Ph.D. Career Outcomes
- 2024-2025: 9 Graduates
Name Dissertation Title Dissertation Supervisor(s) First Position Current Position, if changed Haley Eazor CLIMATES OF CONFLICT: ECOPOETRY AND WAR POETRY IN CONTEMPORARY US POETRY AND POETICS Chad Bennett Assistant Professor of Instruction, Cockrell School of Engineering Raffi Kiureghian REDEEMING THE ABJECT MATERNAL IN THE POETRY OF JOHN MILTON J.K. Barret and John Rumrich English Teacher, Middlesex School, Concord Saraswati Nandini Majumdar LONGING FOR THE BREAK: IMPROVISATIONALITY AND FORMS OF INDIAN ANGLOPHONE POETRY Elizabeth Richmond-Garza and Laetitia Zecchini Not Reported Michael J. Mason TRACES OF TECHNIQUE: ARCHIVAL STUDIES OF JOHN ASHBERY, NATHANIEL MACKEY, AND C.D. WRIGHT Chad Bennett Adjunct Professor, DePaul University and Truman University Iana Robitaille HERITAGE FICTIONS: TRANSNATIONAL INHERITANCE IN THE U.S. LITERARY IMAGINATION James Cox Adjunct Associate Professor, Austin Community College Debarati Roy ANIMATING REALITY: ELASTIC BODIES IN TENSILE WORLD-MAPS AND TIME-SCALES Heather Houser and Donna Kornhaber Unemployed Andrew Booth TOWARD A RHETORICAL THEORY OF PUBLIC ASSEMBLY Diane Davis Assistant Professor of English, Fine Arts, and Communications, The Citadel Drake Gossi USING TRANSLATION TO ANALYZE AN EMERGING SMALL-TOWN ENTREPRENURIAL ECOSYSTEM: DISPLACEMENT, PRECARITY, INCLUSION Clay Spinuzzi Audit Associate, Cherry Bekaert Hannah Hopkins RHETORICAL ENERGETICS: DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURES, WRITING STUDIES, AND COMMUNITY POWER Casey Boyle Assistant Professor of Rhetoric & Composition, Georgia State University - Accordion 2Panel 2. Add body text in this space.
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- 2023-2024: 11 Graduates
Name Dissertation Title Dissertation Supervisor(s) First Position Current Position Lior Colclough The Politics of Rhetorical Agency In Posthuman Rhetorical Algorithm Studies Diane Davis No reporting Danielle Dye Archival Forms: A Literature and Cultural Studies Guide to Interpreting Primary Sources Carol MacKay, Linda Ferreira-Buckley Research Team Lead, Handshake AI and Public Library Associate, Ann Arbor District Library Tristan Hanson Resurfacing Rhetoric: Identity, Storying, and Invention in Place Annie Hill Lecturer, Department of Rhetoric and Writing, University of Texas Tristin Hooker Solidifying Strangeness: Making And Maintaining Rare Diseases Scott Graham Writing Center Administrator, University of Texas Cindy-Lou Holland Mapping Rhetorical Motion: Gestures Toward a Kinetic Relationality Diane Davis, Casey Boyle Unemployed Michael Vaclav Eikonik Shakespeare: Echoes of the Eikon Basilike on the Restoration Stage Douglas Bruster Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow (University of Texas Department of English) Assistant Professor, Department of English, History, and Modern Languages, Shepherd University An Ho Immigrant Cinephilia: Toward a Canon of Asian American Women's Cinema Roger Reeves, Lalitha Gopalan Lecturer, Center for Asian American Studies, University of Texas at Austin Meg Pilkenton Remorse and the Drama of Community in Early Modern England Doug Bruster, JK Barret Educational Development Specialist, Vanderbilt University Erin Yanota The "Epic Infinite" in Twentieth-Century Anglophone Poetry Elizabeth Cullingford, Chad Bennett Assistant Professor (University of Virginia at Wise) Jane Aman The Queen of the Lobby and Her Republican Court: Women, Politics, and Corruption in the Gilded Age ‘Washington Novel' Gretchen Murphy Postdoctoral Teaching Associate (University of Florida at Gainesville) Roxana Loza Shelter(ed) Childhoods: Immigration, Bodymind Pain, and Activism in Latinx Children's and Young Adult Literature Julie Minich, Domino Perez Assistant Professor, Texas State (Declined) - 2022-2023: 12 Graduates
Name Dissertation Title Dissertation Supervisor(s) First Position Current Position Elizabeth Fischer Network Visualization and the Labor of Reference Work: Three Case Studies Touching Medieval and Early Modern Book History Dan Birkholz Consultant (AVP Digital Asset Management) Laura Gauggel Reviving Race and Ethnicity: Casting Controversies in Miss Saigon and Evita David Kornhaber Copy Editor (University of Texas Press) Cody Jarman "A Nation Once Again?": Race and Revivalism in the Black and Green Atlantic Elizabeth Cullingford, Jennifer Wilks Assistant Professor of English (University of Pikesville) Rachel Roepke Such a Picture of Our Country: Nostalgic Literature in the English Middle Ages Elizabeth Richmond-Garza, Mary Blockley Bookseller (Bookpeople Bookstore) Maclain Scott Manufacturing Crisis: Rhetorical New Materialism, Political Discourse, and the 'Crisis' at the U.S.-Mexico Border Casey Boyle Assistant Professor and Director of First Year Writing ( Rocky Mountain College) Kiara Walker "Undoing Progress": Reactionary Rhetoric and Appeals to Rhetorical Liberalism Patricia Roberts-Miller, Mark Longaker Assistant Professor (College of Staten Island) Annie Bares Generous Reading: Philanthropy and Contemporary American Literature and Culture Heather Houser Research Analyst (AEA Consulting) Kaitlyn Farrell Rodriguez Visible Signs: Pregnancy, Contraception, and Reproductive Anxiety in 20th Century American Modern Drama David Kornhaber Educational Consultant (Sanger Center for Teaching and Learning, University of Texas) Martha Karnes Seago Unlucky Ducks and Tenacious Yeast: Stigma and Agency in Reproductive Health Scott Graham, Clay Spinuzzi Assistant Professor (Curry College) Assistant Professor (University of Little Rock) Lauren Nelson Ruination in the Caribbean Novel: Being at the End of the World Jennifer Wilks Union Organizer (Texas State Empolyees Union) Staff Organizer (Coalition of Graduate Employees, AFT Local 6069) Samantha Allen Memory at Work: Domestic Archives in Documentary Poetry by Women of Color Chad Bennett Manager of Grants and Stewardship (Blanton Art Museum) Business Process Specialist: Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (City of Austin) Jennifer Grey Hemstreet The Fall of the House of Fame: Text, Immortality, and the Ancient-Modern Controversy Lance Bertelson No reporting Emma Train Queer Ecopoetics: Contemporary American Poetry in These Scandals of Time Chad Bennett Learning Designer (Cengage Educational Content Provider) - 2021-2022: 13 Graduates
Name Dissertation Title Dissertation Supervisor(s) First Position Current Position Abigail Adams Putting Together the Pieces: Excerpts From Rolle, Gower, Chaucer, and Lydgate in Fifteenth-Century Miscellanies Elizabeth Scala Lecturer (University of Texas LBJ School for Public Policy) English Teacher (Gould Academy) Zoe Bursztajn-Illingworth Shooting Script: Poetry, Film, and Form Chad Bennett, Donna Kornhaber Andrew Mellon Engaged Scholar Post Doctoral Fellow (University of Texas College of Liberal Arts) Assistant Professor (Texas State University San Marcos) Teri Fickling Embodied Affinities: Intertextual Identifications in the Poetry of John Milton, Anna Seward, and Mary Robinson Lisa Moore, John Rumrich Assistant Professor of Instruction (University of Texas English Department) Sierra Mendez With Love From San Antonio: Souvenir Postal Cards and Colonized/ing (Re)productions of Mexicans Diane Davis Assistant Professor of English and Assistant Director of First Year Writing (Texas Women's University) Matthew Breece Outraged Speech: Digital Publics, Networked Trolling, and Rhetorical Ethics Mark Longaker, Casey Boyle Three-Year Postdoctoral Scholar (Georgia Tech University) Lecturer, Writing Program, University of California, Santa Barbara Raelynn Gosse Domestic Dangers: Monstrous Women in the 19th-Century Gothic and Contemporary Horror Film Donna Kornhaber, Elizabeth Richmond-Garza College Admissions Specialist (Berkeley2Academy) Patrick Harris Siteless Substances: Staging Black Placelessness in Shakespeare Adaptations Eric Mallin Postdoctoral Program Coordinator, Mellon Engaged Scholar Initiative, University of Texas Assistant Professor, U of South Carolina Melissa Heide The Natural Order: Ecologies of Social Class in Medieval British Literature Dan Birkholz, Gerladine Heng Visiting Assistant Professor (Colby College) Rosemany Mack The Women's Press: Printing Feminist Culture Elizabeth Richmond-Garza Teaching Fellow (University of Birmingham) Brenda Martinez Parenting in the Wake: Reproductive Violence and Carceral Logic in Contemporary Young Adult Literature James Cox, Julie Minich Mentorship Specialist and Assistant Professo (Oregon Health and Science University) Michelle Rabe Natural, Infinite, Artistic: Demythologizing Athletic Superability in Contemporary American Literature Heather Houser, Julie Minich Upper School English Teacher (Mary Institute and Country Day School
St. Louis, MO)Director of Academic Initiatives, Washington University in St Louis Ricky Shear Unsettling Minds: The Ethics of Empathy in American Modernist Novels Phil Barrish, James Cox Assistant Professor of Instruction (University of Texas English Department) Rachel Piwarski Disability and the Gothic in Southern Women's Literature Julie Minich, Phil Barrish Lecturer (Montana State University-Billings) - 2020-2021: 11 Graduates
Name Dissertation Title Dissertation Supervisor(s) First Position Current Position Micah Bateman Lyric Publics: The Uses of Poetry in American Social Media Campaigns Gretchen Murphy, Chad Bennett Assistant Professor (University of Iowa School of Library and Information Science) Brice Ezell The Theatre of Clarity: Analytic Philosophy in American and English Drama Davis Kornhaber Upper School English Teacher (The Lovett School) Charlotte Fiehn The Perception of Separateness': Experimentations With Form and Intersectionality in the Writing of George Eliot and Virginia Woolf Carol MacKay, Alexandra Wettlaufer Instructor of Writing and Literature at Stern College for Women (Yeshiva University) Jeremy Goheen Atmoshperic Passages: Infrastructures of Impression in Nineteenth- Century Gothic Literature Allen MacDuffie, Sam Baker Upper School English Teacher (Kirby Hall School) English Teacher (The Girls School of Austin) Robert Jones How Shakespeare Became Our Contemporary Dramatist: Historicizing Elements of the "Original Practices" Movement James Loehlin Visting Assistant Professor of English ( Texas A&M, Corpus Christi) Sarah Welsh Technologies of Forgetting: Techniques, Rights, and Ethics of Digital Media Clay Spinuzzi Project Manager (Public Interest Technology Career Fair) Program Director, All Tech is Human Stephen Dadugblor Deliberating About Elections: Cultural Imaginaries, Democracy, and Rhetorical Practices in Postcolonial Ghana Patricia Roberts-Miller, Clay Spinuzzi Assistant Professor of Writing Studies (University of British Columbia, School of Journalism, Writing, and Media) Kirsten Herlin Between Christ and Achilles: Christian Humanism in Crisis and a New Heroic Ideal in English Fiction, 1713-1813 Janine Barchas, Elizabeth Hedrick Assistant Professor ( Ave Maria University) Assistant Professor (University of Austin) Alexandra (Lexi) Perez "Fotos Y Recuerdos": Decolonial Ephemera Strategies in Twenty-First Century Latina Literature John Gonzalez Assistant Professor (Shreiner University) Kayla Shearer Hamlet, the Knight's Tale, and the Economy of Fraternal Relations Elizabeth Scala, Eric Mallin Instructor (Louisiana State University, Shreveport) Amy (Tuttle) Charron The Method Machine Clay Spinuzzi Manager of Storytelling, (Code2College) - Accordion 5Panel 5. Add body text in this space.
