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Graduate PlacementThe 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 c.v.’s 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.
Among the Department’s placements since 1995 are the following:
Jennifer Airey (Ph.D. 2008): Tenure-track Assistant Professor, University of Tulsa. http://www.utulsa.edu/academics/colleges/Henry-Kendall-College-of-Arts-and-Sciences/Departments-and-Schools/Department-of-English/Our-Faculty-and-Staff/A/Jennifer-Airey.aspx
Lisa Hinrichsen (Ph.D. 2008): Tenure-track Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas. http://www.uark.edu/depts/english/faculty/hinrichsen.php
Sara Pearson (Ph.D. 2008): Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Trinity Western University, British Columbia, Canada. http://www.twu.ca/academics/faculty/profiles/pearson-sara.html
Jason Pearl (Ph.D. 2008): Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Florida International University. jpearl at fiu.edu
Keith Johnson (Ph.D. 2008): Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Augusta State University (as of 9/1/2009). keith.leslie.johnson at gmail.com
Elisa Oh (Ph.D. 2008): Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Howard University. eoh at howard.edu. http://www.coas.howard.edu/english/graduatefaculty.html#oh
Joseph Navitsky (Ph.D. 2007): Tenure-track Assistant Professor, University of Southern Mississippi. http://www.usm.edu/english/fac-staff/Navitsky.html
Evan Willner (Ph.D. 2007): Visiting Assistant Professor, DePaul University. evan.willner at gmail.com
Alex Bove (Ph.D. 2007): Visiting Assistant Professor, Ohio Northern University (as of 9/1/2009). aabove at buffalo.edu
Emily Rohrbach (Ph.D. 2007): Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Northwestern University (as of 9/1/2009). Previously: Visiting Assistant Professor, Hamilton College. e-rohrbach at northwestern.edu. http://www.english.northwestern.edu/people/rohrbach.html
Melanie Benson (Ph.D. 2005): Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Dartmouth College (as of 9/1/2009). Previously: tenure-track Assistant Professor, University of Hartford. http://www.dartmouth.edu/~nas/facstaff/benson.html
Randy Boyagoda (Ph.D. 2005): Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada. Previously: Post-doctoral Fellowship, Erasmus Institute, Notre Dame University. http://www.ryerson.ca/english/faculty/boyagodar.html
Reena Sastri (Ph.D. 2005): Early Career Fellow in American Literature, Exeter College, Oxford University. http://www.english.ox.ac.uk/about-the-faculty/faculty-members/research-centre-and-college-staff/328-sastri-dr-reena.html. Previously: Lecturer in English, University of York, England.
Sharifah Osman (Ph.D. 2005): Senior Lecturer, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
http://umexpert.um.edu.my/cv_papar.php?id=f912a147cd615b70a6ed29eb0e2697eeAmy Weintraub Kratka (Ph.D. 2005): Assistant Director, Jewish Studies Program, City College of New York. http://csauth.ccny.cuny.edu/prospective/humanities/jewishstudies/faculty/akratka.cfm
Wade Newhouse (Ph.D. 2004): Instructor in English, Peace College.
Kirk Melnikoff (Ph.D. 2003): Associate Professor of English (as of 9/1/2009), University of North Carolina, Charlotte. http://www.english.uncc.edu/melnikoff.html
Jennifer Ho (Ph.D. 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. http://english.unc.edu/faculty/hoj.html
Peter Anderson (Ph.D. 2002): Associate Professor of English, Austin College. panderson at austincollege.edu
Sohui Lee (Ph.D. 2002): Assistant Director, Hume Writing Center, and Lecturer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric, Stanford University. http://www.stanford.edu/~sohui/home.htm
Ann Keniston (Ph.D. 2001): Associate Professor of English, University of Nevada, Reno. http://www.unr.edu/cla/engl/people/Biography/aken.html and http://wolfweb.unr.edu/homepage/keniston/
Peter Lurie (Ph.D. 2001): Tenure-track Assistant Professor of English, University of Richmond. Previously: two-year Post-doctoral Fellowship, Oxford University, England. http://english.richmond.edu/faculty/Lurie_Peter.html
Jonathan Mulrooney (Ph.D. 2001): Associate Professor of English, College of the Holy Cross. Previously: tenure-track Assistant Professor, University of Vermont. http://college.holycross.edu/faculty/jmulroon/
Kaara Peterson (Ph.D. 2001): Tenure-track Assistant Professor of English, Miami (Ohio) University. Previously: Visiting Assistant Professor, Ohio State University. http://www.units.muohio.edu/english/People/Faculty/I_P/PetersonKaara.html
Lisa Rodensky (Ph.D. 2000): Associate Professor of English, Wellesley College. http://www.wellesley.edu/English/facultybios.html#rodensky
Jeanne Follansbee Quinn (Ph.D. 2000): Director of Studies, History and Literature, Harvard University. Prevous: tenure-track Assistant Professor of English, University of North Carolina, Greensboro. http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~histlit/bio/follansbee_quinn.htm
Sallay Blazar (Ph.D. 1999): Associate Professor of Liberal Arts, Berklee College of Music. http://www.berklee.edu/faculty/detail/sally-blazar
Molly Childers (Ph.D. 1999): Arizona International University.
http://swaro.org/aic/content/prospective/community/faculty/childers.htmEdward Gieskes (Ph.D. 1999): Associate Professor of English, University of South Carolina. http://www.cas.sc.edu/engl/faculty/faculty_pages/gieskes/gieskes.html
Amal Amireh (Ph.D. 1997): Associate Professor of English, George Mason University. http://wmst.gmu.edu/faculty_staff/bio.php?fname=Amal&lname=Amireh
Christopher Fahy (Ph.D. 1997): Assistant Professor of Humanities, Boston University. goodwood at bu.edu
Mark Andrew Eaton (Ph.D. 1996): Professor of English, Azuza Pacific University. http://www.apu.edu/clas/english/faculty/meaton/
Andrew J. Hartley (Ph.D. 1996): Distinguished Professor of Shakespeare, University of North Carolina, Charlotte. http://shakespeare.uncc.edu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3&Itemid=42
Miranda J. Burgess (Ph.D. 1995): Associate Professor of English, University of British Columbia, Canada. http://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/mburgess/Home.html
Rachel K. Carnell (Ph.D. 1995): Associate Professor of English, Cleveland State University. http://www.csuohio.edu/class/english/faculty/carnell.html
Dana Lynn Sonnenschein (Ph.D. 1995): Associate Professor of English, Southern Connecticut University. sonnensched1 at southernct.edu