Title page of first edition of Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Job Placement
The Department of English assumes responsibility for assisting its graduates in finding suitable academic employment. One member of the faculty serves each year as Director of Graduate Placement to advise all students seeking employment, including reviewing all sample letters and CVs and setting up mock interviews. The University’s Placement Service assembles dossiers of letters for a nominal fee. The Department of English normally provides some travel support to the MLA convention for students who are interviewing. Since the Graduate Program in English at Boston University is relatively small in size, close personal attention can be given to each job applicant.
Since 2000, Boston University has awarded 47 doctorates in English. Of these alumni, 25 currently hold tenure-track jobs (53%), including positions at Dartmouth, Northwestern, University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, Wellesley, Calvin College, Oxford (Exeter College), and many other Research I institutions. An additional 9 alums (20%) hold visiting professorships, lectureships, or other academic positions, including Director of Harvard’s History and Literature program, Assistant Director of Stanford’s Writing Program, and Assistant Director of CUNY’s Jewish Studies program.
Among the department’s placements since 1995 are the following:
Leslie Simon |
2011 | Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Utah Valley University (to begin Fall 2011) |
Kristin Smith Bezio |
2011 | Tenure-track Assistant Professor, University of Richmond (to begin Fall 2011) |
Matthew Borushko |
2009 | Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Stonehill College |
Jennifer Airey |
2008 | Tenure-track Assistant Professor, University of Tulsa. |
Lisa Hinrichsen |
2008 | Tenure-track Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas. |
Sara Pearson |
2008 | Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Trinity Western University, British Columbia, Canada. |
Jason Pearl |
2008 | Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Florida International University. jpearl@fiu.edu |
Keith Johnson |
2008 | Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Augusta State University (as of 9/1/2009). keith.leslie.johnson@gmail.com |
Elisa Oh |
2008 | Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Howard University. eoh@howard.edu. |
Jane Zwart |
2008 | Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Calvin College |
Joseph Navitsky |
2007 | Tenure-track Assistant Professor, University of Southern Mississippi. |
Evan Willner |
2007 | Visiting Assistant Professor, DePaul University. evan.willner@gmail.com |
Alex Bove |
2007 | Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Pacific University |
Emily Rohrbach |
2007 | Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Northwestern University (as of 9/1/2009). Previously: Visiting Assistant Professor, Hamilton College. e-rohrbach@northwestern.edu. |
Melanie Benson |
2005 | Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Dartmouth College (as of 9/1/2009). Previously: Tenure-track Assistant Professor, University of Hartford. |
Randy Boyagoda |
2005 | Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada. Previously: Post-doctoral Fellowship, Erasmus Institute, Notre Dame University. |
Reena Sastri |
2005 | Early Career Fellow in American Literature, Exeter College, Oxford University.. Previously: Lecturer in English, University of York, England. |
Sharifah Osman |
2005 | Senior Lecturer, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. |
Amy Weintraub Kratka |
2005 | Assistant Director, Jewish Studies Program, City College of New York. |
Wade Newhouse |
2004 | Instructor in English, Peace College. |
Kirk Melnikoff |
2003 | Associate Professor of English (as of 9/1/2009), University of North Carolina, Charlotte. |
Jennifer Ho |
2003 | Tenure-track Assistant Professor of English, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Previously: Two-year Post-doctoral Fellowship, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. |
Peter Anderson |
2002 | Associate Professor of English, Austin College. panderson@austincollege.edu |
Sohui Lee |
2002 | Assistant Director, Hume Writing Center, and Lecturer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric, Stanford University. |
Ann Keniston |
2001 | Associate Professor of English, University of Nevada, Reno. |
Peter Lurie |
2001 | Tenure-track Assistant Professor of English, University of Richmond. Previously: Two-year Post-doctoral Fellowship, Oxford University, England. |
Jonathan Mulrooney |
2001 | Associate Professor of English, College of the Holy Cross. Previously: Tenure-track Assistant Professor, University of Vermont. |
Kaara Peterson |
2001 | Tenure-track Assistant Professor of English, Miami (Ohio) University. Previously: Visiting Assistant Professor, Ohio State University. |
Lisa Rodensky |
2000 | Associate Professor of English, Wellesley College. |
Jeanne Follansbee Quinn |
2000 | Director of Studies, History and Literature, Harvard University. Previously: Tenure-track Assistant Professor of English, University of North Carolina, Greensboro. |
Sally Blazar |
1999 | Associate Professor of Liberal Arts, Berklee College of Music. |
Molly Childers |
1999 | Arizona International University. |
Edward Gieskes |
1999 | Associate Professor of English, University of South Carolina. |
Amal Amireh |
1997 | Associate Professor of English, George Mason University. |
Christopher Fahy |
1997 | Assistant Professor of Humanities, Boston University. goodwood@bu.edu |
Mark Andrew Eaton |
1996 | Professor of English, Azuza Pacific University. |
Andrew J. Hartley |
1996 | Distinguished Professor of Shakespeare, University of North Carolina, Charlotte. |
Miranda J. Burgess |
1995 | Associate Professor of English, University of British Columbia, Canada. |
Rachel K. Carnell |
1995 | Associate Professor of English, Cleveland State University. |
Dana Lynn Sonnenschein |
1995 | Associate Professor of English, Southern Connecticut University. sonnensched1@southernct.edu |