2007)
• Noah Heringman, Romantic Rocks, Aesthetic Geology (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004)
• Aviva Briefel, The Deceivers: Art Forgery and Narrative in the Nineteenth Century (Cornell University Press, 2006)
• Patrick O’Malley, Catholicism, Sexual Deviance, and Victorian Gothic Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2006)
• Rebecca Walkowitz, Cosmopolitan Style: Modernism beyond the Nation (Columbia University Press, 2006)
• Scott Hess, Authoring the Self: Self-Representation, Authorship, and the Print Market in British Poetry from Pope through Wordsworth (Routledge, 2005)
• Maria DeGuzman, Spain's Long Shadow: The Black Legend, Off-Whiteness, and Anglo-American Empire (University of Minnesota Press, 2005)
• Harrison DeSales, The End of the Mind: Poetry and the Edge of the Intelligible in Hardy, Stevens, Larkin, Plath, and Glück (Routledge, 2005)
• Margaret Reid, Cultural Secrets as Narrative Form: Storytelling in 19th Century America (Ohio State UP, 2004)
• Gabrielle Starr, Lyric Generations: Poetry and the Novel in the Long Eighteenth Century (Hopkins, 2004)
• Michael Soto, The Modernist Nation: Generation, Renaissance, and Twentieth-Century American Literature (University of Alabama Press, 2004)
• Douglas Trevor, The Poetics of Melancholy in Early Modern England (Cambridge University Press, 2004)
• James Dawes, The Language of War: Literature and Culture in the United States from the Civil War through World War II (Harvard University Press, 2002).
• Bryan Reynolds, Becoming Criminal: Transversal Performance and Cultural Dissidence in Early Modern England (Johns Hopkins UP, 2002)
• Nicholas Dames, Amnesiac Selves: Nostalgia, Forgetting, and British Fiction 1810-1870 (Oxford University Press, 2001)
• Scott Gordon, The Power of the Passive Self in English Literature, 1640-1770 (Cambridge UP, 2001)
• Jeffrey Cohen, Of Giants: Sex, Monsters and the Middle Ages (University of Minnesota Press, 1999)
• Suzanne Keen, Victorian Renovations of the Novel: Narrative Annexes and the Boundaries of Representation (Cambridge University Press, 1998)
• Chris Cannon, The Making of Chaucer's English: A Study of Words (Cambridge University Press, 1998)
• Deirde d’Albertis, Dissembling Fictions: Elizabeth Gaskell and the Victorian Social Text (NY: St. Martin's Press, 1997).
• Anita Patterson, From Emerson to King: Democracy, Race, and the Politics of Protest (Oxford University Press, 1997)
• Curtis Perry, The Making of Jacobean Culture: James I and the Renegotiation of Elizabethan Literary Practice (Cambridge University Press, 1997)
• Judson Watson, Forensic Fictions: The Lawyer Figure in Faulkner (University of Georgia Press, 1993)
• Carolyn Dever, Death and the Mother From Dickens To Freud: Victorian Fiction and the Anxiety of Origins (Cambridge, 1993).

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A Sampling of Books from Other Projects by Alumni and Graduate Students expand_more

• Adam Scheffler, Empathy in the Poetry of James Wright(Louisiana State University Press, 2026)
• Aviva Briefel, Ghosts and Things (Cornell University Press, 2025)
• Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, Lin-Manuel Miranda: The Education of an Artist (Simon & Schuster, 2025)
• Kristen Poole, Phillip Pullman and the Historical Imagination (Oxford University Press, 2025)
• Eunice Lee, Syncopation by Kim Sono, translated by Eunice Lee (Seoul: ASIA, 2024)
• Deb Gettelman, Imagining Otherwise: How Readers Help to Write Nineteenth Century Novels(Princeton, 2024)
• Garth Greenwell, Small Rain (Macmillan Publishers, 2024)
• Amanda Gunn, Things I Didn’t Do with This Body (Copper Canyon Press, 2023)
• Nicholas Dames, The Chapter: A Segmented History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century (Princeton UP, 2023)
• Adam Scheffler, Heartworm (The University of Arkansas Press, 2023)
• Michelle Syba, End Times (Freehand Books, 2023)
• Manan Kapoor, A Map of Longings: The Life and Works of Agha Shahid Ali (Yale University Press, 2021)
• Kristen Poole, Christianity in a Time of Climate Change: To Give a Future with Hope (Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2020)
• Wendy Beth Hyman, Teaching Social Justice Through Shakespeare: Why Renaissance Literature Matters Now (Edinburgh University Press Books, 2019)
• Kristen Poole, Early Modern Histories of Time: The Periodizations of Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century England (Published in cooperation with the Folger Shakespeare Library, 2019)
• Robert D. Aguirre, Mobility and Modernity: Panama in the Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Imagination (Ohio State University Press, 2017)
• Aviva Briefel, The Racial Hand in the Victorian Imagination (Cambridge University Press, 2015)
• Wendy Beth Hyman, The Automaton in English Renaissance Literature (Ashgate, 2011)
• Kristen Poole, Radical Religion from Shakespeare to Milton: Figures of Nonconformity in Early Modern England (University of Delaware, 2006)
• Robert D. Aguirre, Informal Empire: Mexico and Central America in Victorian Culture (University of Minnesota Press, 2005)

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Publication Subvention Fund for English PhD Students and Alumni expand_more

The Harvard English Department is pleased to offer current doctoral students and graduates of our doctoral program access to publication subventions, supported by the Rollins Fund. This is a new endeavor, meant to support students transition from doctoral work to the next phase of their scholarly careers. The terms and application to apply for funding are included below. 

• Graduate Student and Alumni Publication Subvention Fund Terms (Please read before filling out the following application.)
• Graduate Student and Alumni Publication Subvention Fund Application