Post-Graduate Career Highlights

We take an active role in helping our graduate students compete for good jobs in academia. In response to the increasingly competitive job market we have established a formal Job Placement Committee that helps prepare graduate students for every step of the academic job search. The committee combines group meetings with one-on-one advising sessions and mock interviews in order to make sure that our students are prepared to compete for jobs. While the committee organizes the process, many members of the English faculty and University Writing Center participate by helping with workshops and mock interviews.

Students interested in careers outside the academy also benefit from our internship and GA-ship opportunites in areas such as publishing, museums, and special collections. Given that many academic job interviews also ask candidates to speak to how they'd forge connections to local institutions, these opportunities serve a dual purpose of preparing students for careers inside and outside the academy.

Here is a listing of tenure-track placements (or tenure equivalent if the school does not grant tenure) since 2008:

Carolyne King, 2019, Assistant Professor,  Salisbury University

Jess​ica Conrad, 2019, Assistant Professor, Kent State at Stark, Ohio

Halina Adams, 2018, Assistant Professor, Bridgewater State, Massachusetts

Sarah Patterson, 2017, Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Clay Colmon, 2017, Associate Director of Digital Humanites Program, University of Pennsylvania

Kyle Meikle, 2016, Assistant Professor, University of Baltimore

Kyle Vitale, 2016, Assistant Director for Faculty Teaching Initiatives, Folger Shakespeare Library

Jane Wessel, 2016,  Assistant Professor, Austin Peay State University

Sabina Amanbayeva, 2015, Assistant Professor, Oklahoma City University

Meg Meiman, 2015, Head of Teaching & Learning, Indiana University Bloomington Libraries

Virginia Garnett, 2015, Lecturer, UNC Pembroke

Kerry Hasler-Brooks, 2014, Assistant Professor, Messiah College

Elizabeth Knauss, 2014, Professor of English, Manor College

Gabrielle Parkin, 2014, Lecturer, Case Western University

Joe Turner, 2014, Assistant Professor, University of Louisville

Rachael Zeleny, 2014, Writing Program Director, Alvernia University; Assistant Professor, University of Baltimore

Joshua Calhoun, 2012, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Adam Jabbur, 2012, Assistant Professor, Towson University

Mike McGehee, 2012,  Assistant Professor, North Hennepin Community College

Michael Edson, 2011, Assistant Professor, University of Wyoming

Robert Klevay, 2009, Associate Professor, Auburn University at Montgomery

Darlene Farabee, 2008, Associate Professor, University of South Dako

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Michelle Filling, 2008, Associate Professor and Acting Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences, Cabrini University

Therese Rizzo, 2008, Assistant Professor, UNC Pembroke

Melissa Sullivan, 2008, Assistant Professor, Rosemont College