Undergraduate Alumni/ae
One recent major, Sasha
Senderovich, after spending a year at Oxford University
on the first $20,000 fellowship offered
by the Commonwealth College, was accepted at Harvard
University with a $20,000 annual fellowship for five years.
Another of our recent majors, Maryann Davis, has just been
admitted to Sciences Po in Paris. Like Sasha and Maryann,
many
of our other majors are drawn toward studies abroad. All
of these students find Comparative Literature the ideal program
for developing their multi-faceted interests.
After graduation, our majors pursue a variety
of careers. One is currently a senior managing partner of
Bear
Stearns,
the largest privately owned financial services company
in the United States, who, while studying Comparative
Literature
as an undergraduate, began a translation of hitherto
unpublished cantos of Ariosto that were later published by
the University
of California Press. Another has headed the Manhattan
Cable Network. Still another has won national awards for
her
scholarship.
Margarita Zamora holds a full professorship
at the University
of Wisconsin, Madison. Two others are now full professors
at Kenyon College and at North Carolina State University,
respectively, while a third, Denise Filios, with
a both a B.A. and an M.A. in Comparative Literature from
UMass,
has
a tenure system appointment at the University of
Iowa.
Some of our graduates have become editors
at publishing houses such as Peter
Lang, Blackwells or Oxford University Press,
or at studios
such as MTV. Several have become lawyers, practicing
in Massachusetts and elsewhere. In New York, one
is a key
designer and creator
of the Metropolitan Museum web site.
We have a graduate who works in public radio, and
another who is on the editorial staff of a men's magazine.
Another
has
been
director
of the New
York City Dance Guild. This variety of careers
in which our graduates
have succeeded provides an indication of the
leadership
quality and motivation of many of our majors.
Graduate Alumni/ae
Our Ph.D. graduates compete successfully
for tenure-system appointments at prestigious colleges and
universities both here and overseas. Professor Jing Wang,
for example, head of the Department
of Asian Languages and Literatures at Duke
University for more than ten years, now holding an
endowed chair at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, earned her doctorate in Comparative
Literature here in 1985. Others find postions internationally,
such as Professor Chantal Zabus, who earned
her doctorate
here in 1988 and holds an appointment as a Professor
of the Universities of Paris. Simliarly, Professor Theo d'Haen,
(Ph.D., 1981), author of more than 25 books of
literary and cultural criticism,
has held an endowed chair at the University of
Leiden in the Netherlands.
Recent appointments
of students with the doctorate in Comparative Literature
from the University of Massachusetts Amherst
include tenure-track positions at: Macalester College, the
University of Minnesota,
the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire, Denison
University, the University of Cincinnati, Depaul University,
the University of Palermo. Graduates of only
fifteen years ago now
hold tenured positions at Carleton College,
Dickinson College, Hampshire College, Whitman College,
the
College of William
and Mary, the University of Leiden, National
Taiwan University, and universities in the PRC and India
and
elsewhere. For a list of specific dissertations by graduating
Ph.D. students, see the Dissertation section of the AQAD
Self-Study.
Our graduates with the M.A. in Translation
Studies work as interpreters and translators for private
companies and international organizations, or they pursue
further studies in literature and/or translation theory.
Are You an Alum?
We'd love to hear from you. Drop us an email
and let us know where you are and what you are doing!
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